“I think I have the best job in government,” said Paul Ray ’08, recently appointed acting head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. After graduating from Hillsdale College, Ray earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He has clerked in the U.S. Court of Appeals Second Circuit and for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. In July 2018,...
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‘The first notes’: Hillsdale violinists teach next generation
If you walk into the lowest floor of the Howard Music Hall on a weekday, you may occasionally hear a young student bowing through “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” on a violin, accompanied by a college-age instructor. One of these instructors, senior Josh Brown, teaches 12 beginner violinists at the Howard Music Hall and at Gier Elementary School in Hillsdale. Brown’s...
Historic Hysteria: campus intramural competitions generated Collegian commentary
If you think people in Hillsdale take intramural sports seriously today (not many people would make this claim, but just in case), you should look back to 1956 when The Collegian dedicated an entire column to Intramurals entitled “Intramural Scene.” Filled with stats and play-by-play reports, the column was an informative campus news source. However, the author, Howard Johnson, still...
Student researches Hillsdale women during Civil War
Josh Waechter is doing something that’s never been done before at Hillsdale. A junior majoring in history and a George Washington Fellow, Waechter has undertaken an independent research project to fulfill the fellowship’s work component. It’s the first time a student has initiated a semester-long research project on his own, especially with the aim of publishing it in the scholarly...
Before Hillsdale, student worked as New York City gold broker
While many Hillsdale students may dream of living and working in New York, few New Yorkers would consider leaving their office on Madison Avenue to go to school in south-central Michigan. But that’s just what sophomore Jonathan Bauman did after his second year working in New York as a junior broker. In the summer of 2015, Bauman had just graduated...
‘More than real life’: student actress presents alternative to Plato’s philosophy of theatre
“Why did you do it? I search and search and I search, and I can’t understand it,” Linda asked, beginning to sob. “I made the last payment on the house today. Today, dear. And there’ll be nobody home.” In that moment of “Death of a Salesman” by playwright Arthur Miller, senior Rebecca Carlson recalls playing the role of wife and...
