After concluding conference play last Friday, the Hillsdale softball team will enter the GLIAC postseason tournament as the No. 6 seed, facing Saginaw Valley at noon on Friday. This marks the third consecutive year the team has made the conference tournament. “At the start of the year, for us coaches, our goal was to make...
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...
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...
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,...
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...