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Eight bands vie for CHP slots Thursday
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Eight bands vie for CHP slots Thursday

Eight new and returning bands will take the stage Thursday night for the Student Activity Board’s Centralhallapalooza Showdown to test their mettle as openings acts for SAB’s largest event of the year. SAB Director Anthony Manno said eight bands is unprecedented — last year, five bands competed — especially since most of the groups are...

‘A small town that did something big’
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‘A small town that did something big’

The only prison museum within a walled, operating prison in the nation is in Jackson, Michigan, a town Hillsdale College students typically associate with sushi pilgrimages. Bryan, Ohio, a town smaller than Hillsdale, manufactures Dum Dums, candy canes, and circus peanuts (yes, you read that right). “It’s not really true that we live in the...

Art Institute of Chicago shows off for students
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Art Institute of Chicago shows off for students

A girl of about eight who wore a hot pink cardigan — with bangs dyed to match — leaned back, lifted her iPhone, and snapped a photo of Cindy Sherman’s “Untitled #92,” a photograph of a frightened young woman in a school uniform, hair cropped short, face blanched, pupils contracted to pin points. “That’s beautiful,”...