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Hillsdale’s Meijer set to open by early summer 2024
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Hillsdale’s Meijer set to open by early summer 2024

Construction crews work on Meijer’s new entrance off of W. Carleton Road. Lauren Scott | Collegian Meijer expects to open its Hillsdale store by the early summer of 2024. “It’s something that a city of our size kind of drools over,” City of Hillsdale Zoning Administrator Alan Beeker said. Construction is halfway complete and Meijer...

Students and alumni prepare new biographical documentary
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Students and alumni prepare new biographical documentary

Six students and young alumni are racing to finish a new documentary about conservative direct-mail innovator Richard Viguerie. “Funding Father: The Man Who Delivered Democracy to America’s Mailbox” will premiere Sept. 23 at the celebration of Viguerie’s 90th birthday. Guests will receive copies of the film, according to junior Lindsey Larkin, a member of the...

Tea, Churchill, and Politics: interning in Parliament
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Tea, Churchill, and Politics: interning in Parliament

“The next station is Westminster,” the automated voice of the London Underground announced. “Exit for the Palace of Westminster, and Houses of Parliament.” I walked up the station’s stairs with three other Hillsdale College students, sophomore Porter Jihaad and juniors Jacob Fox and Vivian Turnbull. We left the station and stood facing the centuries-old facade...

Princeton Review awards Hillsdale with top rankings
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Princeton Review awards Hillsdale with top rankings

Hillsdale College received multiple top five scores in the 2024 edition of the Princeton Review’s Best 389 Colleges, including second place for best college newspaper, friendliest students, most engaged in community service, and most religious. Other rankings include third most conservative students, fourth best counseling and student support services, fifth most loved by students, and...

Don’t worry if you didn’t have a summer internship; I didn’t either
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Don’t worry if you didn’t have a summer internship; I didn’t either

Students can make valuable summer plans without pursuing internships. Courtesy | Wikimedia Commons “What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was a prolific writer who provided a...