Students treated the Hillsdale campus to clever costumes at the Halloween parties last weekend. At the Simpson Halloween Bash, sophomores Ben Strickland and Eric Walker dressed up as senior Spencer Bell. “When you have the option of being one of the most attractive men on campus, why would you not take it?” Strickland said. Strickland...
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Politics to Pizza: Student puts marketing skills to use
Hillsdale Junior Paul Snyder got more than he planned for when he showed up for a job interview at Hillsdale’s Domino’s Pizza. “I’d applied just figuring I’d deliver pizzas,” Snyder said, “but when I showed up for the interview they offered me the position of marketing manager.” Snyder was hired in January of this year,...
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Local apple orchards provide fall food and fun
As the weather gets colder and the days get shorter, food and drinks give a little pumpkin spice to the class-laden days as the semester moves towards its end. While pumpkin-anything is the traditional food of fall, apple cider, caramel-covered apples, and, the Saga favorite, apple butter, are readily available at local apple orchards. There...
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Sabbatical life: student-free study
Samuel Knecht, professor of art, is one of a number of professors taking the whole semester off on Sabbatical. He’s been painting, a lot. “Some local, and some involving travel,” Knecht said, “The travel points, three of them: the Upper Peninsula, Leelanau near Traverse City in upper Michigan—the third destination was Monhegan Island, Maine.” Knecht,...
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I scream, you scream, we all get skyscreamed
Two weeks ago, two ice cream cones, one vanilla, one chocolate, were dropped into the center of College President Larry Arnn’s Saga table, splattering him with ice cream. “The first thing I thought was, oh crap, someone just skyscreamed Dr. Arnn,” said senior Ethan Showler, who was sitting at Arnn’s table. “What do you do?”...