Author: Tory Cooney

Home Tory Cooney
Tower Players bring ‘Medea’ to life
Post

Tower Players bring ‘Medea’ to life

The lights shift, casting a warm glow on the birch trees and log houses of Fort Michilimackinac. A chorus of Ojibwe and French settler women listen attentively to the keening song of a woman betrayed. The year is 1680. The woman is Medea. And the setting is unusual for Euripides’s play, written in the 5th...

Sparring for a black belt
Post

Sparring for a black belt

Beneath dozens of fluttering banners striped in primary colors, over 500 students in white uniforms went through the customary stretches that always marked the beginning of the opening ceremonies for Tae Park’s annual Tae Kwon Do tournament. Last Saturday, over 47 Hillsdale College students, professor’s children, and community members participated in the tournament as students...

Tennis earns first victory
Post

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...

Post

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...

Post

Local man sentenced for brutal assault

Lucas McDaniel was sentenced Oct. 29 for the July assault of his wife. “It was probably one of the worst assaults I’ve seen,” said Public Safety Director Christopher Gutowski. “That’s why the charge is so high. Assault with intent to do great bodily harm is third highest on the scale, after attempted murder and murder.”...