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Portrait of two women in princess cut dresses with elaborate cording on the front of the dress and on the sleeve edges, one woman is sitting holding a book and the other woman is standing clasping her hands. Printed on photo front: "J.A. Rose, Hillsdale, Mich."
Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
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The knives are out for Vivek Ramaswamy because he doesn't want to use wars to make a living. A neocon, Nimrata Nikki Randhawa born to Sikh immigrants, referred to Vivek as "childish."
Vivek really touched a nerve when he exposed her as a warmongering political puppet. She's as bad as Hillary Clinton.
Nimrata resulted to eye rolling, neck rolling, a disrespectful shrill tone & finger wagging on the debate stage.
Vivek in his own words:
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Rodgers Book Barn, a bookstore in Hillsdale, New York. ...
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House Republicans launch multiple investigations into college protests
Four GOP committee chairs are probing pro-Palestinian campus activism.
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New GOP move: discredit and defund the nation's major research universities and move funds to private, religious schools like Liberty University and Hillsdale, the new GOP models for higher education.
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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
May 2, 2024
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
MAY 03, 2024
More than 2,000 people have been arrested at protests on college and university campuses around the country opposing Israel’s military strikes on Gaza since the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas, and the subsequent humanitarian crisis there. It is unclear how many of the protesters are students, as many of those arrested have not been affiliated with the universities, or how many of the arrests will result in charges—sometimes arrests at protests are designed simply to clear an area.
The roots of today’s protests lie in an investigation by the Republican-dominated House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Virginia Foxx (R-NC). The committee announced the investigation on December 7, two days after its members spent more than five hours grilling then-president of Harvard University Claudine Gay, then-president of University of Pennsylvania Liz Magill, and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sally Kornbluth on how their universities were handling student protests against Israel over its military response to Hamas’s attack of October 7.
Led by Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Republicans on the committee insisted that the universities were not protecting Jewish students. The university presidents responded that they deplored antisemitism, that students had the right to free speech, and that they took action against those who violated policies against bullying, harassment, or intimidation. But in their defense of free speech, they admitted both that hate speech against Jews and others is sometimes protected and that they had sometimes made bad calls.
The Republicans’ interest in protecting Jewish students on campus overlapped with their opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives that they associate with Democrats. Burgess Owens (R-UT) said DEI initiatives protect Black students at the expense of others. “I just remember a couple of years ago when we were dealing with Black Lives Matter,” he said. “Try to talk about Blue Lives Matter, Jew Lives Matter, Arab Lives Matter—they call it racist. It’s time for us to focus on what’s happening on your campuses.”
Stefanik called the testimony “pathetic” and, along with 74 other members of Congress, demanded that Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, resign. On January 2, following accusations she had plagiarized scholarly work, she did. Her resignation followed that of Liz Magill. “TWO DOWN,” Stefanik wrote on social media.
Two days after the university presidents’ testimony, Stefanik announced that the House Education and Workforce Committee would be investigating universities. “We will use our full Congressional authority to hold these schools accountable for their failure on the global stage,” she said.
On February 12 the committee informed Columbia it was next up. Columbia University president Nemat "Minouche" Shafik had been unable to testify with the other presidents in December and gave her testimony to the committee on April 17, along with co-chairs of the Board of Trustees Claire Shipman and David Greenwald and former dean David Schizer over the university's response to antisemitism.
In an April 16 essay in the Wall Street Journal, Shafik wrote that “antisemitism and calls for genocide have no place at a university…but that leaves plenty of room for robust disagreement and debate.” She said she prioritizes “the safety and security of our community” and that while the attack of October 7 had a "deep personal impact" on the Jewish and Israeli communities, there was also a "humanitarian catastrophe" in Gaza, and the war was "part of a larger story of Palestinian displacement." She explained that Columbia had defined a space for protests to enable those they upset to avoid them.
