This year, many students in the Opinions section have challenged us to resist judgment and stereotypes. They’ve urged us to recall that “in the end, we’re all—first and foremost—Hillsdale students” and that fundies are “really just like you.” Just last week, one student pointedly asked “when did we all decide that the job defines the...
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October 17, 2013July 12, 2022News
Staff vs. staph
On Sept. 26, Hillsdale College athletes received an email from athletic trainer Lynne Neukom. “We have had three cases of staph this week in our athletes. As so, all locker rooms, the weight/cardio room and the athletic training room will be bombed tonight. If your athletes have any food items, please ask them to remove...
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October 17, 2013July 12, 2022Features
Alumna covers politics and pot for National Review
Betsy Woodruff ’12 has covered an array of topics for National Review. Her articles have ranged from an examination of frat-boys’ political proclivities and reviews of cultural products like “America, You Sexy B*tch” and HBO’s “Girls” to accounts of trips out to Colorado to investigate the effects of its recently-loosened marijuana laws (National Review’s cover...
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October 3, 2013July 12, 2022Opinions
Government shuts down, government hardest hit
[Editor’s note: we can neither confirm nor deny the veracityof this article] Rubble, flames, and carnage alone remain of Washington after Tuesday’s government shutdown. It began after negotiations to simulate budgeting between Republican House Speaker John Boehner, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and President Obama failed. “These Republicans are intransigent and stubborn, so obviously...
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September 26, 2013July 12, 2022Features
Supreme clerk
When Ryan Walsh was in 4th grade, he wanted to be president. For now, the 2009 Hillsdale graduate and 2012 graduate of the University of Chicago’s law school will have to settle for Associate Justice Antonin Scalia’s law clerk on the Supreme Court. Though such a clerkship is one of the most sought-after jobs for...