The American education system has put a generation at risk, Betsy DeVos said in the Drummond Lecture last week. DeVos, the 11th Secretary of Education who served under President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021, made her third visit to campus in three years, this time to address school choice. She argued that a pluralistic...
Shotgun freshman places sixth in Croatia
Hillsdale College freshman Jordan Sapp shot 117 out of 125 possible targets and placed sixth at the International Shooting Sport Federation Junior Mens’ Skeet Competition in Osijek, Croatia. Sapp competed in his third international competition from Sept. 19 to Oct. 12. “The competition is a world championship of the Olympic discipline,” said head coach of...
Jordan Peterson is wrong: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Aesthetic Beauty is entirely subjective, and no person has the power to determine what is universally beautiful. “Sorry. Not beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that,” Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist, shouted his opinion about model Yumi Nu over the twittersphere in May 2022. I’m sorry, Dr. Peterson, her objective...
ATO property vandalized
Several incidents of vandalism and theft occurred during fall break at student residences, according to senior and ATO president Bennett Nichols. Over the weekend, unknown individuals vandalized the annex of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house. They spray-painted offensive and explicit messages on the inner wall and inside the women’s bathroom door, Nichols said. Nichols...
Documentary about a Hong Kong journalist’s fight for freedom shows
Jimmy Lai risked his life for Hong Kong’s freedom, and on Oct. 5, College Republicans, the Alexander Hamilton Society, and the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship showed a documentary about the entrepreneur and journalist. Lai, the founder of the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, organized protests in Hong Kong in 2021 against the Law of...


