Senior Nathan Rastovac thinks the Great Lakes are oceans. Courtesy | Nathan Rastovac Nathan Rastovac is a senior economics major from Wadsworth, Illinois. The current co-head resident assistant of Simpson Residence, where he has worked as RA for three years, Rastovac is known widely for his signature sayings, “winning” and “anywho,” and his love for Hillsdale’s quirky traditions. Rastovac is...
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Is it too early to listen to Christmas music? The Collegian Weighs In
A dusting of Christmas music can’t hurt By Caroline Kurt Opinions Editor When I awoke to a world of white last week, I knew what I was playing on Spotify that day: Christmas oldies like “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” by Andy Williams and “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” by the peerless Bing Crosby....
Behind the Hillsdale bombing: Mafia or KKK?
The Cascarelli fruit store after the bombing in 1923. Courtesy | Hillsdale County Historical Society In the early hours of June 24, 1923, a violent boom rocked the town of Hillsdale. A bomb blew up at the back of the Cascarelli fruit store, destroying windows all along the Broad Street side of the Waldron Block, the triangular building in downtown...
Campus Character: Pierce Leaman
Leaman as a child. Courtesy | Pierce Leaman Pierce Leaman is a sophomore history major from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He participates in College Republicans, Federalist Society, and club tennis. Have you ever set anything on fire that you weren’t supposed to? Nearly the Niedfeldt microwave when I botched heating up Kraft Mac and Cheese — ask Nick Rutkoski about that. Would...
Quick Hits with Anna Navrotskaya
Navrotskaya holding a giant cucumber. Courtesy | Anna Navrotskaya In this Quick Hits, Associate Professor of French Anna Navrotskaya talks wooden clogs, her cats, and her love of the French language. If you could introduce or bring back any fashion trend, what would it be? Wooden clogs. I love everything medieval, and also, I can just see (and enjoy seeing)...
Hillsdale hunters up their game as season opens
Freshman Maxon Versluys (third from right) hunting with his cousins. Courtesy | Maxon Versluys Dennis “Gate Guy” Cook shot his first deer around age 16. “Grandma would cook breakfast, lunch, and dinner for all the hunters, so it made opening day kind of like a holiday,” Cook said. Cook is one of many hunting aficionados in Hillsdale. After firearm season...
