Category: Features

Although Tastes of Life went out of business due to the minimum wage increase last year, the Life Challenge ministry has repurposed the building as a new women’s shelter. Life Challenge, an addiction rehabilitation center in Hillsdale, provides a spiritual, social, and professional foundation for program residents to reenter into society. Unlike state programs,  Life...

Serge Bosyk’s mother remembers her friends smuggling Levi jeans and bottles of Fanta soda into her country, Ukraine, when she was a college student. Under Soviet rule, Ukrainians could not purchase imported goods — if it wasn’t made in the USSR, it wasn’t sold. Although Ukrainians enjoy various soft drinks and denim pants now, freshman...

Imagine your favorite professor in their undergraduate years. Presumably, their dedication to studying surpassed even the most intelligent students in their class. One Hillsdale student, however, seems to have matched scholarly enthusiasm of his professors. Senior Joshua Benjamins recently completed his senior history thesis, an exhaustive 163-page document accompanied by 75 pages of optional translation...

After scraping off frozen windows, hoisting piles of snow, and running five minutes behind schedule, there is nothing more disheartening than the sound of the car engine as it coughs, sputters, and dies. William Whorley, the director of campus security and emergency management, recently addressed these predicaments of winter drivers in a campus-wide email. Whorley...

After participating in Model United Nations while in high school, freshman Nathan Putrich was looking forward to joining the college MUN club on campus. He quickly discovered, however, Hillsdale College did not have a MUN club. Undaunted, Putrich is now looking to start the club himself. “I don’t think there’s many colleges that are well...