Gib Turner has died three times. After flatlining thrice during a minor operation, he realized that doing what he loves most is paramount. “Life is short. Do what you want and be happy. That’s why I own a bike shop,” Turner said. In April, Turner opened the Cykel Shop, a full-service bike shop in downtown Coldwater that services and sells...
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‘So Much More’: Students share why they left their politics major
Conservative talk radio hosts praise it on the airwaves. Fox News broadcasts its commercials. The Princeton Review ranks it second in the nation for “Most Conservative Students.” Its Washington, D.C. campus, which houses the newly-opened Graduate School of Statesmanship, sits steps from the capitol. With its emphasis on politics, government, and current events, it would be tempting to sum Hillsdale...
Historic Hysteria: Delta Tau Delta heats up
As the temperature lowers and the use of heaters and fireplaces rises, house fires become a more prevalent issue. Unfortunately, this has been the case for the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house throughout the years. On April 1, 1941, The Collegian published, “Faulty chimney insulation was thought to be the cause of a fire in the Delta Tau Delta house...
Roger Butters teaches economics, dabbles in building computers
Each person has their own path to Hillsdale. For Professor of Economics Roger Butters, the journey involved the Portuguese language, a career change, and building computers. Butters began programming computers when he was 11 years old and bought his first retail computer 10 years later as an undergraduate student. It is much less expensive to build a computer than to...
Unsung Heroes of Hillsdale: David Spence
If you are ever in the sports complex and you see a rather wrinkled man with an American eagle tattooed on one arm and a cross on the other, bespectacled and smiling, with a jolly glint in his eye as he happily changes a garbage bag or sorts through stinky football socks, you are probably looking at David Spence. A...
Lucy Darling: Alum creates ‘beautiful products’ for babies
When Kevin Meyers graduated from Hillsdale College in 2009 with German and history majors, he never imagined that he would be running one of the most successful businesses for baby products three years later. Kevin Meyers and his wife Haily Meyers sold their first product from their business Lucy Darling in 2012 and were officially formed, according to the Arizona...
