Associate Professor of Biology Jeffrey Van Zant is looking to brighten up Slayton Arboretum. After Ranessa Cooper, former associate professor of biology, left Hillsdale to become the Department Chair of Biological Sciences at Western Illinois University, Van Zant approached the college and offered to step up as the new director of the Arboretum. “It requires...
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International Club hosts dinner to raise money for Kenyan schools
The International Club is hosting a fundraising dinner to buy textbooks for students in rural Kenya. The dinner will be held in the Old Snack Bar on Thursday, Sept. 13 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The club is charging a $5 fee, and the funds will be given to Tujelimu, a charity run by Rose...
Bon Appétit to go strawless by 2019
The summer of plastic straw bans might be over, but Hillsdale College students will still have to stop sucking. Bon Appétit Management Company will stop offering plastic straws by September 2019. The movement to rid both the environment and consumers’ beverages of plastic straws swept through the United States during the summer. Seattle banned plastic...
Drug treatment court expands program, begins rehabilitation
Hillsdale County’s new drug treatment court program received nearly $500,000 from three grants this fall to help rehabilitate “high-risk, high-need” offenders. The U.S. Justice Department provided most of the funds, awarding the program $400,000 to cover its expenses, according to treatment court administrator Brian Hansen. The state of Michigan gave two grants totalling $37,200, and...
Campus cafe honors A.J. Istvan, remembered for strength and kindness
They have kept his room the same. His clothes are still folded in his drawers and his bed is made, but they keep his door closed now. Inside his room, cards and letters line his bookshelves, and two candles glow in his windows. Those candles never go out, and they greet his parents, winking out...