My bookshelf houses my Bible, Heritage readers, AP stylebook, and many, many notebooks. Some are wrinkled and worn — full of writing, drawings, and pasted-in pictures. Others remain pristine and empty. Both filling these blank pages with my thoughts and knowing they will survive my fleeting existence make me feel human. “I never travel without...
Author: Macaela Bennett (Macaela Bennet)
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Oakley closes: financial troubles plague owner, students disappointed
Follow Macaela on Twitter The doors beneath Oakley Riverside Deli’s bright yellow awning on Hillsdale Street closed for good Friday. After owning Oakley for eight of its 13 years, Sid Halley credited a combination of factors for the popular sandwich shop’s closing: a decrease in business, increase in costs of materials, like meats and cheeses,...
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Sororities increase rush GPA requirement
In what many agree is a “positive step by all sororities,” Hillsdale College raised the minimum GPA needed to rush in sorority recruitment to take effect in January 2015. Previously, students needed a GPA of a 2.25 or above to rush for sororities at Hillsdale, but Dean of Women Diane Philipp approved an initiative to...
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‘So a liberal walks into a bar…’
Many enjoy her sarcastic Facebook rants about broken political promises hashtagged “tbt,” snarky tweets at Michelle Obama about eating fatty food, and abnormally low-pitched “smoker woman voice.” One admirer even creates collages of her feet. National Review reporter, comedian, and Hillsdale alumna Katherine Timpf ’10 first used humor to deal with a break up, but...