Have you ever parted ways with a classmate as they walk into the library, only to see them three minutes later sitting in AJ’s? Have you ever tried to talk to someone from your Western Heritage class, but get confused when they act like they’ve never met you before? It’s not bilocation. It’s not amnesia....
When Jim Cole invited me to his 120-year-old farmhouse to see a 160-year-old picture of Hillsdale College, I wasn’t sure what I had gotten myself into. “You ain’t scared of big dogs, are you?” he asked over the phone. I brought along beef jerky to cajole the two hounds that guard his driveway. He told...
What is the most memorable gift you’ve ever received? My wife, Amy, arranged for me to spend a few days at a house of studies for the Dominican Order. At the time, I was completing my dissertation on the Dominicans. What is one memory from your childhood that stands out to you? It was the...
The year is 1986, and Sigma Chi Greg McLogan is driving his dad’s 1985 Pontiac Fiero, while blasting New Order’s “Age of Consent,” around Baw Beese lake. He captured it all on his VHS-recording video camera. McLogan’s borrowed his dad’s camera while he was in college, and McLogan would use it to capture the youthful...
Who knew the words of a stranger could be some of the most intimate? On a summer day in Traverse City, passersby let the T.C. Street Poet craft their vulnerabilities into touching poems. Though she kept her identity a secret that day, she happens to be one of Hillsdale’s very own. Senior Mary Caroline Whims...