Despair helps no one. Walking around campus last Wednesday after the general election, I heard countless melancholic remarks about Donald Trump’s election. Numerous faces looked depressed or angry at the outcome. Jokes about weeping regardless of the election’s result permeated the air leading up to the election. This has got to stop. Get it together....
Maybe the actors shouldn’t have been eavesdropping. During the intermission of a performance of Moliere’s “The Misanthrope” at Hillsdale in the fall of 2014, actors were waiting backstage in what is known as the green room. A speaker system on the wall was connected to the headsets that members of the crew wear so they...
Author’s note: Hillsdale College does not currently have a “Zero Tolerance” policy on marijuana. Students who break the rules are not typically expelled, but instead placed on probation or suspended. With these facts in mind, the following piece can only serve to commend the college for not expelling students on their first infraction. Within a week of setting...
As a burgeoning adult, you’re probably often barraged by credit card companies begging you to take their cards and spend money with them and earn all kinds of exciting rewards that usually involve less cash back than you hoped for. You’re probably aware the latest financial crisis had a lot to do with unpaid credit...
During the campaign season, we Never Trumpers said that Trump was a despicable man, that he did not truly hold conservative values, that he would lead our country in a deeply misguided direction, and that he could never beat Hillary Clinton. We were wrong about at least one of these things. Trump ended up defeating...