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A Veterans Day vignette
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A Veterans Day vignette

This Sunday, Veterans Day, Hillsdale College faculty, staff, and students will remember friends and family members who have served in the U.S. armed forces. Here is the story of one college employee and her father, Donald Mees.   Sorting through a pile of photographs and letters she’d gathered over the years, Jennifer Ellair, a Hillsdale...

Mock Trial team best yet after tournaments
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Mock Trial team best yet after tournaments

With their success at recent tournaments, Hillsdale College Mock Trial has the highest win percentage of any mock trial team in the college’s history. Both teams 1126 and 1127 attended the Case Western Spartan Throwdown on Oct. 28 and 29, and 1126 competed at the Illinois State University Invitational this past weekend. Team 1126 placed...

Pulp Michigan: Faygo remembers
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Pulp Michigan: Faygo remembers

In the 1970s—back before commercial irony—the soda company Faygo ran a wildly successful TV ad featuring a group of adults boarding a steamboat and singing arm-in-arm about their favorite childhood memories. It’s hard to tell what exactly is being sold until the very end, when the boat paddles off into the sunset. The lotus-drinkers conclude...

Security pushes app to ‘Alertus’ of danger
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Security pushes app to ‘Alertus’ of danger

Campus security warnings could come in an instant, if you download an app. Hillsdale College Campus Security has added a new element to its mass notification system with the addition of the Alertus mobile application. Using the app, campus security can send out a mass alert to notify students of emergency situations like severe weather...

Chargers place second at G-MAC Championships
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Chargers place second at G-MAC Championships

The Hillsdale Chargers had little choice but to grind through the mud during the G-MAC Cross Country championship race. “Morgan [Morrison] described it as running through macaroni and cheese,” junior Arena Lewis said. Morrison is a sophomore on the men’s cross country team. Despite their efforts, the Chargers fell short, earning second place with 52...