Whether it was sports, science, attending college, or joining a fraternity, the Homans have done everything together. But when it came to college, the Homans didn’t follow the same route. Jared Homan chose to attend John Carroll University for a year and a half, but now he is back at Hillsdale. The Homans have been...
Month: February 2014
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Next Level Learning
On a busy Tuesday night at Broad Street Market and Tavern, a group of young adults and Hillsdale College politics professor Kevin Slack fill up a table. They’re all students at the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship, pursuing either Masters or doctorates, and they’ve just come from Slack’s “Liberalism and Modern Progressivism” course. Post-class...
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The good dogs
Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn does not usually send campus emails. In the past year, Hillsdale’s commander-in-chief sent only two. Both regarded the rascally escapades of his playful boxer, Gus. “Gus, as foolish as he is handsome, has escaped from our back garden. He is a brown and white boxer, eight months old, very friendly....
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Michigan’s Oldest College Newspaper?
The Opinion of the Collegian Editorial Staff Below is a letter to the editor The Collegian’s editorial board sent to Kalamazoo College’s student newspaper, the Index: The Index published a column on Jan. 29 taking issue with The Collegian’s claim as Michigan’s oldest college newspaper. Katie Schmitz, the column’s author, claims that the Index is,...
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Learning violin ‘one little monkey’ at a time
Every Tuesday afternoon at 2:15 p.m., a young violinist descends the stairs to the basement of Howard Music Hall. For 15 minutes he stands in deep concentration between his mother and his teacher, carefully holding a violin about the size of his teacher’s hand. Robert Whalen is just three years old, but he has already...