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Lauren Fink’s Apex Painting hits million-dollar milestone
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Lauren Fink’s Apex Painting hits million-dollar milestone

A new painting business has just hit $1 million in annual revenue, and now the alumna who started it seeks to expand into masonry, drywall, spray insulation, and housekeeping over the next few years. “I’m just an entrepreneur at heart,” said Lauren Fink ’07, who founded Apex Painting last year. “I think about what people...

Secure borders was never the plan
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Secure borders was never the plan

Vice President Kamala Harris stirred up controversy last week with her claim that the southern border is secure, drawing ridicule from conservative pundits as well as some Texas Democrats. Yet few commenters have considered that she might genuinely mean what she says: the border is exactly as secure as Democrats intend.  Over the last year,...

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Men’s XC split for Louisville and Lansing Races

The Hillsdale men’s cross country team was represented in two different meets this past weekend. Eight members of the men’s team ran in the Blue Division race of the Louisville Cross Country Classic, and another five members of the team raced in the Lansing Community College Invitational.  The Lansing meet took place on Friday, September...

Ellis relates games to war
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Ellis relates games to war

Assistant Professor of Education Erik Ellis presents on wargame board games Future military leaders should train for war by playing tabletop wargames, Assistant Professor of Education Erik Ellis said during a lecture on Friday, Sept. 30. The lecture, “Playing with History: Tabletop Wargames as an Historiographical Exercise,” took place in the Heritage Room as a...

Former Alito clerk advises students
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Former Alito clerk advises students

  When Paul Ray woke up one morning and decided to be a lawyer, he had no idea he would one day clerk for an associate Supreme Court justice and serve in former President Donald Trump’s administration. “I didn’t start thinking about law school before my senior year. I was going to teach English and...