Iceland had 2.3 million visitors in 2018, according to the Rejkjavik Grapevine, a prevalent Icelandic tourist magazine. With about 338,000 people living in Iceland, the number of tourists makes up nearly seven times the country’s population. But after Iceland’s ultra low-cost airline, WOW air, went bankrupt at the end of March, many predict Icelandic tourism...
When the Hillsdale Chargers women’s basketball team travels for away games, about half the time they’re accompanied by head coach Matt Fritsche’s wife, Colleen Fritsche, and their two children, Kellan and Kinley. Bringing the whole family along on travel weekends brings Colleen and the kids closer to the team, which has made their move to...
Pi Beta Phi won this semester’s scholarship cup with a GPA of 3.523, contrary to the announcement at last week’s convocation. Sigma Chi also won with a GPA of 3.257, contrary to the announcement. The problem arose from a miscommunication between administrative offices, said Registrar Douglas McArthur. At convocation, administrators announced Kappa Kappa Gamma was...
An obelisk stands about 25-feet tall in the corner left of the entrance of Hillsdale’s Oak Grove Cemetery next to the street. It towers over the other graves, bursting through the branches of a neighboring tree that was probably just a sapling when it was built. Next to these other more modest graves, the obelisk...
When Professor of English John Somerville took over the English department’s Visiting Writers Program in the 1990s, he took on a job he never would have anticipated. Twenty-five years later, however, he called the job “a surprise and a joy.” Beginning in the fall of 2019, Associate Professor of English Dutton Kearney will take over...