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Five Valentine’s Day Dates on the cheap
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Five Valentine’s Day Dates on the cheap

Are you hesitant to ask out that cute girl you’ve been googly-eyeing in Bio? Is the weight of student loans and club dues bearing down on you? Are you worried that a nice date will break the bank, but a cheap date will make you look… well… cheap? Fear not, casanova. Here are five fabulous...

Just call them “Scouts”: BSA decision is a half-measure
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Just call them “Scouts”: BSA decision is a half-measure

  The Boy Scouts of America are struggling. Since 1999, scouting membership has decreased by over a third, or one million boys. Founded in 1910, the program peaked in 1970 with 4.6 million members. This year over 2 million American boys between the ages of seven to 17 participate in scouting. Boys have lost interest...

Central Hall | Collegian Archives
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Ideology blocked real conversation between NYT, Hillsdale

As someone who came to Hillsdale College unaware of the school’s conservative leanings, I was at first shocked to see Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher monumentalized on the quad. The New York Times reporter Erik Eckholm told me he felt the same way the night before he left Hillsdale. Eckholm said this as he sat...

Cruz Sanders healthcare debate takes the high road
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Cruz Sanders healthcare debate takes the high road

Today’s age is one in which personality dominates politics. The media breathlessly covers every Trump tweet, and Trumpian insults have quickly become America’s shared political language. Tuesday night, though, Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders showed us a different way of doing politics. On CNN, the two senators debated issues related to the Affordable Care Act in...

Letter to the Editor, February 9, 2017
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Letter to the Editor, February 9, 2017

Dear Editor, Last week, Luke Robson submitted an opinion claiming that television, material reductionism, and “the miasma of science and realism” spawned social pressures on children not to play make-believe or engage in fantasy. These pressures, he alleged, cripple children’s ability to separate fantasy and reality as adults, leading to a delusional generation. However, how...