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Students to premiere documentary April 19
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Students to premiere documentary April 19

The U.S. Supreme Court heard Hillsdale College case on Title IX in 1972. Eight students will tell the story of Hillsdale’s legal battle for freedom from federal regulation under Title IX in a new documentary at 7 p.m. on April 19 in Plaster Auditorium. “The Price of Independence” is the final project for a documentary...

New Yorker misquote shows how media distorts Hillsdale
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New Yorker misquote shows how media distorts Hillsdale

New Yorker article did not represent Hillsdale. Courtesy | Flickr. Journalist Emma Green’s article on Hillsdale College in last week’s New Yorker placed our school “at the center of the culture war.” Save one line about the “relatively little appetite for partisanship” on campus, she failed to pin down Hillsdale’s political philosophy. And she failed to...

John Wayne is more than a cowboy
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John Wayne is more than a cowboy

A photo of John Wayne from the 1940 film, “The Long Voyage Home.” Courtesy | Wikimedia Commons When a tycoon tried to take a family’s land in the movie “El Dorado,” an alcoholic sheriff did nothing to help – but John Wayne did. “Your gun hand’s no good,” gunman Nelse McLeod said. “Just give me...

Spending Holy Week in Hillsdale
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Spending Holy Week in Hillsdale

Junior Hannah Allen roasted two whole chickens and assembled an Easter feast with friends. Megan Williams | Collegian Until this semester, Hillsdale was never my ideal location to celebrate holidays. With family on the West Coast, I was used to accompanying friends home for different holidays throughout the school year since it wasn’t practical to...

The New Yorker reporter did not come to flatter us
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The New Yorker reporter did not come to flatter us

The New Yorker article served its purpose. Courtesy | Flickr. When Hillsdale students were bickering with New Yorker readers in the comments section on Instagram last week, one thing was clear: only a small percentage of people had read Emma Green’s article in its entirety.  From the April 10 issue of the New Yorker, Green’s...