Category: Opinions

Last week, the Collegian covered the proposed amendment to the Student Federation Constitution, which would secure a seat for a member of the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship. The idea has been in play since last year, and is shared by the undergraduate students as it does to the graduate students. The grad students interviewed...

Students come to Hillsdale College, in large part, because of the excellent liberal arts education that the college provides. We read about ancient Greece and medieval England. We study the make-up of a molecule and the anatomy of the cell. We learn how to translate “The Aeneid” and calculate the slope of a tangent line...

Ravi Zacharias was such a bad student he tried to kill himself. At the age of 17, weighed down by academic failures and an inability to deal with the consequences, a young Ravi guzzled packets of poison stolen from his school’s chemistry lab. Yet he survived. While lying in the hospital during his recovery, his...

It is only the love of others, not our own merit or worth, that allows us to live and learn here at Hillsdale for four years. Please understand that I do not intend to demean the hard work that many students put in to pay for this education. Working for a paycheck that you will...

Two concerned economists — both calling for economic reform, advocating the rights of small business owners, and decrying crony capitalism — engaged in a fierce debate hosted by Enactus on Friday. Both voiced disgust for Wall Street corruption. Both supported worker’s rights, fair working conditions, and fair wages. Both think the current socioeconomic system is...