Last week’s highly enjoyable Tower Players production of The Drowsy Chaperone was a surprising exploration of how individuals understand art and apply it to their own lives. The frame narrator, a character known only as Man in Chair (played by the engaging, ever effervescent junior Matthew Sauer) walks the audience through his beloved recording of...
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February 19, 2015July 12, 2022Features
Munn runs, gets none
“Why will a man strive for an impossible goal?” asked the Collegian in 1967. The article referred to the then-Associate Academic Dean of the college, Earle Harold Munn, who had just accepted the Prohibition Party’s nomination for President of the United States. Despite its near 100 year history, the party did not command even one...
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February 5, 2015July 12, 2022News
College groups host marriage debate
A cordial ethical debate drew such a crowd to the Dow Leadership Center on Tuesday night that a live feed was broadcast to overflow seating in the lobby. The standing-room-only crowd gathered to see Sherif Girgis and John Corvino debate “What is Marriage?” at an event sponsored by Young Americans for Freedom and the Intercollegiate...
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January 29, 2015July 12, 2022News
Marriage debate to be held
A debate on the nature of marriage will come to Dow A&B on Tuesday, Feb. 3, at 7:30 p.m. “What is Marriage?” is sponsored by the Lyceum and the Symposium, student groups which receive funding from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and the Hillsdale chapter of Young Americans for Freedom. “I’m excited because being a liberal...
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January 22, 2015July 12, 2022News
CCA Q&A: Richard Brookhiser
Richard Brookhiser is the author of many books, including a series of biographies of the founding fathers. Of those is the most recent “Founder’s Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln.” He is a senior editor at National Review, where he has worked since 1977. A journalist and historian, his work has appeared in The New...