When senior Ivanhoe Lissanevitch returned home to Nepal in March, he thought it would be a temporary break from playing college tennis stateside. By August, he was unable to return to the United States, missing the fall season with no more certainty the situation would improve when he needs to come back in January. In...
Year: 2020
From Sigma Chi to Suva, Fiji: Ambassador Joseph Cella
After graduation, Hillsdale students may find themselves in Washington D.C., Chicago, or somewhere in between, but one alumnus has recently made his home on the island of Fiji. Though he lives in a tropical paradise, Joseph Cella works hard as the United States Ambassador to Fiji and four other Pacific island nations — Kiribati, Nauru,...
Staff Profile: Opinion Editor Rachel Kookogey
Opinions editor Rachel Kookogey originally arrived at Hillsdale with hopes of being a pre-med student. However, one trip to the Collegian office changed those plans. “I just walked into the office, just to see what it was like,” Kookogey said. “And I kind of got guilted into it.” Kookogey began her Collegian career at the...
Staff Profile: Sports Editor Calli Townsend
Calli Townsend, sports editor for the Collegian, said she has always loved to write. “In middle school I wanted to be a video maker and a hairstylist, but once I got into high school I realized I was better at writing and I enjoyed it,” Townsend said. “I think journalism is a good way to...
‘Worth it’: A day in the life of a Hillsdale art major
Of all the majors at Hillsdale College, the art major may have the most unique requirements — from requiring students to create a personal portrait to having them save all their projects for a final art show in their senior year. Senior Madie Schider, a biology and art double major, originally was going to make...




