Month: April 2015

With the 49th annual Gina Relays starting today, Hillsdale College remembers one of its most decorated athletes. The meet commemorates Gina Van Laar Lanser, the 1988 class Valedictorian, President’s Ball Queen, Outstanding Senior Woman, and the college’s only cross-country national champion. “Gina is a treasured person always in my heart and in the hearts of...

The Hillsdale Board of Public Utilities issued a “No Contact” Health Advisory after untreated sewage water backed up in a pipeline east of Logan Street and spilled out of a manhole into the wetland area between Logan and Superior streets and the drainage ditch next to the Baw Beese Trail. The BPU cleared the blockage...

After 12 hours in a van, five classics students and Associate Professor of Classical Studies Joseph Garnjobst made it to Stockton University near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for the 87th annual convention of Eta Sigma Phi, the national classics honorary. Seniors Josh Benjamins and LaRae Ferguson, junior Sydney Sparks, and sophomores Rachelle Ferguson and Luke...

Along with all the delicious pancakes and community fellowship, A Few Good Men will introduce their new summer initiative at their semesterly fundraiser A Few Good Pancakes tomorrow. This semester’s pancake dinner will start at Free Methodist Church at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow, with speakers to commence at 6 p.m. The organization, which has as many...

Hillsdale will now require students to declare their major no later than second semester junior year, beginning with incoming freshmen in Fall 2015. Hillsdale faculty approved this change at an April 2 faculty meeting along with two other educational policy alterations: a rule requiring a minimum 2.00 GPA for a minor and a rule requiring...