In just a few short weeks, the class of 2024 will be celebrating our graduation with friends and family. We’ll don our caps and gowns, walk across the stage to receive our diplomas, and take photographs that we’ll show our children and grandchildren one day. We’ll receive countless exclamations of “Congratulations!” or “Well done!” But...
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Sophomore Emily Schutte wins 24th annual Everett Oratory Competition
Sophomore Emily Schutte presented a speech in response to the topic “Foreign Policy, Free Speech, and Academic Freedom” at the competition. Courtesy | Instagram When sophomore Emily Schutte saw the topic for the 24th annual Edward Everett Oratory Competition, she knew she had to enter. Her memorized presentation on “Foreign Policy, Free Speech, and Academic...
Absences are not the solution to the adolescent mental health problem
More than 30% of Michigan children are “chronically absent” from school — and now state lawmakers want to make it even easier to cut class by mandating up to five “mental health days” each year. They seek to help students with mental health challenges, but their solution would do more harm than good. The problem...
Restaurants to run Foodie Walk downtown
Here’s to You Pub and Grub is participating in the Foodie Walk. Courtesy | Sean Callaghan Several downtown Hillsdale restaurants will host a Foodie Walk event on April 8 from 6 to 8 p.m. The Foodie Walks happen once a month between April and September, and participating restaurants serve a themed dish. April’s theme is...
Mehan calls Dickinson ‘America’s finest poet’
Emily Dickinson is America’s finest poet, said Associate Dean of the Van Andel Graduate School of Government Matthew Mehan during a seminar hosted by Hillsdale in D.C. and Career Services on March 7. The discussion, “Emily Dickinson and Truth’s Winding Way to Our Hearts: A Discussion of the Poetic Arts of Persuasion,” centered on three...