Hana Connelly worked at an Arkansas-based TV station last summer reporting on football for the University of Arkansas. Courtesy | Hana Connelly Junior Hana Connelly grew up watching televised sports games and dreaming of being like Fox Sport’s sideline reporter Erin Andrews. Now, she’s the college radio station’s first sideline reporter. Starting this year, Connelly’s...
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Finding the ‘unspeakable magic’ in baking
Emma De Nooy stands in front of Rough Draft. Courtesy | Emma De Nooy Step aside Socrates and Aristotle fans, there’s a new philosopher on the Hillsdale scene: senior Emma De Nooy. “I actually thought about dropping out at the beginning of this semester to go cook for somebody,” De Nooy said. “I didn’t because...
Meet Hillsdale’s own ‘fairy princess’: Pam Petrie
Housekeeper Pam Patrie cooks food for the women of Koon. Courtesy | Pam Petrie While the campus is quiet and the morning sun rising, housekeeper Pam Petrie has already made her way to campus, starting her daily duties before most students are awake. She extends her motherliness by making chicken noodle soup for sick college-age...
QUICK HITS with Kiralyn Brakel
Kiralyn Brakel is a 2015 graduate of the college. Courtesy | Austin Thomas In this Quick Hits, Assistant Professor of Biology Kiralyn Brakel talks about her proposal story, jiu-jitsu, and crafting. What’s the most unusual or surprising skill you have that most people don’t know about? I can unicycle. I used to take 10-to-30 mile...
Collegian reviews campus haunted houses
The Collegian sent a representative to all three haunted houses on Hillsdale’s campus. Unfortunately that representative was me — a woman whose fight or flight response is freeze, and who genuinely has trouble distinguishing between fact and fiction. It’s best not to read this as an expert testimonial, but rather, a set of personal experiences...




