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Donuts and Discourse
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Donuts and Discourse

If you’re looking for thoughtful discussion, new people, or just a simple Saturday brunch, Necessary Society is an open door for anyone interested. Alumna Reagan Antonio ’20 began Necessary Society as a way of bringing people together on the weekends to cultivate conversation and enjoy a meal. Now, Antonio has passed the tradition on to...

Two students combat social media’s cancel culture
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Two students combat social media’s cancel culture

Two Hillsdale students have stopped scrolling and started posting.  Tired of seeing thoughtless left-wing posts dominating social media, senior Victoria Marshall and junior Morgan Billingsley created an Instagram account titled @letshaveaseat to provide a platform of discussion for popular social justice oriented opinions that swamp Instagram feeds amidst national political tensions. “Instagram as an app...

Castaldo to Protestant students: Engage Catholic friends with ‘grace and truth’
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Castaldo to Protestant students: Engage Catholic friends with ‘grace and truth’

For Pastor Chris Castaldo  — a former Roman Catholic — constructive engagement and sympathetic discourse across Reformation lines has been a longtime endeavor. Castaldo, who hails from New Covenant Church in Naperville, Illinois, opened his Feb. 21 lecture at College Baptist Church by inquiring how many in the audience came from a Roman Catholic background....

Students revive Fairfield Society
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Students revive Fairfield Society

The Fairfield Society is being resurrected from its time of inactivity. Freshmen Mary Kate Boyle, Madeline Hedrick, Ian English, and Sara Garfinkle have been handed the reigns of the society that began more than 20 years ago on Hillsdale’s campus. The Fairfield Society, named after Hillsdale’s first president, Edmund Burke Fairfield, began around 1995, and...

Veterans’ Association hosts history-politics panel
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Veterans’ Association hosts history-politics panel

About 45 students attended a panel discussion titled “Conceptions of Duty: Ancient and Modern” between the history and politics departments on Nov.16 in Phillips Auditorium. The event, hosted by the Hillsdale College Veterans’ Association, included history professors Bradley Birzer and Paul Rahe, and politics professors John Grant and Thomas West. “Every semester we put on...