When sophomores Jolene Estruth and Emille Martelli began teaching English to Syrian refugee children this past summer at a school in Jordan, most of the children, ages 5-7, knew three words in English: hi, bathroom, and teacher. Throughout the next three weeks, both Estruth and Martelli connected with the students, sharing whatever English lessons they...
The arrival of fall means fairs and festivities, but also hails the coming of winter, with all its treacherous road conditions. This winter, the City of Hillsdale’s Department of Public Services is newly equipped to handle the winter onslaught with three new dump trucks purchased with the aid of a grant awarded by the Michigan...
It was a carnival of carnage. When the 12-year-old Indian elephant Little Rajje rebelled against her trainer, Bill Pratt, at the circus in downtown Lansing on Sept. 26, 1963, the city went wild. Little Rajje was a big, but well-trained beast — clocking in at 3,000 pounds and with 10 years of accident-free experience in...
On the patio of the New Dorm last week, the intervarsity of international students gathered around a hearty bonfire, roasting s’mores and chatting about their week. “I met amazing people and got to talk about Colombia, my college experience and even played some Colombian music,” Juan Vargas Hernandez, a second-semester sophomore and transfer student from...
In their first home match in nearly a year, the Hillsdale Chargers beat Indiana Tech University 5-2 on Sept. 18 amid significant rule changes and weather delays. The G-MAC recently replaced NCAA Division II rules with the streamlined Division I rules. The new implementations have proven frustrating, especially the scoring format where wins in doubles...