The Hillsdale College baseball team dropped a four-game series against the University of Illinois Springfield over the weekend. The team now sits with a 4-4 record against non-conference opponents, but is looking to change that next weekend with its first G-MAC game against Ohio Dominican University. “We just struggled to get ahead of the count...
Year: 2021
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English alumna turns prof
When Kirsten Hall ’15 arrived on Hillsdale’s campus as a freshman, she knew she wanted to study English and go for a Ph.D. Hall said she was attracted to Hillsdale’s robust English program but knew she also wanted a well-rounded education. “I wanted my education to be a liberal-arts education,” Hall said. “I didn’t want...
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Hospital allows grandparents to visit newborns
Hillsdale Hospital is now allowing two healthy grandparents to visit laboring mothers and newborn babies as of Feb. 25. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, visitors to the birthing center were restricted to one adult support person throughout the duration of the laboring mother’s stay for most of 2020, according to a press release. As the number...
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‘The Loft’ wins IBS radio award for best comedy show
Radio Free Hillsdale’s “The Loft” won first place for Best Comedy show in the college-radio equivalent of the Academy Awards. “The Loft” is a weekly comedy variety show hosted by junior Rachel Kookogey, senior Caleb Ramette, and sophomore Nick Treglia and produced by freshman Josh Camp. The show, as Kookogey put it, “covers anything we...
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Paying for college is an individual responsibility
During the spring of my senior year, my high school band director asked me about my post-graduation plans. “I’m going to a liberal arts college and majoring in English,” I said. “Good. That way you’ll be grammatically correct when you ask people ‘Do you want fries with that?’” he replied. Insulting, yes. But also a...