He’s too radical. Democrats and Republicans alike renewed their loudest complaint against Ted Cruz last week after he announced his intention to run for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. However, as both parties whisper under their breath about his scandalous Canadian descent and shocking suggestion to dismantle the IRS, they fail to see that perhaps...
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April 2, 2015July 12, 2022Sports
Baseball splits series
The Hillsdale College baseball team experienced the brutality of March in Michigan last weekend as the Chargers (8-16, 3-5 GLIAC) battled through wind, rain, snow, and hail on their way to a split of a four-game set with the Wayne State Warriors (9-12, 3-5 GLIAC). The series opened on Sunday due to cold weather on...
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April 2, 2015July 12, 2022Sports
Baseball should stay timeless
When God created the world, he made mistakes. When God created baseball, he made perfection. Now though, like irreverent and ungrateful children, the commissioner and owners have instituted new rules for the 2015 season foolishly trying to hurry the pace of a game designed to exist outside of time. But baseball doesn’t need progressive reformation....
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April 2, 2015July 12, 2022Opinions
Voter ID is not racist
Against the backdrop of the Edmond Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, President Obama recently addressed a favorite subject for calculated ignorance. The president lamented that civil rights abuses continue in new laws designed to prevent poor and minority voters from casting their vote. His implicit target: Voter ID legislation, such as the Wisconsin law the...
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April 2, 2015July 12, 2022Features
Microscopes provide peerless lens for research
Among Hillsdale College’s numerous academic bragging points, the science department boasts two specialized microscopes used in student and faculty research. Both the atomic force microscope and the scanning electron microscope provide highly detailed images for very small samples. Senior David Galginaitis used the scanning electron microscope, or SEM, to complete his biology research project, which...