Mississippi, a Southern, Republican, Protestant state with abstinence-only education mandated in public schools, suffers from the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the country. Liberals love to parade this statistic, usually garnered from the National Center for Health Statistics (2010), as evidence that abstinence education has failed. Schools should teach teenagers to use contraceptives instead, the...
Month: October 2014
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Greg Wolfe: The alpha choice
At 8 p.m. next Tuesday, Oct. 21, students are faced with a choice of how to spend the last night before fall break begins (besides studying for their last midterms, of course). In the Dow Center Rooms A&B, Gregory Wolfe — conservative author, Hillsdale College graduate, founder and editor of Image, a national journal of...
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Underground you can find jazz, rock, and more
Broad Street Downtown Market in Hillsdale broadened its horizons to get more business from students when it recently opened its Downtown Underground in its newly finished basement. As customers are showing up to indulge in food and drink specials in a new atmosphere, the bar has started having live music performances to entertain its customers....
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In Focus: Be careful what you listen to — music impacts the mind
Finding someone who doesn’t listen to music is about as hard as finding someone who doesn’t breathe. Music is everywhere. Practically everyone enjoys it. Music is popular because it’s powerful. It can cheer up the soul, it can make the heart sad. It can be beautiful, but sometimes it’s not. Now I’m not here to...