The competition last week marked the 10th and last Tocco Challenge in the current format at Hillsdale College. This year, Don Tocco donated over $22,000 to Hillsdale sports teams and other student groups while winning the Annual Tocco Challenge by 24.8 points. Ten years ago, Tocco had never heard of Hillsdale College. When he stumbled...
This past weekend, over 30 Hillsdale College students attended the Young America’s Foundation conference in Columbus, Ohio. As of this semester, Young Americans for Freedom is an official club at Hillsdale College and has only been growing. According to chairman Nathan Brand, YAF is emerging as “the new hot group on campus.” His reasoning: last...
Maybe it was when I began smelling manure instead of candied apples. Or when the filth of the tilt-a-whirl distracted me from the fun of both tilting and whirling. Or when I realized that a pretzel had 600 calories. (Really? A pretzel?) Gradually, the fair has lost the allure it had when I was a...
In South Korea, it is a national mandate that all able-bodied men between the ages of 18 and 30 must serve two years in the military. Any objectors are thrown in prison. So, for most, the choice is a simple one. When sophomore Sang Jun “Jay” Lee considered colleges four years ago, he had limited...
Junior Alex Anderson made his anchorman debut at a state fair booth for a local news station in St. Paul, Minn. This summer, he made his entrance onto network-TV on CNN at the 2012 Republican National Convention. After applying and winning CNN’s iReport “Your Political Ticket,” an online contest that sent the winning broadcast- ers...