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The Weekly: Confront, Don’t Complain
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The Weekly: Confront, Don’t Complain

Complaints from students on a small campus are inevitable, but there’s a charitable way to resolve them, and taking to social media isn’t it. Hillsdale’s many social groups might butt heads at times, albeit in a light-hearted way. Last week, several students took to Twitter to voice snarky opinions about various communities on campus. The...

Sending Off Corinn
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Sending Off Corinn

You don’t recognize the impact a person has until they’re taken away from you. At 5:30 a.m on Wednesday, Feb. 13, my lifelong friend, Corinn, was in a car wreck. Four days later, her family disconnected her from life support. When I was told the news by a close family friend, the memories of our...

Hillsdale needs more 42 Unions, fewer townhouses
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Hillsdale needs more 42 Unions, fewer townhouses

As February draws to a close, Hillsdale is still adjusting to the multitude of changes brought to campus last year. If one were to describe life in the Dale in 2018 with one word, that word would most likely be: “construction.” The past twelve months saw the erection of Christ Chapel, the completion of the...

Who’s afraid of Saudi Arabia?
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Who’s afraid of Saudi Arabia?

When Trump came into office in 2016, he and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, began flirting with Saudi Arabia and the Crown Prince Mohammed bin-Salman (MBS). But in the past few months the budding relationship has fallen on hard times. First, there were hard feelings when MBS had journalist Jamal Khashoggi murdered in the back room...