Hillsdale College for Life has started a biweekly prayer ministry to bring awareness to the issue of abortion. Senior HCFL Presidet Kathleen Russo explained the addition to the club’s portfolio of activities as “a necessary part of HCFL’s work to promote the value of life.” By formally recognizing the faith-based aspect of the club in...
Over fall break, the Susan B. Anthony List, a nonprofit pro-life organization, sent 22 Hillsdale students to North Dakota to canvass for the pro-life movement. The students divided into four teams and visited 12,651 houses in three days. The teams spread throughout North Dakota, canvassing in Fargo, Grand Forks, and along the Canadian border. Sophomore...
The federal government causes people to engage in criminal activity, said Clark Neily, vice president for criminal justice with Cato Institute, in a Federalist Society speech on Wednesday. Neily’s speech highlighted the decreasing clearance rates for crimes in the U.S., the high incarceration rate, and the estrangement of the current criminal justice system from the...
Amy Wax, a Robert Mundheim professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, will give a lecture titled “The Perils of a Push for Equal Rights.” The event, hosted by the Hillsdale College Federalist Society, will take place today at 12 p.m. in Lane 124. Subway will cater the event. “The Federalist Society is dedicated...
By a 50-48 majority, the U.S. Senate voted on Saturday to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, a Yale Law School graduate and a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals judge of 12 years, to the Supreme Court of the United States. Kavanaugh was sworn in that evening and has already assumed his place on the bench. He is...