Victorino Matus is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard. After he graduated from Georgetown University, Vic landed his first and only fulltime job at the magazine. In addition to The Weekly Standard, he has written pieces for the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. His book “Vodka: How a Colorless, Odorless, Flavorless Spirit...
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February 27, 2014July 12, 2022News
2014 CCA topics announced
Hillsdale’s Center for Constructive Alternatives has decided on next year’s topics. They will be World War I, Energy: Issues and Controversies, American Journalism Yesterday and Today, and Silent Films. Timothy Caspar, associate vice president for external affairs, said the college has hosted an economics CCA every year for the past 12 years. “Over the course...
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February 27, 2014July 12, 2022News
Early reading day canceled
Although students usually have a reading day early in the spring semester to catch up on work or sleep, this short break is absent from the schedule this year. The administration has decided against having a reading day because spring break has been pushed to an earlier date and because Easter break is longer than...
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February 27, 2014July 12, 2022News
Seniors scramble on theses
Some senior theses are due before spring break this year, and Hillsdale College seniors are hard at work on their papers. “My thesis is about privatizing unemployment insurance, and why it is terrible under government control,” said Mike McDonald, a senior economics major. McDonald is exploring how unemployment insurance contributes to unemployment in general, especially...
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February 27, 2014July 12, 2022Features
Bringing the gods to life
What happens when an Irish Catholic priest heads west to 1864 Colorado to evangelize an American Indian tribe? In sophomore Caleb Eatough’s recently published book, “The Western Gods,” that priest falls in love with an American Indian goddess named Eithne, and other gods retaliate. “Sometimes things don’t really have a realistic solution,” Eatough said. “The...