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Four bikes vanish from Simpson
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Four bikes vanish from Simpson

Hillsdale College campus security is recommending students lock up their bikes. Over the past two-and-a-half weeks, four bikes have disappeared from the bicycle rack outside Simpson Residence, after students didn’t properly secure them. “People sometimes forget that we’re not immune to stuff like theft and crime here just because we’re at Hillsdale,” Simpson Head Resident...

Student Federation election next week
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Student Federation election next week

Hillsdale College students will elect their Student Federation representatives and vote on eight proposed amendments to the federation’s constitution next week. From Nov. 14-16 in the Grewcock Student Union, students can elect federation officers, two representatives for their class year, and three at-large delegates. Two-thirds of the student body is needed for each of the...

CCA II honors von Mises and Hayek
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CCA II honors von Mises and Hayek

The college’s second Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar begins Sunday and will examine the ideas of Austrian economics and its two most famous philosophers. Director of Programs for External Affairs Matt Bell said the point of the CCAs is to further the mission of the college in educating students and now a greater audience because...

A bad election is better than no election
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A bad election is better than no election

Six years ago today, my family and I hauled 22 50-pound cardboard boxes into the Detroit airport and moved to Shanghai, the largest city in the People’s Republic of China. My time living in a communist country showed me just how fortunate the American people are to endure elections like the one we just finished,...