Senior history major Michaela Estruth from Cincinnati, Ohio, talks Pompeii, her stick shift skills, and Gingerbread Wars. What was your reaction to being named Outstanding Senior Woman? I was so humbled, honored, and honestly overwhelmed. The realization of leaving Hillsdale, a place that has been so formative, hit me hard. I called my mom and...
“But is there spice?” Anyone who’s spent time scrolling BookTok — a TikTok community in which creators discuss and recommend books — has likely heard someone ask this. “Spice” is simply a less egregious word for smut: “obscene or lascivious talk, writing, or pictures,” according to Oxford Languages. Put simply, it’s written pornography. Over the...
A representation of a protein. Courtesy | Wikimedia Commons Breathing, eating, sleeping, running to Taco Bell in the middle of the night – none of these activities would be possible without molecules called proteins. Found in every cell of every living thing, proteins are complex, twisty strands of molecules that build cell walls, store energy,...
Hillsdale’s Math Team ranked third in the state in the Putnam Mathematical Competition. Courtesy | Pexels The Hillsdale College Math Team ranked third in Michigan in the annual Putnam Mathematical Competition. Sophomore Andrew Schmidt scored the highest on the team with 31 points and ranked 254th out of 3,988 contestants. “We beat all the liberal...
After 40 hours of work and two tons of ice blocks, four men from Simpson Residence constructed an igloo outside the dorm. “Doing something cool that nobody else would really do, and going to a ridiculous amount of effort to do something that’s going to melt in a week, just for the sake of it,...