Author: The Editorial Staff (The Editorial Staff )

Dear Donors, As you tour campus this week, you will see us students streaming out of classrooms all morning and afternoon, bustling past you on our way to class, work, meetings, and practice. We may be more rumpled and less cheerful than you expected. It’s midterm season at Hillsdale College and we have games, recitations,...

We endorsed candidates for homecoming king and queen last week. We expected our entrance into the fiercely partisan arena of homecoming politics might be controversial in some way, but not exactly in the ways it turned out to be. So for this issue’s Weekly, we’re going to try and set some things straight about what...

Someone stole our editor-in-chief’s backpack last weekend. How appropriate, then, that only a few days later, Associate Professor of English John Somerville would give a lecture about the dubiously notorious (or, maybe, notoriously dubious) “Hillsdale Bubble.” For you freshmen, that’s the notion that Hillsdale College exists in an ideological vacuum of right wing politics, classical...

Dear Editor, It is my hope that this account of collegiate pranksterism will not demoralize the present stalwarts of Hillsdale College, but this being the season when the cauldron boils, I’ll chance it. Just ten years ago this Hallowe’en, we accomplished our dastardly deed.  [A few of us] suggested we at least try to place...

It was a dark and stormy night last night as we sat down to write our last staff editorial of 2013. Hillsdale College, it’s been real. We’ve shared a lot. Back in our day, the fraternities all had parties because they were all in good standing. Without further ado, the class of ’13 highlights reel,...