In the fall of 2012, only three freshmen earned a 4.0 grade point average in their first semester, according the registrar’s office. In the fall of 2013, 17 freshmen did the same. Similarly, while 33 percent of freshmen in the fall of 2011 made the Dean’s List and 35 percent of freshmen in the fall...
Year: 2014
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World Vision and Evangelicals flip-flop, hurt needy
On March 25, the United States branch of World Vision announced that it would hire individuals in same-sex marriages. World Vision reversed the policy change one day later after protests from donors and the Evangelical community at large. On March 25 and 26, World Vision lost...
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Hillsdale should have a shop class
The floorboards in my car are rusting and rotting out and I haven’t the faintest clue how to fix them. Yet I can design a society from the ground up and discuss G.W.F. Hegel, economic coercion, and New Jersey education policy. The only time I’ve ever built a birdhouse I fit the pieces together so...
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Call your mom
Call your mom while you’re at college. It took me four months, a reminder from the dean, and a nasty email to figure that out. In fact, do it every week, your life will improve. If I am truthful, that single injunction is sufficient advice for this whole piece. But heck, I’m a graduating senior,...
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Searching for Life and Light: Dillard and Robinson
In this semester’s “Life and Light” column, I have explored authors who have, in some form, responded to the literary and cultural modernism of roughly the past century. Rather than asking the tradition’s questions — What is God? What is Man? And what has each to do with the other? —the modern finds himself severed...