Marilyn Shannon urged Hillsdale women to fend for their health by cultivating a knowledge of female physiology and the tendencies of their own bodies. Sponsored by Hillsdale College Students for Life, Shannon, a biology professor at Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne, gave a speech titled “Knowing your Body and Caring for it Naturally”...
Author: Katherine Scheu (Katie Scheu)
A wrinkle in the plotline: Where the film forgot the novel
“A Wrinkle in Time,” it seems, is meant to be a book — and nothing more than that. Last month I warned fans in a Collegian review of Madeleine L’Engle’s novel “A Wrinkle in Time” that Disney’s movie adaptation would disappoint if it departed from the foundations of the book and swapped a story for...
Ellingson sets school record at national meet
When junior Anika Ellingson tucks earbuds under her swim cap and cranks up the volume on “Famous Last Words” by My Chemical Romance, her whole body goes into race mode. Ellingson breathes deeply as the punk-rock band blares in her ears. She mentally reviews her swim, thinking through her start, her pacing, her turns. Then...
200 guests attend identity conference
More than twice the amount of expected attendees came to a two-day conference on human personhood Friday and Saturday when 200 people listened in on lectures and participated in discussions. The conference’s organizers senior Lillian Quinones and sophomores Sarah Becker, Dietrich Balsbaugh, and Caitlin Weighner partnered with the World Youth Alliance to hold The Modern...
Classical education teachers without the minor
Without having taken a single credit in the education department, Hillsdale alumna Bailey Steger ’16 walked into Academy of Excellence in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, just a few months after she graduated, to welcome her kindergarten class. “I showed up in August having absolutely no idea what I was doing,” Steger said. She was far from alone...