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Rough Draft carries on Friday night jazz tradition
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Rough Draft carries on Friday night jazz tradition

David Youngman (left) and Dave Turner (right) play jazz at Rough Draft. Megan Li | Collegian   It was Friday night, but sophomore Ava Jolley couldn’t relax just yet — she had a paper to write. There were few places better to do it than Rough Draft. The coffee shop’s foyer on the evening of...

Defund partisan public broadcasting
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Defund partisan public broadcasting

As conservatives strive to curtail operations at the U.S. Agency for International Development, they should stay on offense and defund other examples of government philanthropy gone wrong. Priority number one: public broadcasting. GOP congressman Greg Steube of Tennessee introduced legislation earlier this week to abolish USAID. With other prominent Republican lawmakers like representatives Chip Roy...

Library to host Gatsby book discussion
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Library to host Gatsby book discussion

While it won’t be one of Jay Gatsby’s raucous parties, F. Scott Fitzgerald fans are invited to celebrate the 100th  anniversary of the publication of “The Great Gatsby” in a book discussion on Feb. 26. The discussion, hosted by Mossey Library staff, will take place at 12:00 p.m. in the Heritage Room and include a...

Hillsdale professors discuss tariffs
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Hillsdale professors discuss tariffs

President Trump has launched tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China this past week. Courtesy | Wikimedia Commons President Donald Trump launched new tariffs on three major U.S. trading partners this month, wielding trade policy as leverage to combat the fentanyl crisis. Several Hillsdale economics professors weighed in on the potential impacts of these new tariffs....

Hillsdating has its time and place
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Hillsdating has its time and place

Hillsdating gets a bad rap. It provides the fun of dating without intentional clarity, so it should. Saga isn’t that romantic anyway.  But Hillsdating has gotten one thing right: Getting to know people doesn’t have to be serious from day 1. Romantic mingling before becoming official is nothing new. While before the 1920’s “calling” on...