I guess it’s fitting that now, as I prepare to pack up and leave Hillsdale behind in just nine short months, I’ve started thinking about what it means to make a home. And I don’t mean the kind of “homemaking” where all of your furniture matches and the kitchen smells like cookies all the time....
Although fraternity houses and presidential residences typically don’t have much in common, Sunnycrest is an exception. Currently home to the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, Sunnycrest was formerly the residence of College President Joseph Mauck in the early 20th century. When 1875 Hillsdale alumnus Joseph Mauck returned to the college to serve as president in 1903,...
The shock of first-day-of-class syllabi is wearing off into the day-to-day grind. As the rubber hits the road — or, more literally, the backside of a pencil hits the math homework — it’s tempting to take the blows of tests and bad grades with an “I was told I’d be average, what can I do?”...
Despite the Hillsdale City Council’s determination that Peter Jennings, associate professor of management at Hillsdale College and Hillsdale Ward 1 resident, is ineligible to run for a seat on the council due to a residency restriction, his name will appear on the November ballot, local election officials decided last week. Jennings entered the race...
Jordan Nied was at college for almost a full year before he realized he had attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. “I always felt like I was not living up to my full potential,” Nied said. “It often felt like no matter how well I was doing in school, I wasn’t doing as well as I could do.”...