The locked box by the register at the Finish Line restaurant caught their eyes: “Frank Talk, 50 cents.” Who sells a magazine that way these days? And for that price? But that was the price of satisfaction for my housemate’s curiosity last week. She and her friends discovered a publication that has papered the...
If the four biggest coffee shops in Hillsdale — Checker Records, Jilly Beans, Biggby’s, and Rough Draft, — have anything to say, the increasing variety of coffee shop experiences in town have had no negative influence on business, but rather have increased activity in downtown. Checker Records is known for not only its...
Student Federation granted initial club status to the Citizens for Self-Governance club last Thursday. The club is the first campus chapter of its parent organization, Citizens for Self-Governance, a nonpartisan, grassroots organization whose current project is the Convention of States Project. The Convention of States Project propose to amend the U.S. Constitution using Article V,...
As a kid, Casey Schukow ’17 used to mow lawns in his Saline, Michigan, neighborhood for extra cash. Years later, one of these neighbors, Dr. Tim Frankel, a general surgeon who also works as a laboratory supervisor for the University of Michigan Health System, helped Schukow find a new job: assisting in a pancreatic...
A common conceit of high school French curriculum — along with kitschy French names, the berets, and a summer trip getting lost in a throng of Parisian monument gawkers — is the annual in-class mardi gras party where students practice the creole slang and dig into a King’s Cake for the little figure of baby...