Predictions that informed the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic were founded on problematic and incomplete data, according to researcher Philip Magness. A senior research fellow at the American Institute of Economic Research, Magness spoke on “The Failures of Pandemic Central Planning” at a forum sponsored by Praxis on Thursday, Jan. 28, to an audience of around 50 students. Magness...
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Renovated Mauck Elementary receives new name
A little more than two years into its overhaul from abandoned school to educational hub, the old Mauck Elementary has acquired a new name: The Stanton Foundation Center for American Classical Education. The 1930s-era building, which was out of use for eight years before the college purchased it in 2018, will be named for the Stanton family, which has supported...
Student Fed buys ceremonial mace with surplus funds
The Student Federation used $4,541 of its surplus budget on Dec. 3, 2020 to buy a ceremonial mace — which is a highly ornamented staff, much like a scepter — to be carried in at the beginning of each student federation meeting. According to Student Federation President Brandt Siegfried, every legislative body in the world, and almost every American college,...
CCA speaker identifies flawed education system as breeding ground for elites
Many Americans have forgotten that a republic requires a certain type of education to maintain the American way of life, according to Williams College Professor of Political Science Darel E. Paul, and the nation is reaping the consequences. The first Center for Constructive Alternatives of the semester, titled “The Liberal Arts and Education Today,” focused on the essence of a...
Galvan wins scholarship to pursue counseling degree
When Becky Galvan ‘13 first began her studies at Hillsdale in 2009, she did not envision continuing onto higher education after graduating. Now, she’s pursuing a counseling degree at Spring Arbor University. Invested in the Hillsdale track and field team and enjoying her biochemistry classes, she was content. But when Galvan interned at a crisis pregnancy center during her junior...
College library transitions to new archival system
Undergraduate researchers have run into a problem in recent weeks. The online database Hillsdale College’s Mossey Library used is no longer accessible while the files are transferred and updated into the new platform that is accessible through the url, digitalarchives.hillsdale.edu. The library is in the process of transferring its online archive to a new system, forcing researchers to contact Library...
Art students’ pieces accepted into gallery
Eastern Michigan University Gallery has accepted art pieces from Hillsdale College seniors Caroline Greb and Heidi Yacoubian. Greb submitted a collage, which is a composition of materials and objects pasted over a surface, to a gallery held by Eastern Michigan University open to undergraduates in the Midwest. “I thought my chances were very low,” Greb laughed. “I haven’t done a...
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