After a restless night in January, June Bjorge had the words of an 1830s poem on her mind. The poem was by Sandord Tracy, the great-great-uncle of a friend, and, after reading the verses about finding rest, the Adrian resident said she knew she needed to turn it into a song. On that January...
A postgraduate student equipped with honors and diplomas once went to the Swiss biologist Louis Agassiz to receive the finishing touches on his degree. The great man offered him a small fish and told him to describe it. Postgraduate Student: “That’s only a sunfish.” Agassiz: “I know that. Write a description of it.” After a...
Hillsdale College’s maintenance employees painted over vulgar and anti-Semitic graffiti in the main-floor men’s restroom in the Grewcock Student Union on Tuesday. The vandalism included a swastika and profanity directed at President Donald Trump. College administrators said they are aware of the incident and are looking into it. “Graffiti is just something I have not...
Hillsdale’s Crossroads Farm is working to expand its ministry of “loving the rural teen” to three additional locations through their planting program. The program will extend to Chippewa County in the Upper Peninsula, Kalkaska County, and Harrison County in Ohio, according to Crossroads Co-Founder and Director Dawn Routledge. Crossroads Farm, founded nearly 18 years...
Last summer, National Football League quarterback Colin Kaepernick made headlines when he kneeled in protest during the U.S. national anthem. Since then, a debate has raged across the county over the place of politics in sports. Last weekend, the U.S. Soccer Federation took a strong stance against on-field political statements, announcing its new anthem rule...