Last school year, flipping your radio to 101.7 FM would have brought you a 24-hour stream of star-spangled tunes. This year, under the leadership of General Manager Scot Bertram, the student shows WRFH Radio Free Hillsdale are growing into their own. Some shows, like weird-news hour “Off Topic,” and the aptly named “Science & Ethics,”...
Three hours into his graveyard shift at the Jonesville Wal-Mart, Sage Snoes, 23, gets 15 minutes for a coffee and two cigarettes. “I can ring you up if you’re ready,” a blonde cashier named Lena said. “… Unless you want Sage.” “Does that happen a lot?” “Yeah,” she said. Nearby, a young couple who had...
Once-thriving black communities were deteriorating. And Ida B. Wells was witnessing it. The South’s counterrevolution, the fading importance of the Freedmen’s Bureau, and the 1893 economic depression turned booming postbellum neighborhoods into ghettos and reignited racial hostility that motivated hundreds of lynchings. Wells burst into this scene during the 1890s with industrious investigative journalism covering...
At least 2.7 million Americans are affected by a heart condition called atrial fibrillation, a type of irregular heartbeat that can lead to blood clot, stroke, or heart failure, according to the American Heart Association. This summer, senior Emily Nelson helped research the effects of two drugs that, when used in conjunction, may help lower their...
Hillsdale’s 1844 Society is challenging students to help fundraise for scholarships in just 30 hours starting Thursday and Friday, with its first-ever campus fundraising campaign. “This campaign is not about the college asking Hillsdale students for their money to be put into a general fund,” 1844 Society President senior Mariah Hardy said. “This is about...