For Hillsdale students, one of the most welcome scents is the aroma of chicken tenders wafting through AJ’s Café at any given time. When it comes to breakfast, lunch, dinner, midday snacks, and midnight snacks, tenders are always the most ordered items on the menu, according to AJ’s employee Anna-Katherine Daley. Despite the recent...
Hillsdale College is on the verge of purchasing a closed elementary school from the local school district, which gave approval for the sale of the building last week. The college has offered $390,000 to buy Joseph Mauck Elementary School, a vacant building at 113 E. Fayette St. that closed in 2010. Its plans include investing...
For some, it’s a culture problem. For others, it’s overprescription. But all can agree: Opioid use is a problem in Hillsdale County. Hillsdale College’s chapter of College Republicans held a panel of community members on Tuesday evening to discuss the local impact of America’s opioid epidemic. The panel included Republican Congressman Tim Walberg, Sheriff Tim...
Until recently, gun control advocates had not realized they had a powerful weapon in their arsenals: fearless, outspoken teens. The past weekend’s March for Our Lives demonstrated that the gun control movement wields the sort of power Mothers Against Drunk Driving leveraged against the drinking age in the 1980s. Emotions compel reason. Teenagers demanding their...
Tyler Blanski ’06 came to Hillsdale wanting to be a saint; he just didn’t know it yet. These were danger days, when the strains of Minnesota sweet-strumming evangelicalism clashing with the lo-fi screeches of Beck’s “The New Pollution” rattled around inside his head. Both were pulling him toward Christ, but he did not know how....