Hillsdale College’s mock trial invitational season wrapped up with Hillsdale teams competing in the University of Michigan Invitiational and the Indiana University Invitational that position them well for their regional competition. Hillsdale teams A and B competed at the University of Michigan Invitational on Jan. 21 and 22 and received second and third, respectively, receiving...
Professor of History Tom Conner is offering a unique opportunity to local residents and the Hillsdale College community to travel to Europe and explore World War sites this summer. In honor of the 100th anniversary of America’s entrance into World War I, Conner, who helps lead the Hillsdale Summer Study Abroad’s Churchill World War II...
Hillsdale College’s men’s and women’s track and field squads both came in second behind Grand Valley State University at the Mike Lints Alumni Open hosted at Grand Valley on Saturday, Jan. 28. The men scored a total of 69 points, while the women scored 83.25 with a total of 12 provisional marks. Head coach Andrew...
Bad things, sometimes, take time. The Ed Sullivan-era musical satirist Tom Lehrer enjoyed shocking his audiences with piano-driven ditties about educational experiments describing “new math,” a teaching method where students are encouraged to focus on concepts over practice. After singing a complicated word problem to his audience, Lehrer would grin and declare, “It’s so simple,...
When President Trump nominated Judge Neil M. Gorsuch on Tuesday to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, Hillsdale College students and faculty expressed cautious approval for the jurist whose originalist philosophy and conservative tilt liken him to Scalia himself. Most recently a federal appeals court judge in...