When she was getting ready to go to the University of Michigan, Chairwoman of Art Barbara Bushey had a tough decision to make. “I was trying to decide between art and physics,” Bushey said. “And as I told my father, ‘I can always paint on weekends, but I can’t have a cyclotron in my basement.’...
On a gray Saturday afternoon in February, the Proctors’ home was just messy enough to be perfectly comfortable. It was warm, the windows fogging up against the chill winter air. Carie Proctor, wearing a baseball cap and sweatshirt, from under which peeked a large, bedazzled belt buckle, moved deftly about the small kitchen, chopping, sprinkling,...
Professor of History David Stewart studied the paper, nodded, then crossed out the student’s entire first paragraph. The student, Andrew Dykstal ’13, considered himself a good writer, especially after successfully competing in essay speech writing, but he realized this was a delusion upon entering Hillsdale. Nevertheless, with his professors’ guidance, he learned to clear out...
Before becoming sports editor at the Hillsdale Daily News, James Gensterblum ’11 began his career taking calls from Michigan high-school football coaches to gather information for MLive’s weekly roundup in Grand Rapids, Michigan. “It’s not glamorous,” Gensterblum said. “I’m not going to pretend that it was anything more than an entry-level job.” Gensterblum said he...
If you tuned in to the Super Bowl, you may have noticed Hillsdale College’s commercial standing out amid a circus of Doritos, Bud Light, and Dodge commercials. Hillsdale offered the public a glimpse of the school’s refusal of federal funding and mission-focused education through its commercial. Behind it all was the Hillsdale College Marketing Department....