When graduation was just two days away, Hillsdale College senior class president Hans Zeiger ’07 did what any good leader on campus would do: He commissioned a group of students to journey to the top of Central Hall to mount their senior class flag. The flag, hanging from the top of Central Hall for the...
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Winona: The Princess of Hillsdale County
“Well if you don’t like it, why don’t you kill me?” And Winona Baw Beese plunged the knife deep into her husband’s heart. Winona was brought to the center of the village, where her father, mumbling and chanting spiritual hymns, bound his daughter to a tall pole. As day crept toward night, elders stacked wood...
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‘So a liberal walks into a bar…’
Many enjoy her sarcastic Facebook rants about broken political promises hashtagged “tbt,” snarky tweets at Michelle Obama about eating fatty food, and abnormally low-pitched “smoker woman voice.” One admirer even creates collages of her feet. National Review reporter, comedian, and Hillsdale alumna Katherine Timpf ’10 first used humor to deal with a break up, but...
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Simpson: A documentary
Josh Hamilton loves to tell stories. But instead of writing them down on paper, he tells his story through a camera lens. His next project: Simpson Residence in the form of a documentary. “Filmmakers love to tell good stories and Simpson is just one of those stories,” Hamilton said. The establishment of single sex dorms...
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Butters illustrates profits by making muffins
This fall, Roger Butters joined the faculty of Hillsdale College as a visiting associate professor in the department of economics. Butters first became interested in economics during his undergraduate studies at Brigham Young University after his mission work in Brazil. According to Butters, the economics class seemed most applicable to his experiences while working with...