It was a regular Thursday. Alarm Rings. Brush teeth. Comb beard. Get dressed. Head out. I needed to get to the Howard Music Building as soon as possible; My jazz combo was waiting. Earphones in. Isaac Hayes. I kept my head down and my hands in my pockets, trying to beat Michigan’s harsh and unyielding...
When Patrick Kander was 15, a year into his dishwashing job at Perkins, his manager took a leap and asked if he wanted to try his hand at cooking, and he’s never looked back. Now, Kander, the executive chef of Bon Appétit at Hillsdale College, develops meals for the café, observes, and coaches the Grewcock...
When a student doesn’t understand a point a professor makes in class, they have two options: remain silent or admit ignorance and ask for help. Professors want students to engage with them, but students sometimes choose to avoid that engagement. Professors desire student engagement for different reasons. Blake McAllister, assistant professor of philosophy, thinks the...
For Sam Russell ’08 and his wife, Anna, opening their own breakfast restaurant was a family affair and a fulfillment of an entrepreneurial dream that had been ten years in the making. When The Buttered Biscuit opened its doors last April, Anna said she never imagined the success they have experienced in their first year...
Nearly a foot of snow fell last weekend, leaving cars stuck in their parking spaces and students scrambling to move their cars before the police tucked a ticket under their windshield wiper in advance of the plows. But when tragedy struck and people needed help, some men of Hillsdale College rose to the occasion. As...