Charlotte Truitt is one of the women that has knocked on dorm doors every morning, and has been for the past 38 years. Truitt has devoted herself to Hillsdale housekeeping for nearly four decades—a length that surpasses even the most long standing of professors. This semester will be her last, however, as she plans to retire this summer. Having worked...
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Chess club welcomes rookies, kings, and queens
There were five wooden chess boards atop the union tables last Wednesday afternoon. When he saw them, senior Os Nakayama’s face lit up and he exclaimed, “We have chess boards — it’s a start.” One can find Hillsdale’s new club playing chess in the union Wednesday afternoons. Last Wednesday the players used wooden boards that the Student Activities Board had...
United in Memory, Stained in Glass
“On the day of the two-year anniversary I stood right in the window where the plane had hit,” junior David Roberts recalled. “Instead, I was looking at the stained glass window we placed in the chapel that week.” David and his father Dennis Roberts designed and placed all five of the stained glass windows in the Pentagon’s memorial chapel to...
Students conduct giraffe research
What do cows and giraffes have in common? Probably to most people, the similarities between these two mammals are hard to find, but for biology majors senior Daniel Kish and junior Mikalah Smith, these animals will hopefully be the key to a groundbreaking senior research project. “We are doing original research,” Kish said. “This hasn’t been done before.” Judilee Marrow,...
Q&A Janine Livernois
What started your work in women’s ministry? 16 years ago. God got ahold of me, I became born again, and that desire to help other women was so prominent for me. And my life had a passion to be able to express to other women what God had done for me. Knowing that because I hit rock bottom and...
Microscopes provide peerless lens for research
Among Hillsdale College’s numerous academic bragging points, the science department boasts two specialized microscopes used in student and faculty research. Both the atomic force microscope and the scanning electron microscope provide highly detailed images for very small samples. Senior David Galginaitis used the scanning electron microscope, or SEM, to complete his biology research project, which examined the wax morphology of...
