Multi-colored, hand-painted owls covered the walls of the craft room, and newspaper lined the tables. Nathaneal, a blond-haired man roughly a head taller than me, greeted me by tapping his forehead with the fingers on his right hand and then gestured his hand toward me — “Hello,” he signed. He, along with 10 other participants,...
They are the few. They are the proud. They are the women at Hillsdale College pursuing the United States Marine Corps. Junior Aubrey Brown and senior Jean Pendergrass are like other students at Hillsdale. Brown studies biology and is a resident assistant at Waterman Residence. She also serves as a business manager for the Winona...
House directors, fondly known as house moms, are a staple in freshman housing. But after one year, students who remain on campus might have a different kind of dorm parent. For three campus dorms, hard-working students fill that role, parenting the orphans of Mauck, Koon, and Niedfeldt. Mauck and Niedfelt have student house directors, while...
From desert monks and medieval scholars to modern philosophers, three Hillsdale alumni are translating the works of thinkers in French, German, Greek, and Latin. It’s remarkable then that only one completed a foreign language major while at Hillsdale. Each is pursuing a philosophy or theology degree, but reading scholars, whether ancient or modern, in their...
Penny Carrizales received a phone call in the middle of the night. A pipe had burst in McIntyre Residence, so shortly thereafter, there she was, sloshing through water mid-thigh deep to clean up the mess. “It’s all good stuff,” Carrizales smiles. What? “It’s no one’s fault,” she says. “There’s no need to be stressed out...