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Teaming up: Sororities and residence halls work together to create stronger teams and unite campus during homecoming week
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Teaming up: Sororities and residence halls work together to create stronger teams and unite campus during homecoming week

Hillsdale College’s 100th homecoming could see a shift in the balance of power, as several residences that usually compete individually opt to team up instead. In an unprecedented show of teamwork, all three sorority houses agreed to compete as a single team, rather than against each other. Benzing and Galloway residences joined forces, and Olds...

Freshman wins gold in Ultimate Frisbee World Championships, looks to Olympics next
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Freshman wins gold in Ultimate Frisbee World Championships, looks to Olympics next

Freshman Jordan Monnin loves wearing jerseys from different countries’ national ultimate frisbee teams — he owns jerseys from Russia, Taiwan, New Zealand, and Canada, among others. While they are for sale across the internet and in specialty stores around the world, he did not buy them. Instead, he traded his own Team USA jerseys for...

One hundred years of homecoming
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One hundred years of homecoming

One hundred years ago, homecoming meant a day off from Saturday classes, cheering on “the Dales” against their biggest rival, Albion, and watching the crowning of a homecoming queen with fewer than 60 homecoming alumni. A century later, Hillsdale College is celebrating the anniversary with a centennial theme, anticipating many alumni, and embracing the changes...

Arnn, Goldberg spar over Trump in Constitution Day panel in D.C.
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Arnn, Goldberg spar over Trump in Constitution Day panel in D.C.

Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn and National Review Senior Editor Jonah Goldberg clashed over Donald Trump’s views of the Constitution, commitment to conservative ideas, and fitness for office at the college’s Constitution Day Celebration in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 15. Hillsdale College students, supporters, alumni, and faculty gathered at the Renaissance Marriott Hotel in Chinatown...

Wolfram: the sign helps ‘the people’
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Wolfram: the sign helps ‘the people’

There has been some discussion about the replacement of the signs defining the city boundary.  As with anything else, we should think about the purpose of an entrance sign.  It is not likely meant to inform the residents where the city limits are.  The purpose of such a sign is more likely to let non-residents...