Hillsdale College’s Mock Trial program rearranged all three teams at the beginning of this semester, putting all of the strongest players together. The restructuring is intended to give the team an edge in tournaments that could advance them to nationals. “All the people who had scored well in the previous semester, we kind of grouped...
Author: Daniel Slonim (Daniel Slonim)
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Mock Trial wins tourney
Hillsdale College’s mock trial program won its last tournament of the season this past weekend. Only one of Hillsdale’s three teams flew to American University in Washington, D.C., for the tournament on Nov. 16-17, but that team, under the leadership of senior Abby Loxton and sophomore Ryan Ahrens, took first place in a tournament that...
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Record set at Rubik’s Contest
Post by The Hillsdale Collegian. A new North American record was set at a Rubik’s Cube tournament held on campus this past weekend. USA contestant Drew Brads set a record for the Pyraminx, a pyramid-shaped version of the puzzle. His average time of 3.01 seconds and his best time of 1.71 seconds from Saturday’s game...
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Ikawa’s adventures
This professor of accounting has played in the World Series of Poker, been mugged in France, trekked through the rainforest in Peruf, been barred from a casino for card-counting, and won more than $80k on the show Jeapordy! Ikawa has been at Hillsdale for 15 years—a quarter of his life. Every year, Hillsdale’s accounting club...
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Debate smashes at tourney
The score difference between Hillsdale’s forensics team and the runner-up at a tournament hosted by Marietta College last weekend was 70 to 21. Hillsdale won six out of 12 events at the tournament outright, with finalists in four more. Those victories, along with high rankings by every member in preliminary rounds, contributed to the overall...