While college basketball fans devote hours to creating the perfect March Madness bracket, others in America create “Bachelor Brackets.” These brackets, a feminine version of Fantasy Football, allow fans of ABC’s “The Bachelor” to predict and track winners of the reality show. An enormous following has made the series one of the most successful reality...
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February 2, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
Christmas break is too long
egins, Hillsdale students across the country start to long for snowy grey Michigan, with slush on the sidewalks, and friends huddled around the heater in an off-campus house. As our hearts turn toward the alma mater, we begin to realize something unexpected: Christmas Break is too long. “What?” you may ask. “Why would I want...
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February 2, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
The CCAs that should exist
With the Rennaissance done, and a semester of enlightenment ahead of us, The Collegian offers campus 10 ideas –– rediscovered from antiquity –– for future CCA topics. 1.Why Obama is wrong It’s what we all, most of all the “Friends of the College,” really want. In all seriousness, Obama just had a terrible year with...
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February 2, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
Do away with the log books, security
The administration’s relationship with security is unsettling. Not in quite the same way as the Obama administration’s relationship with the NSA is unsettling, but close. The source of my unease is the log book security keeps on who they give rides home on weekends and during the week. My formerly casual interest in this topic...
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February 2, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
Why my grandmother hates my boyfriend
When my grandmother heard he was from Nebraska, she called him a “damn Yankee.” She is still bitter than I didn’t go to school south of the Mason-Dixon line. My decision to go to Hillsdale was a slap in the face to her. She couldn’t understand and asked, indignant, “Aren’t any of our schools good...