The Collegian

Dressed in a leopard print slip and fishnets, junior Thomas Currey limped around Grewcock Student Union on Tuesday in pointed women's dress shoes, his red painted nails wrapped around a piggy-bank. As students trooped to lunch, Currey, the president of Hillsdale College's Circle K club, and five other male students patrolled the top floor of the student union in skirts and wigs, asking for pocket change in the philanthropic organization's "Ugly Girls" fundraiser for Hillsdale's Habitat for Humanity.… Post the First Comment

Ring before spring came true this year for 13 percent of the senior class. The Collegian counted 42 seniors engaged or already married, out of a total of 332 soon-to-be graduates. Those in the 13 percent will defy American societal trends: more and more Americans are waiting until their late 20s or early 30s to marry.… Post the First Comment

Hillsdale College will pull out all the stops for the opening of the new Washington, D.C., home of the Allan P. Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship, Sept. 16-17. The two-day celebration will include a boat trip down the Potomac River and dinner and fireworks at Mount Vernon for Kirby Center donors and other invited guests, according to Institutional Advancement Director of Special Events Lynn Prough.… Post the First Comment

Hillsdale County, in all its absence of culture, boasts many areas of rolling countryside and isolated nature, unique to Michigan's indigenous terrain. Frustrated students staying on for summer school and searching for summertime answers should consider making use of such beautiful scenery by biking to nearby picnic hotspots.… Post the First Comment

Division I talent sharpened the Hillsdale College men and women's track and field teams last weekend as they were the only Division II team present at Purdue University's Dave Rankin Invitational. "We are drawn to those meets," said head coach Bill Lundberg.… Post the First Comment