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When travel companies “That license has been sized Hillsdale’s view of classical education, deyou happen to receive such an offer, do a lot of checking for and deposits, they College often rely on Hillsdale cut ties revoked and will expire at education and the goal of spite losing the curriculum legitimacy, andschool NEVER, NEVER them things like bank license. uture travelers. The sudden stop with Tallahassee Classical the end of the year,” itssend partnership with charter account numbers, I didaround not!). the nation. em for most travel School afteragencies. a controversy the statement said.etc. (fortunately, schools “We remain hopeful The good news is that we have a great trip in June most restrictions on people who surrounding the school’s art The controversy made “Hillsdale College pro- that that this decision may be isglobal at thenews point we cancomactuallyvides run it! 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Tallahassee “Hillsdale’s relations with are not affiliated with Hillsbacklash from three Classical board chair Barney those schools are founddale College and are very ding up to something thatparents hapover teaching Michelangelo’s Bishop said in a Facebook ed upon a mutual undersuccessful classical schools. vel business and to some extent “David” statue in a 6th-grade comment that one parent standing about the aims of While we are disappointed in mendously. Pat and I learned how classroom, but the income. Florida found it to be “pornographeducation. Education is a their decision, this will not without any supplemental charter ic.” cooperative endeavor beaffect our ability to provide that ain’t easy!school said the resignation was unconnected to Hillsdale’s statement said tween students, parents, and the highest quality classical bit long in the tooth (as somebody maybe not all, the people are teachers. 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training from Hillsdale, but Hillsdale ended that affiliation in March 2022. Even after it was dropped as a member school, it remained affiliated through the curriculum agreement. In a statement from Tallahassee Classical on March 31, the school wrote it had retained legal counsel to push back against “false and defamatory” reports that stated the school itself had characterized the statue as “pornographic.” It also stated that Carrasquilla was not asked to resign because of the “David” incident, but because of “two additional unrelated incidents of poor job performance.” The school said it plans to
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By Jane Kitchen Assistant Editor Every American, regardless of their political position, should be horrified and outraged by the historic indictment of former President Donald Trump, according to Associate Professor of Economics Charles Steele. “The persecution of President Trump by the legal system is designed to terrify anyone who considers seriously reforming it,” Steele said. “America will not recover if this stands.” On Tuesday, Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records. He was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on March 30, making him the first former U.S. president in history to face criminal charges. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg released a statement of facts alongside the indictment. "The defendant Donald J. Trump repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal criminal conduct that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election,” the statement reads. Professor of Politics Thomas West said the Trump indictment undermines traditional American values. “The Trump indictment is an outrage,” West said. “The NYC prosecutor is part of the radical leftist legal network that aims to destroy the older America and its representatives, such as Trump himself.” According to Steele, Trump is being treated differently than other politicians and government officials, including Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and James Comey, who are all guilty of wrongdoing but have never faced criminal charges.
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continue to use the “David” in its curriculum. “A false narrative has sadly spread due to inaccurate reporting,” the statement said. “At no time have we viewed that work of art as pornographic. At no time have we considered removing the David statue from our curriculum, and Michelangelo’s ‘David’ will continue to be studied as part of our curriculum next year, as it has in years past.” Hillsdale’s curriculum will also continue to use Michelangelo’s “David” statue in the classroom, as well as other “works of art that depict the human form,” its statement said.
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Senior Jacob Carson and juniors Kevin Rybka and Merrit Pope participated in Hillsdale GOAL's annual Day of Service event this past weekend. More than 300 people from the college and the city performed service projects across the county. Courtesy | Emma Purdy
DWLLRS to headline Centralhallapalooza By Tracy Wilson Design Editor This year’s Centralhallapalooza music festival will feature DWLLRS as the headlining act, according to the Student Activities Board’s Monday reveal. “I think that their music is fairly accessible and a lot of people could like it. It’s not going to be really hard rock, or country,” sophomore and SAB member John Schaefer said. “I think as a whole, people are either positive about them, or they haven’t heard about them and are open to them. I’m pretty happy with the feedback we’ve received thus far.” DWLLRS began when then-college roommates Joey Spurgeon and Bren Eissman decided to form an alternative pop band. Now, they have over 100,000 Instagram followers and a few popular songs on TikTok, such as Blue Spirits. “They formed in college, which is pretty cool, and so I think that they as performers
in a college setting will be pretty easy to connect with,” Schaefer said. “Hopefully they’ll be willing to talk with kids afterward.” Senior Elizabeth Oxaal
them but haven’t kept up with them, and was excited to see SAB was having them for CHP.” Growing up, the band members of DWLLRS were
Bren Eissman and Joey Spurgeon make up the musical duo DWLLRS Courtesy | Facebook
said she and her friend senior Meera Baldwin enjoy listening to DWLLRS. “Me and my friend discovered DWLLRS through a Spotify playlist radio last year when we were just listening to random stuff,” Oxaal said. “I’ve always known about
inspired by musicians like Frank Ocean, Brockhampton, and Tame Impala, according to the Wasserman Music website. “The duo are creating a diverse sonic palette driven by forward-thinking alternative pop,” the website says.
“Utilizing a range of production techniques and carefully crafted songwriting, DWLLRS alchemize their diverse influences to evoke feelings of existentialism, nostalgia, and heartbreak all whilst underpinned by the perpetual hope of better days to come.” Schaefer encouraged students to listen to DWLLRS before coming to the show. “Listen to their music before they get here so you know their songs and can sing along,” Schaefer said. “That makes any concert more fun, and also if they can see that the crowd is singing along to their songs, that’s going to be really great for them.” Students should listen to DWLLRS’ new song “Driving,” Schaefer said. “I really like their newest song ‘Driving,’ which I didn’t even realize was coming out,” Oxaal said. “I’m excited to see them play and am curious how their performance will be, since most of their songs are a little slower for that kind of environment.”
A long-anticipated profile of Hillsdale College appeared in this week’s edition of The New Yorker. It called the college “a home for smart young conservatives who wish to engage seriously with the liberal arts” and “a model that communities across the country are looking to adopt,” but also criticized it because “there is no department of women’s and gender studies, no concentrations on race and ethnicity.” Written by Emma Green, who spent several days on campus in August, the 6,600-word article was published online Monday morning and appears in the April 10 print edition. Headlined “The Christian Liberal-Arts School at the Heart of the Culture Wars,” it quickly became a major subject of conversation on campus. “Most of the information was pretty generic in terms of the fact that students have already heard all of this before,” said senior Alexa Robbins, whose English class discussed the article on Tuesday. “I could see how it would be more inflammatory for people who aren't involved and don't know the college.” First published in 1925, the New Yorker has a weekly circulation of more than 1.2 million. Green is a staff writer at the magazine, where she focuses on “education and academia,” according to her online biography. She was previously a managing editor and writer for The Atlantic.
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