During story time in Sue Walberg’s Head Start preschool classroom, four college volunteers sit criss-cross applesauce among their 3-and-4-year-old peers on the oval-shaped, royal blue rug. Three little bodies squeeze together on the lap of junior Kathryn Wong, who gives a warning glance to a small friend who has begun to shout. Wong is a...
Author: Katherine Scheu (Katie Scheu)
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Hillsdale’s Best Dance Crew to be determined Friday
Beginning at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 12, teams of Hillsdale College students will dance the night away in the Roche Sports Complex, competing in a new event: Hillsdale’s Best Dance Crew. The event’s coordinator, senior Elizabeth Thistleton, said the success of Mock Rock, a dance competition between campus residencies during Homecoming weekend, inspired the...
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Cooks quit, sorority women eat in Bon Appétit
Hillsdale College’s Knorr Family Dining Room has several more regulars after two cooks working at the Pi Beta Phi and Chi Omega sorority houses quit the last week in January. While students on the Pi Beta Phi and Chi Omega meal plans once enjoyed their meals in the Greek houses, they have now transferred to...
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Hillsdale boasts one of few undergraduate cadaver labs
Senior Holly Frankfurt traced her scribbled drawing of an aortic aneurysm with her index finger, pointing out the different parts of an unexpected obstruction she found in a cadaver last fall. In a soft, patient voice, she explained what she had seen in simple terms: “The aorta comes down from the heart, but there was...
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Debate team places third in St. Louis tourney
Wikimedia Commons | Courtesy Ten members of Hillsdale College’s debate team drove to St. Louis, Missouri, Jan. 30-31 to compete at Webster University in the Gorlok Gala, one of the largest non-national tournaments in the country. Facing 41 other schools, Hillsdale took third place in the overall debate sweepstakes, a feat achieved by the success...