Tucked away in a small valley in the Northern hills of Columbia lies fields teeming with coffee beans and sugar cane plants. This is the home of Café Coronel, a coffee company named after Colonel Ariel Vargas, better known in Hillsdale as senior Juan Vargas Hernández’s father. Seven years ago, the Vargas family traded the...
Jason Gehrke ’07 is an assistant professor of history at Hillsdale College. This interview has been edited for length and style. If you were stranded on an island and could choose three items to have with you, what would they be? The “Confessions” of Saint Augustine and, assuming that there would be a source of...
Two TikTok sensations have made the move to long-form content. Britney Broski and Sara Schauer have started their podcast entitled, “Violating Community Guidelines,” on which they explore the strange nooks and crannies of the internet. What started off as features on their Youtube channels, like “Zillow Gone Wild,” has now evolved into a more intense...
This spring semester, Hillsdale College welcomed a record number of new students, 23 in all. Sixteen of these students are transfers from around the country and across the ocean, including Ireland and Italy. Applications for the spring 2022 semester increased by 46% compared to the spring semester of 2021, said Zachary Miller, senior director of...
A new coffee shop in Quincy aims to end human trafficking by taking a ministry-oriented approach to business. Refuge Coffee is a family owned business that opened last March. Owner Dawn Bracy said the idea for it came, “straight from the Lord.” “We started to get many confirmations that this is exactly what God wanted,”...