Senior Emily Schutte at last year’s IBS awards ceremony. Courtesy | Scot Bertram Hillsdale College’s student radio station, WRFH Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM, is a finalist for the best college or university radio station with under 10,000 students in the national Intercollegiate Broadcasting System awards. Several student shows and features are also finalists. IBS,...
Fifth-annual Lessons & Carols coming this weekend
Students and the larger Hillsdale community will get a chance to share the spirit of the Christmas season in song at this year’s Lessons & Carols event. Lessons & Carols will be held in Christ Chapel Sunday, Dec. 7, at 6 p.m. The program is a joint effort between the music department and the office...
‘A beautiful thing’: students express gratitude on Day of Thanks
Hillsdale students poured into the Grewcock Student Union from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Nov. 20 to write thank-you cards for donors, friends, and professors — a decade-old tradition called Day of Thanks. “I love Day of Thanks. I think it’s the most special day of the year,” senior Abigail Celecia said. “There’s nothing more...
Hillsdale plans new minor in Judaism
Hillsdale is taking the first steps to create a new Judaism minor, College President Larry Arnn said at fall convocation Nov. 13. The proposed program will cover the great Jewish texts, their historical context, and the Hebrew language, Associate Vice President for Curriculum David Whalen said. A launch date for the minor is undetermined, as...
Speaker explains complications of church teaching on death penalty
The Roman Catholic Church’s current opposition to the death penalty is inconsistent with historical church teaching about human dignity and agency, argued Peter Karl Koritansky in a talk hosted by The Lyceum last month. Koritansky, a Cleveland University professor of philosophy and religion and author, began his talk by joking about the difficulty of convincing...
