Last year, the Hillsdale College baseball team had its best season in program history, advancing to its first ever NCAA tournament and finishing with a record of 32-24. The Chargers, however, will look strikingly different this season, having lost seven of ten starters from last year’s squad. The new-look Chargers will open up their season...
Year: 2017
A Liberty Walk that lives up to its name
Only one statue of a woman stands on Hillsdale College’s Liberty Walk, and she’s an honorary American citizen making bronzy eyes at Ronald Reagan from across the quad. It’s as if the walk forgot the influential women who fought fiercely for liberty with pamphlets, pens, petitions, and parades right here in the United States. But...
Debate beats Ivies in first British Parliament competition
Lake-effect snow and two 10-hour car rides left the debate team exhausted, after beating Ivy League competitors in its first British Parliamentary tournament. While the forensics team took home five awards at the Bowling Green State University Invitational Saturday and Sunday, debate team members transformed Hillsdale College’s British Parliamentary Club, which started last semester, into...
Women’s basketball falls to Walsh, overcomes Tiffin
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...
King Cole croons his way into history
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...




