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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...