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Turn your heart toward God and others this Lent
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Turn your heart toward God and others this Lent

When Lent rolls around each year, I find myself dreaming up a list of sacrifices I can make with the intention of becoming gloriously perfect by the time Easter arrives. And every year, I’ve failed. This year, I’m reminded of Lent as a penitential season set aside, not to demand perfection, but to redirect my...

Hillsdale buried beneath a blizzard
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Hillsdale buried beneath a blizzard

Today’s forecast may be rain, but just last week the season’s biggest snow storm blew into Hillsdale, leaving several inches of snow and some happy students with no classes to attend. Senior Brigette Hall says she was happy to have all her classes canceled. “It feels like Saturday,” she said. According to the Hillsdale Daily...

Flute like a fiddle
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Flute like a fiddle

When flutist Clara Fishlock auditioned for the 2018 Concerto/Aria Competition, she channeled the sound of bow hairs grating on strings rather than the hushed whispers floating from a flute. The junior history and French major drew her musical inspiration from the violin rather than the flute to preserve the heart of the piece, which she...