This year marks the 10th Tocco Challenge at Hillsdale College, and the end of the event as it has been known. Don Tocco, a businessman and longtime donor to the college, is pitted against the combined-average score of college athletes in various athletic contests. Each athlete is sponsored by a different campus organization. If an...
Month: September 2012
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York sells house to college for Delta Tau Delta house
Daniel York, professor of biology, sold his house to Hillsdale College. The administration plans to allow Delta Tau Delta fraternity to use the building as a temporary chapter house. Since it was rechartered on campus in 2009, DTD has planned to find a chapter house, DTD President Scott Rode said. The fraternity is excited to...
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Kirby Center celebrates Constitution Day
This week Hillsdale College, with the rest of the country, is celebrating the 225th anniversary of the writing of the Constitution. As part of Hillsdale College’s celebration of the United State’s founding document, today the Allan J. Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship holds its third annual Constitution Day Celebration. Over 400 friends of...
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Q & A: Nathan Harden: “Yale is so very much in love with Yale.”
“Nathan Harden is the author of the book Sex and God at Yale: Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad. He graduated from Yale University in 2009 with a B.A. in Humanities. He now works as the editor of The College Fix, a higher-ed news and opinion site, as well as a freelance...
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Never Forget: America’s Troubled Remembrance of 9/11
These are the two most common words we hear in reference to 9/11. This succinct command appears on billboards, Facebook posts, and television documentaries of the horrific event, annually renewing our recollection, sorrow, and patriotic fervor. America doesn’t want to forget. America doesn’t intend to forget. But America is already forgetting. As I stood at...