Students can expect pumpkin and tote bag painting, caramel apples, popcorn, Meckley’s donuts, Checker Records coffee, and apple cider at this year’s Fall Fest. The Student Activities Board will host its annual Fall Fest this Friday from 3-6 p.m. on the quad. Fall Fest is traditionally held during Parents Weekend, said senior and member of SAB’s event team Gabrielle Lewis. ...
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Mock trial posts winning record to start fall season
All three of the Hillsdale College Mock Trial teams returned from fall break with winning records after early fall season tournaments. Scary Decisis, a team of returning Mock Trial members, and De Novo, Hillsdale’s new member Mock Trial team, competed in the first tournament of their fall season at the Pennsylvania State University over the weekend. Rekt Judicata, another veteran...
Visiting writer speaks on the novel as a secular art
The novel is one of the great resistors of secularism, precisely because it is a secular art, author Christopher Beha said in a lecture hosted by the English department’s Visiting Writers Program. In his lecture on Oct. 17, “The Statues in the Temple: Notes on the Novel as a Secular Art,” the former editor-in-chief of Harper’s Magazine framed the novel...
SAB’s drive-in movie goes indoors
The Student Activities Board hosted a Halloween-themed drive-in turned indoor movie night at 8 p.m. on Friday, October 13 in the Biermann Athletic Center. SAB served popcorn and candy while showing the seasonal classic, “Hocus Pocus,” amid inclement weather conditions. According to sophomore and media team member Erik Tedder, SAB originally planned to hold the event in the Splex parking...
History professor publishes book on grand strategy
The Spartans defeated the Athenians in the Peloponnesian War in part because their grand strategy involved using the Syracusans in a proxy war, Professor of History Paul Rahe argues in a new book published in September. “Sparta’s Sicilian Proxy War” is the fifth volume in a series that Rahe is writing on Spartan grand strategy. “Grand strategy differs from strategy,”...
Science professors react to growing AI concerns
Precautions regarding the use of artificial intelligence have been left to Hillsdale science professors’ discretion. Some have introduced more in-class writing while others have included statements in their syllabi addressing AI usage. Chairwoman and Associate Professor of Chemistry Courtney Meyet said the chemistry department has no policy statement yet on AI, but some professors are adjusting their assignments to make...
College responds to lawsuit against sexual assault management
Accusations made against Hillsdale College in a federal lawsuit filed yesterday mischaracterize Hillsdale’s culture, sexual assault policies, and procedures, according to a statement from the college and first released to The Collegian. “Hillsdale College takes the safety of its students very seriously and strives to educate students about sexual assault, answer frequently asked questions about sexual assault, and detail the...
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