Hillsdale Academy is publishing a newspaper for the first time in two years. The new publication draws talent from both the upper school and the lower school of the Academy. Sixth grade students in Academy Teacher Karen Somerville’s classroom receive lessons in newswriting a couple times a week from Maria Servold, assistant to the director...
According to the Hillsdale College administration, the Margot V. Biermann Athletics Center will be completed on time. The new athletics center is slated to be finished by mid-February of 2013, and Hillsdale College will have a new space for the track team, as well as tennis capabilities year-round. The new center will also be large...
Due to concerns for student and faculty safety, the administration will install bollards, short metal poles, at driveway entrances to campus sidewalks. The barriers are intended to make clear that vehicular access to the service drives are restricted to authorized personnel only, who will still be able to access the drives by driving around the...
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia will host Hillsdale College’s Battle of the Bands this Saturday, Dec. 7. Five bands will take the stage Saturday night at 8 p.m. and battle until a decisive winner is decided by a panel of faculty judges and audience approval – “American Idol-style” said junior Ian Swanson, director of the event....
When people fill out a ballot, or make any other choice, the decision-making occurs in the frontal lobe of their brain, in a process primarily informed by moral judgements. I learned that this summer from Arthur Brooks, president of a leading think tank, the American Enterprise Institute. He said that the case for conservatism cannot...