December 3, 1999

The Hillsdale Tragedy Holds Lessons for Colleges Everywhere

By ALAN WOLFE

Private tragedies ought not to be the stuff of public moralizing. When I heard that the daughter-in-law of a college president had apparently committed suicide on the campus, and that the president had resigned his position, all my instincts told me that it was none of my business. Alas, George C. Roche III, the now-former president of Hillsdale College, made it my business -- and the business of everyone else who cares about education, morality, and

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