Head swim coach Kurt Kirner won his fifth Great Midwest Athletic Conference Coach of the Year award in seven years on Feb. 15. The award is given to an outstanding coach during the G-MAC/Mountain East Conference championship meet each year. On the podium, alongside his assistant coach, Alissa Lufkin, ‘16, he pointed to his team...
Month: February 2025
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‘Boys Only’ trapped in WRFH: The fire department rescued the podcasters after three hours
Left to right: Nate Gallagher, Gabe Beckwith, and Storm Drexler were trapped in a WRFH recording studio. Courtesy | Gabe Beckwith The Hillsdale Fire Department rescued three students locked in a recording studio at the Radio Free Hillsdale WRFH station on the night of Feb. 14. That night, sophomores Storm Drexler and Nate Gallagher welcomed...
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Mock Trial to host public scrimmage
Mock trial returning team, Kangaroo Court, which will compete in the public scrimmage, poses at the University of South Carolina. Courtesy | Chloe Noller Hillsdale College’s Mock Trial teams A and B will host a public scrimmage on March 3 at 6:30 p.m. in the Gillespie Room. The showcase is a full “performance” of the civil...
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After Eden: Embrace grief
Our four years at Hillsdale teach us transcendental truths, but something’s missing if we graduate without having learned to love our friends in their suffering. Clare Ansberry wrote that, as a nation, “we aren’t very good at dealing with grief. In fact, we might be getting worse at it.” In the Feb. 16 article for...
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Estonian ambassador visits Hillsdale
Europe and America must continue their interdependent alliances because of their shared history and heritage, Estonian ambassador Kristjan Prikk said in his talk, “The Future of Europe: Why Should It Matter to America,” hosted by the Center for Military History and Strategy in Plaster Auditorium Feb. 25. “If we really take a look back far,...