Five years ago, I was on a bus in Cordoba, Veracruz, located in central Mexico on a mission trip. Winding along the mountain roads, there were regular police checkpoints we stopped at, where M-16-toting officers checked the bus. One local pointed out that having the police around should not make me feel safer. There is...
As my time at the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program in Washington, D.C., comes to a close, I find that my experience of Hillsdale in D.C. is different from life on main campus. Though the things I’m reading and writing about may be comparable to a Hillsdale class, these classes are located in the heart of American...
While bold in their intellectual battles, many Hillsdale guys are too hesitant in relationships. Protecting their pride and avoiding the discomfort of rejection, they use the friend-card first, rather than take the risk of asking a girl out. Playing it safe like this kills the art of romance. We should return to old-fashioned, casual dating....
During the 1960s, campus fashionista Terry Grieger wrote a fashion-focused column in an attempt to bring the trendiest styles to Hillsdale College. Called Fashion Wise, this column offered advice for all aspects of fashion including hairstyles, makeup, and clothing choices by using frequent quotations from the Cosmopolitan Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar to report the hottest...
At Hillsdale, being a member of a fraternity means making close friends within your house and forming a lasting brotherhood with fellow members as you walk through life at Hillsdale with the support of a house full of principled men. Recently, however, it has also meant involvement in the Interfraternity Council, which brings all of...