The suspect in a fatal hit-and-run is set to face pretrial in the 1st Judicial Circuit Court on Oct. 18. Dylan Lee Jones, 21, faces a potential life sentence due to four felony cases stemming from the hit-and-run, according to his attorney, Kimm Burger. One case consists of reckless driving causing death and failure to...
Year: 2021
Friday night skies: physics department hosts telescope night
The physics department, along with the Society of Physics Students hosted a telescope night on Friday, Oct. 1. The event was open to the community, so long as attendees could navigate their way back to the telescope area in the dark. Behind the baseball field, a 10-inch Newtonian Reflector on a German Equatorial mount was...
Tower Players open season with ‘Blithe Spirit’
Despite a rollercoaster of sickness and cast rearrangement, the Hillsdale Theatre Department was able to produce and perform its first play of the fall season on time. With a symphony of crashing vases and glasses, “Blithe Spirit,” a 1941 play by Noel Coward, comedically depicted a man’s deceased wife coming back from the dead and...
Normalcy will return when Americans stop complying
In yet another show of tyranny, President Joe Biden claimed on September 7, that 97 to 98 percent of the population must be vaccinated before society returns to normal. But there is no correlation between people getting the vaccine and normalcy: Normalcy depends upon those willing to take a stand against mandated nonsense. I went...
Don’t be disgusting, wear shoes inside
It’s 12:30 a.m. on a Friday and you’re exhausted. You just spent six hours in a classroom in Lane Hall cramming for an exam that you’re still woefully unprepared for. As you close the door behind you and get ready to head home, a less-than-desirable smell meets your nostrils. You quickly recognize the aroma of...




