Category: News

Four days ago, Pope Benedict XVI did something that no Bishop of Rome had done for 600 years. He resigned. In a move that shocked the church and the media, neither of which had any warning, Benedict announced that his failing health made him unfit to continue as head of the Catholic Church: “After having...

Hillsdale County Sheriff Stan Burchardt is reserving judgment on the recent outcry by a group of American sheriffs against President Barack Obama’s suggested gun control policies. “I think they are awful premature,” he said. “I want to wait to see what the final product is.” The debate over potential gun control policies broke into the...

The Hillsdale College Student Activities Board is organizing an all-school ski trip for Feb. 16. In past years, the ski trip has been in different locations, but this year it is at the Bittersweet Ski Resort in Kalamazoo, Mich. “While the ski trip has been done in previous years, it’s not usually as popular,” senior...

  Hillsdale debate team senior Bryan Brooks, co-captain of the team, likens the success at their most recent tournament, the Gorlock Gala, at Webster University, to a battlefield after a war with the Spartans: only Hillsdale carried their shields home. Despite going into the tournament a man down – one member came down with the...

Paul Moreno, associate professor of history, sits behind a desk full of papers in the Delp Hall office he’s called his for more than 10 years and looks as though he never moved away from Hillsdale. At-ease and surrounded by shelves stuffed with books on labor union history, Moreno describes the transition into his new...