When entering the Old Snack Bar, stillness permeates the air. Just a half dozen students quietly study at the booths on any given day. The silence is jarringly different from the third floor of the library where the most social students tend to study. The phrase “You could hear a needle drop” was invented for this place. But the Old...
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Bingley: a legacy leaves his mark
“First of all, I’m a legacy.” Dr. Leo Bingley Jr. ’58 was the third generation of men in his family to attend Hillsdale College, and his two sons followed in his footsteps. His great-great grandfather was a Civil War veteran who attended the college and later became the mayor of Hillsdale. Bingley is a legacy indeed. After graduating Hillsdale as...
SPARC: A light for members with developmental disorders
Multi-colored, hand-painted owls covered the walls of the craft room, and newspaper lined the tables. Nathaneal, a blond-haired man roughly a head taller than me, greeted me by tapping his forehead with the fingers on his right hand and then gestured his hand toward me — “Hello,” he signed. He, along with 10 other participants, gather every Tuesday in the...
Hillsdale women train for Marines
They are the few. They are the proud. They are the women at Hillsdale College pursuing the United States Marine Corps. Junior Aubrey Brown and senior Jean Pendergrass are like other students at Hillsdale. Brown studies biology and is a resident assistant at Waterman Residence. She also serves as a business manager for the Winona Yearbook and works at the...
Dorms without moms stewarded by students
House directors, fondly known as house moms, are a staple in freshman housing. But after one year, students who remain on campus might have a different kind of dorm parent. For three campus dorms, hard-working students fill that role, parenting the orphans of Mauck, Koon, and Niedfeldt. Mauck and Niedfelt have student house directors, while Koon has a Head Resident...
Found in translation: How alumni learn through language
From desert monks and medieval scholars to modern philosophers, three Hillsdale alumni are translating the works of thinkers in French, German, Greek, and Latin. It’s remarkable then that only one completed a foreign language major while at Hillsdale. Each is pursuing a philosophy or theology degree, but reading scholars, whether ancient or modern, in their original language is crucial to...
