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QUICK HITS with Amelia Lawson
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QUICK HITS with Amelia Lawson

In this Quick Hits, Amelia Lawson, assistant director of admissions who oversees the high school summer programs and student ambassadors, talks favorite breakfast food, childhood dreams, and crazy questions from her children.  What is your go-to song? Depends on the day, but Kip Moore always puts me in a good mood. What’s your favorite season? ...

Home is where the heart is: Hillsdale locals reflect on sticking around for college
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Home is where the heart is: Hillsdale locals reflect on sticking around for college

Central Hall bells ring. Lauren Bixler | Collegian Instead of adjusting to life miles away from home, some Hillsdale students have learned to balance their home life and school life together, and according to the students themselves, they would not change a thing. Junior Paul Whalen has taken classes taught by both his father and...

Follow the red brick road: Collegian names top ten alum bricks on campus
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Follow the red brick road: Collegian names top ten alum bricks on campus

Nearly 20,000 inscribed red bricks make up the roads of campus, displaying messages of well-wishes or college memories. Passersby can search for bricks that provide the most colorful comments and observations: “Richard it’s only rock and roll,” “Thanks Mom & Dad we love you more than Sam,” and “Kim Gehrke ’17 better grades than her...

Freshman crowned ‘Mr. Hillsdale’
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Freshman crowned ‘Mr. Hillsdale’

Pi Beta Phi hosts “Mr. Hillsdale” in Plaster Auditorium. Collegian | Jamie Parsons Freshman Christopher Ambuul won Pi Beta Phi’s “Mr. Hillsdale” among nine bachelors who lined the stage of Plaster Auditorium Friday night. Phi Beta Phi hosted its annual philanthropy event, “Mr. Hillsdale,” in an effort to raise money for Read Lead Achieve, an...

Veteran and student Greg Whalen performs EP ‘American Deployed’ at New York music venue
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Veteran and student Greg Whalen performs EP ‘American Deployed’ at New York music venue

Greg Whalen performs on stage during a Five for Fighting Concert. Courtesy | Greg Whalen When the last strum of junior Gregory Whalen’s guitar faded into the Corning Museum of Glass auditorium, the audience briefly sat in silence. “They would almost linger before applauding — like the silent reflection they had,” said concert attendee Amanda...