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Master of simplicity: Rich lyrics and clear acoustics in “Pray You Love Remember”
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Master of simplicity: Rich lyrics and clear acoustics in “Pray You Love Remember”

Catherine Coffey, ’16, has recently debuted her first L.P. titled “Pray You Love Remember.” The 11-track offering from Coffey comes on the heels of her signing with Vanity Plate Records, a record label founded in 2016 by a fellow Hillsdale graduate and classmate Danielle Adams, ’18. From the opening bars of the first track, “Pray...

‘A season for everything:’ Whalen to step down as provost, continue to teach
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‘A season for everything:’ Whalen to step down as provost, continue to teach

Among the neatly-ordered piles on Hillsdale College Provost David Whalen’s desk is paperwork regarding accreditation, a graduate school program, faculty sabbatical requests — and a stack of books on the pre-Raphaelites, two translations of Homer’s “Odyssey” he’s comparing, and a pile of English midterms he’s just graded. After serving as provost for nearly eight years,...

Midterm elections turn the Mitten State purple
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Midterm elections turn the Mitten State purple

Some of Michigan’s top governmental positions went blue after years of Republican control in a high-stakes midterm election Tuesday. Gretchen Whitmer will be the first Democrat to take the Michigan Governor’s office in the past eight years after she defeated Republican attorney general Bill Schuette in the race for governor. “I guess we’re going to...

Our Civil War Student Veterans: Their Spirit, Our Tradition
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Our Civil War Student Veterans: Their Spirit, Our Tradition

All institutions of higher learning pursue truth. We here at Hillsdale College pursue truth. We also defend liberty. Defending liberty is a tradition of our college. It is a unique tradition among American colleges. It was born in the Civil War, in the blood and sacrifice of that most bloody and bitter of wars. It...

Students, faculty attend Notre Dame ethics conference
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Students, faculty attend Notre Dame ethics conference

Nearly 800 people, including Hillsdale students and professors, gathered at the University of Notre Dame this weekend for the 19th annual Center for Ethics and Culture fall conference. The theme of the conference, held on Nov. 1, was rooted in Russian philosopher Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s teachings on the proper relationship between God, the human person, and...