Students who register for classes should not have difficulty finding seats. This especially applies to students who are paying to attend a course that they must pass to graduate. And yet, this is exactly what happens all too often at Center for Constructive Alternatives lectures in which enrolled students must compete with campus visitors...
There are a few conversations that music junkies would kill to overhear, and here’s one of them: Dylan and Cohen on a California road trip, reminiscing about the golden days of ’60s rock ’n’ roll. Several weeks before his death in 2016, Leonard Cohen replayed his memory of the conversation for the New Yorker. In...
Best selling historian Arthur Norman visited Hillsdale College this week. He spoke on “Lenin and the Russian revolution,” as part of the Soviet Communism Core Constructive Alternative. HIs ninth book, “1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder” is due out November 28. Norman is also the author of the...
A postgraduate student equipped with honors and diplomas once went to the Swiss biologist Louis Agassiz to receive the finishing touches on his degree. The great man offered him a small fish and told him to describe it. Postgraduate Student: “That’s only a sunfish.” Agassiz: “I know that. Write a description of it.” After a...
Hillsdale College is taking campus to the days of cowboys, accordions and banjos, and the California gold rush. The third Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar for the academic year Sunday to Wednesday will take its audience to the American West. Combining presentations from historians, authors, and a musical performer, the CCA will focus on the...