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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The art department’s ‘mad scientist’
When she was getting ready to go to the University of Michigan, Chairwoman of Art Barbara Bushey had a tough...
Couple brings community impact with rodeo ministry
On a gray Saturday afternoon in February, the Proctors’ home was just messy enough to be perfectly comfortable. It was...
Dykstal ’13 one of 12 to win international writing competition
Professor of History David Stewart studied the paper, nodded, then crossed out the student’s entire first paragraph. The student, Andrew...
Meet James Gensterblum ’11: Local sports editor who knows every high school mascot in the state
Before becoming sports editor at the Hillsdale Daily News, James Gensterblum ’11 began his career taking calls from Michigan high-school...
Behind the camera
If you tuned in to the Super Bowl, you may have noticed Hillsdale College’s commercial standing out amid a circus...
Private colleges struggle with enrollment, Hillsdale defies the trend
Private colleges, especially smaller regional schools, are in for a tough decade. Moody’s Corporation, a financial analysis and credit rating...
Another columnist peers ‘Thru the Keyhole’
This column has covered a lot of Hillsdale gossip sources, but a look into the archives shows that we are...
Alumnus returns to Hillsdale, opens law firm
Andrew Fink ‘06 graduated from Hillsdale College 13 years ago, but echoes of his time at the ’Dale decorate his...
It’s never too soon to give back: Student gives up new car to create endowed scholarship for working high school students
Few college students would dream of turning down a new car — their key to late-night fast food runs and...
Professor, students examine newly discovered gravesite of college’s first president
The cemetery where the body of Hillsdale College’s first president, Daniel McBride Graham, lies has fallen to disrepair in the...
Checking off the bucket list: Mrs. A goes to Ireland
“Being Irish isn’t something you do. It’s something you are.” This is the beginning of a poem titled “What it...
Diane Philipp: former track coach for Hillsdale and USA
The Hillsdale College women’s track and field team was off to a strong start shortly after its founding in 1977,...