Opening the hearing, committee chair Foxx said: “Since October 7, this Committee and the nation have watched in horror as so many of our college campuses, particularly the most expensive, so-called elite schools, have erupted into hotbeds of antisemitism and hate.” Stefanik called out tenured professor Joseph Massad of the Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies department, who called the October 7 attack a “stunning victory.”
Shafik responded by condemning the professor’s statements. “Trying to reconcile the free speech rights of those who want to protest and the rights of Jewish students to be in an environment free of harassment or discrimination has been the central challenge on our campus, and many others, in recent months…. We do not, and will not, tolerate antisemitic threats, images, and other violations…. We have enforced, and we will continue to enforce, our policies against such actions,” she said.
Ilhan Omar (D-MN) questioned Shafik about discrimination against pro-Palestinian protesters. She noted that Israel-born assistant professor Shai Davidai was accused of harassing pro-Palestinian students; Shafik said they have had more than 50 complaints about him and he is under investigation.
On April 17, the same day the Columbia officials testified, pro-Palestinian protesters organized by Columbia University Apartheid Divest (a self-described “coalition of student organizations that see Palestine as the vanguard for our collective liberation”), Students for Justice in Palestine, and Jewish Voice for Peace set up a camp at the university. It garnered little attention; the April 18 New York Times did not mention it. According to Sharif, the school warned protesters they would be suspended if the encampment was not removed. They stayed. On April 18, according to New York mayor Eric Adams, Columbia officials called in New York City police to disband the protest. They arrested more than 100 people, including Representative Omar’s daughter, a Columbia student. The arrests were peaceful.
University faculty and community members were shocked by the resort to law enforcement at a place known both for learning and debate and for its history. In April 1968, in the midst of the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, a week of protests after students learned of Columbia’s support for weapons research and its plan to construct a seemingly segregated gym in a nearby community had led New York City police to crush the demonstrations with violence.
In the days after the current arrests, nearly a dozen student and faculty groups released statements or open letters objecting to the police presence on campus and supporting students’ rights to free speech and peaceful protest. The protest encampment sprang back up.
At the same time, Jewish leaders warned that antisemitism was increasing. Rabbi Elie Buechler, of the Columbia/Barnard Hillel and Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life, urged Jewish students to return home for Passover, which began April 22, and to stay there for their own safety.
In the next weeks, protests sprang up around the country, with protesters generally demanding that university administrators divest from investments in Israel or in companies that sell weapons, technology, or construction equipment to Israel, and cut ties to Israeli universities. They have tended to turn their anger against President Joe Biden and his administration, whom they blame for what they call a genocide in Gaza. Universities have responded in a variety of ways, from discussion to armed law enforcement officers.
Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have insisted that Israel has a right to defend itself from Hamas and have continued to provide Israel with military defenses, whose importance in stopping the war from spreading showed on April 14, when those defenses shot down virtually all of the weapons Iran launched at Israel. They are working hard for a ceasefire, with Blinken currently in the Middle East and a proposal on the table that Israel has accepted but Hamas has not.
The administration has also stood against the initial policy of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration to cordon off Gaza without food, water, or electricity, and has pressured Israel into permitting humanitarian aid into Gaza. It has also firmly opposed Israeli plans to attack Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians have taken shelter, and has stood firmly in favor of a Palestinian state, which the protesters have not indicated they endorse.
On April 24, House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) visited Columbia, where he called for Shafik to resign. On Monday, April 29, he and Republican leadership met to discuss how they might reenergize the party and gain traction now that their impeachment effort against Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has flopped, the conference is bitterly split, their control of the House of Representatives has resulted in one of the least productive congresses in American history, and their presumptive presidential nominee is being tried for election interference that involved paying off women with whom he had extramarital sex. They settled on campus antisemitism—although Trump’s open embrace of white nationalists makes this problematic—and the campus protests as a sign that Democrats are the party of disorder.
On that same day, 21 House Democrats wrote a letter to Columbia’s trustees demanding they “act decisively, disband the encampment, and ensure the safety and security of all of its students.” That night, protesters took control of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, where they broke windows and vandalized furniture. About twenty hours later, police in riot gear arrested them. Arrests across the country climbed.
