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Quick Hits with Anna Navrotskaya
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Quick Hits with Anna Navrotskaya

Navrotskaya holding a giant cucumber. Courtesy | Anna Navrotskaya In this Quick Hits, Associate Professor of French Anna Navrotskaya talks wooden clogs, her cats, and her love of the French language. If you could introduce or bring back any fashion trend, what would it be? Wooden clogs. I love everything medieval, and also, I can...

Hillsdale hunters up their game as season opens
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Hillsdale hunters up their game as season opens

Freshman Maxon Versluys (third from right) hunting with his cousins. Courtesy | Maxon Versluys Dennis “Gate Guy” Cook shot his first deer around age 16. “Grandma would cook breakfast, lunch, and dinner for all the hunters, so it made opening day kind of like a holiday,” Cook said. Cook is one of many hunting aficionados...

Quick Hits with Tom Burke
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Quick Hits with Tom Burke

Burke with his father. Courtesy | Tom Burke In this Quick Hits, Professor of Philosophy and Religion Tom Burke talks Handel, prayer, and his childhood best friends.  Do you believe in any conspiracy theories? If so, which is your favorite? Do I believe in conspiracy theories? None of the conspiracies I believe in are theories....

Canadian professor teaches U.S. politics
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Canadian professor teaches U.S. politics

Petrakis gives a public lecture at Utah Valley University. Courtesy | John Petrakis Born and raised Canadian, John Petrakis may now be found in Kendall Hall, lecturing passionately on the Federalist Papers or the Supreme Court’s exercise of judicial review. “Who wouldn’t be intrigued by the prospect of taking an American Constitutional Law course with...

‘The best job in the world’: Lutheran alumni enter seminary
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‘The best job in the world’: Lutheran alumni enter seminary

Harvey Peters ’22 serves at his field-work church, Redeemer Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Courtesy | Harvey Peters What happens when God changes your post-grad plans? For some Lutheran Hillsdale alumni, that means seminary. Nine Hillsdale alumni are currently enrolled in the two Lutheran Church Missouri Synod seminaries in the U.S., following a four-year...