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Professors, please don’t require non-essential books
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Professors, please don’t require non-essential books

In that strange twilight period between registration and finals, between shopping for new classes like Christmas presents and fighting the desire to burn books while studying for exams, our bookshelves become sources of anxiety — for many reasons. We’ve made good use of many of the books we so willingly lugged out of the bookstore...

Keep discourse civil
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Keep discourse civil

Long time CBS news anchor Dan Rather has described the 2016 campaign season as “a dumpster fire of an election.” And in the wake of America choosing Hillary Clinton/Trump to be its 45th president, many Americans will be adding more garbage to that fire with their Facebook statuses and tweets. Don’t be one of them....

Voting no on Prop 8 is a vote for transparency
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Voting no on Prop 8 is a vote for transparency

While Americans will have to make a big decision at the polls Tuesday, Hillsdale College students may have an even bigger one to make Nov. 14-17, which involves the transparency of student fee dollars. Student Federation’s fall semester elections include eight amendment proposals (see newspaper insert) to its constitution that each require a two-thirds majority...

Before you graduate, take a class outside of your major
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Before you graduate, take a class outside of your major

Did you know there’s a class on “Conspiracies, Cryptids & Enigmas” this semester? Or that you can take a class titled “Beer: Science, Styles and Sampling?” This semester, consider taking a class you’re not obligated to take for your major. It’s easy to get bogged down with core classes and major requirements, but taking classes...