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Technology prompts college to review academic honor policy
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Technology prompts college to review academic honor policy

Hillsdale College faculty are in the process of revising the school’s Policy on Academic Honor. With developments in technology, the internet has made cheating easier than ever before, necessitating changes to the policy, Professor of Business Law David Paas said. Additionally, since plagiarism is the single offence addressed in the policy, the faculty is looking...

College plans to replace football field turf
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College plans to replace football field turf

Charger football’s 2016 season was its final with the GLIAC, and it may be its final with Muddy Water Stadium’s synthetic turf field. This season marks the field’s tenth year, the amount of time the field was expected to last, Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé said. During the summer, annual inspectors of the facility flagged...

FICTION: Life turned literature loses steam in Whitehead’s historical novel
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FICTION: Life turned literature loses steam in Whitehead’s historical novel

  Enslaved, abandoned, bloodied, shackled, but never conquered. This is Cora, a slave picking cotton in antebellum Georgia, an escapee disappearing into assumed identities, a free woman emerging in the far north. Colson Whitehead uses historical, pre-Civil War America as a backdrop for Cora’s story, but his plot hinges on a highly-fictional version of the...

Voting for Trump does not make you racist
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Voting for Trump does not make you racist

My hairdresser is expecting to be fired because she voted for Donald Trump. So far, her boss, who took five “grief” days off work following the election, has demeaned, ignored, and – the real cherry on top – unfriended her on Facebook. Across the country, other bosses and CEO’s are on witch-hunts to oust any...