Amy Wax, a Robert Mundheim professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, will give a lecture titled “The Perils of a Push for Equal Rights.” The event, hosted by the Hillsdale College Federalist Society, will take place today at 12 p.m. in Lane 124. Subway will cater the event. “The Federalist Society is dedicated...
Youth mentoring program builds relationships with local youth and college students
If you walk by the benches outside the weight room in the Roche Sports Complex on Monday at 4:30 p.m., there’s a good chance you’ll see sophomore Marcus Lotti and eighth grader Ashton Montez playing Polish poker or Gin rummy, discussing what they want to eat for dinner that night or the most recent song...
Hillsdale performs drama of a hometown judge’s murder trial
In the sleepy Upper Peninsula of Michigan, a small coastal town of 319 people still boasts their claim to fame: a 1952 murder of bartender and former police officer Mike Chenoweth. On July 30, 1952, Coleman Peterson, a lieutenant recently assigned to Big Bay, Michigan, waited for his wife, Charlotte, to come home. Shortly after...
‘Hold the Dark’ is beautiful, baffling, and chilling
“Hold the Dark” is a self-fulfilling psychological thriller that leaves the viewer torn between the impulse to embrace its beautiful presentation and to recoil in horror at its chilling subject matter. Though both the film and the book on which it is based are set in the wilds of Alaska, “Hold the Dark” was filmed...
Protestantism frees Christians from false doctrines
Everyone knows that at Hillsdale, the “Protestant-Catholic” debate will come up continuously. I see this as a good thing. Hillsdale is full of students who take their faith seriously, which means presenting reasons for believing it, and (hopefully) sincerely considering the reasons presented by others. In the spirit of good, old-fashioned pot-stirring, then, and in...




