Year: 2015

Racism and violence comprise the majority of “American Sniper,” Clint Eastwood’s box-office hit. And that is exactly what we as college students, Americans, and even human beings, need to see. Chris Kyle (portrayed by Bradley Cooper), the famed subject of “American Sniper,” spent considerable time on-screen speaking of and justifying his many kills. His comrades...

Hillsdale’s athletic program is missing the best game, the game that many Michiganders grew up with, the game that the state is known for: The good old hockey game. Therefore, as its next construction project, Hillsdale should build a regulation-sized indoor ice arena, and its next sports team should be a hockey team. A hockey...

In his well-crafted and rhetorically- packed opinion (“John Boehner can get the job done,” Jan. 23), Michael Lucchese argued that, among other things, Tea Partiers and moderate Republicans have the same goals, the actions of Tea Party members are obstructive and unnecessary, and that Tea Partiers are foolish to believe that there is no difference...

It was Sept. 8, 1925. Members of the Ku Klux Klan gathered outside the home of Dr. Ossian Sweet, a black physician who had moved into an all-white neighborhood in Detroit. The mob threw rocks, and eventually, shots were fired. At the end, a Klan member lay dead and another wounded. Sweet was tried, found...