John U. Bacon, sports and business writer, public speaker, University of Michigan and Northwestern University professor and radio commentator, visited Hillsdale’s sportswriting class last Thursday. Author of New York Times bestseller “Three and Out,” in which he chronicles his unlimited-access experience following U of M players and coaches, humored the class by recounting his six-week...
Author: Macaela Bennett (Macaela Bennet)
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Q&A: Jon Paul Morosi
Jon Paul Morosi, national MLB writer for FOXSports.com visited Hillsdale to speak to the Sports Journalism class Tuesday. How did you make something you enjoy, talking about baseball, into a profitable career? I think that I let my curiosity guide me when I was in college. I didn’t go to college thinking I...
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Success for the sciences
Zach Kohley ’06, recently accepted a joint faculty position in the Michigan State University chemistry department and national superconducting laboratory. He will be starting a research program studying nuclear chemistry and also advocates the value of an undergraduate degree in the sciences at Hillsdale. Although Hillsdale College is not widely noted for its science program,...
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For she is a pirate queen
“I was driving to D.C., 48 hours from signing on the dotted line for the Saudi contract, and Michael Jordan from Hillsdale called me offering the job here,” Dr. Patricia Bart said. Just as a pirate travels far and wide in search of treasure, Dr. Patricia Bart underwent a similar journey on her path to...
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Once upon a party . . .
In the wake of The Princeton Review’s “Top 10 Professors” ranking, in which Hillsdale College ranked #4, Playboy issued its 2012 “Top 10 Party Schools” list. Although Hillsdale appearing on the latter list today is virtually unfathomable, it purportedly happened 50 years ago. “Several people told me we were [on the list], but no one...