The Society of Physics Students and the Hillsdale College physics department will invite other Michigan liberal arts colleges to an undergraduate physics conference next month, the first-ever multi-college science conference to be hosted at Hillsdale. The Hillsdale College Physics Invitational, which will take place on Feb. 21, will offer a keynote speaker, poster presentations, a...
Author: Eleanor DeGoffau (Eleanor DeGoffau)
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A new quad: ‘STEM’ is a bad term for Hillsdale natural sciences
Courtesy | Unsplash Most people assume that because I’m a physics major, I’m a STEM major — but at this college, that acronym doesn’t describe me, and it doesn’t describe anyone else at Hillsdale either. Sure, I’m majoring in a subject that falls under the STEM categories of science, technology, engineering, and math. But the...
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‘Forever chemicals’ drip into nearby groundwater
An old landfill has been seeping “forever chemicals” into the City of Hillsdale’s groundwater since the early 1970s, according to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. The contamination was discovered three years ago when a resident’s water tested positive, according to EGLE. Since then, the state has identified one other city resident...
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‘Please come back’: St. Joe’s comes to Saga
St. Joe’s Cafe served pizza in the dining hall for lunch on Oct. 16 and will be returning to campus to cater at “El Clasico,” the protestant-Catholic intramural soccer game in Hayden Park, for a meal swipe, on Oct. 25. Metz Culinary Management expects the events to be the beginning of a partnership with the...
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Michigan should protect MelCat
President Donald Trump has threatened many things this year, but I never expected him to endanger my essays. If an executive order Trump issued earlier this year takes effect, the main source of funds for MelCat, Michigan’s interlibrary loan program, will disappear, and with it, MelCat at Mossey Library. Hillsdale students will not be able...