Hillsdale has gone viral. The college’s marketing department released three video montages over the summer which garnered nearly 1.15 million views across all social media platforms in the department’s campaign to expand visual output. The outcome broke previous college video viewership records with ease. “The 2015 fiscal year saw a huge improvement in our video...
Junior Rachelle Ferguson is not only a talented writer and musician. As of this summer, she is a budding entrepreneur as well. In July, Ferguson launched Kittywham Productions: Plays with a Punch — a business which offers original Christian dramas. According to the website, the company’s mission is “Discipleship through drama: Kittywham produces dramas written...
Jitters Café was unable to conduct business on the first day of class due to a defunct cash register. An ITS technician replaced the unit with a spare, and Jitters was able to resume standard operation the following day. “They’re computers. They crash,” AJ’s Manager Lisa Beasley said, referring to past failures of the campus...
Last year, two students duelled with sabers for their choice commencement speaker whilst yelling incoherent Errol Flynn quotes on the top balcony of Central Hall. The decision was difficult: Michael Ward or Houdini’s ghost. One student died, and the other didn’t, leaving Ward, a leading Oxford scholar on C.S. Lewis, the selected orator, according to...
Steve Casai, known as “Saga Steve” by students, is a patient at the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit at the University of Michigan Hospital. The 1974 Hillsdale graduate has checked in students for meals during the past four decades, seldom missing a day. Named fondly after the college’s previous food service, Saga, Inc., Casai is known for...