When Hillsdale College athletes leave hotels on road trips, they make sure not to leave any of the travel-sized toiletries in their rooms. This isn’t a budgeting technique created by college students to save a few bucks, it’s a part of one of the athletic department’s revived service initiatives. In conjunction with the NCAA Student-Athlete...
Author: Stevan Bennett (Stevan Bennett)
Shooting center teaches hunting safety
Successful passage of a hunter safety course is required to hunt legally in any of the 50 states, and for the first time in recent history, Hillsdale College is offering a way to obtain that certification. On Nov. 7, around 20 participants gathered at the John A. Halter Shooting Sports Center for the field day...
Charger Blue logs off after 20 years
When Andy Losik started ChargerBlue.com in 1998, he had to code the website by hand, line-by-line. Since then, the website has tallied more than half a million hits, as Losik spent 10-15 hours every week updating the unofficial internet home of Charger football. Now, after 20 seasons of game previews, recaps, recruiting updates, and more,...
Free-market firefighter: Wolfram spent summers battling California blazes
At the age of 18, Gary Wolfram found himself alongside his foreman and a handful of California Department of Corrections inmates on work release, caught in the middle of the Burrows Valley wildfire, as manzanita bushes exploded around him. “Your shirt could catch on fire, so we had to line up, and when the guy’s...
Crafting a ‘gluten-free’ beer
More than 18 million Americans are gluten-sensitive, according to a study published in Digestion magazine. These Americans are forced to avoid foods containing the proteins found in grains such as breads and pastas. Senior biochemistry major Trey VanAken spent his summer researching a process which would remove gluten from the beer, so that those with...