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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Off-campus shenanigans: Part Two
It’s October 2014, and Facebook is full of pictures featuring the hashtags “#betterthanboardwalk,” “#InstaWigwam,” and “#boardwalkbabes > #wigwamweirdos.” Two groups...
An old-fashioned thesis
Senior Yancey “Madison” Courtney is a whiskey girl. But, unlike most aficionados, she has had the opportunity to write and...
Campus climbers
Konrad La Prade ’05 remembers spending a lot of time on roofs. Cooking meals in a fire pit carried up...
Mr. T’s Ride
Science Lab Director Ted Miller, affectionately known as “Mr. T” by his students, works and plays more than most. He...
From Charger to Colts
The drive down West Carleton Road that leads to the city of Hillsdale greets passersby with a sign: “Hillsdale, it’s...
Rockwell chef returns
Chef LuAnn Trombly is “the side dish queen.” Her former classmates at culinary school gave her the affectionate nickname after...
Life after Central Hall
Each year, the admissions department holds interviews with a select few Hillsdale College seniors in hopes of hiring new admission...
Off-Campus Shenanigans
Friendships: some are forged through laughter, some through tears, some through fire. And some are forged through CARNAGE. Casey Harper’s...
Fish and woodchips
Passersby call it the fish house. Colorful fish carvings, extending as long as eight feet, dance across the front of...
A Visit to the Rink
Hillsdale College used to have a hockey team, but it was disbanded in the ’80s. With no regulation ice arena...
Q&A with Fulbright scholar Evan Gage
Evan Gage, ’14 applied for the Fulbright Scholarship to Turkey after visiting the country with the Honors program. As a...
Horsin’ around in Florida
The chances of her interning in Wellington, Florida for the Phelps Media Group internship were slim. After all, the internship...