Hillsdale
One of Worth's regulars is going to be attending Hillsdale College in Michigan. He chose it in part because his mom liked the fact that it had been endorsed by the pantheon of conservative talk radio. I snorted my coffee.Hillsdale started out as a rather progressive institution, admitting women and blacks before the Civil War. But after George Roche III became president of the college in 1971, the school chose to refuse federal funds rather than comply with civil rights legislation. And, you know, that's fine -- principles and all that. A private college can be whatever the heck it wants to be. And what Roche wanted was to run a Conservative School.
He also, it appears, wanted to maintain a 19-year affair with his daughter-in-law, wife of George Roche IV (and employee of the college) -- in the end driving her to a very public suicide in an on-campus gazebo.
Now, you'd think that sort of thing would end Roche's presidency -- and you'd be right. But Hillsdale didn't fire Roche over his two-decade affair with an employee and family member; no, they let him retire with his full, multi-million dollar benefit package.
You don't have to take my word for any of this. Nor need you take the word of anybody else on the left. Real conservatives were appalled; it was written about in the National Review, and it's easy to Google to find other conservatives who have written extensively about it.
These are the kind of conservative ideals this young man's mother has picked out for him. I hope she's not going to help him choose a wife, too.
posted by MeanMrMustard @ 9:14 AM
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