Category: Features

“What can a white guy teach me about African American literature?” Josh Andrew ’14 faced this challenge when he walked into a class of fifteen African American high school seniors at Colby High School in Detroit. The seniors laughed when they saw that their teacher was a white man. Since September 2014, Andrew has taught...

When Penny Proctor discovered she would graduate from Hillsdale College with a perfect GPA, campus erupted. Until 1977, only men had graduated with a 4.0 GPA, a barrier Proctor broke as a double major. Proctor heard the news from several faculty members as a student and was “shocked.” While not certain of the reason it...

It’s October 2014, and Facebook is full of pictures featuring the hashtags “#betterthanboardwalk,” “#InstaWigwam,” and “#boardwalkbabes > #wigwamweirdos.” Two groups of friends — the women of the Boardwalk and the men of the Wigwam — decided to see who could have more fun over fall break, documenting the competition via Instagram and Facebook. Sophomore Sam...

Senior Yancey “Madison” Courtney is a whiskey girl. But, unlike most aficionados, she has had the opportunity to write and research a senior thesis on the subject. Courtney’s thesis adviser, Professor of Chemistry Lee Baron, said that Hillsdale’s small campus allows students to work closely with faculty while they pursue research on topics they love....

Konrad La Prade ’05 remembers spending a lot of time on roofs. Cooking meals in a fire pit carried up from ground level. The first pipe he ever smoked. Conversations with friends that would stretch for whole evenings. One long conversation – six hours – with a female acquaintance, Joy, who would become his friend,...