Month: November 2014

As the old proverb goes: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” The new air hockey table in the Grewcock Student Union was installed with great intentions, but this noisy monstrosity needs to find a new home. When students gather in Grewcock to study, eat, pray, and enjoy each other’s company, the new...

The incident occurs as usual. The dreaded fire alarm sounds through the halls. Students groan and shuffle their way to the grass. Most are bundled up for the cold, but a few wear only towels. Cigarettes glow like fireflies in the dark, illuminating the faces of those who’ve managed to convince themselves that this time...

Last week, Emily Runge responded (“West’s political solution goes in the wrong direction,” Nov. 6) to my original article (“The unappealing politics of universal rhetoric,” Oct. 30), which had claimed that the intractability of political discourse stems from “rights-talk.” She insightfully highlighted several of my unclear original claims, and I’d like to clarify these by...

During the Civil War, no Northern college sent a greater percentage of soldiers to battle than Hillsdale. So many went willingly that not one student was drafted. According to the Hillsdale Historical Society, Albert Castel wrote that “there were few places in the North, and certainly no campus, where the fire of the Civil War...

5.3 seconds. That’s how much time you save by walking through the bushes between Lane and Kendall instead of following the sidewalk around the Civil War memorial. (I know because I timed it.) It should go without saying that the honored dead from this school should be remembered with reverence and that students here care...