Juniors Randi Block and Lauren Barlass said they don’t consider themselves political people. But when they heard about the March for Science taking place in Ann Arbor on Saturday, they decided to check it out for themselves. “We read the whole mission statement, and we were curious,” said Block, a biology major. “We didn’t go...
After splitting a crucial four-game series with the Grand Valley Lakers, the Hillsdale College baseball team dropped a nonconference game 9-5 to the Concordia Cardinals on Wednesday. The meat of the week was the split with Grand Valley, moving Hillsdale to 12-12 in the GLIAC, which places them at seventh in the conference with two...
By next October, Hillsdale County residents Jon-Paul Rutan and John Smith plan to host a conference on constitutional thought in the Hillsdale area. The conference will feature speeches about the Constitution by constitutional lawyer and speaker KrisAnne Hall, of the KrisAnne Hall Show; former Sheriff Richard Mack, who served in Graham County, Arizona;...
Many economists see an international return to a gold-backed currency as a solution to many countries’ financial woes. With a true gold standard, the decline of money’s purchasing power would slow, the government would have less control of our currency, and, ideally, central banks would be abolished, putting to bed the Keynesian pipe dream of...
The death penalty, often viewed as an effective and cost-efficient way to deter and punish crime, is actually neither. Placing someone on death row takes longer and costs more than sentencing him to life imprisonment, according to statistics from the Death Penalty Information Center. Life imprisonment is therefore a more resourceful way to deal with...