Josh Waechter is doing something that’s never been done before at Hillsdale. A junior majoring in history and a George Washington Fellow, Waechter has undertaken an independent research project to fulfill the fellowship’s work component. It’s the first time a student has initiated a semester-long research project on his own, especially with the aim of...
While many Hillsdale students may dream of living and working in New York, few New Yorkers would consider leaving their office on Madison Avenue to go to school in south-central Michigan. But that’s just what sophomore Jonathan Bauman did after his second year working in New York as a junior broker. In the summer of...
“Why did you do it? I search and search and I search, and I can’t understand it,” Linda asked, beginning to sob. “I made the last payment on the house today. Today, dear. And there’ll be nobody home.” In that moment of “Death of a Salesman” by playwright Arthur Miller, senior Rebecca Carlson recalls playing...
It is almost impossible to imagine what someone might do on campus in the predawn hours on a weekday. Most dutiful Hillsdalians traffic the same few buildings and walk across the same sidewalks to the same desks in the library almost every day of the week, and then turn back to go home by 2...
Iceland had 2.3 million visitors in 2018, according to the Rejkjavik Grapevine, a prevalent Icelandic tourist magazine. With about 338,000 people living in Iceland, the number of tourists makes up nearly seven times the country’s population. But after Iceland’s ultra low-cost airline, WOW air, went bankrupt at the end of March, many predict Icelandic tourism...