“You guys look so cold!” A woman said to Disney princesses Cinderella, Elsa, and Anna as they stood outside of Wal-Mart, ringing the bell for Salvation Army. “It’s not a problem, the cold never bothered me anyway,” Elsa said. Later, when no longer in character, senior Rebekah Molloy admitted that even as Elsa, she was a little cold. The three...
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Tapping into nature’s liquid gold
David Raney, professor of history, refuses to eat store-bought syrup. He’s grown accustomed to syrup that originated in his own backyard, boiled down from the sap of maple trees. “Whatever flavoring they use in store-bought syrup bears no resemblance. The flavor is off … It’s thicker, gooey, and inconsistent,” Raney said. Raney hasn’t collected sap from his own trees for...
A 20-year crescendo in the music department
This weekend, 170 members of the Hillsdale College music department’s symphony orchestra and two choirs will participate in three performances of George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah.” One-third of the school — roughly 500 students — regularly participate in the music department and one-quarter are members of ensembles. In 1997, however, only 50 students were in the music department. Today, there are...
Highlights of higher education at Hillsdale
It’s 6:59 on a dark morning, midway through the semester. Groggy students hover in front of their laptops in dorm rooms, the Grewcock Student Union, and coffee shops across campus, fingers poised, ready to press the single button that will decide their future for the next three months. The countdown begins, and in an instant, a quiet, unanimous click resounds...
Coffee-driven entrepreneurship
Coffee fuels billions of people globally each morning, and is accessible at almost every fast food restaurant, home, and business around the world. Senior Zack Schultz isn’t just fueled by it, he owns a coffee business in Haiti, and knows about everything from planting the seeds to the final packaging. Schultz first discovered the coffee industry through missionary work he...
Bryan Springer: the art department’s poster child
The average Hillsdale student walks past more than 35 posters on the way to the Grewcock Student Union from Lane Hall. But the posters that students actually stop at, read, and point at for a nearby friend to read are the work of Hillsdale’s own Artist and Teacher Bryan Springer ’94. “That’s the challenge,” Springer said. “To create something very...
