As a 6th grader, I got into an argument about whether a class-five tornado could move a pencil on the ground a mile away. I insisted it wouldn’t budge. My friend said it would be sucked into the vortex. Our data-free arguments hinged on the methods peculiar to 6th-grade argumentation: My older brother, a man...
Whether by accidental or deliberate oversight, Hillsdale College is failing its students and faculty by refusing to implement both an Institutional Review Board (IRB) and an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). This oversight does not just keep research taking place in Dow, Strosacker, and Kendall from publication in scientific journals. By not taking...
Verbs are like cats. Everyone who has taken professor of education Daniel Coupland’s English Grammar course remembers the “verbs are like cats” lecture. In comparing the unpredictable — and, sometimes, counterintuitive — behavior of his two cats, Angel and Blackard, to that of verbs, he prepares the students for weeks of mental pain as they...
Students rave about the extensive salad bar and queue up excitedly for guacamole on “Taco Tuesdays.” A sprinkling of feta and blue cheese improves foam-textured spinach. Students endure long lines for falafel wraps. Food in the cafeteria lately has been diverse and delicious, but Bon Appetit seems to forget an obvious food for Hillsdale’s unique...
Last Thursday night, eight student bands played for Centralhallapalooza Showdown, an annual competition organized by the Student Activities Board. Like most SAB events, the venue was well chosen, the decorations were appealing, and the food and beverages were excellent. Unfortunately, the live sound engineering the College’s Audio/Visual department provided was so riddled with mistakes that...