In a way, it was a coffee subscription that brought her to the convent. Before she was Sister Lucia of the Word of God, Meghan Perks ’18 was a Hillsdale graduate purchasing a subscription to Mystic Monk Coffee, a Carmelite monastery’s small business. Contemplating the monks’ spirituality brought her back to a consideration of religious...
Author: Meghan Schultz (Meghan Schultz)
Dear Instagram: Please stay down
For six hours on Monday, teen and young adult depression rates plummeted. Relief swept the nation. People looked up from their phones. They smiled at each other and actually scheduled lunch dates instead of just saying, “We should get a meal sometime!” Then the Facebook server came back up — and with it, the momentary...
Economics professors begin weekly hiking at Hayden Park
While many students snooze their 7 a.m. alarms on Wednesdays, a small group of economics professors and students trek through Hayden Park. The group has hiked with light packs, since Sept. 22. “It’s a lot of fun,” freshman Anna Coln said. “I really enjoy hiking, so it’s nice to get out with other students and...
Kat Timpf for Commencement Speaker
For months after her graduation from Hillsdale in 2010, Kat Timpf came home to a dingy apartment in California and fell asleep on a yoga mat. She worked long days in radio and full nights waitressing to pay the bills. “I never lost sight of what I wanted to do,” Timpf told The Collegian in...
Met Gala mania: celebrities dress in ‘American’ outfits
Our social betters blessed us humble countryfolk with their presence on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City last week, dressed to feed their egos and participate in the greatest FOMO-inducing event in fashion: the Met Gala. The theme was “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” and frankly, Anna Wintour,...




