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Pi Beta Phi sorority will host its annual Mr. Hillsdale Pageant on Nov. 2. The challenge will pit 10 male students against each other in a beauty pageant-type competition in Phillips Auditorium. The cost for admission is $3 ahead of time and $5 at the door. All of the profits will go towards the Literacy Fund, Martin said. The Hillsdale...

Saga, Inc.. donated $5,000 to the basketball program at Hillsdale College Oct. 20. Every year, the basketball program hosts a fundraising dinner. At the dinner, 250 raffle tickets, costing $100 each, are sold to benefit the program, said John Tharp, men’s basketball coach. He said that Saga bought three tickets this year. Kevin Kirwan, General Manager of Saga, had the...

Hillsdale College and Grand valley State University are both charter members of the GLIAC and have competed against each other since 1972. Until 2009, Hillsdale did not have a football or basketball program capable of beating GVSU. Through better training, resources, and recruiting, Hillsdale has made the rivalry competitive. “Grand Valley set the precedent,” said Keith Otterbein, head coach of...

Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra is down in the polls – in some cases by a lot. Two-term incumbent Democrat Debbie Stabenow commanded a 13 point lead in a poll conducted by The Detroit News Oct. 27 to 29. Hoekstra visited campus Oct. 26 for a town hall meeting at the Dow Leadership Center.  Talking with The Collegian before...

Almost 90 percent of Hillsdale College students plan to vote for GOP candidate Mitt Romney in the upcoming election, according to a poll conducted by The Collegian, but less than half of them are happy about it. One user’s comment on The Collegian poll summed up what seemed to be a general sentiment: “I’d rather give Romney a chance than...

As the remnants of Hurricane Sandy swept through the Midwest early this week, a combination of high winds and freezing rain resulted in a loss of power for Hillsdale College’s campus. “The power outage was a direct result of the winds. We believe that a couple of lines got galloping in the wind and touched, which set off a transformer,”...

You’d hear him before you saw him. Clear, tuneful whistling. The sharp “Hey, whoa!” A wisecrack letting you know how handsome he was and how far short you fell. His wheezy laugh. Oh, Dr. Reist. The most colorful of professors, and still one of the most recognizable, even two years after his retirement. John Reist is a living legend of...