The world’s worst diseases and ailments may finally have cures. The life sciences recently discovered the ability to alter the human genome, the very entity that encodes our humanity, in order to eliminate disease, mutations, and potentially engineer the perfect human. Originally identified in the immune systems of single-celled organisms, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats...
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November 13, 2014July 12, 2022Culture
Write that novel this month, NaNoWriMo
“For fall break I just stayed here and wrote 10,000 words in two days,” said Chandler Ryd, a freshman from Colorado. National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) has come to Hillsdale. A small number of authors will spend the month writing novels with the goal of reaching at least 50,000 words. Writers meet for at least...
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Brian Curtis returns to Hillsdale with “Stonehenge”
Stunning sunrises and skyscapes break over the mysterious rocks of Stonehenge in Brian Curtis’ exhibit, currently on display in the Daughtry Gallery of the Sage Center for the Arts. Curtis, a former professor at Hillsdale from 1980 to 1983, returned homecoming weekend to unveil his oil-paintings of Stonehenge. Although he only worked at Hillsdale for...
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October 9, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
Hubris of the hunt
One year ago, TV personality Melissa Bachman killed a male lion in South Africa then tweeted, “An incredible day hunting in South Africa! Stalked inside 60 yards on this beautiful male lion…what a hunt!” But after spending several weeks working beside nine lions in Mkhuze National Park in South Africa, I can attest that lion...
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March 7, 2014July 12, 2022News
College firearms range adds new technology
At the Hillsdale College Shooting Sports Center, students armed with shotguns can now shoot in the basement of the Acusport Lodge. But instead of bullets, these shotguns fire lasers. The nearly completed AcuSport Lodge now features an advanced firearms training program called DryFire. With DryFire, students load “blank” shells into their laserequipped weapons, which are...