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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Serving Hillsdale for 18 years, Sharon Bisher is ‘the walking foundation’
Pictures and knickknacks line her shelves, alongside the dried flowers from her children’s first bouquets and little bags of m&ms...
100 years later, Hillsdale veterans’ sacrifices ‘cannot be measured’
If you read a Collegian issue from 1918, half of the articles would be coverage of World War I. Now,...
Alumnus Brant Cohen turns Keefer House into boutique hotel
After attending the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program, Brant Cohen ’18 came back to Hillsdale with an idea help preserve the city’s...
Beyond the ‘four-block radius’: Cycling club grows to 10 members
When sophomore Emma Noverr, president of the Endurance Sports Club, messaged Assistant Swim coach Laura Peter asking if she wanted...
Over summer, Pfeifer teaches rock climbing to children in Switzerland
Grace Pfeifer cheered on her campers as they slid their fingers into each mountain crag, inching their way up its...
A Veterans Day vignette
This Sunday, Veterans Day, Hillsdale College faculty, staff, and students will remember friends and family members who have served in...
Pulp Michigan: Faygo remembers
In the 1970s—back before commercial irony—the soda company Faygo ran a wildly successful TV ad featuring a group of adults...
Emilia Heider photographs the ‘infinite’ at Hillsdale
Emilia Heider’s first photography experience was shooting pictures of rose bushes with a “crappy digital camera” in junior high. Today,...
Eric Benedict: only chef in the state using just Michigan-grown ingredients
Eric Benedict, the new The Rockwell Lake Lodge chef, has turned the lodge’s restaurant into the only 100 percent Michigan-sourced...
Alumni run medical missionary base in Paris
Five years ago, Olivia Allen ’13 was taking photos for Simpson Residence during homecoming week and snapping photos on the...
Christ Chapel: Hillsdale’s fifth chapel since the mid-1800s
Christ Chapel is not Hillsdale College’s first chapel. It’s the fifth. The school’s first chapel stood in the current campus’...
Underground Dating Ring 2: Hillsdating strikes back
Several Hillsdale students have recombined forces to combat what they see as an increasingly pervasive part of Hillsdale student culture:...