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Ensuring preservation: library adds archival space
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Ensuring preservation: library adds archival space

Mossey Library is in the process of adding a designated Archives and Special Collections reading room, which has led to the temporary closure of the Dow Room. The addition of this archival space has been needed since the summer of 2019, when Mossey Library added an official archives department.  “Typically, in an archives unit of...

Students escape stress at picnic and painting event
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Students escape stress at picnic and painting event

The Hillsdale Student Activities Board organized a “Picnic and Painting” event on Sept. 3 in the quad. The quad was filled with groups of two to four students chatting, painting, and snacking while soft music lulled in the background. This “escape to the English Countryside,” as described in the Student Activities Office newsletter, was put...

Police arrest suspect in fatal hit and run crash
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Police arrest suspect in fatal hit and run crash

Fatal hit-and-run suspect, Dylan Lee Jones, has been arrested in connection with the Aug. 21 death of Kevin Brewer. Police allege that while Brewer was taking a walk, Jones struck the man with his white Chevy Malibu. Brewer, age 56, was pronounced dead at the scene. This incident occurred at 8:30 a.m. The death took...

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From 9/11 to 9/1: A hard lesson

Sept. 11, 2001, was a catastrophic day in the life of our nation—our generation’s Fort Sumter or Pearl Harbor. We were suddenly and deliberately attacked by radical Islamic terrorists. Images from that infamous day stung our national consciousness: The fireballs as one plane, and then a second, crashed into the Twin Towers; the panic and...

Cousins Benjamin and Marie Raffin enjoy looking at a flip phone. Collegian | Olivia Hajicek
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Students flip out about flip phones

While junior Ian Calvert’s preferred method of communication would be snail mail, a flip phone is his next best option. He is one of many Hillsdale students who has opted to power off their iPhone in favor of a more flippable mobile device from a simpler, perhaps better, time.  “I think the U.S. Postal Service...