It’s a cold Friday night in October on the football field. The air is crisp. A group of young men are struggling and yelling, their breath coming in clouds. A coach’s whistle blows, and they collapse, exhausted. This isn’t Friday night football. This is the Hillsdale College baseball team in the off season, and they’ve...
Earlier this year, the University of South Dakota School of Law forced a group of students to change the name of its “Hawaiian Day” social to “Beach Day,” citing a complaint about cultural insensitivity. Shortly after, the state passed a new free speech bill — the first of its kind in the nation — that...
Professor of History David Stewart studied the paper, nodded, then crossed out the student’s entire first paragraph. The student, Andrew Dykstal ’13, considered himself a good writer, especially after successfully competing in essay speech writing, but he realized this was a delusion upon entering Hillsdale. Nevertheless, with his professors’ guidance, he learned to clear out...
If you tuned in to the Super Bowl, you may have noticed Hillsdale College’s commercial standing out amid a circus of Doritos, Bud Light, and Dodge commercials. Hillsdale offered the public a glimpse of the school’s refusal of federal funding and mission-focused education through its commercial. Behind it all was the Hillsdale College Marketing Department....
Few college students would dream of turning down a new car — their key to late-night fast food runs and impromptu travel. But for sophomore Callahan Stoub, the dream car can wait. When Eric Stoub, Callahan Stoub’s father, sold one of his businesses, his first thought was to buy new cars for both Callahan and...