Balls are bouncing again at the old tennis courts by Academy Lane. But instead of tennis rackets, players are sporting Wiffle balls and wooden ping-pong paddles. The game is called pickleball. It has 2.8 million players nationwide, according to the United States of America Pickleball Association (USAPA), and was labeled the “fastest growing sport” in...
You can tell a lot about professors by the things displayed in their offices. Professor of German Stephen Naumann displays maps. The walls of his basement office in Delp Hall are covered in maps — of Poland before and between the two world wars, of Germany, of Prussia. He even has a “metro map” of...
When Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn asked Madi Moore, “What is prudence?” during her junior year, he was so pleased with her answer he told her she could be a professor of Aristotle. Now, as a 2018 graduate, Moore has taken on the position of executive assistant to the president in June, replacing Victoria Bergen,...
It took a move to South America for Hillsdale Academy’s new headmaster David Diener to discover his love for education. After graduating from Wheaton College, Diener was building high-end custom cabinets and doing trim carpentry work for an Amish company in Ohio. For a few years, he and his wife, Brooke, whom he met at...
“Thou shalt not judge” has become the “first and greatest commandment” of contemporary culture, according to the Rev. Dominic Legge, who delivered a lecture in Phillips auditorium on Thursday, hosted by The Federalist Society. “It may be the only commandment on some campuses — surely not Hillsdale College’s campus — but on many of our...