It was a busy weekend for all three Hillsdale Mock Trial teams. Returner team Platypus Deniability closed their fall invitational season with a 6-2 ballot and a second-place finish behind Yale at the Harvard Boston Tea Party, while returner team Kangaroo Court placed fifth at the University of Wisconsin Badger the Witness invitational with a...
The fifth annual Charger Derby raised more than $80,000 Nov. 9. More than 200 people attended the event, which featured 12 rounds of simulated horse races, a cash bar, and a silent auction in the Searle Center. All proceeds from the event will benefit the Women Commissioner Scholarship fund, according to board member and event...
After Donald Trump won the presidential election, sophomore and self-published author Jayden Jelso posted an Instagram reel celebrating the results. Two days later, he was fighting harassment and doxxing threats targeting Trump-supporters on the app. “I had people basically saying, ‘I hope you kill youself,’ hoping my family and friends burn in hell, just pure...
Juniors Vinny Acuña, Sydney Green, and Lucy Treene vote on Election Day. Courtesy | Sydney Green More than 500 students registered to vote in Michigan this fall, said College Republicans president Hinson Peed. They were among 24,980 people to vote in Hillsdale County on Nov. 5. Between the primary election on Aug. 6 and last...
Religion is not the deciding factor for most Christian conservative voters, guest lecturer Samuel Perry said in a talk Oct. 25 hosted by Hillsdale’s Sociology and Social Thought Department. In his speech, titled “What the Christian Right Gets Right (and Wrong) about American Religion and Politics,” Perry said Christian conservatives are fundamentally misunderstanding the role...