Kenneth Calvert visited Steinmeyer and his wife Roz in Israel last summer. Courtesy|Kenneth Calvert. Five years after graduating from Hillsdale, Nathan Steinmeyer ’18 spends his days reading Aramaic, Hittite, Sumerian, and Akkadian texts. “I study the entirety of the ancient Near East,” Steinmeyer said. “Anywhere there is cuneiform writing going on, I study it.” Steinmayer,...
While many Hillsdale students are struggling to learn a new language as part of the core curriculum, some of the town’s youngest residents are already fluent in two. Several professors are raising their children to speak more than one language. Some chose to do so because their native language is not English, others to give...
Hillsdale residents attending a Board of Commissioners meeting Tuesday to discuss AquaBounty. Olivia Hajicek | Collegian Michigan officials are waiting to receive AquaBounty’s monitoring plans to draw water from the Michindoh Aquifer, which provides water to Hillsdale County. The aquaculture company broke ground last year on a salmon farm in Pioneer, Ohio. AquaBounty, a biotechnology...
United Nations Headquarters, New York City. Despite the opposition, conservative voices need to be heard at the United Nations, said sophomore Mark Den Hollander who attended the U.N.’s annual Commission on the Status of Women last week. The Commission on the Status of Women was established in 1949 and is the largest intergovernmental body dedicated...
Michigan ice storm hit Hillsdale leaving campus without power for two days. Courtesy | Michaela Estruth The houses were dark, silent with the loss of electricity and Internet or cell connection. The students gathering outside, bundled in coats and reveling in the absence of class and presence of good company, didn’t mind. After Hillsdale College...