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Bon Appétit to go strawless by 2019
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Bon Appétit to go strawless by 2019

The summer of plastic straw bans might be over, but Hillsdale College students will still have to stop sucking. Bon Appétit Management Company will stop offering plastic straws by September 2019. The movement to rid both the environment and consumers’ beverages of plastic straws swept through the United States during the summer. Seattle banned plastic...

Mr. Friedersdorf’s insidious argument
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Mr. Friedersdorf’s insidious argument

Conor Friedersdorf is a professional Trump hater. A quick scroll through his Twitter feed quickly proves that he spends quite a bit of time criticizing the President. His recent articles in the Atlantic are variant screeds against Donald Trump and his agenda. And now he has turned his obsessive attentions to Hillsdale College for the...

Mr. Friedersdorf, you have a few things wrong
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Mr. Friedersdorf, you have a few things wrong

As soon as Vice President Mike Pence dropped a “Make America Great Again” reference during his commencement speech at Hillsdale College in May, I knew that inviting him was a mistake — not because of his office or character, but because a graduation ceremony is no place for political gain. The success of the Trump...

Hillsdale County residents battle suicide epidemic in local community
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Hillsdale County residents battle suicide epidemic in local community

  When Lorie Nichols’ phone rings, she knows that answering it might put a life in her hands. Sometimes a call comes in the middle of the night, a last grasp at life from a suicidal person who listens to a deeper instinct, or a desperate plea for assistance from the person’s friend. A member...