Month: February 2013

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Campus gets LinkedIn

The Hillsdale College Career Services office has hired Jonathan Slonim, a junior studying economics and history, to work with students on developing their online presence using the website LinkedIn. LinkedIn, an online professional social media network launched in 2003, now boasts over 200 million registered users in more than 200 countries and territories. Director of...

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YAF hosts school choice speech

In an effort to raise awareness for National School Choice week, Young Americans for Freedom will join with the Hillsdale Academy headmaster to speak about school choice at 4 p.m. today in Lane 124. “National School Choice Week is a way of taking the principals of the free market economics and applying it to education,”...

Never mind the bollards
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Never mind the bollards

Out of 100 students asked in Knorr Family Dining Room during dinner, 42 of them dislike the yellow traffic bollards on campus, five liked them and 53 students are indifferent toward them or never noticed them. “We don’t want people driving on campus,” Associate Dean of Men Jeffery Rogers said. “It is not a super...

Andrew Odell: fighter pilot
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Andrew Odell: fighter pilot

Tucked in the pages of his high school senior yearbook, four words disclose Andrew Odell’s long-time desire to fly planes. “Dream job: fighter pilot.” The 2011 Hillsdale alumnus is now enrolled in naval flight school. But the dream he is living today laid dormant for years beneath plans to attend law school. “It had been...

Q & A: Mark Steyn
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Q & A: Mark Steyn

You grew up in Canada. Do you live there now or in the United States? I live in New Hampshire. Basically 20 minutes south of the border. There’s two kinds of immigrants: there’s those who super assimilate and there’s others who think if you ever need to head for the exit you ought to make...