It can be painful to realize that we can’t turn back time. As I was going away to college, I remember thinking, “So that was high school.” And then, turning twenty: “So those were the teenage years.” Sometimes it hits me that those are years I’m never getting back. By no means do I miss...
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April 2, 2015July 12, 2022Opinions
Our campus needs better security
Occasionally on campus, one may hear someone speaking about the “Hillsdale Bubble.” This is referring to the semi-mythical effect that a sequestered campus miles from a major city has on how the student body sees politics, religion, and culture. That Bubble was popped last Wednesday when police escorted a man out of the Mossey Library...
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April 2, 2015July 12, 2022Culture
The return of King Kendrick
“To Pimp a Butterfly” is a contrived album. Let’s begin there. On his sophomore LP with a major label, Kendrick Lamar plunges his hands into the history of black music and pulls out heavy, ambitious themes of racial iniquity, cultural appropriation, Afrocentrism, and self-loathing in the African-American experience. As he stitches together fabric borrowed from...
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April 2, 2015July 12, 2022Sports
Rachael Kurtz: Two-time All-American
Hillsdale senior swimmer Rachael Kurtz now stands alone as the only Charger swimmer to receive All-American honors twice in her collegiate career. With her finish of 16th in the 50 freestyle event at the 2015 NCAA Division II swimming and diving championships, Kurtz marked her place in Hillsdale history leaving the legacy of two All-American...
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April 2, 2015July 12, 2022Culture
I love you, Father John Misty
Hipsters have a high priest. His name is Father John Misty. Josh “J.” Tillman, known to the laity as Father John Misty, is an archetype of our generation: ironic, well-educated, idealistic, improper, and above all wary of dogmatic, unreflective zeal. Tillman released his sophomore album, “I Love You, Honeybear,” in February. In it, he transforms...