When two Delta Tau Delta fraternity members went searching for antique objects to display during a presentation celebrating the chapter’s 150th anniversary in October 2017, they didn’t expect to find the chapter’s original Bible. Juniors Joshua Waechter and Vincent Miozzi found the Bible in a plastic container brought up from the basement of the Kappa...
When the class of 2019 recently announced their senior gift of a fountain on the quad, one of the fundraising chairs, senior Andie Chandler, described the fountain as having a “rich history.” Hillsdale has, in fact, had multiple fountains on campus through the decades — including one that students blew up with dynamite in a...
The distinctly masculine and unmistakably college-like aroma of pulled pork and mac ‘n’ cheese fills the air as a group of 40 brothers hustle in and out of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity dining room, settling in for a few moments of fraternal bonding time before succumbing to the conflicting responsibilities of college life. As...
“Iiiiiiiiittt’s Charger time!” The familiar voice of WCSR’s long-time broadcast icon Tony Flynn trumpeted over the airwaves. Before the start of every football game, Flynn was up in the college press box preparing for another fast-paced segment of play-by-play Hillsdale College Charger coverage. “He would be up in the press box, and he’d stand up...
“It was not an average day,” John Somerville, professor of English, said of the South Korean military coup he witnessed while in the backseat of his parents’ Land Rover. “But I wouldn’t trade that world for anything.” Growing up in South Korea, Somerville is one of several Hillsdale students and professors who spent years of...