1. So. Hillsdale College. It prides itself as a bastion of conservative values in academia. There was an incestuous love triangle there that ended in suicide.
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4. In 1999 Lissa Jackson Roche, who worshiped George Roche III, killed herself. Before doing so, she made story of her affair with him public.
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5. Hillsdale College administration responded to scandal by trying to defame suicide victim Lissa Roche as "pathological liar"
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6. Aside from sleeping with his daughter-in-law & driving her to suicide, Hillsdale president George Roche III also divorced his wife when she got cancer.
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7. Anyways, Roche III was a real hero to USA right because Hillsdale rejected affirmative action & thereby lost federal funding (but in fact got special tax breaks, as now)
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8. Impossible to overstate how beloved Hillsdale is in USA right. It's their ideal college & constantly has right-wing luminaries as guests.
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9. So GOP tax bill will a) raise taxes on higher ed & grad students in general but b) carve out exemption for one college Hillsdale.
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10. For more on Hillsdale, see here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-11/18/097r-111899-idx.html … and here:https://books.google.ca/books?id=IXzpDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=hillsdale+college+sam+tanenhaus&source=bl&ots=YDduW3SeXK&sig=5xHLovj-1_6xpida4BKY2eAeUB8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigv4fmterXAhVO6mMKHQJjDtEQ6AEIQjAE#v=onepage&q=hillsdale%20college%20sam%20tanenhaus&f=false …
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11. A more recent Hillsdale president complained in 2013 they got a letter from Michigan Dept. of Ed. saying college "didn't have enough dark ones."
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Conservative family values...
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Yeah, if you screw you must die, tough values.
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