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Republicans won big on Tuesday night — in Hillsdale, at least. According to Hillsdale County election returns provided by Election Magic, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won 61 percent of the total presidential ballots cast in the county. President Barack Obama won 37 percent, with the rest going to going to third-party candidates. Statewide, President Obama won Michigan’s 16 electoral...

Professor of Political Economy Gary Wolfram walked into class on Wednesday morning and announced that the Dow was down 300 points. “It was down 100 points at the start, 200 points around 10:30 [a.m.], and it’s down 300 points now,” he said. “So, it doesn’t look like the stock market is too happy.” The stock market was not the only...

Celia Bigelow `12 is the founder of “Students against B.O.”; the “B.O.” stands for Barack Obama and the group is a project of American Majority Action, a nonprofit political action organization. Bigelow acts as the college campus director for AMA. The goal of the initiative is to inform young voters why they should not cast their votes for President Barack...

Thursday, Nov. 1    Dia de los Muertos at 12 a.m. in the Curtis Dining Hall. $3 Admission fee — all proceeds go to helping the children and families of Peru. There will be dancing, snacks, and a costume competition with prizes. Brought to you by the Aliaga Foundation. Contact:  dwilhelmsen@hillsdale.edu   “Our Faculty After Hours: Escaping the Cyclops that...

The election is less than a week away, and the Hillsdale Chapter of Young America’s Foundation is ready to celebrate the advancement of conservatism by hosting Freedom Week from Oct. 5 to October 9. Freedom Week honors the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. YAF has a variety of planned events throughout the week. YAF President sophomore Nathan...

You titled your talk, Mathematics is Truth: Or is it? Why did you choose that title? I do believe mathematics is truth. It’s the ultimate truth. I guess at the very beginning, it’s that mathematics is the ultimate description of reality. What is math’s status as a discipline? I think most people view mathematics as useful, but they don’t realize...

“Israel and the United States are arguably the only two nations on Earth that have clear birthdays – clear independence days – because they are the only two nations that were born out of good ideas and by an act of will,” Michael Medved said in a speech delivered at Hillsdale College in Phillips Auditorium on Oct. 30. Medved, a...