Month: October 2015

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The scramble to self-government

This weekend, professors and faculty will reveal your grades and academic performance to the most immediately potent sovereign bodies you acknowledge: your parents. The College invites our parents to participate in the project of higher education. It was with our parents that our lives began and it is in their steps we will follow, so...

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College Night replaces Jazz from the Underground

Once a weekly venue for various student jazz combos, the Underground is dropping its Thursday night jazz in favor of a more diverse program. In place of Jazz from the Underground, the bar beneath Broad Street Downtown Market is hosting College Night, a Thursday evening program including a DJ, live bands, trivia, karaoke, and comedy....

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Hillsdale Mixed Martial Arts center relocates

The Hillsdale Fitness and MMA Center downtown moved from 54 N. Howell St. across the street to 63 N. Howell St. after owner Steven Gossett decided the original location was too large. The 54 N. Howell St. location was “just a temporary solution,” Gossett said. “We were looking when we first started for a small...

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Hillsdale dropout becomes ‘Father of the American roller coaster’

A bus full of Hillsdale College students traveled to Cedar Point Saturday, partly because of the work done by a former Hillsdale student. LaMarcus A. Thompson, known as the “father of the American roller coaster” and the “father of gravity,” attended Hillsdale College in the winter of 1866 for a single semester. He was the...

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City lacks candidates for upcoming council elections

Hillsdale City Council elections are fast approaching and an Oct. 23 registration deadline looming, no candidates are registered to represent Ward II. Barring a change in the city charter, and unless a resident of Ward II decides to run, the district will be unrepresented on the council beginning in November. “With the vacancy that sits...