Sandala watches an F1 race with her friend, Anna Teply ’26. The Collegian | Alessia Sandala When two Hillsdale journalism interns saw a movie in Nashville last year, they weren’t expecting to be inspired to start a car racing publication. Since March, senior Alessia Sandala and Catherine Maxwell ’26 have published a Substack called Parabolica, which features the latest news...
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‘Deep roots’: Students who call Hillsdale home
Tim, Anne, Elizabeth, and Evelyn Gray on the Baw Beese Trail. Courtesy | Megan Gray When Hillsdale Academy graduate and current sophomore Andrew Spiegel started at Hillsdale College, he felt like he’d moved to a different town. “It was weird, feeling like I had moved, but then I would go downtown, and it’s the same downtown that I experienced in...
Quick Hits: James Strasburg
Strasburg in Berlin in 2015. Courtesy | James Strasburg In this Quick Hits, Associate Professor of History James Strasburg discusses mountain biking, movies, and Germany. What’s your favorite thing about Hillsdale students? The desire to dig deep into the first things, the most essential questions. If you weren’t a history professor, what would you be doing? One of my abiding...
Campus Character: Daniel Sturdy
Daniel Sturdy performs at Boondocks. Courtesy | Theta Epsilon Daniel Sturdy is a senior from Portage, Michigan. He is now a Spanish major after switching from biochemistry. He is president of Theta Epsilon music fraternity and a barista at Penny’s. When he’s not organising Battle of the Bands, you’ll find him writing music. What is your Penny’s order? A brown...
Couples meet at the Contact Center
For several students, Hillsdale Contact Center became the setting of their love story. Senior and Whitley Residence head RA Nolan Lazuka met his fiance, sophomore McIntyre Residence RA Grace Torsch when Lazuka was recreating the Battle of Normandy with toy army guys and tissue boxes. “I remember specifically meeting him on the day that there had been a really big...
‘Unhinged and free’: Freshman unicycles around campus
Holzwarth riding his unicycle at 14 years old. Courtesy | Kimberly Holzwarth Freshman Gabriel Holzwarth rides around campus on his unicycle with a second unicycle slung over his shoulder. Holzwarth grew up in South Dakota on his family’s farm, where his two older brothers bought unicyles and taught themselves how to ride. When they left for college, they hung up...
