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Halloween in Hillsdale
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Halloween in Hillsdale

Girls dressed as princesses, boys dressed as zombies, and parents exhausted from late-night costume building came together for the Hillsdale County Halloween Party on Tuesday. The party featured a costume contest, with winners ranging from adorable babies dressed as hens to children in terrifying Grim Reaper outfits. 3-month-old Jordyn June won first prize for babies....

Hillsdale’s most popular classes span multiple departments
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Hillsdale’s most popular classes span multiple departments

Courses offered this spring that always fill are History of Art II: Renaissance – Modern; Readings in Power, Leadership & Responsibility; English Grammar; Classical Children’s Literature; Renaissance British Literature; The Two World Wars; and Theology of the Body, according to Registrar Douglas McArthur. These classes come from numerous departments: art, business, education, English, history, and...

Of languages and literature: New professor joins Spanish department
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Of languages and literature: New professor joins Spanish department

Assistant Professor of Spanish Todd Mack has read everything from “Wuthering Heights” to the “Twilight” series, but he said the all-time greatest novel is “Don Quixote” — an opinion he’s willing to debate with anyone. While Mack, who joined joined the Spanish department this fall, said he has always loved literature and stories, it wasn’t...

Poet without punctuation visits campus
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Poet without punctuation visits campus

“Meter” may just be another word associated with poems and “syntax” a similarly obscure term, but reading Ellen Bryant Voigt’s latest poems gives these words a fuller understanding, if not a new meaning. As this semester’s second visiting writer through the English department, Voigt will be delivering a lecture entitled, “Lost and Found: On Randall...

Art student draws ‘a small, simple doodle’ a day for Inktober
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Art student draws ‘a small, simple doodle’ a day for Inktober

Senior Madeline Greb has inscribed a fall tradition with her “Inktober” drawings. Inspired by an interdisciplinary creativity seminar and her own desire to explore drawing mediums, Greb outlined a plan to draw every day in October. Creating something everyday seems intimidating, she said, but she started with a month-long goal as an “attainable baby step.” ...