Dear editor, As I listen to my fellow citizens debate the upcoming election, it strikes me that many regard voting and endorsing candidates – or refraining from this – as first of all an exercise in signaling one’s personal moral virtue, or perhaps an exercise in personal absolution. Well, it’s not, and potentially this is...
Category: Election 2016
Free education can’t beat Hillsdale
Free College? Create pie charts Free College? 2 Create pie charts A majority of students would still have enrolled at Hillsdale College, even if offered free tuition at a public college or university in their home state, according to a recent Collegian survey. Of 297 respondents 52 percent said they would still attend Hillsdale even...
Trump considering Arnn for secretary of education
As President-elect Donald Trump started filling his cabinet last week, speculation has grown around Hillsdale’s own President Larry Arnn as a potential pick for the secretary of education. In an email exchange with The Collegian, Arnn confirmed that his name has been one of many suggested to fill Trump’s administration with qualified individuals, but he...
Austin Petersen speaks on election Thursday
Young Americans for Liberty is giving students the opportunity to dine with a former presidential candidate Austin Petersen, who ran for the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee and lost to former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, is speaking in Phillips Auditorium Thursday at 5 p.m. to speak about the election and the future of the Libertarian...
Evan McMullin is our only hope
This election is a binary choice. American voters can choose between honor and dishonor. They can choose liberty or tyranny. They can vote for major party demagogues, or they can vote for a serious candidate —Independent, Evan McMullin. McMullin, an ex-CIA operative and former policy director for the House Republican Conference, announced his long shot...