Some students complain about campus construction adding two minutes to their walk to class while others spend more than an hour driving to school. Senior Eleanor DeGoffau leaves her home in Lansing no later than 7:45 a.m. to make it to her 9 a.m. class. “I will listen to audiobooks, podcasts, sometimes I’ll call my...
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After Eden: Trust Tolstoy over Fuentes
According to Nick Fuentes, we have an epidemic of “Christian simps.” “I don’t feel like we have an abundance of affection from women,” the far-right influencer said. “Women are not providing too much. They expect so much from the men.” In his now-viral Oct. 27 interview with Tucker Carlson, Fuentes criticized men who respect their...
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Hillsdale junior couples say ‘Ring by Spring’ isn’t a thing yet many students decided to get engaged anyway
Juniors Olyvia Oeverman and Jacob Beckwith didn’t want to wait until senior year to be engaged. Courtesy | Olyvia Oeverman Instagram posts, word-of-mouth, and diamonds on left hands: The news travels quickly when Hillsdale students get engaged. The “ring by spring” phenomenon doesn’t apply only to seniors, though. At least a dozen junior couples are...
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Hillsdating has its time and place
Hillsdating gets a bad rap. It provides the fun of dating without intentional clarity, so it should. Saga isn’t that romantic anyway. But Hillsdating has gotten one thing right: Getting to know people doesn’t have to be serious from day 1. Romantic mingling before becoming official is nothing new. While before the 1920’s “calling” on...
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‘Stanish’? Maybe not forever: The last-name decision should be mutual, men
The decision to take a spouse’s last name should be a conversation — not a foregone conclusion. A majority of American women still choose to take their husband’s last name when they get married. According to a 2023 Pew Research Center survey, 79% of women in heterosexual marriages took their husband’s last name, compared to...