Year: 2013

Hillsdale College will present honorary degrees to five friends of the college at commencement on May 11. Honorary degrees are awarded every year. In addition to the commencement speaker, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), this year’s recipients will include Don and Lois Thorson and John and Joan Babbitt. “They are people who have been friends of...

The fall semester this coming year will see eight professors on sabbatical from various departments. Professor of History Paul Rahe will be away from Hillsdale for a year at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He will revisit his recent manuscript, tentatively titled “The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge,” and working on...

Kimberley Strassel of the Wall Street Journal will be the fall 2013 Pulliam Visiting Distinguished Fellow, the Dow Journalism Program announced this week. Strassel writes a Friday column called “Potomac Watch,” and is a member of the Journal’s editorial board. A graduate of Princeton University, Strassel previously lived in Brussels, Belgium, and wrote for the...

The Student Federation will vote today on whether to reduce the budget of the Tower Light, Hillsdale College’s student literary journal. The proposed cut will remove 33 percent, or $3,950, of next year’s overall Tower Light budget – 40 percent of what it allocates for printing. This proposed cut comes on the heels of a...

“I had so much joy. I was physically drained and emotionally ecstatic,” Kevin Walton said. “And then I looked at the television. I went from joy to devastation.” Forty-seven minutes after the Hillsdale resident completed the Boston Marathon, two explosions went off near the finish line. At least three people were killed, and more than...