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Homecoming curse continues

Hillsdale’s homecoming curse continued on Saturday as Grand Valley State University rattled off 42 straight points over the span of three quarters, defeating the Chargers 42-21. “We’ve just got to play better,” head coach Keith Otterbein said. “We didn’t play good enough to beat a good football team.” Hillsdale has now lost four straight homecoming...

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Chargers come up short in Indianapolis

If you just looked at the stats, you’d think Hillsdale pounded their way to a convincing win against a playoff-caliber team in Indianapolis. The Chargers outgained the Greyhounds by 116 yards, ran 27 more plays on offense, and won the time of possession battle 35:10 to the Greyhounds’ 24:50. But Indianapolis came out on top...

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Sports as a liberal art

Students come to Hillsdale College, in large part, because of the excellent liberal arts education that the college provides. We read about ancient Greece and medieval England. We study the make-up of a molecule and the anatomy of the cell. We learn how to translate “The Aeneid” and calculate the slope of a tangent line...

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Football defends home field

It took more than three quarters for Hillsdale to find the end zone against Northern Michigan on Saturday. But on a day the offense struggled, the Chargers defense stepped up and made some key stops down the stretch to give Hillsdale the victory, 13-10. “They all made some really big plays,” offensive lineman redshirt junior...

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Men’s basketball clinches GLIAC tournament playoff berth

Winning in basketball isn’t determined merely by which team shot the higher field goal percentage or grabbed more rebounds. If the Hillsdale College men’s basketball team had any doubt of that before this week, they learned it the hard way last Thursday at Malone University in a heart-breaking 81-80 defeat. “When you shoot 60 percent...