Attendees sit around a firepit at Founding Fest in 2023. Courtesy | Hillsdale College Founding Fest will celebrate Hillsdale College’s 180th anniversary with alpacas, a chocolate fountain, and campfires in the empty lot across the Townhouses on West Street Dec. 7. 1844 Society will host the event from 5-9 p.m. In its fifth year, the...
After graduating from Hillsdale in 2017, Lost Mary band members Luke Martin and David Johnson rejected the nine-to-five teaching jobs they were offered and began walking the tracks with packed bags, hoping to hop a train. After walking for four days and seeing no trains, they discovered a crucial problem: Trains had not run on...
Left-wing media is being used as a political tool to sway elections, but conservative journalists should try to hold it to account, according to panelists at the “Communication is Key” political journalism panel hosted by Hillsdale College Republicans Oct. 3. “How are you supposed to infiltrate a 95/5 institution?” said panelist Nainoa Johsens ’18. “Do...
Nearly 20,000 inscribed red bricks make up the roads of campus, displaying messages of well-wishes or college memories. Passersby can search for bricks that provide the most colorful comments and observations: “Richard it’s only rock and roll,” “Thanks Mom & Dad we love you more than Sam,” and “Kim Gehrke ’17 better grades than her...
Victor Joecks lamented the lack of statesmen Hillsdale produces in an opinion earlier this month (“Hillsdale doesn’t produce many statesmen. Let’s change that,” Sept. 5). Joecks, a seasoned journalist, has been around politicians longer than I, a rookie journalist, and he gives helpful tips for students who want to someday become elected officials. While he’s...