Last year’s editor-in-chief of the Collegian won a first-place award for investigative reporting and an honorable mention for best writer from the Michigan Press Association in college journalism awards announced last week. Nolan Ryan ’20, reported on Hillsdale’s lawsuit against the University of Missouri in 2019. Other journalism students and alumni won six awards in...
During spring break the Hillsdale College shotgun team garnered an immense victory at the Scholastic Clay Target Program Nationals tournament from March 18-20. The Chargers won the high overall award for the Division III category, with a score of 2775/3000 targets, and finished with several other individual awards, the highest being sophomore Ida Brown with...
While serving as the Michigan State Treasurer, Ebenezer Oliver Grosvenor conscripted the help of the prominent State Capitol architect, Elijah E. Myers, to design for him his new Victorian mansion. Myers’ claim to fame occurred between 1870-1880 as he designed three State Capitol buildings, the first of which was the Michigan State Capitol. While he...
When Richard Platte filed for the first plastic milk bottle patent on March 25, 1964, he never could have expected his invention’s impact — nor the hatred for its contents — in the 21st century. In recent months there has been a subtle but palpable growth in the complaints and outright disdain for those who...
When an outside group proposed to create a plan to save the Hillsdale County Area Parks for $12,000, the Hillsdale County Parks Commission ask a favor. Bruce Caswell, former state representative and senator, offered to assist in the parks project for no cost whatsoever after he thought the cost was high, he said. “That was...