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My culinary saga might have a healthy ending

It might be time for me to give Saga another chance. As I begin my final year at Hillsdale College, I know that my past six semesters have had their share of culinary joys: the magical night I first mixed peanut butter in with my Cocoa Puffs, the day I discovered the bottomless tub of...

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Hillsdale transcends racism

Before I met Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn and before I knew about the college, I was only scraping the surface of what it was to be a human and what it was to be an American. Perhaps it seems uncool or even silly, but I leave each classroom feeling as if I have had...

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New security cameras don’t threaten privacy

Hillsdale College campus security has a new source of entertainment, if they wish to watch the vast ridiculousness of Hillsdale students: skipping around the quad, making epic faces while running about Biermann, or becoming entangled in a PDA on the couches in the lobby of the Suites. Over the summer, Campus Security updated its surveillance...

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Graduating with the honors that I need

Before I left my house this morning, I gingerly slipped through a maze of dirty clothes and discarded textbooks to get to my coffee pot. I frantically drank my coffee before I could remember what class for which I drug myself out of bed. And once I had flooded my engine with caffeine, it occurred...

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Think outside of the bubble

Someone stole our editor-in-chief’s backpack last weekend. How appropriate, then, that only a few days later, Associate Professor of English John Somerville would give a lecture about the dubiously notorious (or, maybe, notoriously dubious) “Hillsdale Bubble.” For you freshmen, that’s the notion that Hillsdale College exists in an ideological vacuum of right wing politics, classical...