November 10, 2000

A Year After a Degrading Scandal, Hillsdale Moves On

By MARTIN VAN DER WERF

Normalcy returns, but some on the campus still want an accounting of what went wrong

It is a year to the day after the death of Lissa Roche at an idyllic spot on the rural Michigan campus of Hillsdale College. Her death, ruled a suicide, and allegations she had made hours earlier of a 19-year affair with her father-in-law, George C. Roche III, the college's president and a conservative icon, had threatened to plunge the college into ignominy.

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