Joseph Pappalardo ’18 joined the college as associate director of media planning Dec. 1. During his time as a student at Hillsdale, Pappalardo studied marketing with a journalism minor, and almost completed a minor in computational mathematics. “When I came to Hillsdale in 2014, I had planned to pursue computer science, but the professor retired...
Month: January 2026
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Club wrestling receives first national ranking
Senior Matt Riehle during last year’s national quarterfinal match. Courtesy | David Gregory The Hillsdale Club Wrestling team finished eighth in the country in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association’s Division I rankings, earning a national ranking for the first time on Jan. 4. “It wasn’t the result itself which was shocking,” sophomore John Paul Peck...
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Reject brazen interventionism
Courtesy | Unsplash President Donald Trump ordered a mission to capture and extradite de facto Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro from a military installation outside Caracas last week. The mission was successful, but controversial and kicked off a debate over presidential war powers. The president should return to the non-interventionism of his 2016 platform. Maduro’s capture...
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A beloved original becomes a stranger thing
Season five starts with a bang: 7 year old Holly Wheeler (Nell Fisher) is kidnapped, and our beloved group of heroes scramble to save her from the humanoid monster Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower.) Holly becomes a critical character for the season, but that decision was a mistake. Fisher aces the role, but introducing Wheeler as...
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After Eden: Meth won’t bring you love
Courtesy | Unsplash “Looksmaxxing” is the name young men have given to their quest for physical perfection. Internet forums advise looksmaxxers to perfect their jawlines through “bone smashing” (exactly what it sounds like), take steroids or testosterone supplements, or undergo leg-lengthening surgeries. Some even use crystal meth to stay skinny. My 8th-grade friends and I...