Students crowded outside the Grewcock Student Union at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday afternoon after a pipe broke in the college bookstore. “I got a call about an alarm going off,” Director of Student Activities Amanda Bigney said. “A pipe broke in the ceiling and water started going down into the bookstore.” Senior Martha Ekdahl was working...
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March 27, 2014July 12, 2022Features
Hillsdale professor takes on Detroit crime
Some professors enjoy unwinding after work by watching crime shows on television. When Lecturer in Sociology Shannon Finn leaves campus, she lives them. Finn, a 2010 graduate of Hillsdale College, works in the Detroit court system, advising attorneys using evidence-based sentencing. She said she essentially uses “science and research to argue for more tactful sentencing...
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March 27, 2014July 12, 2022Features
Japanese anime, Narnia, and interstellar travel
Japanese anime and traveling to Narnia seldom show up on college midterms. But this fall, students will study these subjects in honors seminars. “Honors seminars are there to provide a way to learn what we don’t have time to study otherwise,” said Professor of Theater and Speech James Brandon. Some of these one-credit seminars include...
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March 27, 2014July 12, 2022Features
Heroes of Hillsdale: Mary Blackmar
The cry came from the other side of the tent flap as the orderly rushed in. “President Lincoln is coming!” A wail erupted from the beds of the Confederate wounded. “Oh, don’t leave us, Miss! He is a beast! He will kill us!” “Oh, no. He is a grand good man,” Mary Blackmar replied. Again,...
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March 27, 2014July 12, 2022Features
Chi Omega house stands through fire, time
At 8 a.m. on Nov. 4, 1945, the women of the Chi Omega sorority slept peacefully in their beds. By 8:15 a.m. the house was in a commotion. “Fire!” Residents sprang to their feet and ran out into the chilly morning to escape the billowing smoke. “There we stood in the backyard in our nightgowns...