Young Americans for Freedom stopped its petition for meal plan reform on April 1 at the request of Dean of Men Aaron Petersen. “I didn’t say, ‘You’re in big trouble,’ I just said, ‘You guys need to stop this,’” Petersen said. “I don’t think petitions are the best way to solve important issues.” Although YAF...
Year: 2014
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Shotgun team takes home the gold
The magic happens on a secluded, grassy field about six miles away from Hillsdale College on Bankers Road. There, at the John A. Halter Shooting Sports Education Center, members of the college shotgun team prepare for competitions against schools many times Hillsdale’s size, with programs much older. And yet they win. This year, through a...
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Senior class officers elected
Junior Andy Reuss was named president of the class of 2015 Wednesday. “I’m really excited to have the opportunity to serve my senior class,” Reuss said. “I’m honored that my classmates have entrusted me with this responsibility, and I’m excited about who I get to work with and make our senior year one for the...
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Politics at Hillsdale: Superb, valuable, and well-rounded
“Our student body, as a whole, avoids asking the hard questions about what justice requires of our society.” When I read that gem of a line from last week’s Collegian op-ed — “The liberal arts must include opposing thinkers” — I was incredulous. Garrett West’s argument that all Hillsdale students live in an ideological echo...
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How Hillsdale prepared me to be a housewife
My mom informs me that being a housewife is more than painting your nails and eating bonbons. She volunteers, takes care of my grandmother, sings in the church choir, and is a full-time law partner. I thought being a housewife meant just baking and singing Frank Sinatra to yourself in the kitchen. In my efforts...