The weekend of rain turned the Louisville course into a long stretch of mud. For many runners, it was the first race of the year they needed to wear half-inch spikes to gain some traction. The NCAA had to shorten the race by 200 kilometers. But for the Hillsdale women’s cross-country team, mud was not...
Year: 2015
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CCA Q&A: Richard Brookhiser
Richard Brookhiser is the author of many books, including a series of biographies of the founding fathers. Of those is the most recent “Founder’s Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln.” He is a senior editor at National Review, where he has worked since 1977. A journalist and historian, his work has appeared in The New...
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Harry Jaffa dies
Harry Victor Jaffa — renowned historian, political theorist, and intellectual godfather of Hillsdale College — died on Jan. 10 at the age of 96. President Larry Arnn and Professors of Politics Ronald Pestritto and Thomas West were among those in attendance at Jaffa’s funeral, and West delivered one of the eulogies. “Just as students here...
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Students for life march on D.C.
More than 70 Hillsdale College students gathered in Washington, D.C., at noon today for March for Life 2015. March for Life, an annual demonstration on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, attracts more than 500,000 participants and is the largest pro-life event in the world. “The best part of March for Life is seeing the...
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New baby owls, keys, and angels
On the night of Monday, Jan. 12, dozens of campus women stood out on the snowy ground in front of Central Hall in below-freezing temperatures, screaming cheers and slogans that resounded through the Quad and beyond. Madness had not driven them there, however. They had congregated to welcome their new sorority sisters and to mark...