Next Thursday, Nov. 12, most 11 a.m. classes will be cancelled. You could sleep in a little longer, get an early lunch, or scroll on Instagram reels. Or you could take advantage of the event that classes were cancelled for: Fall Convocation. The word “convocation” is derived from the Latin root “convocare,” meaning “to call...
It’s easy to think of the humanities as “useless,” “fake,” and “pretentious,” full of students who spend too much time interpreting meaningless details. Similarly, some people think the sciences are “boring,” “tedious,” and “full of weird, nerdy kids” who just want to find a job and ignore “higher things.” But we don’t throw out Shakespeare...
Courtesy | Unsplash Make as many friends as you can at Hillsdale, but don’t forget about your friends back home. It’s worth staying in touch with them, even if you only see them a couple times a year. Throughout your four years at Hillsdale College, you’ll be around more piano-playing, classics-reading, Aquinas-debating weirdos than you...
Cornell University’s student newspaper was the first to publish the names of the so-called “Cornell Seven,” men named as defendants in a civil complaint that alleges rape. The Collegian will never do what the Cornell Daily Sun did. It is against our practice to publish the names of students accused of wrongdoing in lawsuits. The...
Courtesy | Unsplash As midterm season is upon us, make time for peacemaxxing in everyday life. Modern slang adds the suffix “maxxing” — a slang term for maximizing — to describe an effort to master a certain behavior. It uses range from “looksmaxxing,” the trend of over-accentuating good looks; “auramaxxing,” the trend of expanding one’s...