Basketball This Season, the Only Chargers to Tinued Its Winning [Goal By] Hillsdale College Defeated Walsh Shoot Free Throws, Streak on Monday University 106-105
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Michigan’s oldest college newspaper Vol. 137, Issue 15 - 6 Feb. 2014 www.hillsdalecollegian.com Average ACT Score Hillsdale wins in 4OT Monica Brandt bounds, the first 40-20 game in make at least two 3-pointers. Collegian Reporter school history. As a team, Hillsdale was 60 26 2002 27.5 2008 29 2014 “I’m so proud of how we percent on 3-pointers came together as a team and and 80 percent on free In the longest, highest-scor- wouldn’t quit,” Fogt said. throws. ing game in NCAA Division II Fogt and Berry were Hillsdale con- women’s basketball this season, the only Chargers to tinued its winning [goal by] Hillsdale College defeated Walsh shoot free throws, streak on Monday University 106-105. going 28-32 com- night with its first With 22 ties and 24 lead bined. Berry also win at the Univer- 31 2018 changes, the game was a battle scored 32 points, a sity of Findlay from the beginning. career-high. since 2009. At the end of regulation, Hills- “It was the crazi- Hillsdale dale was ahead 66-64 until Walsh est game I’ve ever started 84% 2002 65% 2008 49% 2014 tied it up with 28 seconds left. been a part of,” Mock “I was thinking, ‘Oh great, said. “When you play here we go,’” sophomore Madi- four overtimes, you son Berry said. don’t really forget. However, the Chargers would Especially when you [goal by] not be taken down so easily. come out on the win- “I felt like we lost the game 25 ning side.” 30% 2018 times but won it 26 times,” assis- Hillsdale went tant coach Jon Mock said. into the game Acceptance Rate In the third of four overtimes, against Walsh Walsh scored a 3-pointer to take after an im- a 98-95 lead with eight seconds portant left. win The Chargers got the ball to Boosting our stats junior Kadie Lowery, who scored her own 3-point shot to tie the Casey Harper If Hillsdale were to meet that 30 percent game with two seconds left, send- Spotlight Editor rate, it would fall easily into the top 100 ing the Chargers into overtime most selective schools in the nation, accord- number four. ing to U.S. News and World Report’s rank- “They refused to lose the Hillsdale College plans to be the most se- (Courtesy of Logan Smith) ing for the fall of 2012. game,” Mock said. lective school in Michigan within five years. Hillsdale played much of the As part of the Rebirth of Liberty and Hillsdale is already the most selective against Malone private school in Michigan, and schools fourth overtime with a new lineup University on Learning campaign, admissions plans to due to three starting players – se- increase its applications by about 40 to 45 that Hillsdale is often compared to, such as Thursday, Jan. Thomas Aquinas College and Grove City nior Angela Bisaro, Berry, and 30. percent and raise the average ACT score to redshirt sophomore Ashlyn Land- 31 by 2018. College, have acceptance rates of 80.6 per- Hillsdale cent and 84.2 percent respectively, accord- herr – fouling out. came out strong “A lot of schools, a lot of private liberal Junior Megan Fogt, who arts colleges in the state of Michigan, sim- ing to U.S. News and World Report. against the Hillsdale’s numbers have not always earned her fourth GLIAC South GLIAC South ply want to fill their class and that’s their Player of the Week award, played goal, and they have a hard time reaching been as impressive. In 2002, Hillsdale had Division lead- an acceptance rate of 84 percent and an aver- a crucial role in the game, espe- ers, win- that goal,” Director of Admissions Jeffrey cially during the fourth overtime, Lantis said. “We have no problem reaching age ACT of 26. ning The ACT score of 31 would tie Hillsdale when she made one jump shot 85- that goal.” and four of her five free throws, Currently, the college averages 2,100 ap- with the University of Michigan. 