News, Sports and Opinion from Hastings College
Video by: Ross Struss/HC Media
By: Lauren Sawyer and Dan Miller
Students packed into the bleachers tonight for the final men’s basketball home game at Lynn Farrell arena. The HC Broncos took on the GPAC last place-ranked Concordia Bulldogs.
Students cheered in an array of sweater vests to support Coach Lance Creech in his final home game before retirement. Creech has coached 11 seasons at HC and was the GPAC Coach of the Year in 2010.
Last night, Lance Creech walked out onto the court of Lynn Farrell arena for his final regular-season home game as head coach for the HC men’s basketball team. After holding the position for 11 years, Creech will resign at the end of this season to spend more time with his family, whom he attributed as the main reason for his resignation. [Read more...]
Marcy Knudson, professor of mathematics and computer science, brought over three years of experience with the IBM corporation to Hastings. She moved to town so her husband could be closer to his family. After working in a few other “private sector” jobs and then caring for her children as a stay-at-home mother, Knudson was ready to return to her originally-intended career, teaching. [Read more...]
When Anne Fairbanks, professor of English and vice president of academic affairs, arrived in Hastings, she didn’t know there was a college in town. She had only intended to carry on the family business. But when she learned of Hastings College, she had only one goal on her mind: to work there. [Read more...]
From neighborhood puppet shows as a child to performing along HC students in the theater, George White, professor of theater arts and chair of the department, has been involved in theater production for over 45 years. [Read more...]
David Lovekin, professor of philosophy and chair of the department, couldn’t imagine life without college. While it’s true that he will be retiring after the spring semester, Lovekin plans to continue pursuing his passion for learning. [Read more...]
Hastings College can be a heaven on Earth, said Jack Kramer, professor of economics and head of the CABE department. Professors are continuously involved with students, which is what Kramer has come to love about the college.
“I never had a class that I didn’t thoroughly enjoy,” Kramer said. [Read more...]
King Berenger the First doesn’t want to die, but the audience knows from the beginning of “Exit the King,” a play by Eugene Ionesco, that only with the king’s last breath will the curtain fall. Or, in the HC production, opening May 3, when the king disappears behind the curtain into the dark and smoky backstage. The opening line, said by the first wife of the king, is “you’re going to die at the end of the show.”
