An Indian Head Penny in exchange for a keg of beer — the prize students could get for solving a sheet of 12 brainteasers left on a college campus in 1981. Over 35 years ago, a student hid the coin on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus, creating the MIT Mystery Hunt, one of the...
More than 660 people have downloaded Hillsdale College’s new app, garnering nearly 29,000 screen views, as of Sept. 1. Ellucian Go is a free Android and iPhone app that now allows Hillsdale students to access the cafeteria’s menu, their schedules, course registration, and other information on their portable electronic devices. The app is meant to...
Students will visit the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, which can be controled from Hillsdale College, during the summer. Timothy Dolch | Courtesy Physics students will have the opportunity to climb a 485-foot-tall radio telescope in May, after spending the past year using computers to control it in Hillsdale. The group will accompany Assistant...
With a bike, a generator, and some light bulbs, Hillsdale College’s Physics Club is building a machine that converts manpower to electrical power. Students will have the opportunity to use the device at a demonstration in the Grewcock Student Union in the fall. Physics Club Moderator Ken Hayes said the project is part of the...
In Green Bank, West Virginia, cell phones don’t work. There is no AM or FM radio or wireless devices of any kind. The town uses landlines and cables for internet and telephone. That is because, in this “radio quiet zone,” the world’s largest movable land object rests. Amidst farms and forested hills, a massive white...