When junior Daniel Frandle was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease in 2021, he felt the most comfort from talking to senior Jake Piornack, a friend who also suffered from a chronic illness, he said. This year, Piornack, working with Frandle and others, started the Medical Awareness Network, a group dedicated to providing other students with...
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Valentine’s Day: the hearts of Hillsdale
These responses have been compiled and edited by Tracy Wilson. How did you meet your spouse? Kátia Sherman, Assistant Professor of Spanish, married to Tom Sherman for 30.5 years: “He was teaching at Oberlin College, and I was an undergraduate student there. He had rooms to rent in his big house, and my sister and...
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QUICK HITS: Anna Navrotskaya, Professor of French
Anna Navrotskaya is a professor of French at Hillsdale College. This interview has been edited for length, clarity, and style. What is the most interesting place you’ve been? As I come from a Jewish family, it was Jerusalem. When I went there for the first time, I got off the plane and started crying. There...
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Living with the Lindleys, and more: Student boarders share lessons learned
After cultivating a close relationship with Associate Professor of English Dwight Lindley and his family in her first year at college, sophomore Tess Owen chose to spend her second year at Hillsdale living with the family instead of returning to an on-campus residence hall. “I knew this would be a very unusual situation,” Owen said....
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Hillsdale gives new shot to cadet who refused vaccine
“When a dog has been abused and brought to shelter but they are still scared — that’s how I feel.” For sophomore Nickaylah Sampson, life at Hillsdale College is a stark contrast from her experience at West Point Academy, where she was put in the “dirty platoon” and forced to share a bathroom and living...