For a dense city of political activity, Washington, D.C., is a small world for Hillsdale students. During the humid summer months, the nation’s capital teems with interns, who crowd together in townhouses for once-in-a-lifetime experiences that could launch their careers. Hillsdale students proved no exception this summer. Seventeen students filled the Hillsdale House to...
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,”...
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...
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...
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]...