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Taking a break: students who took gap years before Hillsdale
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Taking a break: students who took gap years before Hillsdale

Not everyone goes to college three months after graduating high school. Some people, including several Hillsdale students, find that taking a year off — a gap year — is a better decision than dashing off to school right away.   Junior Carrie Olson moved from Oregon to Chincoteague Island off the east coast of Virginia...

Women’s basketball set to compete in NCAA Division II national tournament
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Women’s basketball set to compete in NCAA Division II national tournament

The Hillsdale College Chargers punched their ticket to the big dance with a G-MAC tournament victory last weekend, defeating three of the top four teams in the conference. Victories over Ursuline College, Cedarville University, and the University of Findlay earned Hillsdale an automatic bid to the NCAA Division II Women’s College Basketball Championship, which begins...

Professors comment on North Korean presence at Olympics
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Professors comment on North Korean presence at Olympics

For the first time in over a decade, the so-called Korean unification flag has made an official appearance at the 2018 Winter Olympics. “For quite some time now, South Korea has been very conciliatory and really wanting to overcome past divisions,” Associate Professor of Politics John Grant said. “The Korean people have a very strong...

My house flooded over Christmas break
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My house flooded over Christmas break

As the lady on the phone explained to me last week, at some point on Jan. 10 over 40,000 gallons of water poured into my little college house, raising the basement sea level at least an inch, and slapping me and my fellow residents – all men of great character and poor finances – with...

WRFH hits the airwaves at CPAC for first time
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WRFH hits the airwaves at CPAC for first time

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — One of the most exciting moments for sophomore Benjamin Dietderich at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference was when political commentator Ben Shapiro and about 20 fans showed up at the Radio Free Hillsdale WRFH 101.7 FM booth without notice. “All the sudden, before I had written any of the questions...