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Checker Records to celebrate Record Store Day

Checker Records will celebrate Record Store Day by selling limited edition records — many of which are collection pieces. Is is one of almost 1,400 other independent record stores in the United States that will celebrate on April 18. “They go to the artists and ask if they’d like to submit anything,” John Spiteri said....

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‘The performance art of painting’

It’s a race against the clock. The paper must be wet as the artist quickly mixes his paints. It’s matter of working with the medium instead of against it. Lines can bleed. Colors can stray. For many students in Professor of Art Samuel Knecht’s Advanced Watercolor class, taught every other spring, this is both the...

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‘Insurgent’ just another bad sequel

Last March, the movie adaptation of “Divergent” freed a good plot from a poorly written novel and made it worth watching. Since then, fans of Kate Winslet and Theo James have waited expectantly for the release of “Insurgent,” the sequel of “Divergent,” which was released this past weekend. As a fan of “Divergent”, I decided...

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Chargers’ scorekeeper to retire after 40 years

When the baseball diamond was behind central hall, the Roche Sports Complex did not yet exist, and Jack McAvoy and Frank “Muddy” Waters were working in athletics on campus, Joan and Bill Van Arsdalen moved to Hillsdale, and Bill soon began working with scorekeeping for the football team, then for the basketball team. That was...

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Bus delay does not deter CPAC attendees

For students on their way to the Conservative Political Action Conference, a little travel mishap didn’t get in the way of a good time. Despite bus troubles late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning in Ohio, more than 150 Hillsdale students attended this year’s annual CPAC in National Harbor, Maryland, to listen to speakers such...