Speakers at an interdisciplinary forum on evolution Friday offered perspectives on why Christian students should not scoff at the concept of evolution but rather study it within the contexts of cosmology, biology, and theology. The Lyceum held a discussion among Assistant Professor of Biology Silas Johnson, Assistant Professor of Physics Timothy Dolch, and Assistant Professor...
Students and visitors strolling into Central Hall will soon no longer see the smiling greeting of Billie Jo Harwood behind the front desk. Starting around Nov. 1, the college switchboard is leaving for the new contact center in the basement level of Kendall Hall. In the new facility, all of the college’s external communications —...
Classes around here tend to transform people. Gaetano’s Renaissance can change a major; Jackson’s Dostoevsky can change a mind; Smith’s Great Books can change a life. Physical Wellness Dynamics can wreck a morning. Our time at Hillsdale is too short. When each passing day increasingly feels like another tick of a time bomb, there’s a...
Last night, the curtain went up on the Tower Players’ production of “The Eumenides” in a dizzying display of towering temples, grotesque demons, and bewitching odes. Angell said he selected this play in part because its key theme — the conflict between “reasoned jurisprudence” and “vengeance” — is a question human societies have debated for...
When the class of 2017 graduates in May, America will be facing four years of either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton as president. We’re going to need a darn good commencement speaker. For the most part, the fresh batch of graduates will venture into the world much like other Hillsdalians who have gone before: as...