Radio host Larry O’Connor will visit Hillsdale College for two weeks next month and teach a one-credit class on podcasting as a Eugene C. Pulliam Distinguished Fellow in Journalism. “By the end of the classes that I’m delivering, I’m hoping that anyone who attends it should have the tools to just plug in a microphone to their computer and start...
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Women learn self-defense
Hillsdale College’s women’s self-defense course prepares women to handle real-world threats through a blend of martial arts styles such as Taekwondo and Krav Maga, according to Becky Waters, lecturer in sports studies. “I wanted to help the community girls learn how to defend themselves no matter what. However they are attacked or thrown to the ground, I want them to...
Alumna joins biology department as professor
Kiralyn Brakel is a 2015 graduate. Courtesy | Austin Thomason Kiralyn Brakel ’15 has joined the biology department as an assistant professor of Biology and will direct the cadaver labs in Anatomy and Physiology classes this fall. Brakel has worked at Hillsdale for the past four years as a lab technician. “My husband and I decided to move closer to...
Garden party features “Princess and the Frog” theme for the first time
Lights, live music, and a dancing crocodile were all present at the Student Activities Board’s Garden Party on Sep. 20. SAB hosts the Garden Party every fall semester, with this year’s theme based on Disney’s animated movie “The Princess and the Frog.” “I have been pushing this theme for three years,” said senior and SAB event team lead Josiah Jagoda....
Q&A: Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk offers advice on career, law school
Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk serves as Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas in the Amarillo division. He graduated from Abilene Christian University in 1999 and the University of Texas Law School in 2003. He is a 2017 Trump-appointee and is known for his role in the 2022 case Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA in...
SAB Cedar Point tradition to return on Saturday
SAB brings back its pre-COVID tradition of taking students to the famous amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio. Courtesy | Joshua Gunter cleveland.com Students should prepare to get their atoms scrambled on the Student Activities Board trip to Cedar Point Amusement Park Sept. 28. For $20, students can ride a shuttle and obtain tickets to the park, located in Sandusky, Ohio....
Nimrod Educational Center holds student dove hunt in Indiana
Members of the Nimrod Fellowship pose for a photo after dove hunting. Courtesy | Morgan Morrison Students shot doves and turned them into jalapeño poppers on a trip to Indiana Sept. 14, sponsored by the Drummond Family Silver Fellowship scholarship as part of the Nimrod Education Center. Morgan Morrison, associate director of business and industry for the Nimrod Center, said...
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From berets to boots: Stoneman joins rhetoric department
Before he came to Hillsdale, Rhetoric and Public Address Professor Ethan Stoneman taught class wearing a beret, and his students...
How Hillsdale’s fair earned its tagline
Wherever popularity goes, parking problems follow. L. W. Meeks recounted in a local newspaper in 1950 his first visit to...
The history, legacy of Central Hall
Central Hall, the oldest and most iconic building at the heart of campus, is just an administrative building today, but...
A weekly dose of Viking history: Student interest leads to new Scandinavian history seminar
The history department is offering a new one-credit class with no textbooks and weekly, hour-long meetings. It seems too good...
Hillsdale Academy welcomes two new full-time teachers
When students walk into Heather Miller’s first- and second-grade classroom at Hillsdale Academy, they are immediately confronted with a dazzling...
Live from the basement: Media center offers students professional experience
Freshman Paul Kerrigan uses a $40,000 camera rig to send volleyball footage back to a remodeled bowling alley. Kerrigan is...
A day at The Dark Carnival: Juggalos descend on D.C. to hear from Insane Clown Posse, protest, drink Cotton Candy Faygo
When I popped out of the Smithsonian Metro station onto the National Mall last Saturday, it seemed everyone in Washington,...
In with the new: New scenic designer brings experience to theater department
“You don’t have to be delicate with that!” Donald Fox shouted at the students dismantling the miscellaneous wooden platform in...
