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...
Year: 2018
An alumnus’ spiritual survey reaches ‘An Immovable Feast’
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....
Baseball still perfect in G-MAC
The Hillsdale College baseball team has arrived to the G-MAC with bells on. This weekend pitching led the way as the Chargers (11-14, 8-0 G-MAC) swept doubleheaders from the Trevecca Nazarene Trojans (12-15, 3-5 G-MAC) and the Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers (12-13, 2-6 G-MAC) to stay tied for first in the G-MAC — both overall and...
Professor’s research chronicles lions’ genetics
Many scientists believe that the next generation will be the last to see lions in zoos, according to Professor of Biology Daniel York. York studied the genetics from rare breeds of captive lions, retrieving blood samples over his 11 years of conservation genetics research. Working alongside Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska, York developed an...
Seniors admitted to graduate school
When most students reach the last month of spring semester, the constant refrain is “we’re almost done!” Those seniors heading to graduate programs, however, have only just begun. After forcing down an alphabet soup of tests, including the MCAT, GRE, and LSAT, students have finally heard the verdict on where they will spend the next...




