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Authenticity, truth, and professional theater
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Authenticity, truth, and professional theater

For junior Glynis Gilio, the stage is like home. Gilio started acting professionally at age 9 in a production of “Christmas Carol” at the Goodman Theater in Chicago. She has since starred in productions like “Violet: A Musical” with Bailiwick Chicago Theater, participated as an extra in “The Lake House,” and even appeared in re-enactments...

Talk Money To Me: If you’re going to take out more student loans, get one with a fixed rate
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Talk Money To Me: If you’re going to take out more student loans, get one with a fixed rate

When the Federal Reserve raised interest rates in December, it announced its plans to continue this trend as the economy improves, which means taking out private loans to pay for college just got trickier. Hillsdale students beware: because the college doesn’t accept federal loans, you can’t get a federal student loan with a permanently fixed...

Embracing gender-nonconforming people’s societal roles
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Embracing gender-nonconforming people’s societal roles

A video of Ben Shapiro graced my Facebook feed in which he purportedly “destroys transgenderism” during a Q&A session with an audience member. I clicked to watch, noting the predictable routine that plagues many speaker-audience contentions — nervous question, witty one-line response, laughter, repeat until bored or screaming at each other. (To Shapiro’s credit, he’s...

Food for Thought: The secrets to success
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Food for Thought: The secrets to success

Kirk Cordill ’92 stood in front of a classroom packed with students and professors of economics, all waiting to hear from the youngest BMW CEO to date. People filed in even after the speech started, leaning against the back wall and lining the sides of the classroom. Cordill pensively looked out at the crowd sitting...

Mock trial goes undefeated at regionals
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Mock trial goes undefeated at regionals

Hillsdale College’s mock trial A team broke school records Saturday and Sunday, when it went undefeated in the regional tournament in Cleveland, Ohio. The A team claimed the first place trophy, after four three-hour-long rounds against some of the highest-ranked mock trial teams in the country, including those of Notre Dame and Cornell universities. It...