For the first time in recent history, homecoming week and the mock rock competition will feature a theme—the `80s. Alumni Relations selected an `80s band for the homecoming festivities, inspiring the theme. Amanda Bigney, student activities director, and Joyce Curby, alumni relations coordinator, collaborated to extend the theme to the students. Bigney released the `80s...
As a young man, David Bobb knew that his future would involve politics, but he never would have pictured himself as a Hillsdale College faculty member working from Capitol Hill. In the spring of 1996, Bobb exited with Hillsdale diploma in hand, bound for Boston College, where he would eventually receive his Ph.D. in political...
Last week, the Delta Phi Alpha German honorary, and Hillsdale Chavarah partnered to celebrate Sukkot, a week-long Jewish holiday. Both organizations spent an entire day constructing a sukkah, a temporary wooden shelter symbolizing the structures that the Israelites inhabited after their exodus from Egypt. At the beginning of the year, senior and Delta Phi Alpha...
Freshman Ben Block leads a Krav Maga club at 3:30 Saturday afternoons behind the Mu Alpha house in the field across from Broadlawn. The club’s first meeting had 12-15 people. Their goal is self-defense and staying in shape. Anybody can show up, regardless of martial arts experience. Drew Jenkins, also a freshman, was one of...
An estimated 2,000 alumni are expected to attend this year’s homecoming. “Alumni are coming back not only because they remember the school but because they want to see their friends,” said Joyce Curby, coordinator of alumni activities and events. “So we have to give them lots of opportunities to be able to visit and yet...