Assistant Professor of English Kelly Franklin uses poetry to process his memories. “In the poem, ‘Trespass,’ we found this shack and broke into it thinking it was abandoned. But once we got there, we realized, ‘Oh, somebody lives here,’” Franklin said. As a child, Franklin spent three years in Latin America: one year in Costa...
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College offers computer science courses for fall
Hillsdale College will be offering classes in computer science next fall thanks to a recent faculty hire. John Seiffertt, formerly an assistant professor of computer science at Providence College in Rhode Island, will teach courses for the newly resurrected computer science minor. Chairman and Professor of Mathematics, Thomas Treloar said the Mathematics Department chose Seiffertt...
Q&A: Chris Rufo
Chris Rufo is a journalist, film director, and political activist. He is a contributing editor at City Journal, a director of the Center on Wealth & Poverty at the Discovery Institute, a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute, and a Visiting Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. In September, he helped the Trump Administration draft an...
Hindsight is 20/20: Award-winning novelist speaks on perspective
“The power of hindsight is the most effective tool in the writer’s toolbox,” said internationally acclaimed Nigerian novelist Chigozie Obioma on Tuesday night in Plaster Auditorium. Obioma came to campus as part of the English department’s Visiting Writers Series, and on Tuesday, gave a lecture titled “Objects in the Mirror are Closer than They Appear:...
More men should hang out at Penny’s coffee shop
Every Wednesday at around 2:31 p.m. EST I pack up my bags in Mossey Library, say goodbye to my fellow library fiends, and make my way down to Penny’s, the campus-run coffee shop in New Dorm. This ritual is my favorite of the week. I order a 10-ounce oat milk latte from Sam the Barista,...




