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To feed the Charger football team, moms play quarterback
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To feed the Charger football team, moms play quarterback

When the RVs filled with families roll in Friday night and Saturday morning for a home game, the football players know it means one thing: Mom’s food. Well, and family, too. The post-game comfort-food buffet last Saturday punctuated the final tailgate of the season. Like every other home-game tailgate this season, slow cookers and Tupperware...

Women’s cross country wins G-MAC
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Women’s cross country wins G-MAC

The Hillsdale College women’s cross country team dashed to the front of the pack during the G-MAC Conference Championships, finishing in first place, jumping to eighth in national Division II rankings, and claiming two conference distinctions. “They won very handily,” said coach Andrew Towne, who won G-MAC Coach of the Year. “I know for us...

Professor wins grant to hold philosophy reading group
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Professor wins grant to hold philosophy reading group

  Hillsdale College is one of 25 colleges and universities to receive a $3,000, privately-funded grant for Christian philosophy education. Interested students, faculty, and residents can attend a reading group on Christian analytic philosopher Alvin Plantinga, where they will read his seminal book, “Warranted Christian Belief.” Students who want to receive credit for the once-a-week...

Listen to those who say ‘Me Too’
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Listen to those who say ‘Me Too’

“Me too,” I thought, scrolling through Facebook. I reacted with likes, hearts, and sad-faced emoticons, but until now, I couldn’t type the words. “Does that count?” “What about that ‘no,’ which, weary from repetition, became ‘yes’?” “Or the gropes, cat-calls, unsollicited drunken advances, yells and leering stares from trucks, and men following me in cars...