Hillsdale College released its official return-to-campus protocols for students, staff, and faculty on Aug. 5. Among some of the biggest changes: mandatory masks indoors, daily temperature checks, and newly-installed anti-viral technology. In an email to students, Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn said freshman convocation and the first day of classes will “occur as scheduled” on...
As the coronavirus curve begins to flatten across the country, state governments target the most vulnerable. At the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, the federal government told Americans to stay at home to “flatten the curve,” or decrease the amount of potential infections so as to prevent patients from overwhelming hospitals. This was all to...
After most colleges and universities have been shut down or shifted online due to the COVID-19 outbreak, students and faculty across the country are adjusting to their new life after mandatory social-distancing. As of Saturday morning, the U.S. had more than 19,900 confirmed coronavirus cases, with at least 275 deaths. The global death toll is...
American film historian and writer Joseph McBride believes filmmaker and Oscar-winning director John Ford can be summed up in a line from Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass”: “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.” “That’s John Ford,” McBride posits. Ford and his westerns are the subject...
With the U.S. death toll at 11 as of Wednesday night, COVID-19, or novel coronavirus, has states and municipalities scrambling to respond. Hillsdale College “is developing additional strategies for combating coronavirus,” in the case the disease makes its way to Hillsdale County, Director of Health Services Brock Lutz said in an email. COVID-19 is a...