For some, “home” is the house they grew up in. For others, “home” is synonymous with “family” or “friends.” But for students interning at the college this summer, “home” will be Hillsdale. Career Services is organizing its second Hillsdale Summer Fellowship, an eight-week program spanning June and July that teaches students practical ways to appreciate and influence the communities they...
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Hillsdale’s first pandemic wasn’t corona
The COVID-19 pandemic is not the first the college has experienced. In 1918, at the height of the Spanish flu outbreak, Hillsdale’s football team was preparing for a “splendid” football season, according to The Collegian published on Dec. 19, 1918. “First one team and then another would cancel their games. It looked for a while as tho [sic] Hillsdale was...
Quick Hits: Brent Cline
If you could only read one author every day for the rest of your life, who would it be? I’d say Dostoevsky or Tolkien. But then my son was like, ‘No dad, this one too!’ and he’s right: Calvin and Hobbes. We read it almost every single day. What is one trend from your teenage years that you wish would...
Somerville seeks his next story
With a striped button down and tucked sleeves, he enters the classroom. “Hello.” He takes his reading glasses from his shirt pocket and begins the class, as he does every class, with a poem: She was young; / I kissed with my eyes / closed and opened / them on her wrinkles. / ’Come,’ said death, / choosing her as...
Do you really know that poem?
The downfall of education did not begin with the iPhone or the television; it began with the invention of writing. While that statement may be a bit dramatic, it’s true that for the majority of Western civilization, memorizing poetry, among other forms of rhetoric, was a critical component of a young scholar’s education. Today, such a practice is nowhere to...
Hillsdale runs in the family
Some families pass down recipes, holiday traditions, or photo albums. Others pass down their alma mater. Many families at Hillsdale have seen two, three, or even four generations walk its halls. Sophomore Megan Mayernik is a second-generation student studying math. Her mother, Linda Mayernik, graduated in 1993 with a degree in biology and a minor in Christian Studies. “She did...
