Imagine you’re walking the streets of Paris with a handful of pink peonies after just eating the most delicate and crisp pain au chocolat you’ve ever had, heading to your job where you advertise perfumes and designer brands for a living. That’s not you, though. That’s Emily in Paris. Netflix released its newest series “Emily...
Year: 2020
Dear cyclists: The Liberty Walk is not the Tour de France
I was walking from Christ Chapel toward Lane Hall when a speeding cyclist forced me to stop mid stride. No, I was not looking down at my phone. Yes, I was walking on the right side of the sidewalk. I saw the cyclist in my vision and thought, “Where is he going?” Before I had...
The historic ‘Underground Church’ demolished, land sold
Last week, a large yellow excavator flattened the final wall that once enclosed the Hillsdale Revival Center, a Pentecostal church on West Street. “The underground church,” as locals and students christened it, was left abandoned for several years. It had a brick vestibule, which faced the street, buttressed by a long basement that ran out...
Hillsdale winter trip to Israel canceled
For the first time in four years, Hillsdale will not be partnering with Passages Israel to take students to the Holy Land this Christmas, due to COVID-19. Passages Israel, sponsored by the Philos Project and the Bible Foundation, subsidizes trips to Israel for college students. It began a partnership with Hillsdale in 2016 as it...
Alumnus’ journey to Oval Office
Philip Wegmann ’15 strides into the historic Willard Hotel clad in jeans, a yellow T-shirt, and a worn leather motorcycle jacket. It’s a Thursday afternoon in Washington, D.C. and under different circumstances, Wegmann would be dressed in a suit and tie, breezing in after a press briefing at the White House. “Because of COVID, they’ve...




