In this year’s commencement academic procession, you might catch a doppelgänger of Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn — but, it’ll be the two postdoctoral graduates of the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship, wearing their new academic regalia styled after Arnn’s royal blue and black-velvet gown. “There had been favorable remarks of Dr. Arnn’s...
A young couple sits on a couch in an old-fashioned house, the man, with blonde hair and a youthful smile, holds a laughing baby on his knee.They just came from washing dinner dishes, helped in the kitchen by students. The child is hardly a year old, the couple enjoys the stability of a home. But...
At 7:40 p.m. on a Saturday, junior Thomas Ryskamp was sitting in his bedroom when he got a phone call from a singer in distress. It was the fall of 2017, the evening of Sigma Alpha Iota’s concert, and junior Shiloh Carozza had no one to play piano alongside her. Things hadn’t worked out with...
C.G. Appleby recalls his mother asking him, “Would you rather be a big fish in a small pond, or a small fish in a big pond?” when questioning whether University of Michigan — his family’s alma mater — or Hillsdale would be the right choice. Originally from Saginaw, Michigan, Appleby chose to study at Hillsdale...
As the salmon-colored sun nestles the Florida skyline, Maddie Peter reclines on the bow of the Black Horse. Hotels and high-rises, burnished with pink-orange, fleck the coast of Clearwater Beach in front of her. Sometimes, on nights like this, dolphins glide among the boats docked at the ramp. From her place on her grandfather’s yacht...