Phil Morgan

Take Marine Biology

S ometimes I stop what I am doing and daydream about a class I took seven months ago. I think about the manatee that swam by me in Zane Grey Creek, fishing for sharks with my friends after hours of identifying snails in the lab, the fresh seafood I mowed on at Whale Harbor Buffet, [...]

Off the record

So I’m one of about 20 students graduating at the half-way point. Graduating in December is really melodramatic. The college basically reminds you about your loans, hands you a piece of paper, pats you on the butt, and wishes you well as they send you on your way. Everyone else is asking me what I’m [...]

Charger Chatter: Nick Washburn

Senior Nick Washburn has started for each of the last four seasons at Hillsdale. The 6’10” center was 2nd team All-GLIAC in 2011-12. This year he will be called upon to lead the team in the wake of three key departures at the end of last season.     You finished first in the GLIAC [...]

Youthful Lady Chargers will be a force in the GLIAC

Looking at the Chargers 2012-13 line-up it would be reasonable to call this season a rebuilding year. The team lost several key players from last season’s squad, and only one senior is on the current roster, star point-guard Lea Jones. Yet head coach Claudette Charney has always found a way to win and there is [...]

Charger Chatter: Nikki Walbright

GLIAC women’s tennis coach of the year Nikki Walbright tells us how she turned around Hillsdale’s tennis program and how athletics can mean academic success.   How did the team do at the GLIAC tournament? They succeeded beyond expectation. After we got to the tournament, I really wanted to place higher than we were seeded, [...]

Hillsdale student soldiers

When junior Nathan Seiver returned from Afghanistan as a member of the Marine 2nd Battalions weapon company, he had a revelation. “I came to realize what education meant to me,” Seiver said. Many public colleges, Seiver said, are destructive to the freedom he fought for in the province of Helmand in southern Afghanistan. Yet he [...]

Michigan’s Proposal 6: a bridge of deceit

Right now the Detroit River is a moat, and the Ambassador Bridge is a drawbridge guarded by a greedy old troll. Moats and drawbridges aren’t built to welcome traders but to discourage invaders. This is a problem for Detroit, considering the bridge connects a trade partner in Canada to our economically troubled manufacturing and agricultural [...]

Stories by night and hunting by day

South of Botswana, Africa, near the Limpopo River is the Eland ranch, an expansive game reserve on a plateau high above the city of Johannesburg. The land here is covered in Acacia trees, bush veldt, and thorny waitabit bushes. Sophomore Marshall Gobba is stalking a herd of blue wildebeests. The wind has changed several times [...]

Movie review: ‘Chasing Mavericks’

What does it mean to live a good life? If you were being dragged 300-yards underwater toward a rocky shoreline known as “the boneyard” would you be able to answer that? It’s a question we don’t typically associate with surfing, but for Jay Moriarity, a 16-year-old big-wave surfer out of Santa Cruz and his mentor [...]

Off the record

It’s that time of year: the weather turns bad, due dates near, and the newness of school has fully worn off. Some of you are thinking of not coming back for second semester. I think you should reconsider. I tell you this out of experience. I hated Hillsdale College. Four years ago, I never thought [...]

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