Following a tough 3-point road loss to Walsh, the Hillsdale College women’s basketball team came out of their four-game losing streak with an 11-point win against Tiffin. With only two games left in the regular season, the team will fight for a spot in the tournament. “We’re taking one game at a time,” head coach...
When Nat King Cole moved into a rich, predominantly white neighborhood in Los Angeles in 1948, he received many housewarming gifts—including a burning cross in his front yard from the Ku Klux Klan. As recounted in a biography of the famous jazz composer Nelson Riddle, the local property owners association told Cole they didn’t want...
The Hillsdale College women’s swim team took sixth place at the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships on Feb. 8-11, at Saginaw Valley State University. The Chargers finished sixth out of eight women’s teams, and saw many individual successes with new records set. Head coach Kurt Kirner said this meet was the fastest he...
Four-year-old beginning cheerleader Riley McNair stood atop her teammates’ shoulders for the first time, eyes squeezed tightly shut. She was terrified. Riley had never been lifted into the air before, and to someone her age, the three-and-a-half feet between her sneakers and the blue-carpeted tumbling floor felt like miles. “Ok, now open your eyes....
For sculptor Sarah Hempel Irani ’00, chasing Michelangelo is a life’s work. Irani will share her knowledge of sculpting, when she leads a tour to Italy July 3-13, tracing the career of the Renaissance sculptor Michelangelo from the quarries of Pietrosanta in Tuscany to the cities Florence and Rome, where his most famous works are....