Each person has their own path to Hillsdale. For Professor of Economics Roger Butters, the journey involved the Portuguese language, a career change, and building computers. Butters began programming computers when he was 11 years old and bought his first retail computer 10 years later as an undergraduate student. It is much less expensive to...
The Hillsdale College athletic department recently hired Mitchell Schoenborn to take over as Strength and Conditioning coach. Schoenborn replaces Mitchell Faine, who was hired in the summer. Schoenborn is the third coach to hold the position in the calendar year. His job requires he do a little bit of everything, from managing players’ nutrition, designing...
The Hillsdale College Women Commissioners are hosting the first-ever Charger Derby on Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. The event will be a virtually-simulated horse race derby with live and silent auctions, drinks, and hors d’oeuvres. The Charger Derby is replacing the former Women Commissioners Sale that took place every fall in the Margot V. Biermann...
A poor, uneducated white boy from Missouri runs away from his drunken father and hops on a raft to head down the Mississippi River with a runaway slave. It is a story that most Americans know. It is Mark Twain’s classic American novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” and until recently, it was a...
The Washington Nationals are not favored to win the 2019 World Series — all the more reason why they will. On May 25, when the Nationals were 19-31 and the second-worst team in the National League, they only had a 0.1% chance of making the World Series according to Baseball Reference. They then snuck through...