Year: 2014

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Wild Card system: A grand slam

The 2014 World Series featured two teams with some of the worst regular season records in postseason history, and it was awesome for Major League Baseball. The San Francisco Giants won 88 games in the regular season while the Kansas City Royals won 89. This marks the fourth lowest combined win total between World Series...

Behind the scenes, on the sidelines
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Behind the scenes, on the sidelines

There is no off-season for the athletic trainers. Fortunately, Lynne Neukom has both a love and a passion for Hillsdale College that fuels her through every jam-packed day as the college’s head athletic trainer. “I can always say that if you leave with a smile on your face, you might be tired but you’re always...

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Cross-country’s solid six

The past four years have bonded seniors Joshua Mirth, Matt Perkins, Kevin Frost, John Wierenga, Jack Butler and Luke Hickman. The six seniors make up the only fully intact class to have existed in the past four years: No one quit the team, no one else in their year joined it. This is also the...

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Shotgun team strong in Illinois tourney

The Hillsdale College Shotgun team finished strong at their final tournament of the fall season this weekend. The team finished second place overall, achieved first place for Division-II sporting clays and wobble trap, and second place for the 5-stand, and third for skeet shooting at the Scholastic Clay Target Program “Spooktacular” Collegiate Regional Championship hosted...

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Making it in today’s big bad art world: The economics of the arts from the Hillsdale community perspective

Artists are entrepreneurs; they have to market themselves and their work, and experiment and take risks in order to find what people like. Art as an industry has transformed alongside culture and the contemporary economy. Our Internet age has changed the market and artists have to be creative as they navigate that new frontier. Gallery...