Some men don’t like buying women flowers for Valentine’s Day. For many men, flowers lack practicality, destined to sit in a vase with no obvious purpose. They opt, rather, for tangible, edible, or useful gifts, like chocolate or jewelry. But at Hillsdale, where we seek beauty and truth for their own sake, it is clear...
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Be sportsmanlike spectators
If the student section did not include costumes like a man-sized strip of bacon, a ghillie suit, or a six-foot cutout of Coach Tharp, it would not be a Charger basketball game. Thankfully, Hillsdale students rarely leave this post unattended. But, as students who have adopted honor and virtue as a campus code of conduct,...
You can be a journalist
What do Frederick Douglass, Thomas Jefferson, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, George Orwell, Ronald Reagan, and Peggy Noonan have in common? Aside from all achieving considerable renown, each began in journalism. Attendees of this week’s CCA on “American Journalism, Yesterday & Today” heard much about journalism: How its Founding Era character both contrasts and compares with...
Slow and steady gets the grades
Remember the final week of the fall semester, when you stayed up all night writing your last paper, stumbled out of Delp Hall after turning it in the following day, and nearly collapsed into your car to return home in a post-finals daze? Remember thinking, “I will never let things get that bad ever again”?...
The low cost of our higher education
Although a Hillsdale education costs nearly $100,000 over four years, Hillsdale students walk off the graduation stage with some of the lowest debt of any college students nationwide. This could not be done without the incessant work ethic of the college’s financial aid office, led by Rich Moeggenberg. On average, students at Hillsdale College graduate...