The Hillsdale College John A. Halter Shooting Center is the only college owned shooting facility that is entirely funded by private donations. “This doesn’t exist anywhere else,” Range Master Bartley Spieth said. Since 2008, the shooting sports center has collected $12 million in individual and corporate donations. “The facility is unparalleled when it comes to college owned shooting ranges. It...
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Finding post-grad freedom from debt: How alumni pay off student loans
Hillsdale’s financial aid counsellors met with graduating seniors last week to review the state of their student debt and prepare graduates to pay off their loans. While the class of 2016 has been finishing papers and applying for jobs, last year’s graduates have had a year to work hard and make progress on paying back those dreaded debts. According to...
Students find creative ways to stay organized in school’s chaos
On laundry day, senior Meg Prom dumps a load of clean laundry onto her well- made bed and puts on a podcast. She sorts through the items, starting with pants and sweatshirts and moving to shirts and delicates, and then folds them vertically — something she learned from Marie Kondo, a professional cleaning consultant and author of “The Life-Changing Magic...
Hillsdale’s Hayden Park grows young plant life
A team of staff and students have been working all winter to prepare the beautiful plants for spring commencement. Campus horticulturist Angie Girdham along with three students — senior Natalie Mckee, junior Molly Smith, and sophomore Andrea Bodary — work at the greenhouse at Hayden Park to grow flowers that make Hillsdale’s campus more aesthetically beautiful. While students’ families prepare...
Alumni studies espionage of Revolutionary War
When Damien Cregeau ’96 was a child growing up on the Connecticut coast, he wanted to become a marine biologist who specialized in whales. But because of seasickness, he decided to study a different species instead. “I find people interesting as a species,” Cregeau thought, “so let’s try that.” To do that, Cregeau studied history at Hillsdale College, and now...
50 years since Hillsdale’s extraterrestrial encounter
A picture of the UFO sighted in Hillsdale in 1966. Several girls living in MacIntyre Residence of Hillsdale College looked out their back windows and noticed flashing lights hovering over the Arb on March 21 around 10:30p.m. Gidget Kohn ‘69 detailed the event in a Collegian article written three days later. “I ran to my window and there it was,...
