Dear Editor, As a chemistry professor, I teach how science works and how to interpret data. I offer this letter as an educator in a desire to help others learn and understand a complicated and developing issue. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study that Emma Cummins cited in her Collegian piece “Resist Masktopia”...
Hillsdale College needs a ghost. Every college should have one, and the best already do. A tradition says that King Charles I, beheaded in 1649, roams Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. The Harvard Gazette, an official publication of its university, has reported on spectral stories. The Syfy channel has produced “School Spirits,” a...
Not many aspects of American life seemed to go untouched by COVID-19-related changes this year, and how states handle absentee and mail-in voting is no different. Certain battleground states have passed legislation to extend the deadline for mail-in votes past Nov. 3, meaning we probably won’t know the election results in those states on election...
Dear Editor, I greatly appreciated Emma Cummins’ observations in “Resist Masktopia” (Collegian, 22 Oct. 2020). I can understand how, in certain limited, specific situations, the wearing of properly constructed masks and following proper medical protocols regarding use, handling, and changing, could be beneficial. But the universal wearing of masks, in all situations, strikes me as...