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New look for Whitley and new dorm for campus
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New look for Whitley and new dorm for campus

Starting next fall, the college will have a new women’s residence on campus. The new dorm will allow Whitley Residence, which was renovated this past summer, to become a men’s dorm. In addition, the college plans to start renovating Galloway Residence next summer. These projects are a continuation of the college’s goal to update much...

Douglass returns to Hillsdale
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Douglass returns to Hillsdale

Frederick Douglass returned to Hillsdale College permanently on Friday. College President Larry Arnn unveiled the “fierce,” 7-foot-tall bronze statue of the famous freed slave and abolitionist orator — who spoke at the college on Jan. 21, 1863 — to a standing ovation of around 300 college students, staff, faculty, and visitors packed into Kresge Plaza...

GOAL surpasses meal-packing goal
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GOAL surpasses meal-packing goal

Forty-five minutes before the noon finish time, someone hit a gong with a cry: “20,000 meals!” Approximately 130 students, capped with plastic hair nets and busy assembling meals in the Biermann Athletics Center on Saturday, cheered. In just two hours, they had reached their goal and then some: packaging 22,032 meals, more than enough to...

Student Fed increases discretionary fund
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Student Fed increases discretionary fund

Student Federation increased its next year’s discretionary fund by nearly $7,000 to $45,832.64. The group unanimously approved its budget for the 2017-2018 academic year, during its final meeting of the semester April 20. The discretionary fund finances student organizations for events, trips, and other needs, after funds are earmarked for campus publications, the senior class,...

West releases book on Founding Founders’ political theory
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West releases book on Founding Founders’ political theory

Professor of Politics Thomas West released his first book in 20 years on April 3, attacking the idea that there was no political consensus of justice at the time of the American Founding. West has been researching for and writing “The Political Theory of the American Founding: Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Conditions...