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....
Opinion
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. ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
CITY NEWS
PICTURE OF THE DAY
Featured Stories
Q&A Ned Timmons
Ned Timmons graduated from Hillsdale College in 1970. He served for nine years on an FBI SWAT team in Detroit, infiltrated motorcycle gangs, helped bring down infamous Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, and posed as a mercenary gunboatman in one of the largest drug busts in U.S. History. He currently runs L.S.S. consulting, a corporate security company.
In their eyes: Mike Harner
Mike Harner reminisces about dating, the origins of the Hillsdale Sigma Chi chapter, and the difficulties of getting a couch onto the roof of a campus building
Living in a gingerbread house
Artist and professor Sam Knecht and his family rennovated and now enjoy one of Hillsdale’s most unique houses
Q &A: Blake Scott
Junior Blake Scott is studying international business and Spanish. He is also the president of the firearms club and captain of the Hillsdale College shooting team, which just won the Division III national title.
Books for Kenya
Junior Rose Okeyo’s fundraising project allows her to send books to a secondary school in Kenya
Two small articles of clothing, one big step
The littlest things can make the moment: the perfect song, a trinket from someone special, the clothes that mark a special occasion. Therein lies the excitement of the 2012 graduating class as they receive their caps and gowns, and the day draws near when they will enter the post-graduate world.
In Their Eyes: Mitzi Dimmers
Mitzi Dimmers remembers curfews,
sorority life, and professors in the 1950s
The violin doctor
Violin-maker Scott Tribby shares his knowledge of instruments and their care with students
Dietary battles
About one in 100 people suffer from gluten intolerance. Collegian Reporter Samantha Gilman collected stories of those who suffer from it on campus, and those who are conducting research to help.
Still involved: Alumna Christy Hanson Maier remains active at Hillsdale College
At one time, the titles of Kappa Kappa Gamma president, student ambassador, Student Federation president, and English major described Christy Maier ‘98. Even now, 14 years after she graduated, Maier has not lost any of her youthful energy or love for the Hillsdale College campus.
Chargers give back to community
When the Hillsdale College volleyball women brought in a box of tennis balls to the Hillsdale Humane Society, no one was more excited than the dogs.