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Wind Quintet to perform Beethoven, Maslanka Sunday
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Wind Quintet to perform Beethoven, Maslanka Sunday

The faculty woodwind quintet will perform their biannual concert at 7 p.m. on Sunday, April 24 in McNamara Rehearsal Hall. Tickets are not required. The quintet is composed entirely of college faculty, including Lecturers in Music Jaimie Wagner on flute, Kaycee Thomas on oboe, Andrew Sprung on clarinet, Alan Taplin on French horn, and Cynthia...

Sophomore releases debut novel
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Sophomore releases debut novel

Five years ago, as a freshman in high school, sophomore Nathan Steinmeyer jotted down a few notes for what has now become his first novel. As he sat in his Bible study group, his small groups mentor, Aaron Gallardo Jr., mentioned the Nephilem. They are creatures commonly characterized as giants, or, as Steinmeyer described them,...

Radio quiet zone: Physics students study gravitational waves
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Radio quiet zone: Physics students study gravitational waves

In Green Bank, West Virginia, cell phones don’t work. There is no AM or FM radio or wireless devices of any kind. The town uses landlines and cables for internet and telephone. That is because, in this “radio quiet zone,” the world’s largest movable land object rests. Amidst farms and forested hills, a massive white...

Four Chargers inducted into the Hillsdale Hall of Fame
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Four Chargers inducted into the Hillsdale Hall of Fame

A common theme ran through the four Hillsdale College Athletic Hall of Fame inductees’ speeches on Saturday night at the Athletic Hall of Fame Banquet: their gratitude for Hillsdale. After the trophies had been presented and the inductees had taken their seats, Dr. Larry Arnn took the stage and he, too, took a moment to...

Is conservatism good for America?
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Is conservatism good for America?

Michael Lucchese asks (“Bring Trump voters back into the GOP,” April 7), “What should conservatives do when we wrest our movement away from national populism and Donald Trump?” But is the conservative movement worth saving in the first place? Lucchese supports William F. Buckley’s method of making conservatism “respectable” by purging “extremists.” But that entails...