The Hillsdale College men’s basketball team’s season came to a disappointing end on Saturday night in the GLIAC Tournament semifinals in Ashland, Ohio. The eighth-seed Walsh Cavaliers scorched the Chargers, shooting 63 percent from the field en route to a 98-69 victory. Hillsdale, on the other hand, shot just 38 percent from the floor and...
Economist Deirdre McCloskey lectures on classical liberalism Tuesday, March 8 in Dow A & B. Eric Ragan | Courtesy More than 140 students and faculty crowded Dow A & B Tuesday to hear from world-famous economist Deirdre McCloskey speak on “How True Liberalism Enriched the World.” Free-market student organization Praxis invited McCloskey to spend all...
Hillsdale College senior defensive tackle Roger Stewart chased his NFL dream at Winter Park, the Minnesota Vikings’ indoor facility on Saturday. After months of rigorous training, Stewart was given less than five hours to impress NFL scouts at a regional combine in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. A day-long event, regional combines provide college football players who...
Two Hillsdale College alumni are training to qualify for the 2016 Olympics this August in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Amanda Eccleston (formerly Putt) ’12 and Maurice Jones ’15 both ran track and field while at Hillsdale and hold standing school records for many events. They will try out for the 1500-meter run and the 400-meter...
Deirdre McCloskey speaks to students Tuesday, March 8 on classical liberalism for Praxis. Eric Ragan | Courtesy Deirdre McCloskey is a renowned free-market economist, essayist, and professor who has written more than a dozen books and hundreds of scholarly articles. A modern expert in economic history, McCloskey, who worked for several years with Milton Friedman,...