The phrase “political dialogue” is, in common American usage, criminally broad. To us, a political dialogue is simply any political conversation in which diverse viewpoints get time to state their case. True dialogue involves the consideration not of ideas only, but also of the persons who hold them. The distinction matters only rarely, but when...
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February 5, 2015July 12, 2022News
President’s Ball court awaits crowning
Morgan Delp The editor-in-chief of the Collegian is from Holland, Ohio, and is majoring in history. She plans to pursue a career in teaching,...
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February 5, 2015July 12, 2022Features
Campus climbers
Konrad La Prade ’05 remembers spending a lot of time on roofs. Cooking meals in a fire pit carried up from ground level. The first pipe he ever smoked. Conversations with friends that would stretch for whole evenings. One long conversation – six hours – with a female acquaintance, Joy, who would become his friend,...
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January 29, 2015July 12, 2022Culture
Intervarsity playing host to The Gray Havens
We can all thank senior Tim Allen for bringing the pop-folk husband and wife duo The Grey Havens to the Dawn Theater again this Saturday. The show is free for Hillsdale College students and begins at 8:00 p.m. at the Dawn Theater. Last year, front man Dave Radford announced a tour and asked fans for...
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January 29, 2015July 12, 2022Culture
The Tower Light, a shared space for beauty
In the semester’s waning days one morning they appear suddenly: slim paperbacks with glossily inviting covers, stacked in tidy piles on library tables, on columns in the union, in the window wells of classroom buildings. They are picked up, pored over, pondered, passed from hand to hand. The student-written poems and photographs they contain are...