Illustrated by Maggie O’Connor As someone with 1,052 karma — points for popular posts and votes on Jodel — I would know that Jodel is one of the primary forms of campus communication, news, and humor. Jodel is an anonymous networking app for posting and reading short messages — called “jodels” — shared by locals...
Courtesy | Unsplash As midterm season is upon us, make time for peacemaxxing in everyday life. Modern slang adds the suffix “maxxing” — a slang term for maximizing — to describe an effort to master a certain behavior. It uses range from “looksmaxxing,” the trend of over-accentuating good looks; “auramaxxing,” the trend of expanding one’s...
Courtesy | Unsplash Some of us at Hillsdale are doing a bad job of honoring what is sacred. A convenient route through Christ Chapel is inviting us to disregard our traditional reverence for what is holy. Taking a shortcut through the chapel is disrespectful and inappropriate. About two weeks ago I was following two Simpson...
Courtesy | Unsplash As a journalist, I follow a lot of different news sources. Only one of them leaves me feeling more at peace after reading it. Independent Christian media start-up The Pour Over began with an email founder Jason Woodruff sent to six friends. Today, more than 1.6 million people listen to or read...
Courtesy | Unsplash Fall break came too soon this year. It’s not that fall break was too short. It’s that it came before students needed a reset. With Homecoming activities underway and papers and essays due this week, a break a week from now sounds delightful. This year, fall break fell on Oct. 1-2. It...