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Volleyball club plays first match

  The Hillsdale Men’s Volleyball Club played best of five but lost in three at Adrian College March 15. The scores were: 25-11, 25-19, and 25-15. The club was started last semester by freshman Eric Walker, who serves as the club’s president. Assistant Professor of Economics Michael Clark coaches, and Ryan Servold, middle school volleyball...

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Brains, blood, and ‘Warm Bodies’

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.” Not quite. While it’s true that it took watching “Warm Bodies” for me to realize that what “Romeo and Juliet” had always been missing was zombies, the two don’t quite smell the same. “Warm Bodies” is a...

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Marine Corp vet trains students

Watch out, would-be kidnappers and thugs of Hillsdale. Junior Anna Shoffner knows “how to bust someone’s eardrum,” and she jogs with a pen so she can stab you if accosted. Shoffner is sophomore Marshall Gobba’s student in his “warrior training,” a self-defense class he is offering. Gobba, a 10-year Marine Corps veteran, worked in aviation...

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Guns, gangs, and gas conflagrations

Men in dapper dress, a “tomato” of a doll, and a rubber-faced gangster populate the crooked city of Los Angeles in director Ruben Fleischer’s (of “Zombieland” fame) crime flick, “Gangster Squad,” which is inspired by a true story. This film ought to have been quite good, considering the source material, concept, and actors. It ought...

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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

“It’s a completely apolitical thing,” said senior Andrew Holub, echoing sentiments expressed by others involved in the Hillsdale College Recycling program. “It’s just a good, honest attempt to be responsible with our waste products and do what we can to not be reckless with the environment.” Psi Chi and Tri Beta, the psychology and biology...