As someone who came to Hillsdale College unaware of the school’s conservative leanings, I was at first shocked to see Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher monumentalized on the quad. The New York Times reporter Erik Eckholm told me he felt the same way the night before he left Hillsdale. Eckholm said this as he sat...
Some days we stand up in the Palace Cafe like it’s the last of the great pioneer town bars. Other days, we sit in the booths, dreading tomorrow — the exam, the hangover, the break-up on the quad — and measure out our lives in coffee spoons. But the Palace is always there to comfort...
The city of Hillsdale has adopted a new program which will allow credit card users to pay for almost all city services with their card or electronic checks. The city council voted to approve the program, which is powered by Point & Pay LLC, an electronic billing service, at Monday’s city council meeting. The program...
The City of Hillsdale’s unofficial motto, “It’s the people” might have a home in Hillsdale after all. City Councilman Brian Watkins raised the possibility of placing the slogan on the city’s water tower at a Jan. 24 city council meeting. Watkins said he came up with this idea after looking at a recent Board of...
Bad things, sometimes, take time. The Ed Sullivan-era musical satirist Tom Lehrer enjoyed shocking his audiences with piano-driven ditties about educational experiments describing “new math,” a teaching method where students are encouraged to focus on concepts over practice. After singing a complicated word problem to his audience, Lehrer would grin and declare, “It’s so simple,...