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Chargers are dark horses to win G-MAC
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Chargers are dark horses to win G-MAC

After compiling its best regular season record in five years, the Hillsdale football team has its sights set even higher in 2018. Hillsdale finished 7-4 and in third place in the G-MAC in 2017. According to a preseason coaches poll, the Chargers are expected to again finish third in the nine-team conference, but by a...

Salt and Straw Ice Cream perfects crowd management
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Salt and Straw Ice Cream perfects crowd management

Going out for ice cream is not always a joy. For most people older than 16, and especially for parents, the combination of lines, crowds, and small children with sugar highs transforms a fun Saturday activity into an anxious game of “Don’t-yell-at-someone-else’s-shrieking-child!” When my mom and I arrived at Salt and Straw in the Portland...

Looking back on Hillsdale’s first year in the G-MAC
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Looking back on Hillsdale’s first year in the G-MAC

The 2017-2018 academic year was the first time in 42 years that Hillsdale College athletics competed in a conference other than the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC). Last year marked the school’s switch to the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC), an NCAA Division II conference founded in 2011. The Chargers enjoyed a largely successful...