How do you make water seemingly vanish? Take a cup, put a superabsorbent polymer in it, pour water into it, and turn the cup upside down. The water doesn’t flow out. It’s like magic. Members of Hillsdale’s chapter of the American Chemical Society visited Gier Elementary School last month for its Family Science...
Year: 2018
Charger Chatter: Joseph Humes
How did you get into track and how long have you done it? Why did you start running? Seventh grade was the first year it was available for us. I think it was mom that said ‘You should try to do this.’ In soccer, we would always do running as punishment and so I...
Bible study helps to encourage dorm leaders
When Griffith Brown ’17 realized resident assistants needed a place to encourage one another, he reached out to fellow Simpson RA Eli West ’17. Brown soon learned that West shared his concerns. Three years ago, the two began Frontlines, a ministry for RAs and any other dorm resident who has a heart for other students...
Men’s tennis to open spring season at home this weekend
The Hillsdale College men’s tennis team will kick off its spring season with two matches this weekend at 4:30 pm Friday against Daemen College and at 2 pm Saturday against Ill-Springfield College. We’re excited to get going,” head coach Keith Turner said. “The guys are playing well and we definitely have a solid team that...
Scholarships will send students to Glacier Bay
The summer getaway is about to get studious, as the Great Tradition takes on the great outdoors in the 2018 Glacier Bay Session, a four-week summer conference in southeast Alaska. Two Hillsdale students will be selected to study American writing about the outdoors — think Whitman, Berry, and Thoreau — in its natural habitat. “Twelve...




