Autumn, so new only a few weeks ago, is slipping quickly away. What students might not notice, however, is the fading of the flowers around campus, covered in a last attempt to preserve them a few more weeks from the greedy reaches of the frost. For Angie Girdham, the campus horticulturalist, the end of the...
Many of Hillsdale College’s alumni came to school when the student union was basically an airport. A few rows of metal chairs and a modest-sized TV lined the hallway that now contains the computer lab, next to a smoke-filled snack bar. A renovation in the 1980s earned the student center’s glorified hallway status as the...
On a recent trip to Hillsdale, Annette Kirk, the wife of famed historian and author Russell Kirk, mentioned what she deemed “a Kirk revival” on campus. She said she saw many students who didn’t know about Kirk are starting to learn about who he was. And they’re becoming excited. Oct. 19, 2018, marked the 100th...
In the late 1960s, The Collegian premiered Campus Scene as a forum to spread social news. Separated into “Men’s News” and “Women’s News,” the column offered interesting tidbits from a variety of social groups at Hillsdale. This innocent information often included lists of new Greek pledges and advertised all-campus events. But, as Robert Frost once...
The Freshman Pledge and the Honor Code are well-known rites of a Hillsdale student — but twenty years ago, Hillsdale students did not have to sign the Honor Code or recite the Freshman Pledge upon entering the college. Both are fairly recent developments that arrived soon after Larry Arnn became president of Hillsdale College. Each...