Year: 2014

Student Federation is back in session, searching for a way to spend $63,000 in discretionary funds. The team of 20 students met for their first meeting of the school year last Thursday, Sept. 4. During the meeting, they approved a request from the A.A. Milne Society and chose Instructor of Philosophy Lee Cole as Professor...

A minimum wage increase has caused budget adjustments at the college. Gov. Rick Snyder signed a law on Labor Day that raised the minimum wage from $7.40 to $8.15 per hour. “If the cost goes up, you either reduce hours or increase your budget,” Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé said. “Ideally, we want to make...

  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...