For the past three years, I have cultivated the tradition of staying on campus for fall break, taking advantage of the quiet to catch up on reading and get ahead on papers. I love the way the school drains of students, and the places that usually bustle with hump-back-packed bodies assume a strange stillness. In...
Postcards encouraging people to “Vote for Peter Jennings” were sent to Ward 1 residents last week. These mailers were delivered despite Hillsdale City Council’s decision in a special meeting on Aug. 1 that Peter Jennings, Ward 1 resident and assistant professor of management at Hillsdale College, is ineligible for office due to durational residency restrictions....
The Hillsdale Chargers fell to Albion in a road meet on Saturday with a score of 119-86. Senior Anika Ellingson placed first in both the 100 individual medley with a time of 1 minute, 4.13 seconds, and the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:28.20. Sophomore Katherine Heeres and Senior Suzanne DeTar had a first...
“Prayer, rest, and quiet”: it’s what the Soul Care Retreat offered and, students said, it delivered. The retreat, organized by college chaplain Father Adam Rick and Director of Health and Wellness Brock Lutz, was held at St. Augustine’s House in Oxford, Michigan. St. Augustine’s House is a Lutheran monastery that follows the order of Benedictine...
Nearly 30 people gathered in the historic Will Carleton Poorhouse Oct. 22 to celebrate the restoration and preservation of homes and barns in the surrounding area. Mary Foulke, who has been a board member of the Hillsdale County Historical Society for about 15 years, is responsible for finding the buildings and presented each of the...