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Mr. Hillsdale brings charity and comedy to campus
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Mr. Hillsdale brings charity and comedy to campus

Senior Jack Coker wins the title ‘Mr. Hillsdale,’ according to the judges in Pi Beta Phi’s annual Mr. Hillsdale Competition, an annual philanthropy event where male students compete in a pageant to raise money for children’s literacy.  The week-long competition begins with Penny Wars, where students vote for their favorite candidate by placing pennies in...

‘That’s the kind of score that wins national championships’
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‘That’s the kind of score that wins national championships’

In its final event of the season, the Hillsdale College Shotgun team placed third out of 27 teams. The team battled in the ACUI Eastern Super Shoot at the Nashville Gun Club in Nashville, TN.  The only teams that scored higher than Hillsdale were the University of Tennessee Southern and the University of Georgia Southern....

College symphony orchestra to finish season with winter concert
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College symphony orchestra to finish season with winter concert

The Hillsdale College symphony orchestra will hold its winter performance on Nov. 20 and 21 in Christ Chapel, featuring faculty soloists Brad Blackham and Emily Douglass. Blackham, an artist-teacher of piano and director of keyboard studies for the college, will be performing Ravel’s “Piano Concerto in D Major (for the Left Hand.)” “It was commissioned...

Convocation speaker Dana Gioia holds poetry reading and book signing, speaks on the musicality of verse
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Convocation speaker Dana Gioia holds poetry reading and book signing, speaks on the musicality of verse

The day before speaking at Hillsdale’s fall convocation, renowned poet Dana Gioia read a selection of his own works to a group of students and faculty. At the event, Gioia followed his poetry readings by answering questions from the audience and signing books, engaging in further discussion with the group. The event organizer, associate professor...

Take it easy on the young guys
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Take it easy on the young guys

“Worst. Debut. Ever.”  That’s how ESPN’s Sportscenter described No.1 overall pick Cade Cunningham’s first game in a Detroit Pistons uniform. He went 1-of-8 from the field and scored just two points.  CBS’s Sam Quinn called Cunningham’s outing “disappointing,” and pointed out that it was the lowest point total put up by a No. 1 pick...