Junior Greg Whalen served in Afghanistan in the U.S. Marine Corps. Courtesy | Greg Whalen Two weeks after a bomb in Afghanistan killed a young Marine in 2021, his wife had a baby. Marine veteran and Hillsdale College junior Greg Whalen, who was in Kabul at the time of the deadly attack, tells this gut-wrenching...
The women’s volleyball team welcomed Assistant Coach Maddie Kanclerz to the staff this August. Kanclerz, a Hillsdale County native, graduated from Hillsdale College in 2021 and played for the volleyball team for five seasons. Kanclerz played as an outside hitter under her maiden name, Clark, and helped take her team to the Elite Eight in...
Joel Pollak poses with his wife Julia and two children. Courtesy | Times of Israel To honor his mother-in-law’s legacy as a leading anti-apartheid feminist in South Africa, Joel Pollak endowed a scholarship in the name of Rhoda Kadalie at the end of last year and shared her story in a talk Sept. 3 in...
A lot of people have been called a “brat” in their lifetime, mostly as an insult, but more recently Generation Z has reclaimed that title with pride. A social media trend called “Brat” summer has become a phenomenon. Inspired by British pop star Charli XCX’s newest album “Brat,” the buzzword quickly made cultural, and even...
The only thing more haunting than my masked 2020 high school graduation was the number of kids whose folding chairs were empty that May afternoon, lost to freak accidents and suicide. My graduation was more a celebration of survival than a rite of passage. “Sometimes in life, only poetry will do,” my English teacher used...