Courtesy | Unsplash There’s this new stimulant on campus. It neither stains your teeth nor burns your tongue like coffee, it doesn’t contain sickening amounts of sugar, and it doesn’t pack enough caffeine to stop a horse’s heart, like most energy drinks do. Meet Zyn: a Swedish brand of small, tobacco-free nicotine pouches that students...
The Minneapolis skyline as seen from the Stone Arch Bridge. Courtesy | Unsplash I grew up about three minutes from the stretch of road where Philando Castile, an African American man, was shot by a police officer at a traffic stop in 2016. I remember the lockdowns and the “mostly peaceful” Minneapolis riots of 2020....
Courtesy | Unsplash “Don’t graduate; you’ll hate it,” was a warning I received from a well-meaning alumna during my senior year. But eight months post-graduation, I can report that I am thriving in a way I did not expect. Fear of graduation is in the air during senior spring, and rightly so. There are many...
Courtesy | Unsplash Hillsdale students should be able to complete discussion posts without CampusNet crashing mid-sentence. Last semester, as I wrote a term paper in Hill House, CampusNet went out more than two dozen times, some of the outages lasting more than 30 minutes. I wasn’t alone: I heard similar stories from my fellow students...
Courtesy | Unsplash Hillsdale prides itself on being different: No government funding, a small student body, and a mandatory logic class. We can add rejection of artificial intelligence as a replacement for human creativity to that list. Professors have different rules regarding the use of AI, but all of them rightly forbid students from using...