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Student Library updates printers, looks to reboot MelCat by midterms
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Student Library updates printers, looks to reboot MelCat by midterms

Mossey Library has added a new card-activated feature to its printers and it hopes to restore the connection to MelCat, the Michigan eLibrary Catalog and Resource Sharing System, by mid-semester.  MelCat is a statewide interlibrary catalog and resource sharing service created to share materials among all types of libraries in Michigan, according to its website....

Juniors Clay Ward and Josh Newhook pose while in Maine. Courtesy | Josh Newhook
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My funny roommate: ‘Two are better than one’

Cowboy boots, Tolkien shirts, massive belt buckles, a sweet southern drawl — those were my first impressions of the man who would be my roommate sophomore year. He was no boring Michigander, but a character straight out of my imagination of the South. I came from a totally different direction: the barely-represented Northeast. I sported...

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“She cared deeply for the residents of the dorm’: Remembering the life of Phyllis Niedfeldt

Phyllis Westerfield Niedfeldt, who provided funds for the construction and maintenance of the dorm which bears her name, died on Oct. 31 at the age of 92.  She supported the men who called Niedfeldt Residence their home since it was built in 1990. According to those who knew her, she frequently thought about “the dorm.”...

Make Thanksgiving break longer
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Make Thanksgiving break longer

I’ve never missed a class at Hillsdale College for sickness, or for any other insignificant reason, but I’ll take my first unexcused absence next week. But that’s the only way I can make it home for Thanksgiving. The 850-mile trip to New Hampshire requires 14 hours of driving. I’ve got to start before the holiday...

Germany Honorary hosts Berlin Wall anniversary panel discussion
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Germany Honorary hosts Berlin Wall anniversary panel discussion

When Associate Professor of German Fred Yaniga first saw the Berlin Wall as a college exchange student in 1986, he was devastated. “It made me speechless. It was demoralizing,” he said. “You would have seen a big hockey player cry that day.” The Delta Phi Alpha German honorary hosted a panel discussion on the fall...