The cemetery where the body of Hillsdale College’s first president, Daniel McBride Graham, lies has fallen to disrepair in the past few decades. After learning of the situation at Mount Moriah Cemetery in Pennsylvania, Visiting Associate Professor of Classics Joshua Fincher took juniors Joe Toates and Calvin Zabrocki to examine the area and see how...
The Hillsdale College women’s track and field team was off to a strong start shortly after its founding in 1977, taking second place at the 1981outdoor track GLIAC Championship meet. A year later, however, the program was taken over by a 22-year old with no athletic experience at the college level, other than her routine...
When the chemicals used in the re-lacquering of her French horn irritated her throat and voice box during her junior year at Hillsdale College, impeding her ability to practice music and sing, Rebecca Schoon ’13 was prompted to reconsider pursuing a career in music. Although discouraged, she did not wallow in self-pity. Instead, she gleaned...
There was a period of time during my high school years that I contemplated pursuing a music major with an emphasis in piano performance. When I told my piano instructor that I was applying to Hillsdale College, however, he quickly informed me that no professor worth his salt would teach at an unknown liberal arts...
A Virginia Tech research experiment suggests that last month’s polar vortex may have killed up to 95 percent of the stink bug population in Southern Michigan — but Hillsdale residents haven’t noted much in the way of change. Hillsdalians are no strangers to the pesky stink bug. And while they are very familiar with scanning...