With cameras and two young models dressed in 19th-century costumes, five high schoolers trekked to Baw Beese Lake one day this summer to stage photos for their four-month-long project: a book about the young Winona, the daughter of Chief Baw Beese, who ruled the Algonquin tribe in Hillsdale County in the 1800s. Samuel Beach, Gretchen...
Solving problems in the dorm is part of the Resident Assistant job description. But this August, Hillsdale College RAs and other student leaders went a step further. Every January and August, student leaders including RAs, sports team captains, and student security employees spend six days taking an interdisciplinary course called Theory and Applications in Responsibility...
On the day Hurricane Florence destroyed her hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina, sophomore Madie Schider, affectionately dubbed “the little hurricane” by her teammates, was spiking, digging, and blocking her way through a volleyball game against the University of Findlay. Schider spent the week prior to the game and the storm worrying about the outcome of...
When Katie Frates was a student at Hillsdale, she was known for sneaking off from parties to play video games. Now, she’s known for The Daily Walkthrough, an esports and video game newsletter. “I’ve been a nerd my whole life,” Frates said. “I have loved video games forever.” The Daily Walkthrough is a morning...
After 19 years of ownership, Prapai Ringenberg is ready to step down from management and sell the Coffee Cup Diner. “I work more than full time,” Ringenberg said. “My groin, lower back, and legs hurt and at my age it’s quite a bit.” Ringenberg has been in the restaurant industry for 50 years and she...