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Lou Petro honored for excellence in teaching
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Lou Petro honored for excellence in teaching

Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants awarded Adjunct Professor of Accounting Lou Petro as its most outstanding accounting professor of the year on Sept. 30. Petro received the Accounting Teaching Excellence Award. “It was very funny at the awards banquet,” Petro said. “Almost every one of them was my old student.” Petro started teaching accounting...

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College President Larry Arnn publishes new book

Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn wears the memory of Winston Churchill on his sleeve — literally. As an undergraduate student, Arnn would not have predicted he’d write a dissertation on the twice elected prime minister of the United Kingdom, let alone an entire book on him — Arnn’s latest, “Churchill’s Trial: Winston Churchill and the...

ATO ‘Clips for Cancer’ breaks campus fundraising record
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ATO ‘Clips for Cancer’ breaks campus fundraising record

Clips for Cancer, a fundraising effort by the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, shattered the record for funds raised by a student-run philanthropy event last week, raising more than $5,600 for Students Against Cancer. On Friday, Oct. 2 the event ended on the quad with 26 shaved ATOs and one shaved dean of men. “I was...

Hillsdale alumnus improves vote monitor app
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Hillsdale alumnus improves vote monitor app

Alumnus Andrew Koehlinger ’12 graduated from Hillsdale less than three years ago, but was recently named project manager of VoteSpotter, an app used by 55,000 people to get updates on key votes occurring in Congress as well as state legislatures. VoteSpotter, supported by the Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy, makes getting updates on state...

Eastern Club holds Mid-Autumn Festival for inaugural event
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Eastern Club holds Mid-Autumn Festival for inaugural event

The newly-formed Eastern Club held its first event, the Mid-Autumn Festival on Saturday evening in the Heritage Room. “The Mid-Autumn Festival is about the harvest, family reunion, and good fortune for the next year,” said sophomore Andrea Lee, historian of the Eastern Club. “The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the day of a harvest full...