Dressed in metal-tipped boots and a blue shirt, Jon Rutan bustles around the space, setting up a projector. A pistol sits on his right hip. Five rows of four chairs fill up most of the blue and white room, which is empty save for a few people. Rutan is the education director for the Hillsdale...
Historic Hillsdale Figures
Despite being in middle-of-nowhere Michigan, the city of Hillsdale and Hillsdale College have a claim to unique people who shaped history in their own ways. Hillsdale students call the ‘Dale home for at least four years. They should be familiar with a few of the individuals who shaped their community. Baw Beese Most students like...
Shakespeare in the Arb takes on ‘Measure for Measure’
Shakespeare in the Arb promises to be different this year with one of Shakespeare’s weirdest and darkest plays, according to junior and director Andrew Kennedy. The annual performance will be held at 2 p.m. this Saturday and Sunday. The play is being held in the Mauck Solarium instead of the Slayton Arboretum, due to weather...
Kalthoff receives Daugherty Award at spring convocation
Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to reflect more accurate information. A previous version said Kappa Kappa Gamma won the sorority scholarship cup. Professor and Chairman of History Mark Kalthoff received the Daugherty Award for Teaching Excellence for the fall semester of 2018 at convocation on Thursday. “Mark Kalthoff exemplifies the kind of steady, wise...
Will Witt talks about making friends, influencing enemies
Twenty-two-years old, former student at University of Colorado Boulder, and self-proclaimed as having “the best hair in the conservative movement,” PragerU’s Will Witt gave a lecture last Thursday on “how to win friends and influence enemies in an increasingly liberal world” for campus club Citizens for Self-Governance. Witt said he was both a liberal and...



