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Dial-A-Ride loses ridership, survives pandemic
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Dial-A-Ride loses ridership, survives pandemic

Dial-A-Ride, Hillsdale’s public transportation service, suffered a 33% ridership loss in March 2020 after the COVID-19 pandemic and school closures. Dial-A-Ride is funded mostly through ticketed fares. As a result of lost revenue, the bus service had to restructure its labor while implementing new cleaning and disinfecting protocols, according to Director of Public Services Jack...

Mother and child during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Wikimedia Commons
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Of masks and men: Bridging the cultural divide

The Dow Science building feels like a scene from a pandemic. Walking past someone else means as little contact as possible. Inevitably, they tend toward the wall opposite the one you’re closest to — you do the same out of respect. Empty classrooms pepper the hallways, all of which end at doors littered with signage...

Hillsdale’s first pandemic wasn’t corona
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Hillsdale’s first pandemic wasn’t corona

The COVID-19 pandemic is not the first the college has experienced. In 1918, at the height of the Spanish flu outbreak, Hillsdale’s football team was preparing for a “splendid” football season, according to The Collegian published on Dec. 19, 1918. “First one team and then another would cancel their games. It looked for a while...

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Of masks and men: Bridging the cultural divide

The Dow Science building feels like a scene from a pandemic. Walking past someone else means as little contact as possible. Inevitably, they tend toward the wall opposite the one you’re closest to — you do the same out of respect. Empty classrooms pepper the hallways, all of which end at doors littered with signage...

COVID-19 update: Students eligible for vaccine, college adds seven cases
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COVID-19 update: Students eligible for vaccine, college adds seven cases

Hillsdale College students now can receive COVID-19 vaccines from the Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Community Health Agency, which is offering shots to anyone ages 16 and up.  “It was a super fast process. We saw the email yesterday, we got our appointments yesterday, and then were able to get it this morning,” said Michaela Peine, a senior...