What would you do for $3,000? This semester, 16 students competed for the 14th Annual Edward Everett Prize for Oratory. This year’s topic is “Privacy and Surveillance: The Costs to Our Free Republic.” First place will receive $3,000. The second and thirdplace finalists will receive $2,000 and $1,000, respectively. Though the contest was open to...
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February 16, 2014July 12, 2022Features
Next Level Learning
On a busy Tuesday night at Broad Street Market and Tavern, a group of young adults and Hillsdale College politics professor Kevin Slack fill up a table. They’re all students at the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship, pursuing either Masters or doctorates, and they’ve just come from Slack’s “Liberalism and Modern Progressivism” course. Post-class...
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February 7, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
Creation debate needs to evolve
On Tuesday at 7 p.m., about 20 Hillsdale students congregated in the Simpson Residence lobby to watch prominent creationist Ken Ham defend the viability of his worldview against Bill Nye, famous bow-tie- wearing “science guy.” Freshman Eli West organized the event. “It’s something I really have been called to have a conversation about on this...
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January 30, 2014July 12, 2022News
Winter of discontent embitters campus
Sophomore Marie Wathen had been on campus for 24 hours when she broke her leg. “I was walking back from Benzing, turned onto the Olds walkway, and slipped,” Wathen said. “I knew it was broken immediately.” Despite a spiral break to both her tibia and fibula, Wathen maintained the presence of mind to call her...
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December 5, 2013July 12, 2022Sports
The comback kids
Every athlete has to deal with some setbacks, mental or physical, but some have it so bad they have to stop playing their sport long before they expect or want to. But others just don’t know how to say no. Hillsdale College features two such athletes: volleyball player Lindsay Kostrzewa, and football player Steven Harding....