Bad things, sometimes, take time. The Ed Sullivan-era musical satirist Tom Lehrer enjoyed shocking his audiences with piano-driven ditties about educational experiments describing “new math,” a teaching method where students are encouraged to focus on concepts over practice. After singing a complicated word problem to his audience, Lehrer would grin and declare, “It’s so simple,...
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Satire: Five Online courses Hillsdale needs
We need to expand our online course offerings by lowering our standards by giving the people that juicy stuff they love to hate.
Beauty deserves a showcase
Hillsdale College has a growing permanent art collection with no permanent home. This is a blot on the college’s liberal arts reputation that can only be resolved by building a gallery for the collection. Although the collection is not large, it includes a wide breadth of artworks from different times and cultures — everything...
Seven-minute smoke: An unlikely community
Péwé said the college understands the negative health effects nicotine has on the body, but believes students should be responsible for their own health when it comes to smoking.
Citizens, councilmen say new welcome signs are small, hard to read
A fresh wave of discontent has spread among councilmen, citizens, and students over what they say is unnecessarily small lettering on the recently installed welcome signs, which read “Home of Hillsdale College,” making it difficult for passing motorists to read. At an Oct. 3 city council meeting, Councilman Bruce Sharp said he was unable to...