For junior Jacquelyn Eubanks, some of the ideas for her storylines and characters have been in the works since she was a young child. This includes a draft she completed last semester, as well as three published books and another in the editing process. “I guess I’m really lucky, because when I was young, I...
College average GPA falls to two-year low
Hillsdale College’s all-school average GPA hit its lowest in two years, though female students are surpassing their male counterparts in the classroom. For fall 2017, Hillsdale students’ average GPA was 3.317, the same average as fall 2015’s. That is a drop from 3.343 in spring 2017, the highest all-school average GPA on record at Hillsdale....
Student examines link between ticks and disease
Ticks stopped bothering senior biology major Randi Block after she had to collect and crack them open for a year’s worth of research. Block studied the American dog tick as a carrier of rickettsia, a pathogenic bacteria that causes Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Even though she said ticks disgusted her at the beginning of the...
Water regulations affect California conservation
Too often, governmental regulation forces a decision between the environment and the economy — but that doesn’t have to be the case, according to senior Katie Wright, who gave a lecture about California’s water regulation system March 29. Wright said the environment is considered a public good, since one person’s consumption doesn’t affect another’s consumption....
Sheriff Parker, state educators back Michigan School Safety Reform Plan
In the middle of a nationwide debate over violence in schools, last week Hillsdale County Sheriff Tim Parker threw his support behind The Michigan School Safety Reform Plan, a proposal designed to prevent violence in Michigan schools. “Additional steps can be taken to help keep our schools safe,” Parker said in a press release....




