Disclaimer: not affiliated with any organizations or individuals on campus. Please don’t be offended, as this is meant to be purley satiric. It’s safe to say that very few of you reading this actually believe in astrology. Why would you, it’s so obviously a hoax…right? Wrong! For years the stars have meant something, but their...
Year: 2021
Airlines offer spring break deals
The time has come: its the week before Spring Break. You are cramming for last minute midterms and dreaming of sunny days on the beach. If you are a procrastinator and haven’t made any plans yet, you’re in luck. With the worldwide decrease in travel over the past year, flights are unusually cheap, making this...
Alum pursues the ‘goods,’ the true and the beautiful
“It was more or less through a fun, happy accident that I am now slinging Turkish rugs in the United States.” The American Dream—or at least an iteration of it which Evan Gage ’14 describes as “objectively quirky.” Gage Goods is a “social slash business experiment” which, vitalized by the aforementioned rug-slinging, grew out of...
Turning Back the Track of Time: Hillsdale’s Historic Railroad
The scene is Monroe Street, Hillsdale, MI. Standing on the platform of the old depot, you wait and listen. When will it arrive? “That eerie sound of a train whistle blowing triggers memories of a distant time in the past when 40 or more trains per day ran through Hillsdale County, with 22 routed through...
Are two masks better than one?
On Feb. 10, the Center for Disease Control released new guidelines for masking. Based on a study conducted in January, the CDC now recommends fitting a cloth mask over a surgical mask to reduce COVID-19 transmission. According to the CDC, the study used “a pliable elastomeric headform . . . to simulate a person coughing...




