When I was nine years old, my friend asked if I worshipped Satan. It was the day before Halloween and I was telling her about the costume my mom had made me. It wasn’t anything exciting. In fact, I’m pretty sure I dressed up as a lamp that year, but her reaction was enough to...
Chargers to host Tiffin to determine G-MAC champion
Senior quarterback Chance Stewart calls it “the biggest football game I’ve ever played in.” On Saturday, the Hillsdale College Chargers will have a shot to win a regular-season conference championship for the first time since 2011. Standing between Hillsdale and a G-MAC regular-season championship are the Tiffin University Dragons, undefeated for the season and ranked...
Mossey Library: How books come and go
When a faculty member or a student needs a book, they go to Michael Alex Mossey Library, a Hillsdale institution since 1971. But the Hillsdale College community doesn’t have to stop with the books already on the shelves. Students and professors alike get a say in what new books are ordered. When the library doesn’t...
Haunting history in the Grosvenor
On the corner of Maumee Street in Jonesville sits the dimly-lit and doily-dressed Grosvenor House, where members of the community gathered this past Saturday evening, on Oct. 27 to hear local history and spooky tales from the Civil War era. Paul Hosmer, professor of physics at Hillsdale College and board member of the Grosvenor...
Pulp Michigan: Tower of History, a sign of the times
Sault Sainte-Marie isn’t exactly a tourist destination this time of year. The Saint Mary’s river is inhospitable to tourism (for the season) and the Kmart is closed (forever). To make matters worse, it gets late early out there: The Upper Peninsula’s pitch-black industrial decay is not worth a six-hour drive from Hillsdale. Unless you visit...