This summer, I walked into a frozen yogurt store in Grand Rapids. It was open, but there was no one to serve me. Five minutes later, a young woman appeared, and said “it’s self-serve.” I picked up a cup, poured my own yogurt, then added a few toppings. But when I went to check out,...
James Spiegel will join the Hillsdale faculty after he was fired from Taylor University for refusing to remove a music video from his YouTube channel. Starting in January, Spiegel will teach philosophy classes and conduct research as the Arete Professorial Fellow during the next three semesters. The college’s Arete Research Center for Philosophy, Science, and...
The Sight-Singing Fight Club is bringing choral music to A.J.’s Cafe every Wednesday night. The new club, founded in October by Professor of Music Katherine Rick, consists of students from a subsection of the Chapel Choir known as the Choral Scholars. Every week, the club meets in A.J.’s to sing Evensongs, choral songs that are...
The battle between Christianity and evolution is a culture war, according to David Lahti, professor of biology at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Lahti delivered two lectures on evolution as part of the John H. and Elsa Roscoe Lecture Series in the Natural Sciences on Oct. 27. The first discussed how human...
Republican Rep. Joseph Bellino Jr. said he is confident he will defeat Democrat Katybeth Davis on Nov. 8 to represent Michigan’s 16th state Senate District. “I’m going to keep doing the same work I’ve been doing the last nine months,” Bellino said. “We’re running through the tape at the finish line and hopefully it comes...