Overrated: Our society requires too much entertainment The Super Bowl is the ultimate feast day of the commercialization of professional sports. John Senior, a humanities professor at the University of Kansas, paints the picture of the American’s gross consumption of professional sports. “The armchair quarterback, puffing his gut on insipid American beer and potato chips,...
At the senior Legacy Dinner on Jan. 13, the Legacy Board invited students to wine and dine with College President Larry Arnn. Unfortunately, the beauty of the night was diminished by a handful of seniors who stole the dining table centerpieces. The tables were decorated with succulents which the event coordinators had borrowed from a...
Overrated: Goals shouldn’t require the turn of a calendar Notice anything lately? The gym is over-populated, the dining hall’s salad line is especially long, and iPhone screen time is suspiciously low. It can only mean one thing: It’s a new year. Fear not — in a month or so, things will go back to normal;...
Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn and Matthew Spalding, vice president of Hillsdale’s Washington operations, will produce a report on “patriotic education” as members of a new presidential panel. President Trump announced the appointment of Arnn as chairman of the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission and Spalding as its executive director on Dec. 18. Spalding said he...
The year of 2020 has been a challenging time for everybody in different ways. As a senior at Hillsdale College, most of this semester has been very frustrating, but it’s also given me time to reflect upon what I’ve learned from being a student here. From these reflections, I cannot help but be grateful. Three...