Yesterday, Representative Foxx announced that her committee’s antisemitism investigation will expand into a Congress-wide crackdown on colleges. In a press conference, she said she had a clear message for “mealy-mouthed, spineless college leaders. Congress will not tolerate your dereliction of duty to your Jewish students. American universities are officially put on notice that we have come to take our universities back.”
Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer noted that right-wing politicians jumped on the Kent State shootings of May 1970 to defund colleges and universities, while a “law and order” backlash helped to give Republican president Richard M. Nixon a landslide reelection in 1972.
Today, President Biden addressed the protests, saying they “test two fundamental American principles. The first is the right to free speech and for people to peacefully assemble and make their voices heard. The second is the rule of law. Both must be upheld.”
Biden called for lawful, peaceful protests and warned: “Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations—none of this is a peaceful protest…. Dissent is essential to democracy,” he said, “But dissent must never lead to disorder or to denying the rights of others so students can finish the semester and their college education…. People have the right to get an education, the right to get a degree, the right to walk across the campus safely without fear of being attacked.”
When asked, he told reporters he did not think the National Guard should be involved in suppressing the protests.
Steven Lee Myers and Tiffany Hsu of the New York Times reported today that Russia, China, and Iran are amplifying the protests “to score geopolitical points abroad and stoke tensions within the United States,” as well as to “undermine President Biden’s reelection prospects.”
It is unclear if the protests will continue during the summer, when fewer students will be on campus.
LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
#House Republicans#GOP#MAGA extremists#anti-education#liberty university#Hillsdale#higher education#WAPO#Heather Cox Richardson#Letters From An American#Right Wing attacks on education#student protests#war in Israel#DEI#anti semitic
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Joan D'Alessandro remembered as family's fight for child abuse victims marks 50 years
McGowan, who would later admit to the killing, wrapped her body, loaded it into his car and drove to Stony Point at the edge of Harriman State Park in Rockland County, New York, where Joan's body was found three days later, on Easter Sunday. Frederick Zugib, then the medical examiner for Rockland County, called the case one of the most brutal crimes he had investigated.
Rosemarie's staunch resistance to McGowan's potential release moved the still-grieving mother to ensure other families would not have to suffer the same trauma of fearing that their child's attacker would again be among the general population.
In 1997, she successfully lobbied for the passage of what came to be known as Joan's Law, which repealed parole eligibility for any detainees convicted of sexually assaulting or killing a child under age 14. The next year, federal lawmakers passed a similar rule.
Picture: On Easter Sunday, three days after she disappeared, Joan's small body was found in Harriman State Park in New York
McGowan remained grandfathered into his sentence and was never subject to the new rule. Yet he never benefited from the carve-out and died in 2021 while serving a life sentence at South Woods State Prison, four years before he would have been up for parole yet again.
"She was a leader," said Olivia Galgano, who taught Joan's ballet class and five decades later can still vividly recall the waifish girl. "Often, I would say we have to line up and she would run to be first."
Mere months after McGowan's death, the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office cut the ribbon on "Rosemarie's Room," a new extension to the office's Child Advocacy Center in Paramus, where law enforcement, medical and mental health professionals can tackle allegations of child abuse. Jason Love, then the chief detective of the office, described the expansion as a "safe place for our children to whisper their secrets."
It was allegedly the whisper of a secret that was McGowan's undoing. As Tobin continued to recount the investigation into Joan's death Wednesday at the Hillsdale train station, he said that as investigators grilled McGowan for the second time, probing his involvement in the savage killing, their suspect continued to deny any part in what occurred. As their scrutiny grew closer to the truth, he did not request an attorney, but a priest, Tobin said. Offering him the same privilege as they would someone in a confession booth, the detectives stepped out while McGowan spoke with the cleric. On his way out of the interrogation room, Tobin said, the priest turned to the officers and told them, "Fellas, keep questioning him."
