When junior Garrett West presented a paper on Medieval philosophy at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, a student said they’d never met a theist who could actually have a conversation about philosophy. “Being there really made me appreciate me being at HIllsdale. I recognize how rare the sort of education we receive here...
Author: Sally Nelson
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K2: dealing in drugs
Two weeks ago, The Collegian reported on a Camden, Mich., couple facing life in prison after being charged with six felonies each, including the delivery of more than 1,000 grams of a controlled substance and maintaining a drug house. Douglas Dean Cardwell was vomiting repeatedly when officers from the Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Office and the...
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Local prosecutors launch assault on synthetic marijuana
They made $191,791 in under two months while pretending to sell tattoos and supplies in Camden, Mich., a town of barely 500 people. But Penny Hawkins, manager of The Clubhouse restaurant, said that everyone knew what the couple was really doing. “Cars came with liscense plates from Ohio and Indiana,” she said. “They spent two...
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Capturing the moment
Award-winning wedding photographer Casey Fatchett ’97 came to Hillsdale to study physics, left with degrees in theatre and English, and ended up pursuing wedding photography as a career. When Fatchett graduated, he went to New York to pursue acting. But then his friends from school started getting married. “I would take my camera and shoot...
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Beyoncé is no feminist
Inexplicably, the queen has become a feminist icon. Last year, “British Vogue” gave her cover space as a “modern-day feminist.” Just two weeks ago, the hip-hop singer wrote an essay called “Gender Equality is a Myth” for Maria Shriver’s latest installment of The Shriver Report, a women-focused media initiative. But nothing about Beyoncé’s music promotes...