My mother is a baker. I am a cook. She realized this a few weeks after I botched my very first batch of cookies and set the oven on fire. It took me a bit more soul-searching and the acquisition of a paring knife. The theory goes that cooks and bakers possess fundamentally different approaches...
Author: Tory Cooney
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“This is football,” and it’s too dangerous
A stadium packed with thousands of fans chanted, cheered, and screamed as the Ohio State University football team pummeled Penn State University. This was my first experience at a “real” football game, and I was overwhelmed to be part of a crowd larger than the entire population of Aruba. When I shared that...
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Debate team: Research in, weekends out
The debate lounge was empty again this weekend, file boxes and team members whisked away to work. However, they were not at some far-off campus debating, but holed away in a suite with a couple coffeemakers to fuel their research weekend. “Research weekends are exactly what they sound like,” said Debate Coach and Assistant Professor...
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Tennis earns first victory
Hillsdale women’s tennis defeated the Findlay Oilers 7-2 on Sunday, Sept. 16, clinching its first team win of the season. “It was really exciting,” said freshman Sydney Delp. “Finally, our hard work and effort paid off after such heartbreakingly close losses to really good teams. Everyone really contributed to the success.” The Chargers won every...
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Freshman class raises the bar
The Class of 2016 continued Hillsdale College’s 10-year-long streak of rising incoming freshman grade point averages. This year’s freshman class average high school GPA is 3.8. “A whopping 0.03 percent higher than last year, and a few more students were in the top 10 percent of their class” Director of Admissions Jeff Lantis said. “The...