Stacey Jones-Garrison called her quarantine this summer an “extended sabbatical.” Considering the fact that she used it to start her own jewelry company and record an album, the term seems fitting. “It’s a producer’s dream,” said Jones-Garrison, college artist and music teacher. “ ‘You have to stay inside.’ Well OK!” After coronavirus shutdowns sent Hillsdale...
The COVID-19 lockdowns are “the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history,” United States Attorney General William Barr said in a speech at Hillsdale College’s Constitution Day celebration on Sept. 16 in Arlington, Virginia. Barr’s speech focused on the rule of law and the separation of powers doctrine. “The rule of law is the...
Halloween will go on as usual in Hillsdale this year. The Hillsdale City Council addressed concerns about trick-or-treating amidst the COVID-19 pandemic but there was no debate about allowing the holiday to continue as usual. Mayor Adam Stockford said it wasn’t in the city’s jurisdiction to cancel the holiday. “It is not a city-sanctioned event,”...
Last week, a student argued in the Collegian that Americans need to reject the two-party system in favor of a “marketplace of parties” where Americans vote third-party. He claimed that the former forces voters to choose between the “lesser of two evils,” while the latter creates a net benefit for all Americans, forcing parties to...
The Wall Street Journal has once again excluded Hillsdale College from its annual ranking of the best colleges in the nation. Since the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education began the annual College Ranking list in 2016, it has not once included Hillsdale College because the data for its rankings comes from the Department of...