How old were you when you started playing tennis? I was, I think, 10 years old. I was a pretty good junior league player, and then I stopped playing tennis when I was 15 years old, and then I decided to go full time to the gym. I just lifted weights, tried to build muscle...
Year: 2017
Hillsdale needs a lesson in science ethics, not just Aristotle’s
Whether by accidental or deliberate oversight, Hillsdale College is failing its students and faculty by refusing to implement both an Institutional Review Board (IRB) and an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). This oversight does not just keep research taking place in Dow, Strosacker, and Kendall from publication in scientific journals. By not taking...
Delts seek to increase blood donations
Hillsdale College’s blood drives have underperformed in recent years, hardly bringing in enough donors to justify the American Red Cross’ visit. A new initiative from Delta Tau Delta and Chi Omega is looking to change that. The campaign is the brainchild of DTD Vice President senior James Young, who said he is hoping to harness...
Core grammar class would improve our writing
Verbs are like cats. Everyone who has taken professor of education Daniel Coupland’s English Grammar course remembers the “verbs are like cats” lecture. In comparing the unpredictable — and, sometimes, counterintuitive — behavior of his two cats, Angel and Blackard, to that of verbs, he prepares the students for weeks of mental pain as they...
‘The Physicists’ bursts into the Black Box Theater Wednesday
Next week students will have the opportunity to witness the fusion between art and science in Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play “The Physicists.” In the Quilhot Black Box Theatre at the Sage Center for Performing Arts, students will retell a tale of drama and suspense set in a Swiss sanitarium. Performances of “The Physicists” begin on April...




