Every day, Hillsdale students pass construction sites on their jaunts to and around campus. While we attend classes, sweat over deadlines, and pore over papers, Weigand Construction workers undertake a different kind of work: physical, rather than intellectual, in its focus. For their efforts, the college already has the Christ Chapel, George Roche Sports Complex,...
Juniors Olyvia Oeverman and Jacob Beckwith didn’t want to wait until senior year to be engaged. Courtesy | Olyvia Oeverman Instagram posts, word-of-mouth, and diamonds on left hands: The news travels quickly when Hillsdale students get engaged. The “ring by spring” phenomenon doesn’t apply only to seniors, though. At least a dozen junior couples are...
Power outages thrill me. They always have. I love candles. And I didn’t have raw meat in the refrigerator on Sunday night when the lights went out. So my enthusiasm for outages persisted that night, so much so that I found myself secretly hoping the lights would stay off for days even as I checked...
Off-campus houses on Manning Streeet. Caroline Kurt | Collegian All four of sophomore Thomas Potter’s older siblings received permission to live off campus for their junior years. Though Potter applied for permission, too, he said he already has a roommate picked out for his third year in Simpson Residence. “I was originally going to live...
Three ugly words have wormed their way through campus, into Saturday-night conversations, laughter in the hallways, and serious discussions: “Repeal the 19th.” The phrase refers to the 19th Amendment, which extended the right to vote to women. The argument goes: Some woman somewhere (whether in my personal life or U.S. political history) has done something...