When no floor space remains, students kneel on couches to pray. Every Thursday evening, students gather at the Grotto, St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church’s student outreach house, for Convivium. After enjoying a home-cooked meal, they join in an opening prayer before the week’s speaker takes the stage. Students pack onto couches or vie for...
Category: Features
Who is Nathan Stanish?
Hillsdale junior Nathan Stanish is a social media celebrity. But not on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, or YouTube. Stanish has 20,000 followers on Quora, where he has 87 million content views and holds the top most-viewed writer spot in multiple topics, ranging from Marvel to tennis. “I don’t exactly remember how I found out he was...
How to produce a winning homecoming video
When it came to the Greek Olympics Homecoming, Hillsdale students gave it their all in the arena and established Athens on campus in their Olympic trailer videos. “I almost lit my hair on fire, and it singed the hairs on my arm,” sophomore and New Dorm Resident Assistant Sophie Schlegel said, describing the filming process...
QUICK HITS with Christy Maier
In this Quick Hits, Director of Academic Services Chrisy Maier ’98 talks fantasy football, study habits, and the best traditions at the county fair. What is a study mistake you made in college that students can learn from? So many! But one of the biggest things was not taking good notes in classes that...
50 years of WHIP
When a young Tucker Watkins ’75 asked then-Illinois congressman Philip Crane which college he should attend, Crane didn’t hesitate to answer. “He said the only one to consider going to is Hillsdale College,” Watkins said. Watkins took his advice and became one of the first four students to participate in the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program, which...




