In the middle of formal recruitment my freshman year, I called home. I wanted to get the heck out. Fuming on the phone to my family that sororities were just an arbitrary social construct prone to the cultivation of facades, my dad interrupted me: “And is there anything wrong with that?” I didn’t get the...
When the men’s leadership honorary Mortar Board declined women’s petitions for membership, Hillsdale’s women decided to start their own in 1949. Seventy years later, Lamplighters remains a body of eight young women in leadership roles on campus. Last week, the women of Lamplighters chose rising seniors to fill their shoes. They are: Ellen Friesen, Lucile...
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Donald Trump’s usual off-the-cuff manner and personability was at its best as he addressed the attendees of the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday. In the hour and 15 minutes he spoke, Trump rallied the audience around the major victories of his administration thus far, from tax cuts to jobs to...
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Providing 56 Hillsdale College students a glimpse into the world of conservative politics, this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference featured a variety of speakers, including President Donald Trump. From Feb. 21 to 24, thousands converged upon the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center near Washington, D.C., to hear from White House...
On Feb. 7, Praxis invited Ivan Pongracic Sr., father of economics professor Ivan Pongracic, to lecture on the debt crisis in the United States. Over 60 students and faculty gathered in Dow A to hear his lecture. Junior Alex Taylor, president of Praxis, said he appreciated hearing about the elder Pongracic’s experience with overspending governments....