In honor of national child abuse prevention month, the sheriff’s department and the Hillsdale branch of Child Abuse Prevention and Awareness held a rally at noon Wednesday on the courthouse lawn. Surrounded by the blue pinwheels that are the symbols of the movement, speakers from law enforcement, the prosecutor’s office, and around 20 community...
The hills and dales of dating: What forces push students together, or drive them apart?
“Hillsdale is just obsessed with dating,” Kaitlyn Zellner, a counselor who works for the college, told me. When I reached out for comment on this article, I received more than a dozen pitches from students and alumni offering to share the intimate secrets of their love lives. Money magazine released an article a couple of...
The Palace Cafe reopens on weekend nights
The Palace Cafe is open late nights on weekends again — but only until the end of the spring 2018 semester. According to owner Leslie Meredith, she decided to reopen for late nights so students celebrating the end of the year would have a place to go in the dead hours. “It’s really for...
Davidson College apologizes after calling Folsom lecture not ‘academic related’
Davidson College staff apologized after moving locations for a lecture from a former Hillsdale College history professor on Monday, calling his speech not “academic related” and gaining national attention. Davidson’s chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom invited Burt Folsom, now a distinguished fellow of Hillsdale, to speak about the history of entrepreneurship in America....
Philosophy professor to research the problem of evil
Visiting Professor of Philosophy Ian Church is receiving a nearly quarter-of-a-million-dollar grant for research that could topple the strongest argument against a belief in God. Church learned early this month that John Templeton Foundation selected his project from 2,000 proposals across disciplines and 150 in philosophy and theology. It is providing $220,421 to Church’s project,...




