In January 2011, freshman Dean Sinclair and the other members of alt-rock band August Hotel were just four kids from the northwest suburbs of Chicago, cobbling together a last-minute winning set for a church-basement battle of the bands in Des Plaines, Illinois. Four years later and 220 miles away, August Hotel opened Phi Mu Alpha’s...
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March 5, 2015July 12, 2022Opinions
Don’t be afraid of on-campus jobs
When I came to Hillsdale, I didn’t intend to have any on-campus jobs. I planned on doing school from August to May and then focusing on work in the summers. I upheld this philosophy throughout my freshman year, and remember fondly long, dark, cold fall and winter evenings spent in my tiny room in Olds,...
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March 5, 2015July 12, 2022City News
Checker Records contends for state’s best coffee shop
A list of Michigan’s top 10 coffee shops was released today, and Checker Records earned sixth place. Checker Records qualified for the competition after being named Jackson area’s best coffee shop in an online poll of MLive readers in February — beating out other local favorites like Hillsdale’s Jilly Beans and the Jackson Coffee Company in...
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March 5, 2015July 12, 2022Opinions
Live long and prosper
Leonard Simon Nimoy died Feb. 27, 2015 at the age of 83 at his home in the Bel Air Estates neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). He is survived by his wife Susan Linda Bay Nimoy. Nimoy was born on Mar. 31, 1931 in the West End of...
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March 5, 2015July 12, 2022News
Q & A with Karol Boudreaux
Karol Boudreaux is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center of George Mason University. She has led specialized research on land tenure and property rights, focusing on sub-Saharan Africa for USAID, and served on the Working Group on Property Rights of the U.N.’s Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor. Boudreaux is now in...