It was a bubbling sound that woke junior Laura Rose from her evening nap. Girls down the hall were talking about pipes bursting, so in a half-awake stupor, Rose checked her bathroom to see if she needed to worry. Sure enough, sewage was bubbling from the pipes beneath her sink. Earlier this week, Niedfeldt Residence...
Author: Bailey Pritchett (Bailey Pritchett)
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Bobb leaves Kirby
This semester will conclude Professor of Politics David Bobb’s tenure as the executive director of citizen education for the Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship. His next venture sits one state away as president of the Bill of Rights Institute in Arlington, Va. In 1996, Bobb graduated from Hillsdale College as...
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Kirby Center introduces hostel
WASHINGTON–For over 20 years, more than 200 people gathered at Hillsdale College every summer for the Hillsdale Hostel Program. As of last spring, the Hilldale Hostel Program has extended to the Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington D.C. The program began during the summer of 1990 exploring the theme...
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Bobb holds key role at Kirby Center
As a young man, David Bobb knew that his future would involve politics, but he never would have pictured himself as a Hillsdale College faculty member working from Capitol Hill. In the spring of 1996, Bobb exited with Hillsdale diploma in hand, bound for Boston College, where he would eventually receive his Ph.D. in political...
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Kirby Center gains new VP, education director
Matthew Spalding was looking out of his office window, talking on the phone with Larry Arnn, when the college president said something about expanding the college’s mission to D.C., and maybe even buying a building. “So I said, ‘Well, there’s a really attractive building across the street and there’s a ‘for sale’ sign,” Spalding recalled....