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
Freshmen ‘fall’ for their first autumn
Hillsdale College attracts students from all around the country, and some students have never experienced weather in the Midwest. Specifically,...
Keeping Mossey’s memory
Walking into the campus library, visitors run across a plaque beside the painting of a young boy, “Mike” Alex Mossey....
Quick Hits: Miles Smith
Dr. Smith is a visiting Assistant Professor of History at Hillsdale College. This interview has been edited for length and...
Adam Rick leaves Holy Trinity to become full-time college chaplain
Rev. Adam Rick has decided to leave his job as pastor at Holy Trinity Anglican Parish in order to become...
Hillsdale’s Halloween traditions haunt campus once again
After some of last year’s Hillsdale Halloween festivities were cancelled due to COVID-19, the college will return to a full-swing...
‘Like a family in the hotel’: Student housekeepers serve community
An escape from homework. A place to build relationships. The satisfaction of serving other people—and you even get paid...
Quick Hits: Michael Clark
Michael Clark is an associate professor of economics at Hillsdale College. This interview has been edited for length and clarity....
Mini-golf and hauntings: Delta Tau Delta remembers old house
When the brothers of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity returned to campus this year, it was not the same home...
Junior tennis player has “stable” beginnings
As children, some kids missed school for doctor’s appointments; others, to make it to an away game for their sports...
“I will be love”: Hillsdale alumna enters Carmelite convent
In a way, it was a coffee subscription that brought her to the convent. Before she was Sister Lucia of...
Quick Hits: Ian Church
Ian Church is a professor of philosophy and religion. This interview has been edited for clarity. What is your favorite...
A “wooded Knob-hill”: the Arb through the years
Before it was Slayton Arboretum, it was just a hilly gathering of trees two friends stumbled across while looking for...