Hillsdale College students will not be able to resume in-person classes until April 20, the college announced Monday due to the growing COVID-19 pandemic. While the college originally planned to bring students back to campus by March 30, Provost Christopher VanOrman announced Monday that the college would not have them return for about another month,...
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...
After a series of setbacks with Hillsdale College’s newly acquired Monticello replica, the college will move forward with its plan to establish the property as the Blake Center for Faith and Freedom. Last year, Prestly Blake, co-founder of Friendly’s restaurant chain, and his wife, Helen Blake, donated a large part of their estate in Somers,...