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Historic Hysteria: TKEs total beer-tapped party house
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Historic Hysteria: TKEs total beer-tapped party house

Throughout the 1980s, Hillsdale’s Tau Kappa Epsilons suffered a variety of issues with regards to their house ranging from problems with neighbors to the literal destruction of the house.  It certainly cannot be easy to be neighbors with an active 1980s frat house, and the TKE’s neighbors felt the burden. On Nov. 3, 1983, The...

ATO house renovations unite fraternity members with alumni and legacy
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ATO house renovations unite fraternity members with alumni and legacy

It was Taco Tuesday when I arrived at the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house to meet with President Micah Perry and learn about the house’s recent renovations.  Upon entering, I was taken through the dining room where fraternity brothers shuffled past each other, exchanging jokes and greetings while helping themselves to large servings of refried...

Hillsdale’s Marketing Department moves to visual storytelling
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Hillsdale’s Marketing Department moves to visual storytelling

New videos, Instagram posts, and advertisements clearly show that Hillsdale College has hit a new marketing stride in recent years. What’s behind this change? The Hillsdale Marketing Department has been buzzing with new social media outreach and advertising ideas, painting the campus with a fresh face while preserving the original and irreplaceable mission of the...

Quick Hits: David Houghton
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Quick Hits: David Houghton

What is one scientific concept that baffles you? Electricity. The wind turbine spins and next thing you know, you can plug in a hairdryer? That baffles me. Would you rather live in the tundra or in a rainforest? Oh boy, I like them both. A rainforest has more biological diversity, but way more tropical diseases....