Michael Clark is an associate professor of economics at Hillsdale College. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Where is your favorite place to travel? Walt Disney World, mostly because I talk about Disney a lot in my classes and I use them as an example for things. So if I said anything other than Disney there would be...
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Mini-golf and hauntings: Delta Tau Delta remembers old house
When the brothers of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity returned to campus this year, it was not the same home they had known for the past decade. Eleven years after first settling in the house on 195 East Manning St., the Delts moved to 50 Park St. The 19th-century house had been the Delt’s home since 2010. The brothers said...
Junior tennis player has “stable” beginnings
As children, some kids missed school for doctor’s appointments; others, to make it to an away game for their sports team. Tyler Conrad did it to go to horse showing competitions. Junior Tyler Conrad is now a star on the men’s tennis team. He played in the number one spot during his sophomore spring season and posted an impressive 13-5...
“I will be love”: Hillsdale alumna enters Carmelite convent
In a way, it was a coffee subscription that brought her to the convent. Before she was Sister Lucia of the Word of God, Meghan Perks ’18 was a Hillsdale graduate purchasing a subscription to Mystic Monk Coffee, a Carmelite monastery’s small business. Contemplating the monks’ spirituality brought her back to a consideration of religious life that first sparked in...
Quick Hits: Ian Church
Ian Church is a professor of philosophy and religion. This interview has been edited for clarity. What is your favorite place you have ever traveled to? I think Athens, Greece has to be really high up there. I was there for a major philosophy conference, but we also snuck away to go see the sights, and it was a blast....
A “wooded Knob-hill”: the Arb through the years
Before it was Slayton Arboretum, it was just a hilly gathering of trees two friends stumbled across while looking for a place to talk and smoke. The arboretum is now a beautiful place on campus for studying, conversation, reflection, dates, parties, or group events. “The Arb” has been here for almost as long as Hillsdale College, and has been a...
