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QUICK HITS: Peter Blum
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QUICK HITS: Peter Blum

What’s one trend from the 80s you wish would come back? Not having nostalgia about the 80s. Who is one author you think is underrated? Stephen King is underrated in a sense, partially because he’s still living. What’s one thing on your bucket list?  Trying to learn to speak German relatively fluently. I’ve also thought...

Sharpest junior in the drawer
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Sharpest junior in the drawer

When junior Jeremiah Tiews started fundraising for his Eagle Scout project by sharpening other people’s knives, he never predicted that it would eventually become a long-term business pursuit.   Since 2017, on breaks and sometimes during the school semesters, he provides a local service through his self-started company, Same Day Sharpening, in his home in...

Inside the sweet rides of Hillsdale
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Inside the sweet rides of Hillsdale

Driving down Hillsdale Street, you may have noticed a striking red mustang, a blue Ford truck, a batmobile, or a spunky white dodge charger. These are just a few of the many cool cars on the Hillsdale’s campus, many of which have been made even more special by their owner’s hard work. Junior Zachary Ailes...

Discovering 49242
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Discovering 49242

For some, “home” is the house they grew up in. For others, “home” is synonymous with “family” or “friends.” But for students interning at the college this summer, “home” will be Hillsdale. Career Services is organizing its second Hillsdale Summer Fellowship, an eight-week program spanning June and July that teaches students practical ways to appreciate...

Hillsdale’s first pandemic wasn’t corona
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Hillsdale’s first pandemic wasn’t corona

The COVID-19 pandemic is not the first the college has experienced. In 1918, at the height of the Spanish flu outbreak, Hillsdale’s football team was preparing for a “splendid” football season, according to The Collegian published on Dec. 19, 1918. “First one team and then another would cancel their games. It looked for a while...