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Alumnus collaborates with Future, Wiz Khalifa
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Alumnus collaborates with Future, Wiz Khalifa

You’ve heard Wiz Khalifa on the radio a million times, and you might’ve heard Future’s hit “Mask Off,” but the rappers have more of a connection to Hillsdale than playing over the loudspeakers at frat parties. Now they’ve recorded songs with a Hillsdale alumnus. Hyde, aka Chris Greene ’13, has rapped and sung on tracks...

I lost my Social Security card on Parents’ Weekend
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I lost my Social Security card on Parents’ Weekend

My mom’s trying to set me up with the waitress pouring my dad’s beer while I’m wondering whether I should admit I lost the social security card she gave me two hours ago. Every parent’s weekend feels like controlled chaos. The Grewcock Student Union becomes an open bar, bringing parents and students together for a...

New shows hit WRFH
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New shows hit WRFH

Sophomore Kiara Freeman awoke on a Monday morning to a text reading: “How busy are you this semester?” That afternoon she found herself with senior Mehgan Cain in a WRFH Radio Free Hillsdale meeting, where the duo joined the growing number of student shows on 101.7 FM. They recorded their first episode of comedy show...

DTD celebrating 150 years on campus
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DTD celebrating 150 years on campus

The men of Delta Tau Delta fraternity will celebrate their 150th anniversary next month, marking a century and a half since the founding of the Kappa chapter of Delta Tau Delta on Hillsdale’s campus. The fraternity plans to celebrate on Oct. 14 with a day of festivities for alumni. International President Jim Garboden of Delta...

Live from the basement: Media center offers students professional experience
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Live from the basement: Media center offers students professional experience

Freshman Paul Kerrigan uses a $40,000 camera rig to send volleyball footage back to a remodeled bowling alley. Kerrigan is one of 28 student employees who work in the basement of Hillsdale College’s Knorr Student Center (the former bowling alley), which houses a TV studio capable of broadcasting nationwide. “We were on Fox yesterday,” said...