The Internal Revenue Service-sponsored Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program allows participants to learn how to do taxes and work with low-income households to gain accounting experience through free tax consultation and e-filing. “It’s an opportunity to learn real life skills,” VITA Program Director Diane Bach said. “They’re going to learn tax laws. They’re going to...
Author: Breana Noble (Breana Noble)
A few good pancakes returns
A Few Good Men will host their third semi-annual fundraiser, A Few Good Pancakes, from 5-7:30 p.m. Friday at the Hillsdale Free Methodist Church. This club is the largest volunteer community on campus. The organization does projects a couple of times a week to help people in the community, whether that be raking a lawn,...
A Penny for perfection
When Penny Proctor discovered she would graduate from Hillsdale College with a perfect GPA, campus erupted. Until 1977, only men had graduated with a 4.0 GPA, a barrier Proctor broke as a double major. Proctor heard the news from several faculty members as a student and was “shocked.” While not certain of the reason it...
Admissions extends application deadline
Admissions has extended this year’s application deadline for incoming freshmen from Feb. 15 to April 15 because of additional merit scholarship donations. Also, a new Frederick Douglass Fund for need-based aid has slightly altered the focus of the admissions counselors. According to Assistant Director of On-Campus Recruiting John Papciak, there is additional merit money left...
Q&A: Kevin Williamson, roving correspondent
Kevin D. Williamson is the roving correspondent for National Review. At Hillsdale, he is teaching a course as the Dow Journalism Program’s spring Pulliam Fellow. He writes on finances with special interest on the debt and deficit and its relationship to politics. Author of three books, his latest is “The End is Near and It’s...