As women’s basketball head coach Claudette Charney approached her 500th win, she was overcome with memories. “It makes you think back to a lot of things,” she said. For the 11th coach in women’s division II basketball history to reach the 500 win mark, those memories came with a feeling of relief. “As I knew...
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November 29, 2012July 12, 2022Opinions
The importance of writing fiction
Fiction is dying. In USA Today’s most recent list of the best-selling books in America, seven of the top 10 titles are fiction, yet four of those seven are romance novels and three of the four make up the sadistically themed “Fifty Shades” series. Most of the books on this list seem like the private...
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November 29, 2012July 12, 2022Opinions
Greek unity week does little to foster genuine unity
I do not support Greek Unity Week. I am a member of a sorority and I have respect for each house. I do not have a deep-seated hatred for the other houses on campus. Instead, I think attempting to force organized unity is misguided and destined for failure. Greek Unity Week, created by the Panhellenic...
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November 29, 2012July 12, 2022Opinions
Marijuana & society: the case against legalization
In the “Odyssey,” Homer describes what appears to be one of the first known pot circles in Western history. His ship lands on the island of the lotus-eaters. A number of his men join its inhabitants to partake in their honey-sweet lotus. But a change comes over them. They don’t want to leave. They prefer...
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November 29, 2012July 12, 2022City News
This week in Hillsdale History
1958 — Hillsdale College student Thomas Neitling is found bludgeoned to death in his room above the “College Tav” (a café adjacent to campus), his broken and bloodied shotgun lying nearby. Classes ended at noon that day to allow time to travel home for Thanksgiving, but Neitling failed to show up at his 8 a.m....