Year: 2015

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Charney retires from coaching

Claudette Charney, head coach of the Hillsdale women’s basketball team, is retiring on April 30 after 13 seasons of leading the Chargers. Since coming to Hillsdale in 2002, Charney has built the women’s basketball program, leading three girls to All-American status, the team to three GLIAC South Division titles, and the 2009 GLIAC championship. She...

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Confronting life: art is not a sedative

It can be painful to realize that we can’t turn back time. As I was going away to college, I remember thinking, “So that was high school.” And then, turning twenty: “So those were the teenage years.” Sometimes it hits me that those are years I’m never getting back. By no means do I miss...

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Our campus needs better security

Occasionally on campus, one may hear someone speaking about the “Hillsdale Bubble.” This is referring to the semi-mythical effect that a sequestered campus miles from a major city has on how the student body sees politics, religion, and culture. That Bubble was popped last Wednesday when police escorted a man out of the Mossey Library...

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The return of King Kendrick

“To Pimp a Butterfly” is a contrived album. Let’s begin there. On his sophomore LP with a major label, Kendrick Lamar plunges his hands into the history of black music and pulls out heavy, ambitious themes of racial iniquity, cultural appropriation, Afrocentrism, and self-loathing in the African-American experience. As he stitches together fabric borrowed from...

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Rachael Kurtz: Two-time All-American

Hillsdale senior swimmer Rachael Kurtz now stands alone as the only Charger swimmer to receive All-American honors twice in her collegiate career. With her finish of 16th in the 50 freestyle event at the 2015 NCAA Division II swimming and diving championships, Kurtz marked her place in Hillsdale history leaving the legacy of two All-American...