After country music star John King graced our campus last week, I decided to take a look into Hillsdale’s history with celebrities. As I began to search The Collegian archives, I was expecting to find political pundits, businessmen, or possibly a certain Wheel of Fortune host. What I was definitely not expecting to find: a...
What’s your favorite movie? “Anna and the King.” What’s one piece of advice you would give to every Hillsdale College student? Go talk to your professors about the ideas you’re encountering in the class, not just how to write the paper. What college did you attend, including both undergraduate and graduate schools? I went to...
During the 1960s, campus fashionista Terry Grieger wrote a fashion-focused column in an attempt to bring the trendiest styles to Hillsdale College. Called Fashion Wise, this column offered advice for all aspects of fashion including hairstyles, makeup, and clothing choices by using frequent quotations from the Cosmopolitan Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar to report the hottest...
According to the NCAA, 95% of athletes go on to pursue a career outside of sports after graduation, and this year’s graduating group of Hillsdale seniors holds a wide variety of post-graduation plans. Four seniors, Catherine Voisin, David Graham, Joey Humes, and Ryan Zetwick discussed their post-graduation plans that range from humanities to sciences. Voisin,...
When Ezra and Mary Bertakis decided they would begin farming, they committed to working an organic farm. No synthetic pesticides and no chemicals. They wanted to produce the very best produce. Ezra Bertakis and his wife began Chef’s Way Organic Farm in 2012, and it’s one of the “original” organic farms. Ezra Bertakis said his...