Broad Street Market, soon to be renamed Broad Street Downtown Market, will get a makeover along with new owners just in time for next semester. "We are at full throttle right now -- we're working sunup to sundown," said Penny Windgate, one of the future co-owners. (0) comments
Students hoping to use Hillsdale College's new Outdoor Firearms Education Facility may have to wait a year or two longer as the college raises funds to finish the 77-acre shooting range. "We're receiving funding here and there," Vice President of Administration Rich Péwé said. (0) comments
Hillsdale College will terminate its summer program for inner city high school students, the Life and Liberty Camp, because of a lack of funds. "It was a good program, but we can do those kinds of things when the stock market's a little bit different," Vice President of Administration Rich Péwé said. (0) comments
Hillsdale College's annual Tocco Challenge, an athletic competition designed to raise money for Greek philanthropies, will probably not take place in its usual form this spring. Don Tocco, marketing entrepreneur and supporter of the college, suffers from a shoulder injury that will not heal in time for the competition. (0) comments
Matthew Warner, assistant director of forensics and debate, went to China to get to know his wife. "We knew we wanted to do something different during our first year of marriage to get out of the rat race," he said. "If we're going to get married, it's ridiculous to live this chaotic lifestyle," they decided. (0) comments
Dormitories will likely not receive wireless Internet access until fall 2010 at the earliest, said Patrick Chartrand, Network Systems Manager for Information Technology Services. Since the equipment will cost more than $900 per hallway, ITS plans to wait until it upgrades the college's entire network. (1) comment
Spurred by last November's housing grants and the recent Blueprint Plan for Development, downtown business owners are banding together with the Hillsdale city government to reinvent the downtown atmosphere. In addition to the ongoing renovations of the Dawn Theater and Keefer House, the city expects renovation projects to begin soon on two neighboring downtown buildings. (0) comments
The current economic recession has created a muddy playing field for students looking to gain on-the-job experience before graduation, students and professors say. Hillsdale College sophomore Maddie Merritt said she is running out of luck trying to find a solid summer position in either film or business. (1) comment
Junior Kate "Andy" Anderson will collect donations until late March for care packages she plans to send to the 126th Press Camp of the Michigan National Guard. She hopes to send them before the 32 combat journalists return to home base in mid-April, after a 90-day leave. (0) comments
Although senior Michael David won last Thursday's Edward Everett Prize in Oratory competition for the second year in a row, it was freshman Elliot Gaiser who inherited the title of "Golden Lips" from Dan Burfiend '08, who won the competition three times in four years. (0) comments
Last spring, the members of Delta Tau Delta fraternity decided they would like to learn better dinner etiquette. They asked President Larry Arnn if his wife would teach them. Arnn says when he brought up the subject, his wife responded, "Please don't make me do that. (0) comments
Randy Mitchell says 50 percent of his sales come from referrals by those he's served in the past. The rest come from knowing people, and letting them know what he does. But he has a source for leads that's alien to most salesmen: the obituary pages. "You never know what the reception will be," Mitchell said. (0) comments
Along with traditional care packages and Charger Change, parents now can supply students with prepaid coupon cards redeemable at A.J.'s Café. The "Jam-n-Java" card entitles students to three grande espresso drinks, two large dishes of ice cream, a milkshake or any combination of those six items. (0) comments
Poker players will have a new place to push "all in" come mid-March in addition to benefitting local charities with proceeds from their games. Ron Bristow, director of The Hunt Club Poker Room company, will institute poker games at the Hunt Club restaurant every Thursday through Sunday, beginning before the end of this month, pending approval from the state government. (0) comments
Freshman Chris Ong says the stash of coffee in his room could sustain a 12-cups-a-day lifestyle, but even he, a former Starbucks barista, can't handle that much. He came up with a simple solution for the surplus: Continue working as barista from his dorm room, free of charge, in the name of campus community. (0) comments
Night sky report from the Astronomy Club Tonight, you will have a chance to catch Comet Lulin if you did not see it last week near Leo. The comet ought to be just southeast of the Beehive cluster of galaxies in the constellation Cancer. HBring binoculars or a telescope, however, as Lulin's magnitude is a low 6. (0) comments
The Silos Fun Park will host a job fair this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. They are looking for workers to fill various positions, including cashiers, go-kart attendants, and an assistant manager. Applicants should visit www.silosfunpark.com/employmentnew. (0) comments
This spring only three students will graduate from Hillsdale College with degrees in physics. Sometimes, there are even fewer. "We vary from one to three or four," said Jim Peters, physics department chairman. "We do exist," said Erin Derrick, a junior physics major. (0) comments
