In a brightly-lit living room in a house near Baw Beese Lake, four children are running around. Their mother Jennifer Lutz, wife of Hillsdale’s Director of Health Services Brock Lutz, sits calmly in her upholstered chair with her apron on. “If I’m standing in my home, it’s at the kitchen sink,” she says. “That’s it.”...
Author: Carmel Kookogey (Carmel Kookogey)
Jonesville Fire Department gets new ‘jaws of life’
The Jonesville Volunteer Fire Department purchased new metal-cutting equipment called the “jaws of life” and self-funded half of the cost. The new equipment consists of two pieces, a cutter and a spreader, primarily for the purpose of helping victims in car crashes escape a burning vehicle. It replaces the older model the fire department used...
Journalism fellow releases new book on 2018 Kavanaugh confirmation hearings
When the government shut down in January 2019, Matthew Spalding had an idea. A few Hillsdale students could not starting their internships in the federal government in Washington, D.C. Spalding, Kirby Center Associate Vice President and Dean of Education Programs offered his students to help Hillsdale Senior Journalism Fellow Mollie Hemingway on her most recent...
Art major designs planner cover
When Junior Caroline Hennekes started doing messy watercolors on Sunday afternoons with a friend in Florida, she had no idea she’d be designing the cover of Hillsdale College’s academic planners three years later. Though she only seriously started doing art after coming to Hillsdale, last spring Hennekes hand-painted the ink and watercolor cover of the...
Still Rock ‘n’ Roll: Springsteen, original hillbilly elegy
It’s no secret our generation is obsessed with our parents’ generation, but it’s more than mom’s old Levi jeans selling for $150 on Ebay. You can get a Beatles T-shirt at Target just as easily today as you may have gotten one at Two Guys 50 years ago. Thanks to Stranger Things, 13-year-olds everywhere know...




