“Take your vitamins, kids.” Senior Vera Mackyntoich is specifically referring to vitamin D, the most common treatment for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), which is also colloquially known as seasonal depression. Kari Coupland, a nurse at the Health and Wellness Center, said SAD is a type of depression that usually starts in the fall and then goes into the winter months....
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Fleece, please: Local llama farm flourishes
Kent and Tahny Lowry initially bought 30 acres of land in hopes of raising their sons and a few animals as best as they could. Before they knew it, they became the owners of a small farm and an alpaca fiber business. Lowry’s Little Flock Farm is home to alpacas and llamas, as well as cows, goats, donkeys, pot-bellied pigs,...
Columbian student to bring his homegrown coffee to Hillsdale
Tucked away in a small valley in the Northern hills of Columbia lies fields teeming with coffee beans and sugar cane plants. This is the home of Café Coronel, a coffee company named after Colonel Ariel Vargas, better known in Hillsdale as senior Juan Vargas Hernández’s father. Seven years ago, the Vargas family traded the bustling streets and the high-rise...
Honoring a Hillsdale war hero
Darwin Kinney served on the famed USS Intrepid and won an award previously given to legendary aviators such as Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart. Yet, he originally chose to join the Navy because it was the only branch that didn’t require wearing a tie. A Hillsdale County native, Kinney was inducted to the Hillsdale County Hall of Valor in November....
My funny roommate: ‘Two are better than one’
Cowboy boots, Tolkien shirts, massive belt buckles, a sweet southern drawl — those were my first impressions of the man who would be my roommate sophomore year. He was no boring Michigander, but a character straight out of my imagination of the South. I came from a totally different direction: the barely-represented Northeast. I sported an aspiring prep style: boat...
Careers after Collegian
Few can say that their first job after college was with the Wall Street Journal. Just a few years after graduating, students who minored in journalism already applytheir Hillsdale education to their full-time jobs at news publications. I checked in with three recent graduates to see what they are doing now and how their time at Hillsdale has advanced their...
