The first shot hit senior Tara Ung in the stomach. The next one came from the Nerf pistol placed in her hand, while Austin Coe, the freshman assailant, braced himself for retaliation. Plastic lightsabers materialized from another corner of the room, and suddenly the students in the Koon Residence lobby found themselves attacked by a...
Hillsdale College’s class of 2021 is the smartest on record, according to preliminary data from the admissions office. The freshmen set new highs for average ACT scores and high-school GPAs, surpassing the class of 2020’s averages. The 199 women and 195 men make up the most selective class in the college’s history, benefitting from the...
How many weddings did you attend this summer? GH: Six. That’s what happens when you go to a Christian high school and then Hillsdale. What’s essential to alumni wedding guest outfits? GH: Wear shoes that not only look great but also feel great. Be the last girl in her heels dancing...
Frederick Douglass returned to Hillsdale College permanently on Friday. College President Larry Arnn unveiled the “fierce,” 7-foot-tall bronze statue of the famous freed slave and abolitionist orator — who spoke at the college on Jan. 21, 1863 — to a standing ovation of around 300 college students, staff, faculty, and visitors packed into Kresge Plaza...
Forty-five minutes before the noon finish time, someone hit a gong with a cry: “20,000 meals!” Approximately 130 students, capped with plastic hair nets and busy assembling meals in the Biermann Athletics Center on Saturday, cheered. In just two hours, they had reached their goal and then some: packaging 22,032 meals, more than enough to...