Alumna Elizabeth Bachmann ’21 released her debut book in September about the FTX cryptocurrency scandal. Bachmann cowrote “Crypto Crackup: Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX, and Bankman-Fried’s Weird Island Empire” with Ash Bennington and Artur Osiński. The book explores the rise and fall of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who managed a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency exchange with his company but...
Students now need ID cards to enter residence halls at all hours, in a new policy adopted by campus security last week. “Hillsdale College is a very safe campus, and we strive to do everything we can to keep it that way,” Director of Security and Emergency Management Joe Kellam said. “We strive to keep...
The story of Hunter Biden’s laptop is like a Russian doll: Just when you think you’ve come to the end of it, you peel off another layer, and it gets crazier, journalist Miranda Devine said in an Oct. 26 speech. Devine is this semester’s Eugene C. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Journalism. While on campus,...
Hillsdale College legacies do not benefit from priority admissions, Senior Director of Admissions Zachary Miller said. “We do not weigh someone’s application differently because they’re a legacy,” Miller said. “It is truly on the merits of the student’s application without any consideration or ranking for that.” Though siblings, children, and grandchildren of Hillsdale alumni enrich...
Two of Hillsdale College’s three mock trial teams placed in tournaments this weekend. The teams that placed, Scary Decisis and De Novo, competed in Boston at Tufts University’s Mumbo Jumbo and Michigan State University’s Red Cedar Classic Tournaments, respectively. “We went up against four teams. The first was Harvard, and unfortunately, we lost both ballots...