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Local tech startup develops academic AI detection software
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Local tech startup develops academic AI detection software

Joel Stewart co-founded the local startup. Courtesy | Joel Stewart The company hopes to encourage the integrity and self-reliance of higher education. A Hillsdale resident and Hillsdale College professor co-founded a tech startup aimed at bettering education in the face of rising levels of artificial intelligence plagiarism.   Associate professor of Economics Charles Steele and Joel...

Professors talk unique spring classes
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Professors talk unique spring classes

Illustrated by Maggie O’Connor. In this compilation, professors plead the cases for their niche classes of the semester — from Tolkien to detective novels to a partnership with Hillsdale Homestead. “Hard-Boiled Detective Novels”  1-credit, T, 11-11:50 a.m. Paule Rahe, Professor of History “What genre is unique and peculiar to modern commercial liberal society? The answer...

Gamble on: Sports betting teaches self-governance
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Gamble on: Sports betting teaches self-governance

Courtesy | Unsplash Michigan began allowing sports betting back in 2019. Since then, it has become easier and easier to participate in and has commanded massive news and media coverage. Though many raise concerns that college students ought not gamble, the students of Hillsdale College should not be barred from sports betting.  According to Seton...

Chargers gear toward second national tournament apperance
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Chargers gear toward second national tournament apperance

Senior Emma Ruhlman dribbling the ball at the team’s first practice of the 2025-26 season Courtesy | Hillsdale College Athletic Department The Hillsdale women’s basketball team was picked to finish fifth in the 2025-26 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Preseason Coaches Poll, but Charger players and coaches say they’re poised to make another GMAC title run...

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Tower Players keep Shakespeare alive

Featuring original music by Hillsdale alumnus Ethan Graham ’25, “The Book of Will” explores how English playwright William Shakespeare lives on through his writings.  The Tower Players will premiere the historic account of Shakespeare’s friends collecting his writings in “The Book of Will,” written by American playwright and screenwriter Lauren Gunderson, this week with performances...