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Volleyball players recognized with GLIAC honors

Though the Hillsdale volleyball team didn’t achieve the record it was hoping for this season, several players were awarded All-GLIAC honors on Saturday night between conference semifinal matches at Grand Valley State University. Junior right-side hitter Haylee Booms, who had her best season yet in 2014, was awarded with First-Team All-GLIAC honors for the first...

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Q&A with Fulbright scholar Evan Gage

Evan Gage, ’14 applied for the Fulbright Scholarship to Turkey after visiting the country with the Honors program. As a Fulbright scholar, Gage is employed by both the Turkish Council of Higher Education through his school, Gazios-manpaşa Üniver-sitesi, and the U.S. Department of States Bureau of Educational and Cultural Services. Working for both organizations, Gage...

Holocaust survivor speaks on campus
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Holocaust survivor speaks on campus

Miriam Winter said goodbye to her family when she was only 8 years old. From there, she was moved from village to village in the Polish countryside, keeping her Jewish identity a secret, and being careful never to cry. “What happened then was traumatic and freezing. I was like a stone. I was like a...

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Student brings ‘Judgement’ to the world in new book

Lincoln Reed is a sophomore at Hillsdale College. He’s the catcher for the baseball team. He’s trying to settle on a major — speech or history. Oh yeah, and his 270-page, 75,000 word book came out on Amazon in June. When he was in third grade, Reed began writing short stories. He wrote often and...

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Local veterans honored with ceremony

Filling the lawn of the Hillsdale County Courthouse are 108 white crosses commemorating Hillsdale County veterans who died in combat zones. The crosses, which are cut from southern yellow pine, are the result of nearly a year’s worth of work by the Hillsdale Exchange Club, a community service organization in town. The Kiwanis Club also...