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Satire: Male experts weigh in on makeup usage
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Satire: Male experts weigh in on makeup usage

Should women wear makeup? Rather than ask the go-to sources on all things cosmetic — women — we consulted the proper experts: men.  Some may argue men are not qualified to make sweeping statements about women’s appearances. Men disagree, and history backs them up. Men have been wearing makeup since 4,000 B.C., when the ancient...

50 years of WHIP
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50 years of WHIP

When a young Tucker Watkins ’75 asked then-Illinois congressman Philip Crane which college he should attend, Crane didn’t hesitate to answer.  “He said the only one to consider going to is Hillsdale College,” Watkins said.  Watkins took his advice and became one of the first four students to participate in the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program, which...

‘Starship Troopers’ discussion covers timeless issues
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‘Starship Troopers’ discussion covers timeless issues

Mossey Library hosted its fall book discussion this week on Robert Heinlein’s novel “Starship Troopers.”  The 1959 science fiction novel is set in a future where humanity has become an interplanetary civilization at war with a giant arachnid species known as “the Bugs.” In “Starship Troopers,” citizenship and voting rights are earned through military service....