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You’re my best professor if I’m your best student: a Parents’ Weekend story
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You’re my best professor if I’m your best student: a Parents’ Weekend story

Hillsdale College’s Parents’ Weekend is a crucial celebration of the relationship between a college student and his parents. Entirely devoted to the adults responsible for their adult children, the weekend is punctuated by the familiarity of home that parents provide—without the free laundry. Additionally, it is a way to authentically introduce parents to their child’s...

Letter to the Editor: Jonathon Misiewicz
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Letter to the Editor: Jonathon Misiewicz

Dear Editor,   In the previous Collegian, Garrison Grisedale tried to show that Trump is a good candidate, dedicating to conserving the American heritage. Grisedale is not even originally wrong, let alone thinking clearly. Grisedale’s argument is a rehash of Peter O’Rourke’s argument from the Aug. 31 Collegian. Some cabal controls the US government, an...

While our presidential candidate bitter, Russia is Putin its foot on the gas
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While our presidential candidate bitter, Russia is Putin its foot on the gas

Amid all the recent drama over the Republican nominee’s burgeoning man-crush on Russian President Vladimir Putin, the actual threat of Russia is being overlooked. Russia occupies 20 percent of the Republic of Georgia, has completely annexed the Crimea peninsula, continues to unofficially support insurgency in Eastern Ukraine, and has propped up the Assad Regime in...

Dear CNN, the 1st Amendment applies to everyone
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Dear CNN, the 1st Amendment applies to everyone

On Wednesday, Oct. 19, CNN’s Chris Cuomo reported that “it’s illegal to possess” the emails released by WikiLeaks. The reporter then claimed the rules are “different” for the media and asserted that his audience would only learn about the documents through Cuomo and his fellow journalists. These statements are nothing more than half-truths to mislead...

The Collegian introduces: Talk money to me
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The Collegian introduces: Talk money to me

When financial emergency strikes, most students will not be prepared. Your car overheated this morning and made you late to class, but because you spent $10 on a bottle of wine last night, you don’t have $10 in your bank account to buy coolant. According to a 2016 survey conducted by the Federal Reserve, 46...