Quantic Dream’s Playstation 3-exclusive, “Beyond: Two Souls” is a peculiar outlier in today’s video game industry. It looks more like a movie and defies many of the conventions held sacred in other games. There are no health kits or level-ups. No free-roaming exploration. No heads-up display. No rooms filled with infinite waves of bad guys...
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November 7, 2013July 12, 2022Opinions
Grieder does Texas for progressives
In her new book, “Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas,” the quality of author Erica Grieder’s narrative inverts the progress of Texas. Texas began as an unpromising territory peopled by opportunists and grew to become “one of America’s genuine powerhouses.” But Grieder’s book unfolds in the...
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November 7, 2013July 12, 2022Features
Halloween hits Hillsdale
Students treated the Hillsdale campus to clever costumes at the Halloween parties last weekend. At the Simpson Halloween Bash, sophomores Ben Strickland and Eric Walker dressed up as senior Spencer Bell. “When you have the option of being one of the most attractive men on campus, why would you not take it?” Strickland said. Strickland...
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November 7, 2013July 12, 2022News
Klaus offered teaching gig
Through the years, Hillsdale College has hosted visiting professors such as Mark Steyn, Sir Martin Gilbert, and Victor Davis Hanson. Now, there’s a chance a former president might join the ranks. Following his Oct. 10 speech at the Rebirth of Liberty and Learning Gala, former President of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus said he would...
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November 7, 2013July 12, 2022Opinions
Students want us to get naked
This year, many students in the Opinions section have challenged us to resist judgment and stereotypes. They’ve urged us to recall that “in the end, we’re all—first and foremost—Hillsdale students” and that fundies are “really just like you.” Just last week, one student pointedly asked “when did we all decide that the job defines the...