When 6 a.m. cycles around every work day, teaching apprentice and junior Lauren McDonald is the first student bustling around the Hillsdale house in Washington D.C. Built in 1900 and recently acquired by the college, it houses 11 other students: all participants of the Washington Hillsdale Internship Program. As McDonald departs for her hour-long commute...
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Breaking and entering
Two off-campus student houses, the Wafflehouse and Sesame Street, were broken into on Manning Street last weekend. The suspect stole a pair of boots, a jacket, pocket-knives, and food items. The break-ins occurred Friday Feb. 15. The house tenants returned to find various items missing and the smell of cigarette smoke still hanging in...
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The Lost Library of Conservative Thought
As students in American Heritage class discuss political theorist Russell Kirk’s essay in their course readers, the author’s personal books sit perched above them in Lane Hall. More than 10,000 volumes are packed away in boxes on the locked fourth floor. Placed in storage during library renovations more than a decade ago, the books are...
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Rhodes scholar to speak on marriage
Sherif Girgis will come to Hillsdale’s campus for the first time on Thursday, Feb. 21, to give a lecture entitled “A Defense of Marriage.” The lecture, sponsored by The Lyceum, will be in Phillips Auditorium at 4 p.m. “I’ll be talking about what marriage is, and why it matters for policy,” Girgis said. “I’ll also...
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Student Fed gives Praxis grant
Using a recent grant from Hillsdale College Student Federation of $500, Praxis will be making an effort to get their membership more involved, according to Vice President and sophomore Savannah Tibbetts. To foster involvement, the group recently added two new officer positions as member liaisons. Praxis, the political economy group of Hillsdale College, encourages student...