Future Hillsdale students might be required to take a comprehensive core exam, according to members and advisors of the core curriculum review committee. The committee began its review of the core curriculum in November and will have its final meeting of the semester in April. Afterwards, it may propose specific changes to the core, Hillsdale’s...
Clean shoes and gold coins: Kehoe students start new business
Four Hillsdale students have started a shoe cleaning business as part of their Kehoe Fellowship project. The Kehoe Fellowship gives students a practical, hands-on experience in entrepreneurship, according to Jen Lutz, the fellowship’s director. Freshman Russel Mangiapane and sophomores Ianna Chan, Ashley Luke, and Rylan Conley started the St. Nick’s Shoe Cleaning Service at the...
Visiting fellow says president must be ‘well taught militarily’
The best way to be effective in war is to be familiar with your opponent’s geopolitics, according to Jeremy Black, author and professor of history at the University of Exeter. In his lecture, “Geopolitics and Revolution: America’s War for Independence,” on March 10, Black argued that military and foreign affairs are a primary concern for...
Chancellor Beeke says the Puritans are still relevant
The Puritans can show modern Christians how to live wholeheartedly for God, so they are still relevant today, according to Joel Beeke, chancellor and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. “The Puritans were strongest just where Christians today are weakest,” Beeke said. “In many ways, Puritans were ahead of their...
Senior editor details China’s organ harvesting industry
The Chinese Communist Party is harvesting the organs of 60,000 to 90,000 living victims every year as part of its bureaucracy, said Jan Jekielek, senior editor of The Epoch Times, during a speech sponsored by the president’s office and hosted in the Heritage Room on March 12. “You have to be able to propagandize the...