When senior Hans Noyes returned home, he asked his family’s Amazon Echo smart speaker the question he had explored for his project in the Public History course: Is Hillsdale College a Christian school? “No,” the robot voice named Alexa responded. “If I had done that sooner, I would have saved a lot of time,” Noyes...
Year: 2018
The man on the microphone
He calls it a “baptism by fire.” Josh Colletta’s first announcement for Hillsdale College sports was the 2012 GLIAC men’s basketball championship game. Expectations were high because it was the first time that Hillsdale hosted in the history of the tournament. “I like to say no one heard the two best calls that I’ve...
Revolution, riots, rights: Students throwback to the ’60s CCA
War, revolution, riots, assassins, rights, men on the moon – this was the 1960s. This was the era in which Vietnam rattled with gunfire and burned with napalm as American soldiers battled the communist Viet Kong, while on the shores of the U.S., young men publicly incinerated their draft cards. Martin Luther King Jr. declared...
Student researches development of ‘child’s moral compass’
It’s not every psychology research project that starts with decorating onesies for the participants, but it’s different when the research subjects are 6 to 24 months old. In preparation for her research project on infant social judgments, senior Mikaela Overton met with her adviser, chairwoman of psychology Kari McArthur, to iron “Baby Scientist” onto the...
Students to hold conference on modern identity
Human dignity is something that should drive how one views society, culture, politics, and everything else around oneself. It’s this belief which led a group of Hillsdale College students to partner with the World Youth Alliance to hold The Modern Identity Crisis: Emerging Leaders Conference, which will take place Feb. 16-17. The conference will examine...




