If I could go back and tell my freshman year self one thing, I would say, “You were not meant to do this alone.” I walked through my first two years of college by myself. I suppressed hard and difficult things in the deepest places of my heart and didn’t let anyone in. I dug...
The first book I read in my middle school English class was “The Giver” by Lois Lowry. I can still picture my 6th grade classroom and my teacher, sitting on her desk, patiently answering our disbelieving questions. We found “The Giver” disturbing and a little creepy. Our teacher wrote the definition for “euphemism” on the...
When Ibn Saud, the first monarch of Saudi Arabia known as the “Desert King,” took over the country, it it looked like he had become the conqueror and ruler of a giant sandbox with a couple of holy sites. But in 1938, the world found out that Ibn Saud was sitting on the world’s largest...
The Palace Cafe closed indefinitely this past Thursday. The Cafe’s Facebook posted a status confirming their plans to close: Hillsdale social media accounts instantly picked up on the news and reactions flew. Students, professors, and Hillsdale residents alike took to the internet to express their feelings about the beloved restaurant’s closing. Some shared...
On September 26, 1944, The Collegian premiered yet another gossip column. But “Green Hat Gossip” didn’t just spread the campus tales. The author of this weekly piece was a jack of all trades, practicing investigative reporting, giving advice, and delivering some devastating insults. “Green Hat Gossip” first and foremost focused on uncovering the most classified...