Hillsdale’s marketing department has taken a whole new angle on recording campus events this year by purchasing an aerial drone with video capabilities. If you have attended any school-run events in the last few weeks, you have probably noticed a small metal aircraft making its way above the crowds. This contraption, called a quadcopter and...
Year: 2014
Bon Appétit débuts on campus
Bon Appétit, the replacement food provider for Saga, Inc., made its debut this week at Hillsdale. “We are here to fulfill a need that the student body was craving,” Jeffrey Every, general manager of Bon Appétit said. Every worked for two years at Trine University in Angola, Indiana, but transferred to Hillsdale as the new...
Hillsdale announces radio station
“GOOOOOD MORNING HILLSDALE!” Thanks to the college’s recent acquisition of a local radio signal, that’s one of many phrases — assuming Federal Communications Commission [Nd1] compliance — that could soon resound through the air around Hillsdale’s campus. The college learned of the opportunity through Vince Benedetto, a Pennsylvania-based radio entrepreneur who heard about the college,...
YAF does what students should
We should never put down or insult people honestly trying to do good; I hope this premise doesn’t need much argument. If this is the case, why has Young Americans for Freedom drawn such widespread scorn upon itself? Last semester, as anyone who was on campus (or Facebook) will remember, Hillsdale’s chapter of YAF kicked...
Metaxas’s commencement speech misses the point
The graduating class of 2014 might not even have been there. One need only read the transcript or watch the video of Eric Metaxas’s speech at May’s commencement to realize there was only a single mention of the graduates seated before him. That mention came at the very beginning of the address. For the remainder...