Month: November 2015

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Dancing at Lughnasa
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Dancing at Lughnasa

On the stage appears a sparsely-furnished house, and in and around the house there are frozen figures. Beside the house in a spot of light, a smiling man speaks in a richly inviting Irish lilt. A memory begins. The Tower Players’ production of the late Irish dramatist Brian Friel’s “Dancing at Lughnasa” opened yesterday evening,...

Chargers advance to semifinals
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Chargers advance to semifinals

Feeding off of an energetic home crowd and a vengeful spirit, the No. 3 Hillsdale College volleyball team played one of its best all-around games of the season, powering to a 3-0 sweep over the No. 6 Saginaw Valley State University Cardinals last night at Dawn Tibbetts Potter Arena. The victory advances Hillsdale to the...

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The threat of radical Islam

Hours before the attacks in Paris, President Obama said that ISIS was “contained.” How tragically wrong he was. In the aftermath of this disaster, people around the world have poured out their hearts for the French. On Facebook and Twitter, images of the French tricolor and the Eiffel Tower dominate newsfeeds. Reporters breathlessly cover each...

Hillsdale students score among top in nation on CPA
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Hillsdale students score among top in nation on CPA

Hillsdale’s recent accounting graduates scored in the top 3 percent in the nation on the Unified Certified Public Accountant exam. For the year 2014, Hillsdale College graduates,who studied accounting and took the CPA exam for the first time, had a passing rate of 78 percent with an average score of 81, while the national average...

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A perspective on prospectives

Most of us remember our first visit to campus as high schoolers. Now college students, we also remember the first time we witnessed prospective students invading our classes, dining hall, and campus for their own first visits. They stand huddled in large groups in the front of Mossey Library, listening with their parents as a...