Jonah Swartz works at St. Joe’s Cafe. Sarah Katherine Sisk | Collegian While sophomore Jonah Swartz cooks over a 1500 degree fire at St. Joe’s Café, he often gets chatting with customers. “These people I’ve never even met are like, ‘How hot is it in there? What are the pizzas like? Tell me about this...
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Tori Hope Petersen publishes new book
Author, speaker, and podcast host Tori Hope Petersen ’18 published her second book, “Breaking the Patterns That Break You” on Feb. 4. “It’s a story about our identity in Christ — understanding what he says about each of us, and how we can walk confidently in that, not making ourselves smaller for the sake of...
Departed greatness: Scorsese’s ‘The Saints’ does not impress
COURTESY | Wikimedia Commons Oftentimes a well known artist’s newly religious work feels like a cathartic inquisition into his personal beliefs — which is great, but usually results in weak art. So it was with Mark Wahlberg and Shia LaBeouf. So it is with Martin Scorsese’s “The Saints.” Fox Nation released the first four of...
THE WEEKLY: Study to be human, not an employee
There may be a family member who says you ought to be ashamed of pursuing a humanities major. Associate professor of English Jason Peters calls him Uncle Ed. Unfortunately, Uncle Ed has a misguided view of the purpose of education, favoring utility over all else: Learn, regurgitate, and repeat until you land a job. Yet...
C.S. Lewis Society hosts education panel
Education teaches students how to love, not just what to love, according to three Hillsdale professors who spoke in a panel hosted by the Hillsdale College C.S. Lewis Society Feb. 27. The panelists spoke on an assortment of issues pertaining to classical education through a Lewisian lens. “Part of the question is less about how...



