This weekend, 170 members of the Hillsdale College music department’s symphony orchestra and two choirs will participate in three performances of George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah.” One-third of the school — roughly 500 students — regularly participate in the music department and one-quarter are members of ensembles. In 1997, however, only 50 students were in the...
It’s 6:59 on a dark morning, midway through the semester. Groggy students hover in front of their laptops in dorm rooms, the Grewcock Student Union, and coffee shops across campus, fingers poised, ready to press the single button that will decide their future for the next three months. The countdown begins, and in an instant,...
Coffee fuels billions of people globally each morning, and is accessible at almost every fast food restaurant, home, and business around the world. Senior Zack Schultz isn’t just fueled by it, he owns a coffee business in Haiti, and knows about everything from planting the seeds to the final packaging. Schultz first discovered the coffee...
The average Hillsdale student walks past more than 35 posters on the way to the Grewcock Student Union from Lane Hall. But the posters that students actually stop at, read, and point at for a nearby friend to read are the work of Hillsdale’s own Artist and Teacher Bryan Springer ’94. “That’s the challenge,” Springer...
Hillsdale freshman Ritah Ogayo worked as a professional model in Kenya before coming to the U.S., when her passion for fashion took a back seat to Kenya’s dire need for good hospitals and skilled doctors. “I’ve always been a leader,” she said. “I saw modeling as an opportunity to make people know me better. Modeling...