Hiking, climbing sand dunes, spending frigid nights in tents, and cooking food over a campfire may not be the most comfortable way to spend fall break — but for the 54 students who did, it was a restful change of pace from midterms and papers. “It was nice to kind of disconnect,” freshman Caroline...
When Addison Gaff looked up and saw two horses driving a carriage past her downtown Hillsdale shop, she knew the local fall festival was a bigger deal than she’d imagined. “I had no idea it was this big of an event,” Gaff said of Hillsdale’s “Awesome Autumn” fall fest, held annually for the past seven...
When junior offensive lineman Tyler Scholl visits fourth-graders at Gier Elementary every week, they ask him when he’ll be back. And they’re disappointed when he reminds them they have to wait another week — even though he’s been doing this for two years. Scholl is one of 14 Hillsdale College football players who read to...
For students desperate for a cup of coffee before dashing off to class, an empty mug rack beneath the coffee carafes in the cafeteria is a sorry sight — but all too common in recent weeks. Dining hall patrons have taken or thrown out around 450 plastic white mugs since the start of the...
Trying to advocate his tax-reform proposal, President Trump insisted: “It’s not good for me. Believe me.” He shouldn’t have said that. His statement offered an easy target for the plan’s opponents, who promptly howled that his nine-page framework is a handout to the rich. “Trump’s tax plan benefits wealthy, including Trump,” cried a New York...