Thomas McKenna, Editor in Chief I should have chucked my phone off the top of Central Hall when I had the chance. Yes, I had some good reasons for wanting more than the basic text-and-call functions. As City News editor last year and ringleader this year, I used it to text and email with sources, reporters, and other editors quickly....
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Boomers won’t run politics forever. Gen Z isn’t ready.
Courtesy | Unsplash The end of the baby boomers’ 40-year reign is almost at hand. The scepter will presently fall to a young generation that is staggeringly unprepared to receive it. Since the foreshocks of succession first began to rattle American politics in the early-to-mid-2010s, candidates and their parties began to pander to the youngest generation of American voters —...
Hillsdale shouldn’t invite women ‘priests’ to speak
Courtesy | Unsplash Hillsdale College strayed from its stated mission by inviting Helen McGowan Orr to speak on campus April 14. According to posters around campus advertising her Drummond Lecture on “Theosis,” Orr is a Cambridge-educated, Anglican “poet, priest, and singer.” She was entrusted with two benefices by the Bishop of Ely around 2021 and has since served as the...
Take Petrakis’s Civil Rights class
I never thought I’d see the day when I enjoyed taking an exam. Assistant Professor of Politics John Petrakis’s spring Civil Rights class proved me wrong. On the exam, Petrakis provides a scenario for a court case, the facts of the case, and the relevant statute. It’s up to the student to determine how the court would most likely...
Give athletes graduation cords
After spending their collegiate careers bearing the name of “Hillsdale College” on their jerseys across the nation at all levels of competition, senior student-athletes should have a chance to don the title of “Hillsdale Charger,” and for most, the title of “athlete,” one last time. Athletes deserve a cord to wear at graduation to represent their time competing as Chargers. ...
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