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Invite Ed Feulner to speak at commencement
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Invite Ed Feulner to speak at commencement

When Ed Feulner wrote his final Washington Times column in June, he told his readers never to rest in the pursuit of great things. “We can’t afford to become complacent,” he wrote. “Your opponents will try again, and if you’re not careful, you’ll wind up back where you started.” Ed Feulner should speak at Hillsdale...

Q&A: Claudia Rosett
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Q&A: Claudia Rosett

Claudia Rosett is a former staff writer for the Wall Street Journal. She was the editorial page editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal and covered the Tiananmen Square protest in 1989. Ms. Rosett spoke Sept. 17 on campus. Her speech, titled “Why Hong Kong’s Freedom Matters,” explained the current protests in Hong Kong which...

Citizens for Self-Governance holds second politics and policy mixer
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Citizens for Self-Governance holds second politics and policy mixer

Hillsdale’s policy groups and political organizations from both sides of the aisle gathered for Citizens for Self-Governance’s second annual Politics and Policy mixer last Thursday.   CSG president, senior Emily Heubaum, created the event last year when she was the club’s marketing chair. As a new organization on campus, she saw the group’s need for better...

Labeling NRA won’t stop mass shootings, teaching respect will
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Labeling NRA won’t stop mass shootings, teaching respect will

When my grandfather died in 2005, he left my elderly grandmother with what could only be described as a small armory in their basement. He collected guns — including a Union Army Civil War handgun, which my mother inherited — and built guns at his wooden work table. He even made his own bullets. He...