The Hillsdale College Chargers will compete at the G-MAC Championship meet on Saturday in Canton, Ohio. This will be the Chargers’ first meet of the championship season, and senior Eli Poth said he is excited about the increase in intensity the postseason brings. “It’s exciting to run the championship meets because there are no more...
Friends of ’04 alumnus raise funds for scholarship in his honor
When he described what he did, he would say “business development.” When he spoke, he might use Farsi or Arabic. After Thomas Burke ’04 died at the age of 35 in 2017, his family and friends began fundraising to establish the Thomas Peter Burke Endowed Memorial Scholarship in honor of the 10-year CIA veteran. They...
Greta Van Fleet: Beyond the mainstream
Blue Check Twitter and Co. has struck again, this time with a scathing review by Pitchfork, a music journal, of rock-revivalist Greta Van Fleet’s recent major label debut “Anthem of the Peaceful Army.” Then came the hive mind of self-entitled “patrician” music-lovers who remain secretly glad that a large, mainstream media outlet actually vindicated their...
Slow your roll: Michigan should vote no on Proposal 1
If the polling proves accurate, Michigan voters will soon approve a recreational marijuana ballot proposal. Marijuana support has become not only socially acceptable, but in vogue, uniting conservatives, liberals, and libertarians; hip politicians and stoned citizenry. Indeed, despite federal and state bans, fans of the drug are ubiquitous — even pious Hillsdale College is home...
Civic duty is about more than voting
A tweet from Elle magazine two weeks ago lured followers to a voter-registration site by promoting a fake-news headline: “Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are splitting up.” The magazine apologized in the wake of backlash, “Our passion for voter registration clouded our judgement and we are sincerely sorry.” But plenty of tweeters gushed over the...




