Tuesday will determine if the cost of a 60-cent monthly surcharge outweighs the cost of human life when voters decide whether to increase telephone bills by that amount or forego county 911 service. "If the vote fails, I expect in a very short period of time it would close up," Police Chief and Emergency Telephone Services Board Chairman Brian Corbett said. (4) comments
In Deputy Joe Wilmer's seven years at the Hillsdale County Jail, he has watched the county's crime rates for theft and drugs rise, one of the many offenses causing the jail to become overcrowded. Overcrowding makes conditions worse for the prisoners, which makes his job harder. (0) comments
Sophomore Adam Connell plays baseball for Hillsdale College. He practices, lifts and eats with his team, but doesn't study with them: of 30 players, he's the only Spanish major. "There are quite a few guys who are studying teaching, physical education, a lot of science," Connell said. (0) comments
Men's music fraternity Mu Alpha picked up 15 new members last Saturday, a week after campus fraternities' pick-up day. The group represents a four-to-five person increase in Mu Alpha's normal pledge class number. Dean of Men Aaron Petersen and Mu Alpha agreed the group should pick up new members after the other fraternities to avoid mix-ups. (25) comments
Over spring break, ActiveCampus Portal will replace the Up The Hill page students and faculty see when logging into on-campus computers, said Kevin Maurer, information systems manager for Information Technology Services. The portal is the fifth Datatel, Inc. (0) comments
At a meeting last Wednesday, History Department Chairman Mark Kalthoff announced planned changes to the requirements for majoring in history. The Educational Policies Committee will vote whether to institute these changes at its meeting this afternoon. One of these proposed changes would require all seniors to take a Senior Comprehensive Examination in order to graduate with a degree in history. (0) comments
Since the senior class submitted recommendations for this May's commencement speaker last fall, the External Affairs office has worked its way down the list, inviting candidates in order of priority. It won't announce its results until a candidate accepts an invitation, sometime later this semester. (0) comments
They would blend in completely, if not for the occasional plaid skirt or last name shared with a professor. Academy students and children of faculty can take classes at the college without paying tuition, as can Hillsdale High School students, who come on a special scholarship. (0) comments
This Valentine's Day, Hillsdale College will host a Science Olympiad for almost 200 students from area high schools and middle schools. Nineteen professors and staff and at least 75 students will spend the day working to increase participants' interest in the sciences. (0) comments
For more than two weeks, freshman Ashlee LeCompte sat at a table in the Grewcock Student Union with a homemade poster and a notebook and pen, collecting signatures for a petition against the Freedom of Choice Act. "I was just sitting there shouting," she said. (0) comments
The Hillsdale College Board of Trustees approved the preliminary 2010 budget at their meeting Tuesday in Naples, Fla. The Board changed nothing in the proposed budget and offered few questions or comments, said Ken Cole, the college's chief administrative officer, treasurer and chief financial officer. (0) comments
In an effort to accommodate freshmen who enter college with a weak foundation in grammar and composition, Assistant Professor of English Daniel Coupland will teach an Essentials of Grammar class beginning in either the summer or fall. "Students will study the eight parts of speech, sentence construction and punctuation," Coupland said in an e-mail to The Collegian. (0) comments
Several hundred old friends will sit on tables with us this semester, Saga Inc. General Manager Kevin Kirwan said. Scratched and murky, old beverage cups have been brought in by the hundreds to stand in the depopulated ranks of their chunkier counterparts. (0) comments
Seventeen seniors are writing an honors thesis and several are writing two theses this year, due to honors program and department requirements for graduation. Of Hillsdale College's 34 majors, 12 require a thesis and an additional five offer a senior thesis for those who wish to graduate with departmental honors, according to the course catalog. (0) comments
Kiledal's sabbatical changes speech class options The speech department will rearrange several courses next semester to accommodate Director of Speech Studies Kirstin Kiledal's partial sabbatical. Associate Professor of Classics Lorna Holmes will teach Western Tradition of Rhetoric next spring, since Kiledal usually teaches it in the fall. (0) comments
It's a two-week intellectual boot camp, said Michael Bauman, Hillsdale College director of Christian studies. And he would know: Bauman has worked with Summit Ministries since 1996, and now enters his 13th year of lecturing for the Colorado-based organization. (0) comments
Junior Shannon Finn tumbled down a flight of stairs during a fight. She had been trying to intervene between mother and daughter, residents of Domestic Harmony, a women's domestic abuse shelter where she volunteers. For those women, bruises are common. "I went flying down the stairs," Finn said. (0) comments
With national unemployment rates reaching a 16-year high of 7.6 percent, an unprecedented number of Hillsdale College graduates are trying to wait out the dragging economy by applying for internships and graduate programs before entering the job market. Vicky Arno, assistant to the director of Career Planning, said she has already seen an increase in graduate school enrollment for the class of 2008, and expects to see an even larger increase in graduate program applications for the class of 2009. (0) comments
You can smell the hot chocolate before you even reach the door. It's three o'clock, and for two novice café owners, Jill Nichols and Cathy Moore, business is in full swing. The two women opened Jilly Beans coffee house in late November in the downtown building that previously occupied The Gathering. (1) comment
Pre-order sales of the Winona ended three weeks ago at a total of 172 copies sold, a number considerably lower than the past few years' average. The smaller sales occurred despite a compromise the Winona staff made last semester with students who disliked last year's format change. (0) comments
To say Rick Raeff is proud of his store is an understatement. He loves the Star Wars posters his son, Nicholas, was about to throw away, the trinkets that line the top shelves and the regulars that come in everyday. But more than anything else, Raeff loves the State Street Market's history, he says. (0) comments
The economic recession has shattered job prospects for many 2009 graduates, but some have turned to their passports as an escape from the dismal job market. Senior Thomas Leonard will enter the Peace Corps in Eastern Europe in June. He said his 27-month assignment may help him wait out the recession, although it did not affect his decision to go abroad. (0) comments
