Anna Navrotskaya is a professor of French at Hillsdale College. This interview has been edited for length, clarity, and style. What is the most interesting place you’ve been? As I come from a Jewish family, it was Jerusalem. When I went there for the first time, I got off the plane and started crying. There is a concept of a...
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Living with the Lindleys, and more: Student boarders share lessons learned
After cultivating a close relationship with Associate Professor of English Dwight Lindley and his family in her first year at college, sophomore Tess Owen chose to spend her second year at Hillsdale living with the family instead of returning to an on-campus residence hall. “I knew this would be a very unusual situation,” Owen said. “But I really felt it...
Hillsdale gives new shot to cadet who refused vaccine
“When a dog has been abused and brought to shelter but they are still scared — that’s how I feel.” For sophomore Nickaylah Sampson, life at Hillsdale College is a stark contrast from her experience at West Point Academy, where she was put in the “dirty platoon” and forced to share a bathroom and living quarters with 30 men during...
Hillsdale’s Hidden Hobbies: Jack Duffy
Jack Duffy is a junior at Hillsdale College. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. How did you learn how to make kimchi? A couple years ago, a friend gave me a book called ‘Wild Fermentation’ by a man called Sandor Ellix Catz. It includes fermentations from all manner of cultures. There are some really strange African, American,...
A.M.O.G.U.S. supsends, too ‘sus’ for saga
Hillsdale’s American Men of God Society U.S. (A.M.O.G.U.S.) chapter officially disbanded on Feb. 1 after a roughly three-month experiment in self-government. The club’s name is a joke based on the hit online game “Among Us,” in which crewmates complete tasks on a spaceship while trying to uncover the identity of the “Impostor,” a role secretly assigned to one player at...
‘Life of the party’: Hillsdale flyers befriend feline
One of Hillsdale Municipal Airport’s employees lives in the building and sometimes greets flyers by coming out from under the chairs in the terminal building. “Airport Lucy,” as she’s been nicknamed, is a cat. Some of her primary duties include warding off mice and making people happy. “I’d never seen her kill a mouse until this Christmas,” Airport Manager Ginger...
