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“From Hell With Love”: the case for heavy metal
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“From Hell With Love”: the case for heavy metal

If you like worshiping the devil, you’ll love heavy metal music. This probably echoes some stereotype about metal music you’ve heard before. It’s on par with saying that listening to rap music will make you try drugs, or that all country music sucks. The difference, however, is that the mainstream appeal of these other genres...

Spinning into town: ballet returns
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Spinning into town: ballet returns

There is only one professional ballet company in the state of Michigan, and they are spending their Saturday night performing on the Markel Stage at 7:30 p.m. This production is part of the professional artist series organized by the heads of the theatre and dance, music, and art departments. James Brandon, chairman of the theatre...

Christian couple serves Cups & Cones
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Christian couple serves Cups & Cones

Overflowing Cups and Cones was born in an impossibly long ice cream line. One summer evening at another shop, Earl and Carie Proctor decided to open their own business.  This past May in Hillsdale, the Proctors opened Overflowing Cups and Cones, an ice cream and coffee drive-through. While Carie was initially worried about the risk...

Not too good to be true, Schizmatics is back for the fall
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Not too good to be true, Schizmatics is back for the fall

“Schizmatics” or “The Schizmatics”? Which is it? Even the members can’t make up their minds. Regardless, the campus can’t keep its eyes off of them. This band of six sophomores— Matthew Byrne, Owen Gerth, Gavin Listro, John Schaefer, Dravyn Spies, and Jack Walker— formed mid-second semester of their freshman year.  “It was Gavin’s brainchild,” Gerth...

Shaw unveils musings
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Shaw unveils musings

Thoughtful, dynamic, and engaging: such is the artwork of Brian Shaw, Hillsdale’s professor of art. Beginning Sept. 2, members of the Hillsdale community can stroll through his new exhibition: Design Musings. Featuring roughly two dozen posters, paintings, badges, and pen-and-ink works, Shaw’s attention to detail is apparent in every piece he creates. “Some of the...