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Jaffa is no deity

Last week, the Collegian noted the death and honored the life of Harry Jaffa, an influential political philosopher and cherished intellectual hero of Hillsdale College. Mike Sabo’s piece (“Harry Jaffa redefined political philosophy,” Jan. 23), recounted Sabo’s own first encounter with Jaffa’s project: “Jaffa likened attending his first classes with Leo Strauss to Saul being...

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The Good Bikers

No,” Chief Administrative Officer Rich Pewe laughed, speaking about the group of Hillsdale faculty and staff that rode motorcycles together over the summer. “There were no ‘shenanigans.’” But no ‘shenanigans’ doesn’t mean that nothing happened. “One of the funniest times we ever had was when we went to Manitou Bar and Grill near Devils Lake,”...

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Men’s dorms and fraternities to hold blood drive

Voters proudly wore stickers on Nov. 4, indicating that they had gone to the polls. Want another sticker? Donate blood on Nov. 12 in the Grewcock Student Union, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Red Cross blood drive occurs every semester, filling the union with tables, Red Cross personnel, and long lines of students...

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Come feel “the Heat” tonight: LA Theatre Works, “In the Heat of the Night”

“Come with your eyes open, your ears open, your mind open.” Senior Aaron Pomerantz,  Publicity Manager for Sage Center, hopes that tonight’s production will challenge and engage Hillsdale students. The acting company, Los Angeles Theatre Works, will be bringing “In the Heat of the Night” to Hillsdale’s Markel Auditorium stage at 8 p.m. The play...

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Student clubs tackle social media

Click. Delete. Repeat. Your student email inbox is full of generic campus messages. Most are probably deleted before being read. Some linger in the inbox for months, unopened and disregarded. So how is a student group to get out its message? The answer is social media, said senior Nathan Brand, the social media coordinator for...