The Hillsdale Chargers competed in their second and final exhibition game of the preseason on Saturday, and fell to the University of Toledo Rockets, 72-63. The Rockets are a Division I team with the potential to qualify for the NCAA tournament in March, according to senior guard Harrison Niego. Although the Chargers lost both of...
Conserving the Classics: Don Bluth’s ‘An American Tail’
When Steven Spielberg saw “The Secret of NIMH” (1982), Don Bluth’s animated film about tenacious field mice caught in a mental ward, the director loved it so much that he asked Bluth to do it again — only this time starring Jewish émigré mice. Bluth jumped aboard immediately and, with Spielberg’s collaboration, he spun “An...
Master of simplicity: Rich lyrics and clear acoustics in “Pray You Love Remember”
Catherine Coffey, ’16, has recently debuted her first L.P. titled “Pray You Love Remember.” The 11-track offering from Coffey comes on the heels of her signing with Vanity Plate Records, a record label founded in 2016 by a fellow Hillsdale graduate and classmate Danielle Adams, ’18. From the opening bars of the first track, “Pray...
‘A season for everything:’ Whalen to step down as provost, continue to teach
Among the neatly-ordered piles on Hillsdale College Provost David Whalen’s desk is paperwork regarding accreditation, a graduate school program, faculty sabbatical requests — and a stack of books on the pre-Raphaelites, two translations of Homer’s “Odyssey” he’s comparing, and a pile of English midterms he’s just graded. After serving as provost for nearly eight years,...
Midterm elections turn the Mitten State purple
Some of Michigan’s top governmental positions went blue after years of Republican control in a high-stakes midterm election Tuesday. Gretchen Whitmer will be the first Democrat to take the Michigan Governor’s office in the past eight years after she defeated Republican attorney general Bill Schuette in the race for governor. “I guess we’re going to...




