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I didn’t really get into Harry Potter until my sophomore year of college. I’d read the first few books as a child, but hadn’t picked one up for years. Then, a couple weeks before finals, I unwisely picked up “Half-Blood Prince.” I blew off school, then read the entire series over Christmas break. Last summer, I read them again. There...

Washington, D.C., is a popular place for Hillsdalians: to study and to sightsee, to work and to play. But in January, a group of Hillsdale students will be piling into buses at 4:30 a.m. and driving to D.C. not to study Supreme Court rulings, but to protest them. Since the year following Roe v. Wade, pro-life advocates have gathered on...

A small group of seniors will be showing a documentary on sex-trafficking in Phillips Auditorium at 7 p.m. tonight. The documentary is titled “Nefarious: Merchant of Souls.” Senior Esther Ashmore described the film as “a startling glimpse of the horror of sex-trafficking in the world at large.” Ashmore first viewed the documentary after spending two months in Uganda this past...

When John Drake ’74 shares his story about founding The Lingap Center, an emergency shelter for Filipino children, many listeners want to help by visiting the center or offering humanitarian aid to the 100 children who live there. But Drake said he doesn’t primarily need volunteers or donated T-shirts. Drake visited Hillsdale College last Nov. 21 and told his story...

‘Greek Unity’ on campus   The Greek houses on campus are currently taking part in Greek Unity week. The Greek students wore pin attire on Monday, their houses’ letters on Wednesday, and will wear “Go Greek” T-shirts on Friday. In addition to that, Greek students made Christmas cards that were brought to patients in the Hillsdale Community Health Center. Senior...

In Mossey Library sits a hidden treasure. Past the reference desk, the cabinets of microfiche, and rows of computers lies a forgotten cinematic collection. To this date, the Mossey Library has 3,195 DVD titles, a collection that is continuously growing. Linda Moore, Mossey librarian for public services, explained that the video collection is most commonly used by three clientele: students...