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Hack stops students from using Handshake
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Hack stops students from using Handshake

Along with Twitter, Amazon, and Netflix, internet users had problems accessing the career services office’s online platform Friday, after the largest distributed denial-of-service attacks in history. Students had trouble loading Handshake’s website — which uses Dyn, one of a few major domain name service companies, to connect users to its server — after junk data...

Panaggio strengthens math department
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Panaggio strengthens math department

Mark Panaggio said he knows what it feels like to be a discouraged student. That feeling led him to become a teacher, he said. Panaggio is a new assistant professor in Hillsdale College’s mathematics department this semester. His expertise in applied mathematics comes at a fortuitous time, as the department shifts its focus away from...

Lyceum discussion makes the cases for evolution
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Lyceum discussion makes the cases for evolution

Speakers at an interdisciplinary forum on evolution Friday offered perspectives on why Christian students should not scoff at the concept of evolution but rather study it within the contexts of cosmology, biology, and theology. The Lyceum held a discussion among Assistant Professor of Biology Silas Johnson, Assistant Professor of Physics Timothy Dolch, and Assistant Professor...

Before you graduate, take a class outside of your major
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Before you graduate, take a class outside of your major

Did you know there’s a class on “Conspiracies, Cryptids & Enigmas” this semester? Or that you can take a class titled “Beer: Science, Styles and Sampling?” This semester, consider taking a class you’re not obligated to take for your major. It’s easy to get bogged down with core classes and major requirements, but taking classes...