Rosemarie details her fight to keep Joan's memory alive in a soon-to-be-released book, "The Message of Light Amid Letters of Darkness." Proceeds from the book's sale will benefit the Joan Angela D'Alessandro Foundation, which advocates for child victims of abuse.
In the D'Alessandro home, Joan's memory is very much alive. Colorfully painted rooms are adorned with photos of the spry, auburn-haired little girl who had a magnetic personality. Her bronzed ballet slippers and favorite trinkets sit atop shelves. And drawings of butterflies she carefully colored are framed and hung on the wall. The butterfly has become symbolic to D'Alessandro and is integral to Joan's garden in the center of her hometown in Hillsdale, New Jersey. The second time Rosemarie returned to the site Joan's body had been found, a white flicker caught her eye. It was a white cabbage butterfly that greeted her as she approached the boulder with a crevice.
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Professor David Kelley, Hillsdale College, 1979.
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Integrity is a Rare Virtue (1 Samuel 26)
Scripture reading – 1 Samuel 26
1 Samuel 26 presented David with a second opportunity to kill his enemy, the king of Israel. The first opportunity had risen when Saul unwittingly entered a cave where David and his men had retreated (1 Samuel 24:3-7). On that occasion, David reasoned that despite his flaws and failures, Saul was “the anointed of the LORD,” and he would not harm him.
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Good evening,
September 17 is Constitution Day—the day in 1787 that the members of the Constitutional Convention, meeting in Philadelphia, signed the final draft of the American Constitution.
America’s Constitution endured for more than two centuries—longer than any other constitution in human history—because it was brilliantly conceived and based on the principles of liberty in the Declaration of Independence.
Today, however, certain parts of the Constitution have been completely subverted.
For instance, many of the functions intended to be carried out by our elected representatives are instead in the hands of unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats.
And some of the remaining parts of the Constitution—including the fundamental rights of free speech and freedom of religion in the First Amendment—are seriously under attack.
Underlying these efforts to destroy our Constitution is the movement in American schools and universities to push a false and dishonest account of American history. This account portrays our nation as essentially racist and irredeemably unjust.
It’s no surprise, then, that a recent Rasmussen poll found that over half of President Biden’s strong supporters think the Constitution “should be mostly or completely rewritten.”
Or that two law professors—one from Harvard and the other from Yale—wrote an op-ed in The New York Times titled “The Constitution is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed.”
American education has become a battleground, and reviving a proper understanding of American history and a proper reverence for the Constitution—especially among younger Americans—has become one of our most urgent priorities.
You are already a generous and reliable supporter of Hillsdale’s educational efforts on behalf of liberty.
That’s why I’m asking you to join Hillsdale’s Liberty & Learning Society today.
Liberty & Learning Society members are vital to our expanding efforts to educate citizens (especially younger citizens) about American history, the importance of the Constitution to liberty, and free-market economics.
Joining theLiberty & Learning Societyis easy.
Members commit to an automatic, recurring monthly gift of $5, $10, or even $20 or more each month, which automatically advances the important work of reaching and teaching additional millions of citizens on behalf of liberty.
Most members give in the $25 a month range, but we are grateful for every single member at whatever level they can afford.
In these trying and uncertain times, when so much is at stake, we have set an ambitious Constitution Day campaign goal: 1,200 new Liberty & Learning Society members by midnight on Constitution Day, September 17.
When you join, you become a partner in educating additional millions of Americans about the principles of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and America’s great heritage of liberty through efforts like our free speech digest Imprimis, our free online courses, and our expanding work in the area of classical K-12 education.
By joining the Liberty & Learning Society, you also help us reduce fundraising expenses and maximize the impact of every dollar given.
Hillsdale has a tradition of and a reputation for being wise with our resources because we are almost unique in refusing to accept even one penny of government funding—not even indirectly in the form of federal or state student loans and grants.
All of Hillsdale’s work depends entirely on the support of individual citizens who understand the importance of our educational mission on behalf of liberty.
Will you consider being one of the 1,200 citizens we need to sign up for the Liberty & Learning Society before midnight on Constitution Day?
