While the newly-minted class of 2021 gathered for the first time in their dorms on the day of convocation, a smaller group of students gathered in Slayton Arboretum: commuter students. Although most students live on campus, 17 students commute in from the surrounding area, according to the dean’s office. Not living in the dorm, the...
Wombstock: The birth of a student music festival
Joan Baez played “We Shall Overcome” as an encore to end the first day of Woodstock in August 1969. On Saturday, Catherine Coffey ’16 gave the song its Hillsdale debut, opening for an event with a similar name but its own distinctive vibe: Wombstock. “Hey, Wombstock, we’re not doing nearly enough drugs for verisimilitude here,”...
Game and comic store unite to create new kingdom
Kingdom Geekdom combines two local businesses, Battle Ground, owned by Ty Stiger, and Hero’s Best, by Allison McDowell. After throwing around the idea for months, Stiger and McDowell decided to move forward with it, believing it would be mutually beneficial to their interests. “We focus on very much the same clientele, so we were constantly...
Calvert returning to Hillsdale full-time
When Associate Professor of History Kenneth Calvert was asked to temporarily take on the role of headmaster of Hillsdale Academy, he had no idea that he would be there for more than 15 years. “I was a full-time professor,” said Calvert, who has taught ancient history at Hillsdale College for 21 years. “Then, Dr. [Larry]...
Remove Margaret Sanger’s bust from Smithsonian
The National Portrait Gallery has an exhibit entitled ‘Struggle for Justice’, stands a bust honoring Sanger for her work in sex education and for the establishment of the American Birth Control League. A surface look at her history shows Sanger worked to advance both racist and eugenic beliefs, and was deeply involved with both the...




