After winning its third Division III national championship last month, the Hillsdale College shotgun team is considering a move up to Division II from its current D-III classification. The move would be in expectation of an increase in team members and a continuing drive to compete against higher levels of competition. The current number of...
Swim and Dive don’t belong together
Swimming and diving are like awkward cousins at a family reunion. You may both share a grandmother, but outside of that you can’t hold a conversation longer than 30 seconds before running out of things to say. Swimming and diving’s common ancestry can be traced back to the pool they practice and compete in, but...
Saturday: Charger vs. Charger football
After a disappointing injury-plagued 2014 campaign, the Hillsdale College football team has worked this offseason to build strength, gain experience, and stay healthy. “Our guys have worked hard all winter in the weight room and have shown up with a get after it attitude this spring,” head coach Keith Otterbein said. The Chargers began spring...
Tennis team shuts out Concordia
In their last home match of the spring season on Saturday, the Hillsdale College women’s tennis team blanked Concordia University 9-0. The win lifts the Chargers to a spring season record of 2-1. “The girls have been working very hard and went in confident against Concordia,” coach Nikki Walbright said. “I think we were overall...
Space on Smith’s mind
In the evening hours of the 1920s, at a small house on Griswold Street, one man was changing the world. When Edward “Doc” Smith came to Hillsdale, Michigan in 1920, space was on his mind. Smith arrived in Hillsdale in the spring of that year, after earning two degrees from the University of Idaho. He...

