For COVID-19, college campuses are the perfect petri dish, said Francis Steiner, professor of biology at Hillsdale College. While Hillsdale College has 16 students in isolation as of Monday morning, other Michigan universities are adapting to the spread of the omicron variant in different ways. “Anytime you put students inside some kind of a close...
Author: Carly Moran (Carly Moran)
Mr. Hillsdale brings charity and comedy to campus
Senior Jack Coker wins the title ‘Mr. Hillsdale,’ according to the judges in Pi Beta Phi’s annual Mr. Hillsdale Competition, an annual philanthropy event where male students compete in a pageant to raise money for children’s literacy. The week-long competition begins with Penny Wars, where students vote for their favorite candidate by placing pennies in...
Branch County native runs for state Senate
Sixty people seek shelter in a converted event barn as the storm rages outside. The room is filled with the sounds of children playing, chairs scraping. A single voice breaks the clamor, “Let’s go Brandon!” The room erupts into cheers. It’s the second meeting of the Branch County Revolutionaries, led by District 16 state Senate...
Integrate freshmen women into upperclassmen dorms
Hillsdale has a house divided. Well, a residence hall divided. This semester, the college allowed 30 freshmen women into New Dorm, which used to be an upperclassmen dorm. While women’s dorms have separated freshmen from upperclassmen for years, men’s dorms do not have not. Many freshmen said they would like to expand this age integration...
Hillsdale ranks among best by Princeton Review
Out of nearly 3,000 four-year undergraduate universities in the U.S., Hillsdale in the top 14% of colleges. To gain accurate results, the Review annually surveys 154,000 students from across the country, while also looking back at previous lists. It uses the information to make a list of the top schools in the nation. Hillsdale was...




