For the fourth time in school history, the women’s team will compete in the NCAA national meet after they finished third at regionals last weekend. The men’s team finished eighth. The women will travel to Spokane, Wash., next week where they will compete against the top 32 Division II schools in the country. A national...
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Metaxas named commencement speaker
Eric Metaxas will deliver this spring’s commencement address, the Provost’s office announced on Tuesday. Metaxas is a well-known writer of many genres and mediums, including children’s literature and television, as well as popular theology and history. His biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer went on to be a New York Times best-seller in 2011. Senior class president...
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Hillsdale to face Hoosiers
The Hillsdale College men’s basketball team plays the University of Toledo and Indiana University, both Division I schools, early next week. Said assistant coach Luke Laser of the matchups: “That’s a back to back we’ll never have to face in the regular season.” The Chargers, who began practice in mid-October, open their season at home...
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Men finished 3rd at GLIACs, women 4th
Freshman Joe Newcomb’s got four stitches after last Saturday’s GLIAC meet. Newcomb was spiked in the first mile of the men’s 8000 meter race at Houghton last weekend. He finished the race, however, coming fourth for his team, helping Hillsdale College to a third place overall finish at the meet. The women’s team finished fourth...
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“The Counselor:” nice poetry, bad movie
When English major types watch “The Counselor,” they’ll see a term paper ready to be written. The rest of the world will just see a bad movie. Despite the help of a cast and crew more talented than Space Jam’s Monstars, McCarthy’s script proves unwieldy for the silver screen. The nuggets of poetry sprinkled throughout...