Meet Melvin, a mid-rise white sock with a proclivity towards the existential. Tired of the dirt and the stink and the spin cycle, the monotony of his mid-rise life, and, especially, his bland, mid-rise partner, Melvin abandons everything in favor of a swashbuckling quest for fame and purpose. “As you can tell, this is a...
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QUICK HITS: Ethan Stoneman
If you could live one day in the life of any fictional character, who would you choose? Probably Conan the Barbarian. Life is simple but it’s also very adventurous and daring. The stakes are high, and living in a very civilized society, it’s a fun fantasy to imagine what it would be like to let...
New GOAL Program melds military experience with mentorship
Victoria Schmidt knows how much it means to a child when an older kid takes an interest in them. As a young cadet in her local Civil Air Patrol, CAP, squadron, she received mentorship from the older members in her program that made a lasting impact on her life. Now, as the founder of the...
‘Thank God for coronavirus’: Tying the knot in quarantine
Few are thought to be more stressed than a bride planning her wedding, but Hillsdale College Social Media Manager Gianna Green ’17 said typical brides have nothing on those who managed to plan their wedding during quarantine. Although all couples face uncertainty regarding their wedding day, such as the chance of rain or the bride...
Shark tooth sheds light on ancient species
Just across from Donna the triceratops in Hillsdale’s Daniel M. Fisk Museum of Natural History lies a tiny tooth about three millimeters in length. It is a tooth that represents the glory days of Michigan’s history, when it was a shallow tropical sea poised mere miles from the equator and filled with an assortment of...




