Ring by spring, honeymoon baby, woman in the kitchen – Hillsdale students often toss around these joking phrases. While generally considered more religious and conservative, many Hillsdale women would not affirm these stereotypes, saying the issue is far more nuanced than often presented by other students. One of the most recent trends to stem from the conservative internet bog is...
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Cemeteries display the circle of life
For a 19th-century American, cemeteries were associated with Halloween — they were a part of everyday life, according to Bradley Birzer, the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies. Birzer, who lives across the street from the Oak Grove Cemetery on Montgomery Street, led a tour of the cemetery on Oct. 16 in cooperation with Phi Alpha Theta, the...
QUICK HITS with David Diener
In this Quick Hits, Assistant Professor of Education David Diener talks breakfast, philosophy, and fiction. What are some random things that you are good at? Woodworking. I worked as a carpenter for many years. I’m a musician. My dad was a music teacher. I played music my whole life, sung in choirs, and I play a variety of instruments. I...
Witnessing Hillsdale students’ witching hour
For the typical Hillsdale student, a late night in the library means an upcoming exam or paper. And if you have nothing more important to do than play ping pong in the Grewcock Student Union, you go to bed. But the library and union don’t close until 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. respectively, on weeknights, which means there are...
Professors embark on sabbatical research
Research, a visit to Franconia, and prosthetics make up just one professor’s sabbatical months. Fred Yaniga, associate professor of German, is researching and writing several papers during his sabbatical this fall. “A sabbatical is often years in the making,” Yaniga said. “I know when my sabbatical is coming, and I start planning what I’m going to do and gathering resources...
From Ockham to Anscombe: philosophy professor traces academic lineage
College means “partnership,” but Professor of Philosophy Ian Church’s academic genealogy project highlights a more “familial” side of learning. Over the course of the past five years, Church has compiled an academic family tree tracing back student-adviser connections to the twelfth century. Church received his doctorate in 2012 from the St. Andrews and Stirling Graduate program in philosophy. “It all...
