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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Sharp Shooters
Producing a movie is a long and expensive process. Finding success as a director can take years. Hillsdale students Shaun...
Winston Churchill finds home at Hillsdale
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Christmas at the Will Carleton Poorhouse
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Remembering Aleksandras Shtromas
Former Hillsdale Professor of Politics Aleksandras Shtromas lived under two of the greatest tyrannies in the history of mankind. The...
Hillsdale history in a heap
Three days after America lost JFK to an assassination, Hillsdale College lost its first historian and many archives to a...
Vintage is ‘key’
A cheerful voice greeted me when I ducked out of the pouring rain into Key Opportunities Consignment and Vintage Center....
A month of man madness
Niedfelt Volunteer Extravaganza Honoring Thanksgiving, Niedfeldt’s November goal is serving the community for 400 hours. “We...
From Cuba to State Street
The Frudakis family has owned the little shop at 146 State St. since winter of last year. Before the renovations,...
The Good Bikers
No,” Chief Administrative Officer Rich Pewe laughed, speaking about the group of Hillsdale faculty and staff that rode motorcycles together...
Nelson Dellis: King of the Deck
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Jerry and the band
When Jerry Ross responded to a newspaper ad asking for dance instructors, he didn’t anticipate that this move would lead...
Midterm Magic
Senior Andrew Montgomery spent long weeks preparing for Michigan Republican state senator Patrick Colbeck’s reelection. In one of the most...