As backpacks, shoulders, and eyelids start to sag during this season so fraught with midterms, only one thing sustains Hillsdale students and I’m sorry to tell you it’s not our love of the liberal arts. It’s fall break. The 96-hour vacation promises a retreat enjoyed alongside family or friends and with it, all the time...
When Addison Gaff looked up and saw two horses driving a carriage past her downtown Hillsdale shop, she knew the local fall festival was a bigger deal than she’d imagined. “I had no idea it was this big of an event,” Gaff said of Hillsdale’s “Awesome Autumn” fall fest, held annually for the past seven...
“Me too,” I thought, scrolling through Facebook. I reacted with likes, hearts, and sad-faced emoticons, but until now, I couldn’t type the words. “Does that count?” “What about that ‘no,’ which, weary from repetition, became ‘yes’?” “Or the gropes, cat-calls, unsollicited drunken advances, yells and leering stares from trucks, and men following me in cars...
William Boyce founded the Boy Scouts of America in 1910, after he encountered the chivalry of an English Boy Scout who had been a Scout under the founder of Boy Scouting in England, Lord Robert Baden Powell. Powell founded the program with the purpose of taking young boys and teaching them the importance of civic...
Emily Oren ’16 can add another half-marathon title to her long list of accomplishments. The nine-time D-II national champion is now a two-time Detroit half marathon champion after her race on Sunday. Her winning time was 1:19:1, just one second over a six-minute mile pace. “I wanted to go faster than that, under a six...