Jonah Swartz works at St. Joe’s Cafe. Sarah Katherine Sisk | Collegian While sophomore Jonah Swartz cooks over a 1500 degree fire at St. Joe’s Café, he often gets chatting with customers. “These people I’ve never even met are like, ‘How hot is it in there? What are the pizzas like? Tell me about this...
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Pothole plague: Repairs increase but complaints remain
A pothole on Howder Street. Ally Hall | Collegian Hillsdale should imitate the Roman Empire’s high quality roads, according to Samuel Sadler, a first semester graduate student. “If you go back to what made the Roman Empire so great, part of it was the fact that they had this great system of roads,” he added,...
Hillsdale student mail room workers keep campus sorted
Senior Samantha Mandel puts in her earbuds, blasts Frank Ocean’s alternative R&B music, and picks up a pile of letters — Hillsdale College’s mail doesn’t sort itself. “I just blast him in my AirPods, and it’s the most calming thing ever because it gives me a little brain break from school work,” Mandel said. “I...
QUICK HITS with Qianying (Jennie) Zhang
In this Quick Hits, Qianying (Jennie) Zhang, associate professor of finance and economics, talks raising trilingual children, her favorite movie, and what inspires her to teach. What is your favorite part of the day? I am a night owl, so late at night. What is your earliest memory? My grandma and my mom took me...
The secret lives of Hillsdale College pets
Michael Branigan holds his puppy Squirrel. Courtesy | Nate Privitt When senior Nate Privitt’s housemate, senior Michael Branigan, took a routine trip to Walmart in August, neither one thought Branigan would come home with a puppy. “There was a van there that had a cardboard sign that said ‘puppies’ on it, and Michael was like,...




