Penny Carrizales received a phone call in the middle of the night. A pipe had burst in McIntyre Residence, so shortly thereafter, there she was, sloshing through water mid-thigh deep to clean up the mess. “It’s all good stuff,” Carrizales smiles. What? “It’s no one’s fault,” she says. “There’s no need to be stressed out or complain about it. It...
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Spring Break mission trip helps Michigan communities
Over spring break, 40 students interacted with and served the Hillsdale community. The group made its way to Detroit, the High Rise, the Community Action Agency preschool, the Hillsdale county jail and several individual families in the community. Students spent their nights at the churches around the community and spent Friday through Thursday serving. Sophomore Hannah Hayes said she felt...
Chocolate chip: Hillsdale’s favorite cookie
They’re easily one of the most common snacks in America. A staple, not a specialty, as sophomore Grace Leonard, a baker for Bon Appétit, said. There aren’t too many good stories about baking cookies, according to sophomore Madeleine Brylski. She said there are more exciting bakery stories about non-cookie-related things, like exploding air compression hoses. The cookies are the “easiest...
Working wonders with wacky materials
What do violin strings, paint can lids, and deer antlers all have in common? Sophomore Jordan Monnin can turn them into jewelry. Monnin started making jewelry five years ago after being inspired by some handmade jewelry at a fair. Although he works primarily with steel, he has also used bone, paint can lids, deer antlers, violin strings, and discarded glass...
A crowd of red noise: feeling the facts at CPAC 2018
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — “No, I’ve got nothing against him. But those hats. Red doesn’t look good on anyone’s head,” the woman in the red elephant-printed Lilly Pulitzer mini skirt says to me. I don’t know her, but we’ve become lobby friends, trapped in a growing mob of young conservatives locked outside the revolving doors of the Gaylord National Resort...
How evangelist Billy Graham influenced Hillsdale
Billy Graham, who died last week, was scheduled to speak at a Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar to discuss “Is God Dead?” and to debate an Eastern thinker, The Collegian reported on April 1, 1984. April Fools. Although the article was satirical, it shows the influence the evangelical pastor had on Hillsdale College’s campus community. The writer placed his name...
