Walking into the Chicago branch of Google’s corporate headquarters is like walking into the Google homepage, but instead of a blank white screen, concrete walls and pillars frame a fluorescently-lit model of the iconic tetrachrome logo. As part of Living and Working in Chicago, 11 Hillsdale students found themselves on the other side. The visit...
Novels in November: Combatting midterm mundanity with creativity
On Nov. 1, writers all over the world stash away their Halloween costumes and pick up their pens, ready to participate in National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. Participants in NaNoWriMo write every day of November aiming to complete a first draft of a 50,000 word novel — about 1,667 words per day. “The goal...
Hillsdale InterVarsity staff support national group
While the two InterVarsity employees working with Hillsdale College’s chapter chose to stand this summer with the organization’s reaffirmed position on sexuality, including support of traditional marriage, employees nationwide who don’t affirm that belief are being “involuntarily terminated,” according to an InterVarsity press release. After a lengthy process of affirming its theological position on sexuality,...
Dear U.N., You can’t vote on Jewish History
On Oct. 26th, the United Nations’ Educational Science and Cultural Organization voted away more than 2,700 years of Jewish history. The 10-2 decision with eight abstaining made by the organization’s executive board, the World Heritage Committee, claimed that the State of Israel and Jewish people don’t have enough historical or cultural connection to the Temple...
Speech and debate teams take fourth
Hillsdale College’s individual events and debate teams took fourth place together at Marshall University’s Chief Justice Invitational on Saturday and Sunday. The debate team placed second in its team competition, with five team members earnings individual awards. The individual events team had finalists in four events. Graham Deese confirmed that the entire team had qualified...