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Zeiler, a graduate 20 years in the making
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Zeiler, a graduate 20 years in the making

In the Bon Appétit Café, Alexis Zeiler spots the differences between when she started at Hillsdale College in the fall of 1998 and today — three weeks shy of when she’ll graduate with the class of 2018.   This, she points out, wasn’t here before. We also had way fewer options. In particular, she likes...

Pomp and circumstance at Hillsdale commencement
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Pomp and circumstance at Hillsdale commencement

In this year’s commencement academic procession, you might catch a doppelgänger of Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn — but, it’ll be the two postdoctoral graduates of the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship, wearing their new academic regalia styled after Arnn’s royal blue and black-velvet gown. “There had been favorable remarks of Dr. Arnn’s...

The stories we tell in reunions
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The stories we tell in reunions

California. Idaho. Florida. Ohio. Michigan. Alumni of the classes of 1958 and 1968 traveled across the nation to celebrate their 60th and 50th reunions, respectively, this past weekend. They came to relax, rekindle relationships, and reminisce about a simpler time, a time when the college mascot was the Dales and the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity...

Living it U.P. in northern Michigan, almost Canada
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Living it U.P. in northern Michigan, almost Canada

To junior Michael Whitman and sophomore Hannah Hayes, Hillsdale isn’t that small. In the tiny towns of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, everyone knows everyone’s business. People don’t know it any other way.   Whitman says he recalls visiting Milwaukee, his first time in a big city. “And it was just the wildest thing; It was the...