Billy Graham, who died last week, was scheduled to speak at a Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar to discuss “Is God Dead?” and to debate an Eastern thinker, The Collegian reported on April 1, 1984. April Fools. Although the article was satirical, it shows the influence the evangelical pastor had on Hillsdale College’s campus community....
I shouldn’t have grown so attached to it, and now it’s slipping away. It used to smell musty after a long, hot summer. The rooms stood in semi-darkness from poor lighting, but it hid the torn and dented wallpaper quite well. Furniture cluttered the upstairs, and the kitchen cabinets overflowed with dishes left behind by...
Some say college goes by too fast. For Stephen Sterkenburg, it feels like a decade. The 27-year-old from Grand Rapids, Michigan arrived at Hillsdale in the fall of 2009, but he never thought 10 years later he’d still be working toward his bachelor’s degree in economics. His parents had been receiving Imprimis since before he...
For Sam Russell ’08 and his wife, Anna, opening their own breakfast restaurant was a family affair and a fulfillment of an entrepreneurial dream that had been ten years in the making. When The Buttered Biscuit opened its doors last April, Anna said she never imagined the success they have experienced in their first year...
Nearly a foot of snow fell last weekend, leaving cars stuck in their parking spaces and students scrambling to move their cars before the police tucked a ticket under their windshield wiper in advance of the plows. But when tragedy struck and people needed help, some men of Hillsdale College rose to the occasion. As...