Hillsdale College's 18th Annual Everett Oratory Contest Takes Place Tuesday, March 20

HILLSDALE, Mich., March 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Hillsdale College's annual Everett Oratory contest will be held on Tuesday, March 20 in the Phillips Auditorium. This is the 18^th year of the competition, which is jointly hosted by the College's Office of the Provost and the Department of Rhetoric and Public Address. The topic of this year's competition is "National Security and Privacy: Principles for Achieving a Just Balance."

The Everett Oratory competition is endowed through a generous gift from the Saul N. Silbert Charitable Trust. The contest encourages Hillsdale students to develop their public discourse skills. All undergraduates in good standing may compete for cash prizes of $1,000 for third place, $2,000 for second place and $3,000 for first place. Orators will be evaluated by invited judges of standing within the college and greater community. Students competing this year include Shiloh Carozza, Daniel Cody, Ellen Friesen, Taryn Murphy, and Jacob Weaver.

More information on the competition is available here.

Hillsdale College is an independent liberal arts college located in southern Michigan. Founded in 1844, the College has built a national reputation through its classical liberal arts core curriculum and its principled refusal to accept federal or state taxpayer subsidies, even indirectly in the form of student grants or loans. It also conducts an outreach effort promoting civil and religious liberty, including a free monthly speech digest, Imprimis, with a circulation of more than 3.7 million. For more information visit hillsdale.edu.

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