Ned Timmons graduated from Hillsdale College in 1970. He served for nine years on an FBI SWAT team in Detroit, infiltrated motorcycle gangs, helped bring down infamous Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, and posed as a mercenary gunboatman in one of the largest drug busts in U.S. History. He currently runs L.S.S. consulting, a corporate security company.
Features

In their eyes: Mike Harner
Mike Harner reminisces about dating, the origins of the Hillsdale Sigma Chi chapter, and the difficulties of getting a couch onto the roof of a campus building

Living in a gingerbread house
Artist and professor Sam Knecht and his family rennovated and now enjoy one of Hillsdale’s most unique houses

Q &A: Blake Scott
Junior Blake Scott is studying international business and Spanish. He is also the president of the firearms club and captain of the Hillsdale College shooting team, which just won the Division III national title.

Books for Kenya
Junior Rose Okeyo’s fundraising project allows her to send books to a secondary school in Kenya

Two small articles of clothing, one big step
The littlest things can make the moment: the perfect song, a trinket from someone special, the clothes that mark a special occasion. Therein lies the excitement of the 2012 graduating class as they receive their caps and gowns, and the day draws near when they will enter the post-graduate world.
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