After a contentious debate, Hillsdale College’s Student Federation voted 14-4 to allocate nearly $7,000 from its surplus fund for Centrahallapalooza at its April 6 meeting. The $6,858.21 is covering half the cost of food — the other half coming from the Student Activities Board’s own fund — which SAB members said they hope will purchase...
With just under a month until the unveiling of the Frederick Douglass statue, the sculpture’s mold is ready. The dedication ceremony for the project that was announced in 2014 will take place in Kresge Plaza on May 12, Chief Staff Officer Mike Harner said. Until then, the statue is being casted and will then travel...
Amid the unceasing pressure of deadlines given by professors convinced theirs is the most important class, papers stacked up from procrastination, events for clubs, fraternities, and sororities, and meeting with friends, there is one constant: coffee. Coffee is often a lifeline, especially toward the end of the semester, for students whose spirits are broken and...
A proposed law in Iowa would require universities to hire a similar ratio of conservative and liberal professors, but Hillsdale College faculty and students said such a policy would not be conducive to a liberal arts education. The legislation, SF-288, would prevent Iowa’s three state-run universities — the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, and...
Human short-term memory only has a capacity for five to seven items — like the digits of a phone number — yet expert musicians can learn and retain music they may have heard for the first time only a few minutes ago. According to Professor of Music Melissa Knecht, these feats of memory involve the...