When Steve and Tanya Briix asked their kids if they wanted to move to South Africa, the kids had one question: Can we take the hamsters? “I said, ‘You wanna move to South Africa?’ and our kids said ‘What does that mean?’” Tanya explained, “It means you get two suitcases: one for clothes and one...
Author: Cecelia Pletan (Cecelia Pletan)
Galloway men bring ‘Feast’ and new dorm culture to Whitley
Due to extensive renovations on Galloway residence this year, Galloway guys are setting up new digs at Whitley residence, which served as a women’s residence last year. According to senior Caroline Andrews, Whitley resident assistant from 2016 to 2017, Whitley was a “pretty quiet place” when she lived there. “There was a great secret community...
Highlights of higher education at Hillsdale
It’s 6:59 on a dark morning, midway through the semester. Groggy students hover in front of their laptops in dorm rooms, the Grewcock Student Union, and coffee shops across campus, fingers poised, ready to press the single button that will decide their future for the next three months. The countdown begins, and in an instant,...
Philosophy will take you to Church
In Kendall 415, there are photos of the new philosophy professor’s family, including his three sons, his wife — and Immanuel Kant. Ian Church, Hillsdale College’s new visiting assistant professor of philosophy, has faces of his philosopher “family,” he said, lining his office wall, starting with his current supervisor at the University of Edinburgh to...



