Month: December 2014

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The low cost of our higher education

Although a Hillsdale education costs nearly $100,000 over four years, Hillsdale students walk off the graduation stage with some of the lowest debt of any college students nationwide. This could not be done without the incessant work ethic of the college’s financial aid office, led by Rich Moeggenberg. On average, students at Hillsdale College graduate...

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Fine art departments looking ahead: Plans are already underway for next school year’s events, shows, and programs

While students are still editing assignments, hammering out papers, and registering for next semester, the theatre and art departments are already focusing on next year. By December, the art department hopes to have next fall’s schedule lined up, and theater department chair George Angel told the Collegian that he is already thinking about next year’s...

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Lacrae’s new album’s maturity an “Anomaly”

Lecrae has come a long way since his sophomore album “After The Music Stops.” At 27, he had just founded his label, Reach Records, and was breaking into the Christian Hip Hop sub-genre. Having recently converted to Christianity from a life of drug dealing and gang violence, Lecrae made his early music in an effort...

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Accept the Ferguson verdict

A grand jury investigating the death of Michael Brown did something quite rare: It failed to return a bill of indictment. Ferguson, MO, has seen violent protests since Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown in early August. The prosecutor presented evidence to the grand jury, which announced last week that there was not...

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Prince of darkness?

Erik Prince, Hillsdale class of ’92, founder of Blackwater Worldwide, considers himself an entrepreneur, but also a patriot. In his memoir, “Civilian Warriors,” he writes of his military contractor business’s involvement with the CIA and State Department in the post-9/11 world that “Blackwater’s contribution to Operation Enduring Freedom wasn’t ever conceived of as a business...