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New band leader puts a pep in students’ steps
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New band leader puts a pep in students’ steps

Energy dipped during the third quarter of Saturday’s football game, but the Hillsdale College Pep Band’s new leader sophomore Matt Clark kept up momentum all the way into the stunning fourth-quarter victory, heralding the upset with a triumphant reprisal of “White and Blue.” Last weekend, Clark went through trial by fire: He coordinated a performance...

Women’s cross country to open season at Spartan Invite
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Women’s cross country to open season at Spartan Invite

  This season, the women’s cross country team has three goals: win the Great Midwest Athletic Conference, qualify at the Midwest Regional Championships, and stand on the NCAA podium. The team will begin the race toward these goals Friday at the Spartan Invite at Michigan State University, in the first of three races where the...

Going up Capitol Hill: Students see D.C. as second home
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Going up Capitol Hill: Students see D.C. as second home

  For a dense city of political activity, Washington, D.C., is a small world for Hillsdale students. During the humid summer months, the nation’s capital teems with interns, who crowd together in townhouses for once-in-a-lifetime experiences that could launch their careers. Hillsdale students proved no exception this summer. Seventeen students filled the Hillsdale House to...

SATIRE: Non-sectarian ministry major added to curriculum: Third wheels to Ring-by-Springers find home as ordained ministers
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SATIRE: Non-sectarian ministry major added to curriculum: Third wheels to Ring-by-Springers find home as ordained ministers

For three and a half years, Thor D. Weel felt like a third wheel to his best friend and his girlfriend, who began Hillsdating after spending three hours in Saga discussing how the characters from Oedipus resemble various characters from “Dr. Who.” But Wheel was determined to make third-wheeling relevant, and after his two best...