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Professors provide advice on handling sexual harassment in the workplace
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Professors provide advice on handling sexual harassment in the workplace

“What would you do?” Professor of Psychology Kari McArthur asked the audience. At The Fairfield Society’s Tuesday night panel on sexual harassment in the workplace, sponsored by Lighthouse, three female professors — McArthur, Professor of French Sherri Rose, and Professor of Biology Angie Pytel — shared anecdotal experience and professional advice with, and answered public...

Students independently produce G.K. Chesterton’s ‘The Surprise’ with ‘frothy fun, whimsical wit’
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Students independently produce G.K. Chesterton’s ‘The Surprise’ with ‘frothy fun, whimsical wit’

Surprise! It’s a play not put on by theater students.  Sword fights, falling in love all of a sudden, and an unexpected ending: G.K. Chesterton’s play “The Surprise” has all the elements to delight audiences and make them think.  Independent students will present “The Surprise” this weekend in Mauck Dormitory. Showings of the 80-minute play...

Student tests potential treatments for neurological disorder
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Student tests potential treatments for neurological disorder

  Senior Delaney Lehman spent a summer finding a compound that could be synthesized to cure Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a mutation that causes severe handicaps, in her internship with the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. To clarify: This research had nothing to do with sharks, French monarchs, or dental problems. The incurable disease, which affects...

Local contractor scores street repair project
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Local contractor scores street repair project

  Just a few administrative steps remain before construction can begin on Garden, Vine, and Mead streets and Rippon Avenue. Hillsdale City Council on Monday officially awarded the contract to the asphalt subcontractor that bid lowest. The project, aimed at eliminating flooding, back-ups, and preventing sewage from getting flushed into the St. Joe River, will...

Lamplighters choose new women to lead the way
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Lamplighters choose new women to lead the way

When the men’s leadership honorary Mortar Board declined women’s petitions for membership, Hillsdale’s women decided to start their own in 1949. Seventy years later, Lamplighters remains a body of eight young women in leadership roles on campus. Last week, the women of Lamplighters chose rising seniors to fill their shoes. They are: Ellen Friesen, Lucile...