The HBC
So, just as I was planning a productive but boring day of cleaning Bob sent me toddling off to The Ockhamist. It seems that there is a bit of an argument going on that Bob knew I would tear into with gusto I usually reserve for bratwurst. (Tangent: This is one of the times when my best friend being a friend of boyfriend entirely separate from my relationship with either of them is helpful. Bob, since he has known me longer than Lee has and has known Lee longer than I have, is able to teach Lee about my likes and interests and teaches me about Lee’s likes and interests. This makes the whole "getting to know your partner" much easier and much less trial and error.)
If you are interested in the argument on The Ockhamist… go to The Ockhamist. That is not what this is about. My little post here is about the general beauty and absurdity of the HBC. The HBC LOVES to argue and debate to the point that it seems a bit like mutual masterbation. While generally it is arguing and debating important things, or at least interesting things, something tells me I could (on a slow week) start a very earnest debate on the proper storage of catsup … (It should be stored in the refrigerator! X study says so! NO! It can and should be stored on the shelf! Y article refutes X study!) Which would surely spin into a debate about the proper spelling and the etymology of the word.
What a fascinating cyber social world has been built!
Speaking of which …
http://www.hillsdale.edu/collegian/128_17/opinions/hillsdalesucks.htm
http://www.hillsdale.edu/collegian/128_17/opinions/noitdoesnt.htm
Further debate anyone? As an Alumna with a degree in THEATRE … I tend to side more with Mr. Frank … Ms. von der Heydt’s assessment of the place of the college in promoting the arts is, in my opinion, terribly naive and she should SERIOUSLY consider taking a long HARD look at the way the ART (in this I am including Art, Music, and Theatre) students are treated and they way their departments are treated in relationship to the Economics, PoliSci and other more "neo-con" students and departments.
But that is just a starter … feel free to discuss as you will, I know you will. (and it is catsup and should be stored in the refrigerator)
posted by TheAmber at 6:24 PM
5 Comments:
1. Miss V.'s strongest arguement is in the first sentence when she says Frank has a troubled soul. Right there everyone's on board nodding and going yes, yes he does. After that she looses it.
2. Dave over rates politics. Both in the fact that he came here because he thought it was a libertarian beacon (wouldn't that be a nightmare) and because he thinks anyone outside neocon-ic circles will ever care that Hillsdale's a neocon-ic school.
3. The writer in residence who was here this year teaches at Columbia Missouri and he commented last night that Hillsdale student's questions made his grad students look lazy and dull.
Daniel Silliman
I disagree!
[Aside] That will show these scoundrels, ho ho!
catsup in the fridge, ketchup in he cabinet........
~bitterbunny
Those Hillsdale links didn't work. Hm? I went to Hillsdale and now am a working artist. Hey-check it out: www.SarahHempel.com. Neither am I a neo-con. Go Hillsdale?
Sarah,
I wasn't saying that you can't get a fantastic Fine Arts education at Hillsdale. I went from Hillsdale to one of the top Theatre Graduate programs in the world. What I was saying was that despite the sucesses of Fine Arts graduates from Hillsdale, the Fine Arts are not promoted or well funded by the Administration. I know from long, boring CCA lunches spent begging money from donors (and other insider info) that the Theatre Dept. is pretty much ignored by the rest of the school.
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