Four Hillsdale College alumni running for office won their races Tuesday, taking part in a Republican wave that saw Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump defeat heavily favor Democrat Hillary Clinton. All running as Republicans, four of the five former Hillsdale students won offices in state legislatures in Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, and Washington. Voters re-elected Tom...
Author: Nic Rowan (Nic Rowan)
BPU conducts maintenance on sewers, hydrants to purify water
Last Thursday, the Hillsdale Board of Public Utilities trucks drove around Hillsdale College’s campus, flushing water out of fire hydrants as a part of the city’s bi-yearly effort to purify its water supply. “We’re doing this now and we’ll do it again in the spring. Flushing out fire hydrants ensures that any hardness or clogs...
Satire: Five Online courses Hillsdale needs
We need to expand our online course offerings by lowering our standards by giving the people that juicy stuff they love to hate.
Beauty deserves a showcase
Hillsdale College has a growing permanent art collection with no permanent home. This is a blot on the college’s liberal arts reputation that can only be resolved by building a gallery for the collection. Although the collection is not large, it includes a wide breadth of artworks from different times and cultures — everything...
Citizens, councilmen say new welcome signs are small, hard to read
A fresh wave of discontent has spread among councilmen, citizens, and students over what they say is unnecessarily small lettering on the recently installed welcome signs, which read “Home of Hillsdale College,” making it difficult for passing motorists to read. At an Oct. 3 city council meeting, Councilman Bruce Sharp said he was unable to...




