When Hillsdale student Mary Barnum lost her husband during the Civil War, she dedicated herself to doing all she could for the Union. She became an army nurse and used her widow’s pension of $20 per month to purchase medical supplies for the United States Sanitary Commission. Barnum was not the only Hillsdale woman who...
Senior psychology major Elyse Hutcheson may have spent the summer studying hopelessness, but she said she’s optimistic about how the research opportunity helped her prepare for the future. Hutcheson studied causes of a subtype of depression called hopelessness depression at Temple University in Philadelphia. She conducted her research in their mood and cognition lab,...
“You don’t have to be delicate with that!” Donald Fox shouted at the students dismantling the miscellaneous wooden platform in the scene shop. The new scenic designer for Hillsdale’s theater department, Fox has been reorganizing the workshop behind Markel Auditorium where scenery is constructed. The scene shop is filled with tools, piles of wood, and...
When Germany invaded Poland, Adolf Hitler believed the war would simply be a border war. However, once Germany invaded the Soviet Union, things changed. At least, according to historian Victor Davis Hanson, who presented his speech “How a Border War in Europe Led to World War II” to more than 400 students, faculty, and campus...
College students are busy people. We have a lot of homework, extracurriculars, and fun events to remember. In the past, I’ve played around with a series of techniques using planners and spreadsheets to try to stay organized, but the system I like best is bullet journaling. Bullet journaling isn’t really journaling in the traditional...