Your phone beeps, and you pull up short to survey your surroundings. To the untrained eye, there’s nothing extraordinary about the alley you’re in, unassumingly located behind a small ice cream shop. You know better: you’ve followed the trail, and the object you’re seeking is close. After a few minutes of searching, you grin as...
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Abandoned factory: A snapshot of Hillsdale’s rich history
Walking through the abandoned screen door factory on Carleton Road — that old brick giant sitting next to Family Video — is about as close as you can get to meeting the people who lived, worked, spoke, and breathed in Hillsdale 150 years ago. You walk the same floorboards they walked, you touch the same...
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Cheers to Charlotte
Charlotte Truitt is one of the women that has knocked on dorm doors every morning, and has been for the past 38 years. Truitt has devoted herself to Hillsdale housekeeping for nearly four decades—a length that surpasses even the most long standing of professors. This semester will be her last, however, as she plans to...
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Chess club welcomes rookies, kings, and queens
There were five wooden chess boards atop the union tables last Wednesday afternoon. When he saw them, senior Os Nakayama’s face lit up and he exclaimed, “We have chess boards — it’s a start.” One can find Hillsdale’s new club playing chess in the union Wednesday afternoons. Last Wednesday the players used wooden boards that...
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United in Memory, Stained in Glass
“On the day of the two-year anniversary I stood right in the window where the plane had hit,” junior David Roberts recalled. “Instead, I was looking at the stained glass window we placed in the chapel that week.” David and his father Dennis Roberts designed and placed all five of the stained glass windows in...