If the Boy Scouts of America upholds the ban on gay members in May, the organization will have violated the core of its mission statement: “to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.” The BSA should vote to...
Category: Opinions
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Should Hillsdale College advertise on ‘The Rush Limbaugh Show?’
You catch more flies with honey than with stale-cigar-smoke-scented-conservative-man-sweat. Rush Limbaugh smells nothing like honey, and Hillsdale College should stop advertising on his partisan show. He limits the college to an image that does not match what professors teach and students believe. Continuing to advertise on the show gives the school a polarizing public image,...
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The Collegian Weekly
Out of the 273,996 American students that studied abroad this year, only 12 are from Hillsdale College. Less than 0.9 percent of Hillsdale’s 1,460 students go abroad annually. Hillsdale’s study abroad programs fall far behind the programs comparable schools offer. The limited scope, expensive costs, and frustrating void of structure in the college’s study abroad...
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Pursuing truth, defending liberty on talk radio
I came to Hillsdale College because of Rush Limbaugh. It’s not that I’m a devoted “dittohead” who thinks Limbaugh can do no wrong, but that I wouldn’t have even heard of the place if not for the ads the college buys on his show. If Hillsdale College didn’t advertise on “The Rush Limbaugh Show,” Hillsdale would...
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Letter to the Editor
In last week’s Arts Section, a student submitted a review of Dennis Prager’s latest book, “Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph.” In the center of the article a quote appears from Prager in bold black print in which he defines Leftism, Islamism, and Americanism as religions. He then goes...