Month: January 2017

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Wire wound with love
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Wire wound with love

Two men stand on the first car of the train: one waves, the other holds a shovel. Black steam billows out of the engine in a spiraling gray cloud. The second car, securely hinged to the first, carries blocks and blocks of hard black coal. Against a copper background, the name PETRIE is written in...

Hillsdale Buddies earns $1,700 grant
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Hillsdale Buddies earns $1,700 grant

In late October, the finances of Hillsdale Buddies, a Hillsdale College GOAL Program, were running low for its weekly bowling initiative with special needs community members. The Hillsdale County Community Foundation, or HCCF, came to the program’s aid. The Youth Advisory Council of the the HCCF awarded Hillsdale Buddies a $1,700 grant from the W.K....

Karaoke emerges from the Underground this evening
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Karaoke emerges from the Underground this evening

  Get ready to sing your heart out tonight at the first karaoke night of the year. Join the Student Activities Board tonight from 9 until midnight at Broadstreet Underground for food, friends, and, of course, karaoke. “The environment just makes for a cooler, more casual place to hang out,” said Bridget DeLapp, Media Officer...

Hillsdale’s founding role in the UFO craze
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Hillsdale’s founding role in the UFO craze

Most people remember Gerald Ford as the president who pardoned Nixon — few know he was once a UFO investigator. Ford was a United States congressman representing Michigan’s fifth district when people all over Michigan started reporting unidentified flying objects in March 1966. Sightings occurred first in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Dexter, Michigan, on March...

Obama’s midnight clemency exposes Democrats’ double standard
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Obama’s midnight clemency exposes Democrats’ double standard

In his final hours as president, Obama exposed the fallacious justice by which liberals operate. Chelsea Manning, the Army intelligence analyst who was convicted of espionage for leaking over 700,000 classified documents to Wikileaks, had her 35-year sentence commuted.  After serving seven years behind bars, Obama said he felt “justice has been served” and set...