When junior Nathan Seiver returned from Afghanistan as a member of the Marine 2nd Battalions weapon company, he had a revelation. “I came to realize what education meant to me,” Seiver said. Many public colleges, Seiver said, are destructive to the freedom he fought for in the province of Helmand in southern Afghanistan. Yet he...
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November 6, 2012July 12, 2022Opinions
Michigan’s Proposal 6: a bridge of deceit
Right now the Detroit River is a moat, and the Ambassador Bridge is a drawbridge guarded by a greedy old troll. Moats and drawbridges aren’t built to welcome traders but to discourage invaders. This is a problem for Detroit, considering the bridge connects a trade partner in Canada to our economically troubled manufacturing and agricultural...
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November 5, 2012July 12, 2022Features
Stories by night and hunting by day
South of Botswana, Africa, near the Limpopo River is the Eland ranch, an expansive game reserve on a plateau high above the city of Johannesburg. The land here is covered in Acacia trees, bush veldt, and thorny waitabit bushes. Sophomore Marshall Gobba is stalking a herd of blue wildebeests. The wind has changed several times...
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November 5, 2012July 12, 2022Culture
Movie review: ‘Chasing Mavericks’
What does it mean to live a good life? If you were being dragged 300-yards underwater toward a rocky shoreline known as “the boneyard” would you be able to answer that? It’s a question we don’t typically associate with surfing, but for Jay Moriarity, a 16-year-old big-wave surfer out of Santa Cruz and his mentor...
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November 4, 2012July 12, 2022News
Off the record
It’s that time of year: the weather turns bad, due dates near, and the newness of school has fully worn off. Some of you are thinking of not coming back for second semester. I think you should reconsider. I tell you this out of experience. I hated Hillsdale College. Four years ago, I never thought...