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Swim explores virtual options for 2020 competitive season
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Swim explores virtual options for 2020 competitive season

The Hillsdale College swimming team is looking to hold virtual meets this season as coaches explore ways to compete during the COVID-19 pandemic. Head coach Kurt Kirner said he met last week with the coaches of the Great Midwest Athletic and the Mountain East conferences to discuss alternatives to in-person meets. “We’re looking into the...

Collegian earns national ranking
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Collegian earns national ranking

The Hillsdale Collegian ranks fifth nationally in the 2020 Princeton Review ranking of Best College Newspaper.  Despite dropping from its third place ranking from last year, the Collegian still earned an impressive honor, ranking in the top 20 college newspapers in the country.  Hillsdale was outranked by Syracuse University, Ithaca College, Rice University, and Columbia...

Q&A: Victor Davis Hanson
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Q&A: Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a military historian, and a visiting professor at Hillsdale College. His latest book is “The Case for Trump.” He gave a lecture at Hillsdale College on Wednesday titled “Plague, Panic, and Protests—The Weird Election Year of 2020.” The past few months...

Hillsdale biology professor discovers new shark fossil 
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Hillsdale biology professor discovers new shark fossil 

Anthony Swinehart, professor of biology and curator of the Fisk Museum of Natural History at Hillsdale College, recently made what can only be described as the discovery of a lifetime: a three-millimeter long fossilized shark tooth found in the northern part of lower Michigan last August. The tooth belonged to phoebodus sophiae, a species of...