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Hillsdale’s Business Professionals of America club to compete at National Leadership Conference
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Hillsdale’s Business Professionals of America club to compete at National Leadership Conference

A group of 18 Hillsdale High School and Davis Middle School students are headed to Anaheim, California for the annual Business Professionals of America National Leadership Competition which will take place May 1. According to Hillsdale High School’s Business Professionals of America Club Adviser Mindy Eggleston, the competition will span over the course of five...

Langworth speaks on Churchill’s Shakespeare fandom at CCA IV
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Langworth speaks on Churchill’s Shakespeare fandom at CCA IV

Winston Churchill knew much of Shakespeare’s work by heart, writer and historian Richard Langworth said at a lecture for Hillsdale’s fourth Center for Constructive Alternatives. Langworth delighted audience members with anecdotes of Churchill’s Shakespeare fandom during a talk delivered March 25. Churchill, he said, was known to recite the lines along with actors when he...

The art department’s ‘mad scientist’
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The art department’s ‘mad scientist’

When she was getting ready to go to the University of Michigan, Chairwoman of Art Barbara Bushey had a tough decision to make. “I was trying to decide between art and physics,” Bushey said. “And as I told my father, ‘I can always paint on weekends, but I can’t have a cyclotron in my basement.’...

Don’t settle: Good journalists question the facts, investigate the claims
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Don’t settle: Good journalists question the facts, investigate the claims

Fake news is old news, but a more subversive type of reporting deserves greater reproach: straight-up lazy journalism. In excuse for CNN’s misguided handling of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, the network’s President Jeff Zucker this week defended lazy reporting: “We are not investigators. We are journalists, and our role is to report the facts...