Year: 2015

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Social media guru hired

The social media department employees in External Affairs found an inspirational quote on the dry-erase board when they arrived in Moss Hall Feb. 2. “NO! Try not! DO or DO NOT, There is no try,” the quote from Yoda read. The wise words, traditionally written by the first person in the office each morning, exemplify...

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Accounting assistant retires after 19 years

In 1995, the Hillsdale College business office placed an ad in the newspaper for an accounting assistant. Carole Jacobus saw the ad and decided to apply. She had taken business classes at Spring Arbor University and moved to Hillsdale when she married. Jacobus is retiring tomorrow after 19 faithful years of service. Her 19 years...

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How to think about marriage

It was a delight to see such a large turnout for the recent debate on marriage. The whole event, including the coverage in the Collegian, was a model of civil discourse. We write to clarify four points about the conjugal view of marriage. First, as a comprehensive union of lover and beloved, marriage distinctively unites...

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Why our marriage dialogue failed

The phrase “political dialogue” is, in common American usage, criminally broad. To us, a political dialogue is simply any political conversation in which diverse viewpoints get time to state their case. True dialogue involves the consideration not of ideas only, but also of the persons who hold them. The distinction matters only rarely, but when...

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Welcome changes to the family

Few social institutions have undergone as radical change as the family in recent years, and few social changes have been met with as much controversy. Many conservatives claim that there has been an immoral destruction of the “traditional” family in the last few decades. But the reality is that the social institution we call “the...