The night of Monday, March 21, 1966 was pretty typical for the McIntyre Hall residents—until the UFO appeared. At about 10:30 p.m., according to an eyewitness account written by Gidget Kohn three days later, dozens of girls and other witnesses — 87 total — began to watch an “intense silver-white light.” The event was later described in Project Blue Book,...
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Tastes of Life: From restaurant to shelter
Although Tastes of Life went out of business due to the minimum wage increase last year, the Life Challenge ministry has repurposed the building as a new women’s shelter. Life Challenge, an addiction rehabilitation center in Hillsdale, provides a spiritual, social, and professional foundation for program residents to reenter into society. Unlike state programs, Life Challenge is a Christian organization....
From Lviv to Hillsdale
Serge Bosyk’s mother remembers her friends smuggling Levi jeans and bottles of Fanta soda into her country, Ukraine, when she was a college student. Under Soviet rule, Ukrainians could not purchase imported goods — if it wasn’t made in the USSR, it wasn’t sold. Although Ukrainians enjoy various soft drinks and denim pants now, freshman Bosyk thinks his country’s government...
Benjamins Tentamine Gaudet
Imagine your favorite professor in their undergraduate years. Presumably, their dedication to studying surpassed even the most intelligent students in their class. One Hillsdale student, however, seems to have matched scholarly enthusiasm of his professors. Senior Joshua Benjamins recently completed his senior history thesis, an exhaustive 163-page document accompanied by 75 pages of optional translation from Peter Martyr Vermigli’s Latin...
Car Maintenance
After scraping off frozen windows, hoisting piles of snow, and running five minutes behind schedule, there is nothing more disheartening than the sound of the car engine as it coughs, sputters, and dies. William Whorley, the director of campus security and emergency management, recently addressed these predicaments of winter drivers in a campus-wide email. Whorley advised students to start and...
Freshman seeks fellow ambassadors
After participating in Model United Nations while in high school, freshman Nathan Putrich was looking forward to joining the college MUN club on campus. He quickly discovered, however, Hillsdale College did not have a MUN club. Undaunted, Putrich is now looking to start the club himself. “I don’t think there’s many colleges that are well regarded academically in the United...
