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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Historic Hysteria: 1983-84 influenza blasts campus and track team
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Historic Hysteria: The Kitty Returns
Last week we covered a gossip column of Collegians past titled “The Kitty.” The column ran from March 1939 until...
Study says polar vortex killed off stink bugs, students say otherwise
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Roberts to direct Catholic initiatives for Passages Israel
Before the opportunity arose to apply for the Philos Project’s Passages Israel trip, senior Sammy Roberts had never thought much...
‘I read therefore I travel’ Linda Moore describes visits to Auschwitz, Pearl Harbor
For campus librarian Linda Moore, books are central to her every day job — and to her foreign travels. In...
Destination Johannesburg: Local pastor and family move to South Africa
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Costume & Bridal Barn one-stop shop for event attire
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The Collegian premiered a new gossip column once again on March 7, 1939 (when will these columns stop?) entitled, “The...
German student spends Semester at Sea
A year and a half ago, junior Jackie Dupre left Hillsdale to travel the world. After studying abroad in Germany...