Dear Editor, I sat down to read The Collegian without a cup of coffee last Thursday. I’ve pretty much kicked my caffeine habit, but that didn’t curb my reaction upon reading the article “Mugs go missing.” I’m the first one to admit that discussing the whole cup controversy any further is beating a dead horse,...
American media has failed to understand what actually happened in Austria, the small European nation with about 8 million inhabitants. On Sunday, the Austrian people voted Sebastian Kurz, 31, and his center-right Austrian People’s Party into power. The People’s Party, known in Austria as the OVP, won 31.6 percent of the vote. The left...
As backpacks, shoulders, and eyelids start to sag during this season so fraught with midterms, only one thing sustains Hillsdale students and I’m sorry to tell you it’s not our love of the liberal arts. It’s fall break. The 96-hour vacation promises a retreat enjoyed alongside family or friends and with it, all the time...
“Me too,” I thought, scrolling through Facebook. I reacted with likes, hearts, and sad-faced emoticons, but until now, I couldn’t type the words. “Does that count?” “What about that ‘no,’ which, weary from repetition, became ‘yes’?” “Or the gropes, cat-calls, unsollicited drunken advances, yells and leering stares from trucks, and men following me in cars...
William Boyce founded the Boy Scouts of America in 1910, after he encountered the chivalry of an English Boy Scout who had been a Scout under the founder of Boy Scouting in England, Lord Robert Baden Powell. Powell founded the program with the purpose of taking young boys and teaching them the importance of civic...