At 10 a.m., the road stretched out dusty and hot. She sat in the heat of the African sun and watched him walk to school with the tuition his mother had managed to scrounge together. It wasn’t enough; it was all the money they had to spend on clothes and other necessities. The little boy’s...
Running a distance longer than 26.2 miles may seem impossible to the average person. For Charles Steele, however, it’s his idea of fun. Steele, an associate professor of economics and the Herman A. and Suzanne S. Dettwiler chair in economics, is an ultrarunner. He competes in ultra marathons, races longer than the 26.2 miles of...
Two thousand miles into their nearly 6,000-mile prayer walk across America, Lyn and Darrol Hanush took a slight detour up Baw Beese trail on Tuesday, snapping a selfie in front of the eagle statue at the Hillsdale College campus entrance and adding an entry to their daily blog. “I get Imprimis and read it and...
The 12-year-long tradition of Waterman Tea didn’t actually begin in Waterman Residence. In the fall of 2006, freshmen Cara Valle ’10 and Erin Zoutendam ’10 began organizing weekly teas with fellow freshmen in the upper left hallway of Olds dormitory. “At first, we made a rule against talking about classes, grades, assignments, etc. at tea,”...
Three miles east of Hillsdale College, Glei’s Orchards and Greenhouses is utilizing the newest technology in apple sorting. The new technology is revolutionizing the industry with its ability to detect external and internal defects in the produce.The Spectrim does external defect sorting, taking hundreds of pictures of one individual apple. “The Spectrim works on nine...