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Rachel Kookogey and Vika Nuñez share a hug. Collegian | Rachel Kookogey
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My Funny Roommate

Vika Nuñez and I started rooming together in the summer of 2019 when we both interned for the Marketing Department. We didn’t know each other super well at the time, but she had already trusted me with dying her hair red — and has several times since then. Some of my strongest memories from that...

Philosophy and Religion to host documentary screening
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Philosophy and Religion to host documentary screening

A documentary on the importance of finding true love in the modern world will play for all of campus in Plaster Auditorium Tuesday, Nov. 16, at 8 p.m. with a discussion panel to follow. The Department of Philosophy and Religion will be screening “The Dating Project,” a documentary that follows students and young adults in...

Nine students live in Costa Rican culture for a week
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Nine students live in Costa Rican culture for a week

“By day three I caught myself thinking and daydreaming in Spanish, which I’ve never done before,” said Anna Kate Hicks, a sophomore and Spanish minor.  Hicks is one of nine students that traveled to Costa Rica this past summer with Todd Mack, associate professor and department chair of Spanish. The one-week-long trip served as a...

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State budget forces local health agency to remove mandatory quarantine order

The Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Community Health Agency removed all mandatory COVID-19 quarantine orders on Sept. 30 in order to retain state funds. Health Officer Rebecca Burns’ removal of these orders was a result of the Michigan state legislature’s budget bill. The bill said all local health agency funding would be withheld or taken back if quarantine...