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The Collegian Weekly

With an unprecedented reading day fast approaching, we at The Collegian thought you might be wondering what what you could possibly do with an extra 24 hours in your weekend.

Behind the wheel with Bill Knauss
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Behind the wheel with Bill Knauss

Bill Knauss is just one of Hillsdale College’s bus drivers, but in a lot of ways, he’s become more than that. “I just hear him in the stands cheering for us,” said senior Ashlee Crowder, outside hitter on the volleyball team. “He’s just this sweet old man, always being supportive.” Knauss’ first driving assignment was...

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In Memoriam: Garrett Robinson

When I arrived on campus this semester, I immediately sensed that something was missing. Hillsdale felt hollower somehow, more homogenous, less varied. It was like sometime during Christmas break, the school had become an inverted version of communist North Korea — everyone on campus wasn’t wearing sterile gray uniforms, but they were wearing equally bleak consumerist ones.