“The most important thing is that you just stay true to your own idea of what is beautiful,” said Mikaela Shiffrin, an American two-time Olympic gold medalist. Her message on Maxim magazine’s HOT 100 list landed with a hollow, dull thud instead of the powerful, ultra-feminist punch it tried to pack. Since 2000, Maxim touts...
Sharing art and conversation
The Alpha Rho Tau art honorary will be hosting an art show on Friday evening, Nov. 9 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Junior Ashley Peuler, president of Alpha Rho Tau, calls this event her favorite of the semester. “You finally get to see the hard work the students have been putting in,” she said....
Lest we forget: The 100th anniversary of the end of WW1
When the clock strikes 11 a.m. this November 11th, a century since the end of the First World War will have passed. But for much of the country, little notice will be paid. While historians have come to label the Korean War as the so-called “Forgotten War,” this title is perhaps better suited to the...
Pizza and Poetry: Somerville shares love of literature with local church
At 7:05 p.m. on a Wednesday evening, a troupe of children come flying out of a back classroom into the sanctuary of Hillsdale Orthodox Presbyterian Church, newly released from catechism classes. John Somerville, professor of English, looks up from a stapled copy of Ernest Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River,” and, over the babble, reminds his class...
President Trump is right to end birthright citizenship
President Trump announced his intent to end birthright citizenship via executive order last week in an interview with Axios. Consequently, an outpouring of constitutional analysis from both the left and the right commenced: Is birthright citizenship required by the Fourteenth Amendment? Or is it the result of a misreading of the law? Many constitutional scholars,...




