Downtown Hillsdale is getting its own bakery. Located at the corner of McCollum Street and North Broad Street, Ethan’s Donut Factory is under construction. It is set to open by the end of the year according to Wayne Babcock, house director of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and one of the business’s five investors. Babcock is...
Author: Maddy Welsh (Maddy Welsh)
Liberal arts create American heroes
Elizebeth Smith Friedman married William Friedman in May 1917. Courtesy | Science History Images One year after Elizebeth Smith Friedman graduated from Hillsdale College, she got in the back of a limousine in Chicago with a strange man she had met just minutes before. George Fabyan whisked her away to his private estate, where he...
DeSantis calls for educational independence
“We’re standing with parents and we’re standing with students,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said last week on campus. Conservative leaders need to do more than just play defense against the left — especially in education — said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in a speech at Hillsdale’s Searle Center last week. “We’ve drawn a line in...
Swim makes history, two Chargers finish as all-Americans
Sophomores Elise Mason and Megan Clifford traveled to Indianapolis for this year’s championship meet. Mason, who was Hillsdale’s sole representative at nationals last year, swam the 500 yard, 1000 yard, and 1650 yard freestyle events. This year she was joined by Clifford who qualified to race the 200 yard butterfly. “The meet itself can be...
Alumnus Nick Tabor publishes debut book on environmental racism
A town in Alabama, inhabited by descendants of the last slave ship to arrive in America, is poor, polluted, and an example of “environmental racism,” writes alumnus Nick Tabor ’09 in a new book. “This story gives us an opportunity to see how one thing has led to another, how the legacy of not just...



