The Hillsdale City Council approved a resolution to merge the positions of city manager and BPU director during its Oct. 18 meeting. The new position comes with a $158,600 salary, providing an approximately $40,000 raise for the city manager’s salary. This will save money in the city’s general fund by splitting expenses with the BPU...
Restore the original sports complex
Many of us have walked through the Roche Sports Complex without giving it much consideration. After all, why would you? The monolithic wall of exterior brick, an interior sky of ceiling tiles, and the fluorescent suns don’t offer us much of anything worth caring about. This current iteration, however, is not how the Sports...
Keeping Mossey’s memory
Walking into the campus library, visitors run across a plaque beside the painting of a young boy, “Mike” Alex Mossey. The plaque says little about the boy, whose joyful life ended in tragedy, but whose legacy at Hillsdale lives on. Michael Alex Mossey was born on Oct. 2, 1954 to two Hillsdale alumni, Donald Mossey...
Mock Trial team wins two tournaments to open season
The Mock Trial team won two tournaments to open its 2021 season. Last weekend, two of the three teams, team 1300 and team 1299, attended an invitational tournament at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. The 1300 team won third place against the University of Michigan. Freshmen Camille Floyd and Abigail Wagner received outstanding...
Scientists should not resurrect the wooly mammoth
Imagine visiting the tundra and seeing a herd of woolly mammoths grazing in the distance. What was once a movie called “Jurassic Park” could soon become a reality. Scientists have the tools of de-extinction and genome editing at hand, but the ethical and monetary uncertainties are too risky to bring back the woolly mammoth. Mammoths...




