Year: 2013

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Volleyball sweeps weekend games

The Hillsdale College volleyball team had a perfect weekend, winning against both Ohio Dominican University on Friday and Tiffin University on Saturday. Their first game of the weekend against Ohio Dominican came down to the fifth set, which the Chargers won 15-6. “We came out with energy we hadn’t seen yet this year,” sophomore Emily...

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You call this a shutdown?

On Tuesday at 12:01 a.m. the United States Federal government shut down. The country woke up and panicked because the National Park System and the panda cam at the National Zoo had closed. Rep. Nancy Pelosi almost cried on the House floor when envisioning all the House staffers who would supposedly go hungry on Wednesday....

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Why we print what we print

We endorsed candidates for homecoming king and queen last week. We expected our entrance into the fiercely partisan arena of homecoming politics might be controversial in some way, but not exactly in the ways it turned out to be. So for this issue’s Weekly, we’re going to try and set some things straight about what...

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Local movie theater receives renovations

Hillsdale’s Premiere Theatre 7 on Carlton Road began remodeling on Sept. 16. Its goal: to have a completely revamped theatre by the release of Hunger Games: Catching Fire on Nov.22. The remodel includes two phases. The first, which started on Sept. 16, includes replacing the seats in all seven theatres. After spending a day and...

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Why Cruz is the only RINO we should worry about

Republican leadership took yet another hit from the conservative wing of the Republican Party with the resurfacing of the “Defund Obamacare” initiative last week and Sen. Ted Cruz’s subsequent jump into the national spotlight. Cruz’s 21-hour speech accomplished nothing important. His campaign to “make DC listen” only alienated his fellow party members and further divided...