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‘Mr. Mehan’s Mythical Mammals’ visit the Kirby Center
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‘Mr. Mehan’s Mythical Mammals’ visit the Kirby Center

WASHINGTON, D.C. – At first glance, “Mr. Mehan’s Mildly Amusing Mythical Mammals”, known for short as “M5,” looks like the type of book you would find in an elementary school library. Yet author Matthew Mehan claims it’s a book for the whole family. On the evening of Sept. 5, Mehan sat down with Hillsdale journalism...

Finals week panel offers advice
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Finals week panel offers advice

A four-student panel sponsored by academic services offered advice for surviving hell and finals week on Nov. 29. About 25 students attended the talk which took place in the Heritage Room. The panel consisted of seniors Hannah Niemeier and Andrea Lee, as well as sophomores Patrick Votel and Henry Brink. Votel cautioned his fellow students...

New hair salon offers unique experience
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New hair salon offers unique experience

Animal skulls, African face masks, alternative rock, copious christmas decorations, and a barber chair. Welcome to Hair Upstairs, the newest addition to Hillsdale’s saturated salon scene. Nestled above two other hair salons on North Howell Street, Hair Upstairs is the fourth hair salon situated on that city block alone. Despite having been open since January,...

Fundraising phonathon hosted in-house for first time by college
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Fundraising phonathon hosted in-house for first time by college

  Hillsdale College administrators have called the new in-house Phonathon method a success. Nov. 15 marked the conclusion of the first college phonathon run without the assistance of an outside fundraising company. Director of the contact center, John Papciak, said the recent phonathon significantly outraised previous phonathons. “We are around $80,000 better off than we...

Q&A with Ken Davis
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Q&A with Ken Davis

  Ken Davis is a former deputy attorney general for the Virginia commonwealth. Hillsdale’s Federalist Society invited Davis to Hillsdale College Nov. 6, to speak on “Capitalism and the Rule of Law.” He received his B.A. from Cornell, his M.A. from Oxford, his J.D. from Harvard Law School, and his MBA from Virginia Commonwealth University....