Over spring break, 22 Hillsdale students competed in a national speech and debate tournament hosted at Ohio University. Hillsdale has a comprehensive debate program, so students competed across multiple genres of speech as well as multiple formats of debate. Hillsdale finished ninth in Individual Team Sweepstakes and second in Debate Sweepstakes. In Combined Sweepstakes, Hillsdale...
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March 19, 2015July 12, 2022Culture
‘House of Cards’ Season 3: ‘Cheap melodrama’
The “House of Cards” has fallen. Spoiler alert: season three is boring. The brilliant and thrilling plot twists that earned this Netflix political drama so much fame since its release in February 2013 are gone. Much of the show’s popularity hinged on its its ability to highlight the extent of Frank Underwood’s ill-intentioned, conniving, and...
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March 19, 2015July 12, 2022Culture
My Spring Break on Vicodin and Tarantino
#SB2K15 — that’s right, Spring Break, baby! Cancun? PCB? The Bahamas? Wherever you went, I am sure it was great. I mean, these are the times when memories are made, right? The beach, friends, no worries for an entire week: it all makes for what can only be an unforgettable time… Well, I certainly had...
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March 19, 2015July 12, 2022News
Bookstore bag contest opens
Until March 27, the Hillsdale College Bookstore is accepting submissions for their spring break photo contest. Before spring break, the bookstore encouraged students to pick up a plastic bag, take it with them wherever they were headed, and snap a picture with it. In order to enter the contest, students must submit the picture with...
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March 19, 2015July 12, 2022News
WHIP visits the Pentagon, remembers 9/11
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Lights shone serenely through the early evening darkness, illuminating benches in the 9/11 Pentagon Memorial as a group of nine students crowded up to windows inside an office in the colossal building. Looking out on Arlington, Virginia, Career Services Executive Director Michael Murray described the flight path of American Airlines Flight 77,...