Students celebrate Easter with a bonfire at the off-campus house Boondocks. Courtesy | Elaine Kutas It’s 4 o’clock in the morning, but the celebrations haven’t slowed down. Easter in Hillsdale is an all-night affair. Students who stay on campus celebrate the Resurrection in full-force — often attending multiple church services during Holy Week leading up to the pinnacle: the Easter...
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‘No Lone Wolves’: Meet Hillsdale’s Marine candidates
Amid bear crawls, arduous marches, and endless pushups directed by screaming instructors at the U.S. Marine Corps Officer Candidate School, the only thing that came to senior Jihye Kim’s mind was to pray and recite Bible verses. “It was so hot that the floor was slick with sweat,” Kim said. “I was just like, ‘The Lord is my shepherd.’...
Quick Hits with Benjamin Beier
Benjamin Beier with his wife Emily and their children Anna, Henry, Genevieve, and Moira. Courtesy | Benjamin Beier In this Quick Hits, Associate Professor of Education Benjamin Beier talks Kansas City sports, literature, and parenting his four children. How has having children changed you? I get a lot less sleep. My children teach me things and show me ways to...
Green’s ‘Gone Out’ into the music industry
Green started playing guitar when he was 10-years-old. Courtesy | Isaac Green Isaac Green ’25 is taking his music career beyond Concert on the Quad while he lives in Hillsdale, performing gigs every month and working on creating his first EP with record producer Tyler Neil Johnson. “My hope is to release a few singles in May, and then release...
Spring breakers share their TSA horrors
Thousands of people packed into the entrance of the Atlanta airport. Lines of people trying to get through security zig-zagged across the floor with no clear beginning or destination. The actual security line snaked around baggage claim and spilled into the airport entrance. The few staff members on hand looked just as stumped and frantic as the people in line....
The children yearn for the fields
Detasselers work around 70 hours a week for four weeks of the summer. Courtesy | iStock Dawn had not yet broken at 4:45 a.m., but then-12-year-old Claire Pipher jumped out of bed. Pulling on layers of neon clothing and beat-up tennis shoes, she grabbed her lunch box. She was not headed to school: It was July 15, and she was...
