When I was 8 years old, I went to a Red Sox baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston. I don’t remember if the Sox won the game that evening, but I do remember two things distinctly: The sky over the ballpark was colored like a baby’s gender-reveal party, and the whole stadium sang along...
Author: Carmel Kookogey (Carmel Kookogey)
Local attorney files candidacy for State House
Attorney Andrew Fink ’06 will run as a Republican to represent Michigan’s 58th District in the State House of Representatives. He made the announcement at a Hillsdale County Republican Committee meeting on Thursday, Nov. 7. As an attorney, Fink said he’s had broad exposure to the law and realized that many areas of the law...
Alumna teaches folk dance in Ukraine
Colleen Prince was 11 years old when she attended her first Ukrainian dance camp at a diaspora community in Lehighton, Pennsylvania. Today, she’s teaching and learning folk dance in Ukraine with her Fulbright scholarship. Prince, who graduated from Hillsdale in May 2019, moved to Ostroh in west Ukraine in September to teach English language at...
Keep the Sabbath: Prioritize rest
When a machine stops working properly, the first thing you do is turn it off and turn it back on again. Students should reboot as well. Instead of waiting until we break under stress, we should take a weekly sabbath — and do no homework for a day — to reset our mental machinery and...
Alum in Hollywood shares how she uses her Hillsdale education
The best advice Hillsdale alumna Faith Liu ’16 shared with aspiring screenwriters and filmmakers was to learn to connect with a world that is “vastly different from your own.” “Most Hillsdale students I knew, and probably the ones you know, will go into conservative politics, teach at a classical school, get married to another Hillsdale...




