Month: September 2014

  Today, Hillsdale’s campus honors the lives lost in the 9/11 attacks. The Hillsdale chapter of Young Americans for Freedom is participating in the 9/11 Never Forget Project. Hillsdale YAF president Savanna Wierenga said YAF is putting up 2,977 flags by the Alpha Kappa Phi Civil War Monument. YAF will hold a memorial there at...

  Author, journalist, broadcaster, and historian Max Hastings spoke at this year’s WWI CCA about how the war began and the commanders of the Western Front. As you mentioned, you were a journalist.  Your first book came out in 1969? Yes. I was reporting the election, and I was in Chicago and Washington during the...

An off-campus  gas leak evacuated residents in three houses on Oak  and Fayette streets last Thursday, and they couldn’t return until Friday morning. Seniors Matt Perkins and Kevin Frost were walking back from SOMA on Thursday, Sept. 4, when they smelt a gas leak on Fayette Street near the abandoned Mauck elementary school. “We decided...

Hillsdale’s 385 newest students may not yet understand the good, the true, and the beautiful, but their standardized testing scores and interest in campus activities indicate that they will excel on Hillsdale’s campus, according to Associate Dean of Women Rebekah Dell. Dell described the class as an “enthusiastic sponge,” excited to engage in campus activities....

Journalism students at Hillsdale have a new face in the classroom and the Collegian office for this semester. Former Collegian editor Lauren Fink ’07 has returned to campus this semester as a temporary lecturer in journalism and adviser to the paper. She temorarily replaces Maria Servold, assistant director of the Dow Journalism Program, who is...