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Elks Lodge, businesses participate in food drive
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Elks Lodge, businesses participate in food drive

About 100 Hillsdale County residents will gather at the Elks Lodge on Saturday to reap the benefits of a month-long local effort to benefit the community. At a luncheon, the Hillsdale Elks Lodge will grant $1,000 to the Hillsdale Salvation Army and distribute canned goods collected from a month-long food drive. Enough for 5,500 pounds...

Canoes, hikes, s’mores: Biology department holds annual retreat
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Canoes, hikes, s’mores: Biology department holds annual retreat

When Hillsdale College biology students swap laboratories and classrooms for their annual lakeside retreat, they trek through the woods on a botany hike, burn methane, and canoe for hours on a river. “Whether it’s lighting swamp gas…the s’mores, the canoe trips, the meals that we share together, even the ride up and back ­— the...

College considers master’s program in D.C.
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College considers master’s program in D.C.

  Hillsdale College may bring a politics master’s program to professionals at the heart of the American political scene, just a few minutes walk from the U.S. Capitol and Union Station. College administrators are still discussing plans and gauging interest in a master’s program at the Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and...

A ‘seeker of lost stories’: Alumna Ruta Sepetys tells award-winning stories of survival
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A ‘seeker of lost stories’: Alumna Ruta Sepetys tells award-winning stories of survival

Ruta Sepetys has three bestselling novels under her belt, but the ’89 Hillsdale College alumna’s first book was banned — by the parents of her 3rd-grade classmates. “The Adventures of Betsy,” written in a notebook with a scratch-and-sniff pickle on the cover, drew popularity from 8-year-olds but wary glances from parents. Discouraged, Sepetys put her...

A Q&A with new international students
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A Q&A with new international students

Yannis Petrzak is from Austria and plans on attending Hillsdale for four years. It’s his second time visiting the U.S.: Last fall, he visited New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Michigan on a vacation. Why did you choose Hillsdale? I heard about Hillsdale College for the first time while looking for a place to study Economics from...