Category: Opinions

In modern America, appearance is everything, especially how one views him or herself. When a group of people feels subjugated by their environmental conditions, they view themselves critically, and someone must stand against the victimization and injustice. A defining characteristic of a girl’s appearance is her locks: The tresses are curled or flattened, blow-dried and...

Mississippi, a Southern, Republican, Protestant state with abstinence-only education mandated in public schools, suffers from the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the country. Liberals love to parade this statistic, usually garnered from the National Center for Health Statistics (2010), as evidence that abstinence education has failed. Schools should teach teenagers to use contraceptives instead, the...

George Washington once wrote: “The American people must feel before they act.” This is human nature; we tend not to care about something until we feel its impact on ourselves. Ebola has impacted West Africa since March, yet only recently has it become a topic of conversation in the U.S. because it appeared in America...

At 8 p.m. next Tuesday, Oct. 21, students are faced with a choice of how to spend the last night before fall break begins (besides studying for their last midterms, of course). In the Dow Center Rooms A&B, Gregory Wolfe — conservative author, Hillsdale College graduate, founder and editor of Image, a national journal of...

Last week, Grand Valley State University’s athletic website, GVSULakers.com, published an inflammatory preview of last Saturday’s game, in which the Lakers beat Hillsdale 42-21. ChargerBlue.com, a Hillsdale football fan site, already corrected a glaring record mistake, and many on Twitter expressed the Hillsdale community’s outrage about the article. However, the main point of Johnson’s piece...