Junior Jonathan Church presents his speech at the Edward Everett Oratory Competition Tuesday in Phillips Auditorium. Anders Kiledal | Collegian Junior Jonathan Church took first place at the annual Edward Everett Oratory Competition Tuesday, March 8. Five finalists each delivered a ten-minute speech on the topic “Debate or Conversation? Liberty and Civility in Campus Discourse.”...
John U. Bacon is a sports journalist who has written several books, most recently “Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football.” He has been published in publications such as Time, ESPN Magazine, and The New York Times. Bacon received both his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Michigan and remains a loyal...
Lt. Col. Allen West will speak at Hillsdale College Saturday, March 11 in the Searle Center at 1 p.m. Wikimedia Commons | Courtesy Lt. Col. Allen West will speak at Hillsdale College — “unfiltered,” Hillsdale Young Americans for Freedom President senior Frank Bruno said. West, a guest of YAF, will speak Saturday, March 12 at...
Maurice Manning’s poetry in his 2010 collection “The Common Man” is an invitation to converse with the unique voices of his rustic Kentucky home. Manning uses each poem as an opportunity to narrate a single tale. But beyond merely relating events, his narrators sing of themselves, their concrete personalities and manners, and their relationships to...
First, let’s introduce the characters. There’s Red Dog, the loyal companion, and Black Damon, the trusty friend. There’s Mad Daddy, “with the shotgun full of history, / The horse and the flame, and the domino shoes.” And then there’s Lawrence Booth, self-styled hero, lover of nature, brilliant, boisterous, starry-eyed dreamer, and “bull’s-eye boy.” The setting...