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Men’s basketball tops Lake Erie, falls to ODU
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Men’s basketball tops Lake Erie, falls to ODU

The Hillsdale men’s basketball team (18-7, 12-6 G-MAC) split two games this week, earning a convincing 78-67 win over the Lake Erie University Storm (4-24, 3-17 G-MAC) on Saturday afternoon, but losing 65-48 against Ohio Dominican University (14-10, 9-8 G-MAC) when the shots just wouldn’t fall. In the previous two games, the Chargers suffered losses...

Stormy weekend brings out good snow-maritans
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Stormy weekend brings out good snow-maritans

Nearly a foot of snow fell last weekend, leaving cars stuck in their parking spaces and students scrambling to move their cars before the police tucked a ticket under their windshield wiper in advance of the plows. But when tragedy struck and people needed help, some men of Hillsdale College rose to the occasion. As...

Drink of the month: The Hurricane
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Drink of the month: The Hurricane

A common conceit of high school French curriculum — along with kitschy French names, the berets, and a summer trip getting lost in a throng of Parisian monument gawkers — is the annual in-class mardi gras party where students practice the creole slang and dig into a King’s Cake for the little figure of baby...

To mime as the spirit enabled them
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To mime as the spirit enabled them

Before they went down to the square, they smeared white paint on their faces and drew delicate black lines to accentuate their facial features. There was no crowd initially, just people milling about a public place in Guatemala. The students arrived with their director and smiled at the Guatemalans as they climbed the stairs of...