After losing traction for a year or two, the officers of Hillsdale College’s Enactus club are kicking off the new school year with rebranding and a greater emphasis on the group’s connection to the campus and community. A coalition of thousands of students around the globe, Enactus invests in the campus — who identify and...
Year: 2018
The Flawed Nature of Hardline Immigration Enforcement
Immigration has become a controversial policy debate in the modern era, and even more so with the rise of Donald Trump and nationalist populism. There are valid arguments for maintaining security along the physical border. But this only constitutes a fraction of immigration policy. In reality, a large portion of immigration enforcement requires increased scrutiny...
Don’t church shop till you drop
It’s that time of year when Hillsdale students bring their checklist-laden, campus-touring college-search skills to the hunt for a church. College students offer plenty of reasons in defense of ecclesiastical pickiness, some of them fine: We want to toe the line of our childhood orthodoxy. Our lives are changing, and we’re desperate for solid support. ...
“The Flower Girls” brightens Sauk Theater
Hillsdale County’s community theater, The Sauk, mounted the world premiere of Lindsay McNair Patton’s “The Flower Girls”, last weekend. The play followed the story of three semi-estranged sisters, Violet, Rose, and Lily, who come together for one night after years of not speaking to one another. The ensuing chaos includes fights, power outages, a potential...
Pulp Michigan: ‘Pizza! Pizza!’
Michael Lucchese ’18 often declared that “there is no good pizza east of Chicago.” He was, of course, speaking in praise of the deep-dish ball of dough and tomato chunks invented by Uno Pizza in 1943 — a midwestern icon which has clogged the Second City’s windpipes (and sewage pipes) ever since. Lucchese and his...




