You told The Collegian you were just someone who just got some good advice. Can you expound on that? My first boss in Washington was Terry Jeffrey at Human Events, and he pushed on me the idea of being a reporter, even though we were writing for an opinion-oriented conservative publication. He drove home the...
Father David Reamsnyder began his priestly duties at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Hillsdale, Mich., Sunday, Sept. 23. Reamsnyder was selected by the Diocese of Lansing to replace Father Jeffrey Njus after it was discovered Njus had violated his vow of celibacy – leaving the Hillsdale parish without a priest. He will stay in...
Maybe it was when I began smelling manure instead of candied apples. Or when the filth of the tilt-a-whirl distracted me from the fun of both tilting and whirling. Or when I realized that a pretzel had 600 calories. (Really? A pretzel?) Gradually, the fair has lost the allure it had when I was a...
When Lee Anne LaPlue graduated from Hillsdale College in 2011 her parents thought she would move close to Tennessee and teach somewhere in the Appalachian region. “I am from Kentucky, so I was pretty excited about that prospect,” LaPlue’s mother, Darlene, said. And for a while, Lee Anne LaPlue thought the same thing. She had...
Hillsdale is renowned for its conservative political activism and awareness. The College Republicans even hold phone-banking events once a week to mobilize Michigan voters, said their president, junior Max Kleber. But the bulk of the student body is not quite so engaged as Hillsdale’s reputation may suggest. A recent survey of 200 students shows that...