Year: 2013

Before March 2, when the new Biermann Athletic Center opened to campus, athletes alone were privy to it – tennis, track, and volleyball. But this did not last. Arriving that afternoon, I see royal blue balloons, and a purple sign that says “WELCOME TO BIERMANN” in big white letters; I hear the reverberating synth-beats of...

Three members of the Hillsdale College debate team competed March 2 and 3 at the Otterbein University Spring Fiesta, a small tournament in preparation for upcoming nationals and Pi Kappa Delta tournaments. Senior Bryan Brooks and freshmen Emily Runge and Kevin Ambrose each competed in the events in which Runge won fourth speaker overall and...

Hillsdale College and the Dow Journalism Program will host visiting journalist Meghan Cox Gurdon next week. At 8 p.m on March 12 in Dow Center Rooms A and B, Gurdon will present a public lecture on her controversial 2011 column, “Darkness Too Visible,” published in the Wall Street Journal. She will be speaking on modern...

The Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar topics were announced last week, and the speakers have been invited. The four topics for the 2013-2014 school year are American Foreign Policy: Past and Future, The Renaissance, Dodd-Frank: A Law Like No Other, and Romantic Comedies. Director of External Affairs Programs Rebecca Burgess said CCAs generally cover one...

“It is well that war is so terrible — otherwise we would grow too fond of it,” Robert E. Lee once said. And it is important to have that balance between viewing war as something horrible and insane and viewing war as cartoonish, Media and Movie Critic James Bowman said at the Center for Constructive...