On her way into work, Alesia Aumock listens to the song “Maniac” from the movie “Flashdance” from her own mixtape for motivation. Her day starts with cycling at 8 a.m., then again at 10 a.m., 1 p.m., 2:30 p.m. and 4 p.m., with Aerobic Dance at 5 p.m. and Mat Science at 6 p.m. Aumock...
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October 2, 2014July 12, 2022Sports
Charger games to stream live
The Audio-Visual Department is now streaming free broadcasts of volleyball, football, and basketball home games. Additionally, they have added a slow motion aspect and a third camera. Although the AV department already streams live broadcasts of campus lectures like CCAs and has offered a paid streaming service for sporting events, this is the first year...
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September 25, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
Sports as a liberal art
Students come to Hillsdale College, in large part, because of the excellent liberal arts education that the college provides. We read about ancient Greece and medieval England. We study the make-up of a molecule and the anatomy of the cell. We learn how to translate “The Aeneid” and calculate the slope of a tangent line...
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September 25, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
Ravi Zacharias for commencement speaker
Ravi Zacharias was such a bad student he tried to kill himself. At the age of 17, weighed down by academic failures and an inability to deal with the consequences, a young Ravi guzzled packets of poison stolen from his school’s chemistry lab. Yet he survived. While lying in the hospital during his recovery, his...
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September 25, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
The gift of giving back
It is only the love of others, not our own merit or worth, that allows us to live and learn here at Hillsdale for four years. Please understand that I do not intend to demean the hard work that many students put in to pay for this education. Working for a paycheck that you will...