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Trio forms grassroots of women’s golf team
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Trio forms grassroots of women’s golf team

All three women knew they’d have to give up golf to come to Hillsdale College. None of them thought that together, they’d practice with the men’s team and compete representing Hillsdale. “They should’ve been playing Division I golf somewhere, to be honest,” men’s coach Nate Gilchrist said. The trio, junior Caroline Andrews, and freshmen Grace...

Osseo’s Tip-Up Festival is for the children
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Osseo’s Tip-Up Festival is for the children

  Although Friday’s warm spell had already melted some of the ice layered on top of the lakes in Osseo, Michigan, it didn’t deter the ice fishers from participating in the 58th Tip-Up Festival this weekend. The Tip-Up Festival is the Hillsdale Conservation Club’s biggest fundraiser of the year, with money going toward both scholarships...

Students talk internships on Friday
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Students talk internships on Friday

Five students will present tips on internship hunting and profiting from these experiences Friday at noon in Lane 124, in the culmination of Summer in the Snow, the career services office’s week-long event. The panel will includes five seniors: Ashlee Moran, who interned for international marketing firm Valassis Communications, Elizabeth Garner, who interned with the...

Inside Aaron Zenz’s art and the child’s imagination
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Inside Aaron Zenz’s art and the child’s imagination

Aaron Zenz said he used 119 Prismacolor pencils — taking each from great big pencil to little, itty bitty stub you can’t even hold — and broke 251 pencil tips in the making of his first children’s picture book, “The Hiccopotamus.”  Zenz’s casualties stem from his unorthodox use of colored pencils. His manipulation of this...

Alumna to present on Locke and Suarez
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Alumna to present on Locke and Suarez

Catherine Kuiper ’12, a recent graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s graduate program, will present the subject of her dissertation Thursday at 4 p.m. in Lane 124. Kuiper, a post-doctoral fellow who is completing her research and teaching at Notre Dame, said she wanted to pinpoint the similarities and differences between John Locke and...