On Jan. 11, the Margot V. Biermann Athletic Center officially hosted its first college track and field meet: the Hillsdale Winter Opener. It was also Hillsdale track and field’s second meet of their indoor season, as well as the first meet of the semester. “Biermann is fantastic,” junior thrower Heather Lantis said. “The facility is...
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Art students learn, draw the human form
Studio Incamminati hosted a nude drawing workshop at Hillsdale Jan. 6-10, providing a professional nude model and instruction from artist JaFang Lu for the 12 students registered. “Having a professional, live model that we could work with was amazing,” sophomore Phoebe Kalthoff said. The week began with an intensive study of human anatomy using a...
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Holocaust survivor speaks on campus
Miriam Winter said goodbye to her family when she was only 8 years old. From there, she was moved from village to village in the Polish countryside, keeping her Jewish identity a secret, and being careful never to cry. “What happened then was traumatic and freezing. I was like a stone. I was like a...
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Swimming wins in Florida
Over Christmas break, while the polar vortex ravaged the midwest, the Hillsdale women’s swim team was busy on their annual training trip in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Training trip is a hellish period that marks the peak difficulty in the season. With only one day of rest in a 10-day period, the girls either swam two...
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Library receives new furniture
Reading, writing, and for some, napping, might be a bit more comfortable in Mossey Library now that new furniture purchased with a grant from Student Federation has been installed. The new chairs and tables arrived last week and have already replaced some of the decades-old, regularly-breaking furniture that was purchased when the library was built....