Energy dipped during the third quarter of Saturday’s football game, but the Hillsdale College Pep Band’s new leader sophomore Matt Clark kept up momentum all the way into the stunning fourth-quarter victory, heralding the upset with a triumphant reprisal of “White and Blue.” Last weekend, Clark went through trial by fire: He coordinated a performance...
Author: Jo Kroeker (JoAnna Kroeker)
Women’s cross country to open season at Spartan Invite
This season, the women’s cross country team has three goals: win the Great Midwest Athletic Conference, qualify at the Midwest Regional Championships, and stand on the NCAA podium. The team will begin the race toward these goals Friday at the Spartan Invite at Michigan State University, in the first of three races where the...
Going up Capitol Hill: Students see D.C. as second home
For a dense city of political activity, Washington, D.C., is a small world for Hillsdale students. During the humid summer months, the nation’s capital teems with interns, who crowd together in townhouses for once-in-a-lifetime experiences that could launch their careers. Hillsdale students proved no exception this summer. Seventeen students filled the Hillsdale House to...
Campus Chic: Summer florals & alumni weddings | Gwendolyn Hodge and Ritah Ogayo
How many weddings did you attend this summer? GH: Six. That’s what happens when you go to a Christian high school and then Hillsdale. What’s essential to alumni wedding guest outfits? GH: Wear shoes that not only look great but also feel great. Be the last girl in her heels dancing...
SATIRE: Non-sectarian ministry major added to curriculum: Third wheels to Ring-by-Springers find home as ordained ministers
For three and a half years, Thor D. Weel felt like a third wheel to his best friend and his girlfriend, who began Hillsdating after spending three hours in Saga discussing how the characters from Oedipus resemble various characters from “Dr. Who.” But Wheel was determined to make third-wheeling relevant, and after his two best...