When Christ Chapel began taking reservations for wedding ceremonies Wednesday, its schedule filled up for the first 10 years in a matter of minutes. The long-awaited $28.6-million chapel that took four years to fundraise was paid off in less than four minutes, after the chapel’s website went live at 7 a.m. Wednesday. More than 1,500...
Forty-five minutes before the noon finish time, someone hit a gong with a cry: “20,000 meals!” Approximately 130 students, capped with plastic hair nets and busy assembling meals in the Biermann Athletics Center on Saturday, cheered. In just two hours, they had reached their goal and then some: packaging 22,032 meals, more than enough to...
Student Federation increased its next year’s discretionary fund by nearly $7,000 to $45,832.64. The group unanimously approved its budget for the 2017-2018 academic year, during its final meeting of the semester April 20. The discretionary fund finances student organizations for events, trips, and other needs, after funds are earmarked for campus publications, the senior class,...
This weekend, the Hillsdale College women’s track and field team competed at the 2017 Jesse Owens University Classic at Ohio State University and the GVSU Al Owens Open. The weekend was mostly about getting ready for the Gina Relays which the Chargers will host this weekend as the biggest meet in Hillsdale history. “Right now,...
Sophomore Joel Pietila is the first-ever GLIAC Golf Championship individual winner for the Hillsdale College golf program. In what was a rough weekend for the entire field, Pietila took the victory by shooting a four-over-par 220. He bested the second place finisher by two strokes. “Obviously, Joel is a tremendous player,” head coach Nathan Gilchrist...