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Fall break retreat encourages students to unplug
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Fall break retreat encourages students to unplug

Students are invited to spend their fall break on a spiritual retreat in suburban Detroit with College Chaplain Rev. Adam Rick and Director of Health Services Brock Lutz. The retreat will take place at St. Augustine’s House, a Lutheran monastery in Oxford, Michigan. Students will have time for rest and prayer.  Students will depart from...

‘Iron sharpening iron:’ Thomistic Institute’s Christ the Savior conference comes to campus
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‘Iron sharpening iron:’ Thomistic Institute’s Christ the Savior conference comes to campus

Hillsdale’s Thomistic Institute chapter will host its first conference on Friday, Oct. 15 and Saturday, Oct. 16 in Plaster Auditorium featuring Associate Professor of Theology Jordan Wales and College Chapain Rev. Adam Rick. Co-sponsored by the Catholic Society, the event is called “Christ the Savior: Perspectives from The Early Church Fathers.” “The theme of the...

Women are not just ‘birthing peoples’
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Women are not just ‘birthing peoples’

A new and most dangerous front in the 21st-century war on women opened when the word woman itself became taboo. The Lancet, a British medical journal, joined the onslaught of sources attempting the erasure of women when it published an article about the stigma surrounding menstrual cycles.  “Historically,” the front page of its Oct. 1...

‘Mr. Burns’  takes the stage
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‘Mr. Burns’ takes the stage

The Hillsdale College theatre department will be performing “Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play” Oct. 15-16 at 7:30 p.m. Directed by Professor Emeritus George Angell, the production is a staged reading of American playwright Anne Washburn’s 2012 play. “Of course the plays of the staged reading series can be seen and enjoyed by anyone,” Angell said....

Michigan ‘redistricting’ is gerrymandering in disguise
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Michigan ‘redistricting’ is gerrymandering in disguise

When 61% of Michiganders voted in 2018 to form the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission, they expected an end to gerrymandered maps controlling who represented them in Lansing and Washington, D.C. After all, the commission’s mission is to ensure “district lines are drawn fairly in a citizen-led, transparent process, meeting Constitutional mandates.”  Yet the commission...