When Junior Caroline Hennekes started doing messy watercolors on Sunday afternoons with a friend in Florida, she had no idea she’d be designing the cover of Hillsdale College’s academic planners three years later. Though she only seriously started doing art after coming to Hillsdale, last spring Hennekes hand-painted the ink and watercolor cover of the...
The Hillsdale College Student Federation held their first meeting of the semester on Thursday, August 29. The meeting focused on filling both empty committee seats and a chairmanship position, which were left empty in the wake of several members taking on new leadership positions. Junior Parker Thayer was appointed to an open seat on the...
Despite not accepting any federal funding, Hillsdale College will be the city’s largest taxpayer this fiscal year for the first time ever. The current tax roll shows the college paying $101,250.40 in taxes to the city. Hillsdale College Chief Administrative Officer Richard Péwé said the increase was a result of the parcels used for the...
The photography and paintings of Hillsdale College professors Doug Coon and Sam Knecht will be displayed this week in “Looking U.P.” – an exhibit that shows the beauty of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. “I love the U.P. for how remote and foreign it is,” Knecht said in an email. “It eludes mainstream America and provides so...
From Namibia, a small country in Southern Africa, to Sichuan Province in Southwestern China, to Sierra Leone in West Africa, Hillsdale’s 2019 graduates journeyed far and wide to promote peace, build cultural bridges, and teach. Erin Flaherty, Nathanael Cheng, and Suzanne DeTar all embarked on two-year service tours with the U.S. Peace Corps, during which...