Three Hillsdale College Students in Free Enterprise members signed the legal paperwork launching the club’s new non-profit business, ChargerResources, Inc., on Oct. 26. ChargerResources buys merchandise in bulk and resells it for a profit on websites, such as Amazon and eBay, and in local newspapers. The business was started as both a learning project as...
Month: November 2012
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‘#Winning’: Mock Trial wins first tournament
One of Hillsdale College’s two mock trial teams placed first at last weekend’s Great Lakes Invitational Mock Trial Tournament, the first Hillsdale team to do so since the team began two years ago. The winning Hillsdale team finished with a 7-1 ballot record. The winning team, self-named “#Winning,” competed in four head-to-head rounds against Ohio...
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Off the record
It’s that time of year: the weather turns bad, due dates near, and the newness of school has fully worn off. Some of you are thinking of not coming back for second semester. I think you should reconsider. I tell you this out of experience. I hated Hillsdale College. Four years ago, I never thought...
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Tower Light flooded with submissions
In the last week, with deadline fast approaching, over 150 pages of material was submitted by students into the email inbox of the Tower Light, Hillsdale’s biannual creative literature publication. During the first half of the semester, students submitted poetry, prose, translations,and photography to the Tower Light’s editorial board, which includes the editor-in-chief, nine literature...
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Gamble’s book explores, explains ‘city on a hill’
as become comonplace in American political discourse, often used in the context of American exceptionalism. The metaphor, however, has been refashioned and misapplied, according to Associate Professor of History Richard Gamble’s new book “In Search of the City on a Hill: The Making and Unmaking of an American Myth,” released on Aug. 2. The idea...