Before assuming the role of the president of Hillsdale College in 2000, Larry Arnn served as president of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Political Statesmanship in Southern California. Thanks to population growth identified in the 1990 census, in 1992 a new congressional district, the 43rd, was drawn in West Riverside County, nearby to...
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November 6, 2014July 12, 2022News
Renaissance school meets GOALs and expands
Senior Sam Ryskamp pulled up to the Parke Hayes building on W. Bacon Street to a chorus of “It’s Sam!” “Sam is here!” “Sam! Sam!” He unfolded himself from the driver’s seat as a small boy with big eyes ran to the car to greet him, leading a trail of others. When he asked where...
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October 12, 2014July 12, 2022Culture
Going for the gold: some early Academy Awards predictions
The summer movie season of box office wars waged among popcorn flicks and blockbuster spectacles has ended, and critics and moviegoers alike are gearing up for the films to change like trees from green to gold. Awards season brings films built not as cash cows, but as art to be submitted in contest for a...
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September 14, 2014July 12, 2022Culture
Welcome to the Arts page; let’s talk this year
This is the arts page. You should read it this year. Not because I’m its editor or the writing here in this column, week to week, will wow you and you’ll wonder at its wit and whimsy—though that would be nice. Read the arts section because you’re at Hillsdale, in a community of amazingly creative...
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September 4, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
Against cynicism, and other pieces of advice
We all love Hillsdale. If we don’t, we get out of here. The school is growing more selective every year. The more it stands by its mission and motto, expands the core and opposes grade inflation, the more self-selective it becomes as well. Much of the student body knows why they came here, and what...