When the summer began, senior politics major Jackson Ventrella wasn’t looking for an internship with butterflies. Nevertheless, the opportunity arose out of happenstance. This past summer, Ventrella landed an internship at Entomology Solutions in Louisville, Kentucky. A far cry from the political arena, the company he worked for partners with Idlewild Butterfly Farm, the Louisville...
Hillsdale College boasted in a tweet last year that there are more than 40 statues of eagles on campus, 27 of them lurking in the dim light of the Heritage Room. And it looks as if two more have come to roost in the Grewcock Student Union on the mantle above the fireplace. Two new...
For a dense city of political activity, Washington, D.C., is a small world for Hillsdale students. During the humid summer months, the nation’s capital teems with interns, who crowd together in townhouses for once-in-a-lifetime experiences that could launch their careers. Hillsdale students proved no exception this summer. Seventeen students filled the Hillsdale House to...
While the newly-minted class of 2021 gathered for the first time in their dorms on the day of convocation, a smaller group of students gathered in Slayton Arboretum: commuter students. Although most students live on campus, 17 students commute in from the surrounding area, according to the dean’s office. Not living in the dorm, the...
The first shot hit senior Tara Ung in the stomach. The next one came from the Nerf pistol placed in her hand, while Austin Coe, the freshman assailant, braced himself for retaliation. Plastic lightsabers materialized from another corner of the room, and suddenly the students in the Koon Residence lobby found themselves attacked by a...