Carly Hubbard ’16 is putting the finishing touches on a new cafe at 42 Union St., which is due for its soft opening Friday at 8 a.m. The shop, called Rough Draft, will offer coffee drinks, simple refreshments, a future cocktail bar and draft beer, and a space for study and conversation for students and...
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Gangsters, poets, madmen, priests: Author Ron Hansen brings adventure to Hillsdale
As he writes a novel, Ron Hansen posts his ideal “cast” of characters on his wall so he can remember what they look like. His ideal Robert Ford wasn’t cast for the film version of his historical fiction novel “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” but he said Casey Affleck was...
Will Carleton: Poet of the people
After repeated requests from his readers, William Carleton, a 1869 graduate of Hillsdale College and internationally-recognized poet, editor, and lecturer, described the inspiration for his most well-known poem: “Over there to the west, in Hillsdale, there stood in the old days a county poorhouse,” he said. “Sometimes, I used to visit the inmates there and...
In review: Hansen’s ‘She Loves Me Not’
I couldn’t resist: I picked up the book with the steamy makeout scene on the cover. I was wandering the library stacks, exploring the work of Hillsdale College’s next Visiting Writer. As yet, he was a mystery to me, and the “H” section of the fiction shelves only turned up more intrigue. The listings under...
IDF soldiers discuss unity in Israeli military
The Israeli Defense Force shows that Israel’s diverse population is united in protecting the country, two IDF reserve soldiers said in a presentation Sunday. Their tour of America, sponsored by international nonprofit StandWithUs and brought to Hillsdale College by the Students for Middle Eastern Discourse, gave an inside look into service in the Israeli military,...




