DeVos did not elaborate further on how schools should address transgender students but instead spoke about how the new Education Department seeks to minimize the effect the federal government can have on what happens in the classroom.
Month: February 2017
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Track tunes up for gliac indoor championships
This weekend, Hillsdale hosted its annual “Tune-Up” meet, giving athletes a chance to do just that — tune up last-minute performances before heading into the conference meet this weekend at the University of Findlay. “I thought it was another really good step for us. It was exactly, as the meet is named, a good tune-up...
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Shooting for the Olympics
Before senior Ian Dupre takes a shot, he touches the barrel of his Perazzi shotgun to a pad and wiggles his feet. When he’s ready, he puts the gun to his shoulder and leans in. “Pull.” Within a seventh of a second, he aims and shoots at a target hurdling at 70 miles an hour....
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Meet the doppelgängers: Models give life to campus statues
From his corner-office window in Lane Hall, Gary Wolfram, the economics program director, can look down into Kresge Plaza and see a similar figure to his own: Abraham Lincoln. While sculpting the 16th president of the United States for Hillsdale College’s Liberty Walk, Professor of Art Anthony Frudakis used Wolfram as his model for the...
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Graduate dinner celebrates Washington’s statesmanship
Hillsdale College’s Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship held its first President’s Day Dinner on Saturday. The dinner, attended by more than 50 faculty members, students, and guests, was meant to engage intellectual conversation about the ideas and principles studied at Hillsdale, Graduate Student Society President Peter Cross said. The evening focused on George Washington,...