This week, the college made preparations for the summer’s renovations. To clear room for construction equipment, construction crews tore down a garage on the corner of Galloway Drive and West Street. The extensive renovations to Simpson Residence necessitate space for large construction crews. The update of Simpson is the first of many changes initiated by...
Students crowded outside the Grewcock Student Union at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday afternoon after a pipe broke in the college bookstore. “I got a call about an alarm going off,” Director of Student Activities Amanda Bigney said. “A pipe broke in the ceiling and water started going down into the bookstore.” Senior Martha Ekdahl was working...
Some professors enjoy unwinding after work by watching crime shows on television. When Lecturer in Sociology Shannon Finn leaves campus, she lives them. Finn, a 2010 graduate of Hillsdale College, works in the Detroit court system, advising attorneys using evidence-based sentencing. She said she essentially uses “science and research to argue for more tactful sentencing...
Japanese anime and traveling to Narnia seldom show up on college midterms. But this fall, students will study these subjects in honors seminars. “Honors seminars are there to provide a way to learn what we don’t have time to study otherwise,” said Professor of Theater and Speech James Brandon. Some of these one-credit seminars include...
The cry came from the other side of the tent flap as the orderly rushed in. “President Lincoln is coming!” A wail erupted from the beds of the Confederate wounded. “Oh, don’t leave us, Miss! He is a beast! He will kill us!” “Oh, no. He is a grand good man,” Mary Blackmar replied. Again,...