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Students and the larger Hillsdale community will get a chance to share the spirit of the Christmas season in song at this year’s Lessons & Carols event.  Lessons & Carols will be held in Christ Chapel Sunday, Dec. 7, at 6 p.m. The program is a joint effort between the music department and the office of the chaplain. “The Lessons...

Hillsdale students poured into the Grewcock Student Union from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Nov. 20 to write thank-you cards for donors, friends, and professors — a decade-old tradition called Day of Thanks. “I love Day of Thanks. I think it’s the most special day of the year,” senior Abigail Celecia said. “There’s nothing more special than everyone coming to...

Hillsdale is taking the first steps to create a new Judaism minor, College President Larry Arnn said at fall convocation Nov. 13. The proposed program will cover the great Jewish texts, their historical context, and the Hebrew language, Associate Vice President for Curriculum David Whalen said.  A launch date for the minor is undetermined, as specific plans for the program...

The Roman Catholic Church’s current opposition to the death penalty is inconsistent with historical church teaching about human dignity and agency, argued Peter Karl Koritansky in a talk hosted by The Lyceum last month.  Koritansky, a Cleveland University professor of philosophy and religion and author, began his talk by joking about the difficulty of convincing his listeners that medieval thinkers...

Hillsdale College has scheduled a network outage Dec. 26 and 27 to replace the college’s network core and distribution nodes. During the outage, campus servers won’t provide connection to the internet.  All cloud services, including Zoom, Outlook, Box, CRM, Canvas, and Mazévo, will still be available to students from off-campus-networks. “Other than a handful of students that don’t go home...

Junior Zachary Chen presented a paper about how Roman writers used the myth of Phaethon to argue for their different philosophies at the Ohio Classical Conference’s annual convention on Sept. 26.  The paper, Chen’s seventh presented at an academic conference, was titled “Generosus Phaethon: The Uses of a Myth in Lucretius, Ovid, and Seneca the Younger.” Chen said he wrote...