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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‘Impeccably Hillsdalian’: West and Kookogey crowned king and queen
After warming up the crowd Saturday evening, Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn announced the king and queen of the 2019...
Best of Hillsdale 2019
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No more Sweethearts this Valentine’s Day
This Valentine’s Day, stores around the nation are all out of Sweethearts — the popular heart-shaped, message-carrying candy that has...
Historic Hysteria: Guys, and other four-letter words
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Confidence is key: alum Anderson teaches self-defense
When he came to Hillsdale College on a four-year football scholarship in 1975, Brian Anderson anticipated graduating four years later...
‘Coffee, cocktails, and community’: Solomito takes over Rough Draft
Rachel Solomito ‘17 began working at Rough Draft in the summer of 2017. Last month, she became the general manager,...
Historic Bible found in Delts’ basement
When two Delta Tau Delta fraternity members went searching for antique objects to display during a presentation celebrating the chapter’s...
Historic Hysteria: A ‘Formal Dress For Dinner’ saga
Forget groufits, crocs, and socks and sandals: For Hillsdale students in 1955, “all freshman men who eat at East Hall...
Jogging, frostbite, and Thatcherball
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Shotgun team freshmen recount shooting careers
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First fountain made explosive exit in 1940
When the class of 2019 recently announced their senior gift of a fountain on the quad, one of the fundraising...
Historic Hysteria: Green Hat Gossip
On September 26, 1944, The Collegian premiered yet another gossip column. But “Green Hat Gossip” didn’t just spread the campus...