In the heart of downtown Hillsdale, where the old Smith’s Flower Shop once resided, sits the newest addition to the town’s coffee culture: a specialty coffee roasting company, Ad Astra. Owner and Hillsdale locals Patrick and Kristi Whalen began Ad Astra Coffee Roasters this past year while living in Kansas. Its name, “Ad Astra,” is...
If you were raised in a household like mine, your mom probably forced you to read a book during the summer at one point or another. Or maybe, you were super smart in high school, took Advanced Placement Language, and had hundreds of pages of mandatory summer reading. But, let’s be honest. Did you actually...
I felt lonely, disliked, and unhappy. So I decided to delete my Instagram, and now I’m more social than ever before. Social media is not altogether bad. In fact, it offers many benefits: awareness for campaigns or events, connecting and staying in touch despite distance, bringing style inspiration to someone’s wardrobe or living space, or...
When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, a tumultuous campaign season foreshadowed the aggressive “Resistance,” as Wall Street Journal editorialist Kimberley Strassel calls Trump haters in her newest book “Resistance (At All Costs)” released Oct. 15. This “Resistance” movement would violate ethical codes and due process in an attempt to impeach the president....
The Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity on Hillsdale College’s campus disbanded mysteriously in December 1995, but rumors concerning why the TKE National Chapter chose to shut down the Iota Nu Chapter, and the increasing impatience of the administration with its members still puzzle students nearly a quarter of a century later. Some say the TKEs tarred...