This past Monday evening, juniors and seniors made their way to the Searle Center for free drinks, dinner, and a pitch from the 1844 Society on why they, recent graduates, should part with their money for the sake of their alma mater. Some attended the dinner, if only for free drinks and dinner. But they...
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February 4, 2016July 12, 2022Opinions
Our faculty should get more CCA time
The lecture notes have been taken, the stage cleared, the banners pulled down, and the Dow Center emptied. Another Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar has come and gone at Hillsdale College. With the exception of Monday’s fire alarm scare, this CCA looked much like those that of years past. As before, we gleaned the wisdom...
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January 28, 2016July 12, 2022Opinions
Clarence Thomas shares our mission
Once the speech has ended, the caps and gowns have been doffed, and parents have been tearfully embraced, Hillsdale students often begin to subject their commencement speaker to harsh criticism. Few things are nearer to our hearts than debate, and the relative merits of our speaker are fair game. Past commencement speakers have asked the...
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December 3, 2015July 12, 2022Opinions
‘Safe spaces’ crowd out free discourse
The primary beneficiaries of free speech are shouting it down. Students benefit most from free discourse, their education itself dependent on the reasonable exchange of ideas. Students are protesting on university campuses across the nation, shrieking about “safe spaces.” They claim a right to retreat into a place (be it physical, ideological, social) where they...
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November 19, 2015July 12, 2022Opinions
A perspective on prospectives
Most of us remember our first visit to campus as high schoolers. Now college students, we also remember the first time we witnessed prospective students invading our classes, dining hall, and campus for their own first visits. They stand huddled in large groups in the front of Mossey Library, listening with their parents as a...