“Shhhh…..” Under the fluorescent lights of the Olds Dormitory lobby and in the year-round Christmas light-lit ambiance of the Love Shack were Hillsdale College students, awaiting the outcome of the 85th annual Academy Awards, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. “Hey guys, I am so glad we get to do this together,” said Mary Clare Smith, freshman,...
Philosophy and Culture Professor Peter Blum has compiled many of his essays dealing with philosophy, religion and sociology into a book called “For a Church to Come: Experiments in Postmodern Theory and Anabaptist Thought” which will be available on March 5. The book focuses on the controversial idea that postmodern thought can be compatible with...
If the Boy Scouts of America upholds the ban on gay members in May, the organization will have violated the core of its mission statement: “to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.” The BSA should vote to...
You catch more flies with honey than with stale-cigar-smoke-scented-conservative-man-sweat. Rush Limbaugh smells nothing like honey, and Hillsdale College should stop advertising on his partisan show. He limits the college to an image that does not match what professors teach and students believe. Continuing to advertise on the show gives the school a polarizing public image,...
Out of the 273,996 American students that studied abroad this year, only 12 are from Hillsdale College. Less than 0.9 percent of Hillsdale’s 1,460 students go abroad annually. Hillsdale’s study abroad programs fall far behind the programs comparable schools offer. The limited scope, expensive costs, and frustrating void of structure in the college’s study abroad...