69. “Right now, we’re the best liberal arts including the final free throw plications for a freshman class of about 370, with one second left, to end the with an acceptance rate of about 49 percent. school, we have the best academic profile of out any liberal arts college in the state of Michi- game. While the If they achieve their target 3,000 applica- “Honestly I’m pretty sure I tions by 2018, that would put the acceptance gan,” Lantis said. “The University of Michi- Malone was game well, gan reports a 31 ACT, so if we can raise our was solely running on adrenaline able to tie Hillsdale twice Mock said, but rate at about 30 percent, well below the Uni- through all of the overtimes,” versity of Michigan in Ann Arbor’s 37 per- standards that high, we will be able to be as during the game, they never were fell into a lull partway into the good as any school in the state.” Fogt said in an email. “As I’m able to take the lead. first half, and didn’t come out of cent acceptance rate. sure many of the other girls on “We want it to be a demonstrable statis- Lantis said the college is increasing its “It was one of our best team it until the last eight or nine min- web and social media outreach, strengthen- the team were, too.” performances,” Mock said. utes in the game. tic that we’re the most selective school in Fogt played 58 minutes of Michigan, period,” Associate Director of ing its base of parent and alumnae volun- Hillsdale had four players “We were all super tired and teers, and increasing its mailings as ways to the 60-minute game. She had a – sophomore Kelsey Cromer, Admissions Fred Schebor said. career-high 41 points, and 24 re- See Admissions A3 Landherr, Berry, and Lowery – See Basketball A7 Heavy snow, in addition to high winds and frigid temperatures, has challenged the city Officers urge of Hillsdale’s winter maintenance crew this season. “It’s by far the most intense winter since the `70s,” said Keith Richard, Hillsdale De- partment of Public Services director. seniors to give DPS Working Foreman Roger Paynes said the crew’s work is never finished in weather Alex Anderson percentage of alumni donations. like this. Web Editor According to U.S. News and “You get the streets open and then the wind World Report, the college with blows them back shut,” Payne said. the highest alumni giving rate So much snow is accumulating that plow The college’s 2014 senior was Thomas Aquinas College in drivers are running out of space to store it at class officers have officially Santa Paula, Calif., which aver- the side of the road, Richard said. While the kicked off a three-year student aged 63.7 percent. department mainly uses plows mounted un- giving campaign for the senior Hillsdale College Director of der their trucks, it has resorted to using front class. Alumni Relations Grigor Hasted plows, which push snow higher, in order to Senior Class President Josh explained that the senior class push newer snow over old piles. Andrew explained that the cam- campaign is part of an effort to Normally, warm spells throughout the paign is an effort to increase the increase the college’s alumni- winter prevent such accumulation, but no re- percentage of alumni donations giving rate, which has remained Cold prieves have occurred this season. given to the college. at 25 percent. Walker Mulley In addition to finding somewhere to shovel “Historically, people who “Fifty percent is a good level Collegian Freelancer old snow, the crew is having problems melt- graduate from Hillsdale don’t for some of the best schools in ing new snow and ice due to the consistent, sub-zero temperatures. seem to give back very much,” the nation. We are among those Photos by Ben Strickland Andrew said. “This impacts our schools, but our alumni giving “The cold makes salt less effective,” Rich- rankings. If people gave back $30 rate is not commensurable with ard said. over three years, it will drasti- that,” Hasted said. “If you wait to The crew has since resorted to spreading cally impact our rankings for the cultivate that type of alumni sup- sand on roads as well, to provide some sort of better.” port after the students graduate, traction for drivers. The idea for this three-year even within the first two years, it DPS has separate budgets for winter main- campaign began last year with the is very hard to reach them.” tenance on major roads, local roads, and the class of 2013. During the course In an effort to increase student section of M-99 within city limits, called the of their campaign, 40 percent of participation in the campaign, the trunk line. the class signed a pledge to sup- senior class officers are exploring When the last budget figures came out on port the college over a three-year new marketing efforts. Jan. 1, DPS had used 22 percent of its $83,840 period. “Last year, the officers really budget for major roads, 22.5 percent of its Colleges across the nation restricted their marketing to sit- $47,840 budget for local roads, and 45 per- continually seek to increase their ting at a table above Saga. We cent of the trunk line’s $22,785 budget. alumni giving rate. U.S.