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Fungi’s future, present, and past is more than a trend
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Fungi’s future, present, and past is more than a trend

There’s an underground renaissance in wellness culture. Whether it’s advertisements like those of MUD/WTR offering coffee replacements or your hippie cousin swearing by a capsule to aid your memory problems, mushrooms are the stars of the alternative health world at the moment.  There are many reasons people venture into alternative medicine. Some people don’t trust...

Shelters help strays, say they need funding
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Shelters help strays, say they need funding

  Hillsdale’s stray animal problem can be boiled down to one main problem: funding. According to local animal shelter workers, the problem with strays has increased exponentially in the past few years due to the economy.  “At least for dogs, the economy tanks, and the next thing you know, people can’t feed their pets,” Director...

Yoga Club stretches into second year
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Yoga Club stretches into second year

Stretching into its second year, the yoga club is now offering a consistent schedule of morning and evening classes, led by sophomore Kody Richards, the club’s newest president. What began as a casual interest in the exercise, eventually earned Richards a teaching certification from her local studio in Washington. “When I turned 16, I decided...

‘Think about construction of a suit like the engine of a car’
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‘Think about construction of a suit like the engine of a car’

Alumnus runs 50-year-old family suit shop and continues quality tailoring experiences for celebrity and community clientele Getting a custom suit might not be at the top of most young men’s to-do lists, but it’s more important than it seems. After graduating from Hillsdale in 2014 and working as the student activities director for three years,...

“The Most Reluctant Convert” returns
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“The Most Reluctant Convert” returns

Hillsdale students are known for many things— getting married young, clutching their Western Heritage readers like holy books, and being strange enough to pick rural Michigan as their dream destination for college. Atheism isn’t one of our identifying traits.  But it’s easy to forget that some of the most beloved Christian authors and thinkers began...