“Whenever you see something fouled up, rest assured, it’s gonna be government,” said former congressman Bob McEwan in a speech at Hillsdale College. McEwan, who represented Ohio’s sixth district from 1981 to 1993, and was a member of the Intelligence and Rules committees during the Reagan administration, spoke to a crowd of students on the...
“Ballet is not one thing; it’s many things,” said Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance Holly Hobbs. This is important to remember as audiences attend the next performance of Hillsdale College’s Professional Artist Series. The Grand Rapids Ballet, Michigan’s only professional ballet company, will be performing their 2018-2019 season opener at the Fine Arts Building on...
Yuri Norstein’s animated short “Tale of Tales” is only a half-hour long, and available on YouTube. Check it out; it’s well worth the watch. The short film is based on an old Russian lullaby, sung at the beginning of the movie as a baby suckles at his mother’s breast. Here’s an English translation: Baby, baby,...
After beating Simpson in Mock Rock but falling short of ending its 7-year homecoming reign, off-campus house residents continue to “make spaces into places,” per their homecoming coalition motto. The men of Bjornheim — juniors Dietrich Balsbaugh and Joshua Pautz, and sophomores Marcus Lotti and Dominic Bulger — began planning their homecoming group over the...
The Freshman Pledge and the Honor Code are well-known rites of a Hillsdale student — but twenty years ago, Hillsdale students did not have to sign the Honor Code or recite the Freshman Pledge upon entering the college. Both are fairly recent developments that arrived soon after Larry Arnn became president of Hillsdale College. Each...