You can learn more about and join the Liberty & Learning Society using this secure link:
And if you accept my invitation to join Hillsdale’s Liberty & Learning Society on or before September 17, I’ll send you a link to a session of our upcoming free online course, “Understanding The American Founding: A Conversation.”
We are deeply grateful for your support of our ongoing work to recover and preserve liberty and limited government for future generations of Americans.
Warm regards, Larry P. Arnn
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View of men and women in front of the Pie House lunch room in Hillsdale, Michigan. Printed on front: "Pie house, Hillsdale, Mich." Printed on back: "Pub. by Farmer Fred, Battle Creek, Mich." Handwritten on back: "Hillsdale. 3/11/11. Dear Friends, Your card is at home, glad to get one at any time. Wills picture is fine getting fat. Mrs. V is good if she had washed her face. I [undecipherable] on her face across mouth & on forehead, wear [sic] improving soon my off day not as good as [undecipherable] address. Posting for Chili [sic], China. Fine weather for the first 2 days. Our regards, G.H. [undecipherable]." Card is postmarked March 11, 1911.
Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
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LOAN IMAGE: Scott Modelski DATE: 05/24/2023 ADDRESS: 315 Linwood Avenue, 452 Elm Street, 2856 W Carleton Road; 18536 Reservoir Road; & 911 E Duke Street MARKET: Alma, Breckenridge, & Hillsdale, MI; Saegertown, PA; & Vermillion, SD ASSET TYPE: Multifamily ~ UNITS: 317 LANDLORD: Keel Team Real Estate Investments BROKER: Scott Modelski - Black Bear Capital Partners LOAN AMOUNT: $10,252,000 LOAN TYPE: Refinance LOAN TERMS: The five (5) property portfolio, spanning 317 units, was refinanced via a 10-year fixed rate loan at 5.62% with interest-only payments for the entirety of the term. The financing was provided by an agency lender. #SouthDakota #Pennsylvania #MIchigan #RealEstate #Alma #Breckenridge #Hillsdale #Saegertown #Vermillion #KeelTeamRealEstateInvestments #ScottModelski #BlackBearCapitalPartners #TradedPartner #TradedNewYork #TradedNY #TradedMiami #TradedChicago #TradedNewJersey #TradedNJ
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New College Foundation abstains from voting on Corcoran’s salary, claims to have unallocated funds available
The New College Foundation—the direct-support organization that raises public and private funds for New College—has come under increased scrutiny this past month, starting on Feb. 13 when Board of Trustees (BOT) Chair Debra Jenks announced that the Foundation would be covering Interim President Richard Corcoran’s $699,000 salary through non-discretionary dollars. Things became more complicated at…
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Watch the Livestream Link in bio Sunday, March 5 4:00 p.m. “Healthcare American Style” John Abramson Harvard Medical School 8:00 p.m. “Anthony Fauci and the Public Health Establishment” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Author, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health ______ Monday, March 6 4:00 p.m. “Big Pharma and Big Government” Jordan Schachtel Investigative Journalist 8:00 p.m. “What’s in the Pfizer Documents?” Naomi Wolf CEO, The Daily Clout ______ Tuesday, March 7 4:00 p.m. “Big Pharma and the Chinese Communist Party” Brian T. Kennedy The American Strategy Group 8:00 p.m. “Big Pharma and the Opioid Epidemic” Gerald Posner Author, Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America #healthpolicy #healthfreedom #healthchoice #medicalfreedom #informedconsent #bebrave #pharma #criticalthinking #hillsdale https://www.instagram.com/p/CpYJ8ZEuKE5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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A Victory Song and a Lesson from History (Psalm 21; 1 Chronicles 1)
Heart of A Shepherd Readers: The transition to the new website has begun; however, the upload of information has taken much longer than expected. This devotion is for Wednesday, August 2. I anticipate the same devotion will be sent from the new website sometime later on Wednesday. Sorry for the delay. Pastor Smith
Scripture reading – Psalm 21; 1 Chronicles 1
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