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Jonesville’s hidden historical gem
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Jonesville’s hidden historical gem

On the corner of Maumee and Liberty streets in Jonesville, Mich. sits an iconic piece of Michigan history: the Grosvenor House. Two Hillsdale College juniors, Gwendolyn Stoldt and Julia Kilgore, recently saw this unique piece of Jonesville history as an opportunity to further their education and experience as curators in training. Renowned architect Elijah Myers...

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Saga takes on new load: laundry

While Hillsdale College spent the summer breaking ground on the new athletic center, renovating dormitories, and repaving sidewalks, Saga, Inc., took on a new role of managing the dormitories’ laundry system. Saga has replaced the old appliances in all college dormitories with Maytag commercial washers and dryers. These new appliances will allow Saga to incorporate...

History continues  with rennovations to Ambler Health Center
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History continues with rennovations to Ambler Health Center

By closing one chapter in the Ambler Health Center’s long history, the college turned to a fresh page in order to serve Hillsdale students and staff with updated facilities and staffing hours. In 2011, Richard Péwé, vice president of administration, announced that funds would be reserved for renovations to the Health Center. While it would...

Reporting live from the RNC
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Reporting live from the RNC

A forty-five second video entry in a sweepstakes won me a ticket to cover the 2012 Republican National Con- vention with CNN. I quickly found myself in a whirlwind — not Hurricane Isaac, but the crazed, fast-paced world of TV news. I’d always been skeptical of the existence of media bias, but not after this...