Emma McCormick ’19 is “exactly the sort of person” to buy a sailboat, move to Florida, and live in a marina, according to Clara Johsens ’19. And that’s exactly what she did. McCormick, who majored in economics at Hillsdale and works as a financial analyst for General Motors in Detroit, grew restless working remotely during...
Author: Carmel Kookogey (Carmel Kookogey)
Renovated Mauck Elementary receives new name
A little more than two years into its overhaul from abandoned school to educational hub, the old Mauck Elementary has acquired a new name: The Stanton Foundation Center for American Classical Education. The 1930s-era building, which was out of use for eight years before the college purchased it in 2018, will be named for the...
A good movie is hard to find: ‘Flannery’ shows shocking grace
Few phrases stick like “a good man is hard to find.” Those words were probably uttered a thousand times before southern-gothic author Flannery O’Connor was born to Regina Cline and Edward Francis O’Connor in Savannah, Georgia in 1925 and wrote a short story by the same title 28 years later. They’ve probably been uttered at...
Actor Tim Allen named 2021 commencement speaker
Hillsdale’s 169th commencement speaker is none other than comedian Tim Allen. Provost Chris VanOrman announced the decision in an email on Jan. 14, after President Larry Arnn hinted at the choice at the first annual senior class Legacy Board dinner the previous evening. “We are pleased to announce that Tim Allen will address the class...
On the other hand: The struggles of being a lefty in a world gone right
The Declaration of Independence may comfort us with the promise that all men are created equal, but it failed to warn us that more than 90% of the earth’s population is right-handed. Being a lefty at Hillsdale is hard, and not in the way you may expect. Men have climbed Mount Everest. A few have...




