It’s 1:30 a.m. You’re drowning in pages-long finals reviews. You promised you wouldn’t drink any more coffee, but your biochemistry midterm is tomorrow, and your eyes glaze over every time you look at the page. You reach over and press the brew button on your coffee maker. The U.S. Army and Department of Defense have developed an algorithm, the Wall...
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College allocates 52 legacy scholarships
Fifty-two fully-enrolled Hillsdale College students, or 3.6 percent of the student body, receive financial aid through the college’s legacy scholarships. Children and grandchildren of Hillsdale alumni are eligible for a $1,000 annual scholarship under the college’s current policy. Director of Financial Aid Richard Moeggenberg explained almost all eligible candidates are offered the scholarship upon submitting their applications and proving they...
Pulp Michigan: Tower of History, a sign of the times
Sault Sainte-Marie isn’t exactly a tourist destination this time of year. The Saint Mary’s river is inhospitable to tourism (for the season) and the Kmart is closed (forever). To make matters worse, it gets late early out there: The Upper Peninsula’s pitch-black industrial decay is not worth a six-hour drive from Hillsdale. Unless you visit the Tower of History. A...
Girdham works around the year to make campus beautiful
Autumn, so new only a few weeks ago, is slipping quickly away. What students might not notice, however, is the fading of the flowers around campus, covered in a last attempt to preserve them a few more weeks from the greedy reaches of the frost. For Angie Girdham, the campus horticulturalist, the end of the botanical year is fast approaching....
The Grewcock Student Union: 10-year anniversary of a swanky campus upgrade
Many of Hillsdale College’s alumni came to school when the student union was basically an airport. A few rows of metal chairs and a modest-sized TV lined the hallway that now contains the computer lab, next to a smoke-filled snack bar. A renovation in the 1980s earned the student center’s glorified hallway status as the “Ethan Allen Room,” but the...
100 years later, Russell Kirk admirers reflect on his legacy
On a recent trip to Hillsdale, Annette Kirk, the wife of famed historian and author Russell Kirk, mentioned what she deemed “a Kirk revival” on campus. She said she saw many students who didn’t know about Kirk are starting to learn about who he was. And they’re becoming excited. Oct. 19, 2018, marked the 100th anniversary of Russell Kirk’s birth...
