Hillsdale’s difficulties with Meta continue as the social media site has restricted college Facebook advertisements. Meta has removed previously reported warnings blocking Hillsdale College-related pages, but the social media site has now suspended the college’s main ad account on Facebook, according to Hillsdale’s Executive Director of Digital Content Bill Zeiser. Facebook users searching for “Hillsdale College Online Courses” earlier this...
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Campus remembers the life, legacy of Emmy Sigtryggson
Emmy poses with her father, Hal Sigtryggsson, at her high school graduation in 2022. Courtesy | Spencer Sigtryggsson More than a dozen Hillsdale students, including several women from the Pi Beta Phi sorority, traveled to Blacksburg, Virginia, this past weekend for Emerson Sigtryggsson’s memorial service. Sigtryggsson was a junior who died Sept. 8 after she was diagnosed with cancer in...
College to hold a memorial service for Emmy Sigtryggsson
Hillsdale College announced it will hold a memorial service on an undetermined date in the near future for Emerson “Emmy” Sigtryggsson, a junior who died at the age of 20 on Sept. 8 after a brief battle with sarcoma, a form of cancer. “Emmy was a devoted faith-filled Christian; strong in God’s love, his strength, and his mercy which she...
Babylon Bee CEO takes a stand with satire
Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon speaks in Plaster auditorium. Courtesy | Jamie Parsons The absurd has become sacred because it is not allowed to be challenged, according to Seth Dillon, CEO of the Babylon Bee. Dillon spoke in Plaster Auditorium on Sept. 12 about the modern war between satire and Big Tech, emphasizing both the necessity of free speech and...
Passages to take students to Israel
The Passages trip in 2019 posing in Jerusalem. Courtesy | Josiah Leinbach Despite the ongoing conflict in Gaza, Passages Israel will take a group of 10 Hillsdale students to Israel this December to January. According to its website, Passages Israel is a Christian organization that takes Christians to Israel multiple times a year. Assistant Professor of Religion Don Westblade, the...
IVF mandate won’t help birth rates rates, professors say
Trump at his September 19th, 2024 rally in Nassau County, New York. Courtesy | Trump, Facebook Former president Donald J. Trump’s promise to make in vitro fertilization free if elected this November is not the most effective method to bolster fertility rates, according to multiple Hillsdale College professors. “An IVF mandate is economically inefficient but politically expedient,” Assistant Professor of...
New Visiting Professor Offers Class on Early Judaism
Hillsdale will host Robert Holmstedt, the Professor of the Hebrew Bible and West Semitic Languages at the University of Toronto during the spring semester to teach a class on early Judaism. Holmstedt said he has always been interested in the Judeo-Christian roots of American cultural, religious, and linguistic norms. “My graduate program was called ‘Hebrew and Semitic Studies,’ and there...
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