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Hillsdale Academy welcomes two new full-time teachers
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Hillsdale Academy welcomes two new full-time teachers

When students walk into Heather Miller’s first- and second-grade classroom at Hillsdale Academy, they are immediately confronted with a dazzling display of color and light. The room is bright, inviting, and filled to the brim with student artwork, books, and educational tools of all shapes and sizes. “My case is a little odd,” said Miller,...

Live from the basement: Media center offers students professional experience
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Live from the basement: Media center offers students professional experience

Freshman Paul Kerrigan uses a $40,000 camera rig to send volleyball footage back to a remodeled bowling alley. Kerrigan is one of 28 student employees who work in the basement of Hillsdale College’s Knorr Student Center (the former bowling alley), which houses a TV studio capable of broadcasting nationwide. “We were on Fox yesterday,” said...

Hillsdale needs C.S. Lewis on the Liberty Walk
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Hillsdale needs C.S. Lewis on the Liberty Walk

The statues on the Liberty Walk honor people who vindicated the West’s system of ordered liberty through politics or war. Now, it’s time for a new statue, honoring someone who taught us what to do with that liberty: C.S. Lewis. Clive Staples Lewis was born on November 29, 1898, in Belfast, Ireland. At the age...

At ancient art exhibit, students rediscover the classics
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At ancient art exhibit, students rediscover the classics

Some 2,500 years ago, one industrious artist painted hundreds of ceramic Greek vases, adorning them with scenes of military and mythology. This year, the Princeton University Art Museum organized an exhibition of the anonymous Berlin Painter’s work, drawing more than 50 of the vases together from 15 private collections from the British Museum to the...

Sailing club drops into Detroit River for second competition ever
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Sailing club drops into Detroit River for second competition ever

The Hillsdale College Sailing Club competed in the Midwest Collegiate Sailing Association Sloop Championship on Saturday and Sunday at the Detroit Yacht Club. The Sailing Club took two teams to Detroit to participate in the regatta. The first Charger team, skippered by freshman Kaitlyn Rowland and crewed by junior Michael Whitman and freshman Julia Powell,...