In the midst of Parents Weekend festivities, seniors took an hour out of their evenings to celebrate the class of 2020. The first event of its kind, Christening the Quad invited seniors to gather in the Dow Hotel lobby on Friday night to mingle with friends, enjoy an array of hors d’oeuvres, listen to a live jazz band, and learn...
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Debate dominates at Penn State tourney
At Penn State this past weekend, the Hillsdale College debate team crushed their competition with seven of the eight debaters who attended the tournament taking home trophies. Overall, the team placed first in debate sweepstakes and second in overall sweepstakes. Overall sweepstakes includes both speech and debate events. Hillsdale does not participate in speech. Junior and team manager Jadon Buzzard...
Campus Catholics celebrate feast day of Pope John Paul II
Catholics on campus gathered in Christ Chapel to celebrate the feast of Pope St. John Paul II on Tuesday afternoon. The commemoration included a lecture on the sexual revolution by a member of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute followed by the first Catholic mass held in the chapel. Bishop of Lansing Earl Boyea presided over the standing-room-only service, assisted...
Classics lecture held in memoriam of Grace West
The Hillsdale Classics Department recently held a lecture, titled “Love in the Aeneid,” to commemorate Grace West, a Hillsdale classics professor who died in May. The lecture was held as a kind of memorial, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Carl Young, who organized the event, explained how the idea came to be. “It was inspired by a conversation I...
Student Fed approves new clubs for initial status
Two new clubs on campus are now eligible for funding from the Student Federation. At their Oct. 17 meeting, the federation granted initial club status to the real estate club and the applied mathematics club. Club president Sam Ziolkowski presented the real estate club’s proposal. “Our mission is to provide exposure to commercial real estate on campus,” Ziolkowski said. “I...
Speaker criticizes modern classical education
Classical education no longer exists, according to Erik Ellis, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Notre Dame. In his Monday night lecture titled “Vir Bonus, Dicendi Peritus: Statesmanship and Public Speaking as the Final Cause of Classical Education,” Ellis described both the essence and purpose of a true classical education. According to Ellis, people disagree about what classical education...
City-wide powerage outage caused by oak tree, winds
The power in the City of Hillsdale went down for about 24 minutes Wednesday afternoon. Due to wind, the top of an oak tree fell on one of the main transmission lines that feeds into the city, according to Board of Public Utilities Director Chris McArthur. The line was hit near Wildlife Drive, just off of Moore Road. The power...
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