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The city of Hillsdale is in crisis. The roads are bad. To rebuild them, the city needs $39 million, which it wouldn’t be able to stockpile until 2088. An income tax proposal will be on the November ballot. Vote yes if you want decent roads in Hillsdale before your great-grandchildren are born. For 20 years, the city has built roads...

Seventy targets dead. Only three assassins remain: sophomores Mitchell Irmer, Casey McKee, and Matthew O’Sullivan. However, these three formed what they call a “guild,” a pact not to kill each other. “We decided we wanted to do something kind of funky and stick it to the gamemaster [sophomore] Andy [Reuss],” O’Sullivan said. The three tied their weapons – spoons –...

Two cars crashed into each other on Tuesday at approximately 11:30 a.m, just outside of Olds Residence. Single drivers – a man and a woman – occupied each vehicle that collided in the intersection of Hillsdale Street and Galloway Street. No serious injuries were reported, though the man did complain of neck pain, said Richard Coon of campus security. Security...

Last year, 47 percent of high school students had sexual intercourse, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Approximately 400,000 infants were born to teen mothers. Alarmed by this, Hillsdale College students of Respect Everything About Life and Love are attempting to fight today’s surge of sexual activity among teens. REALL’s mission is to fight the prevalent hook-up...

Potential donors to Hillsdale College have been viewing the same promotional video for the school since 2004. That will change with the production of a new video, set to be shot later this month and completed by June 2013. Manifold Productions, Inc., a D.C.-based film company, will produce its third video for Hillsdale since 1990. The school had videos made...

Last Tuesday at 4 p.m. in Phillips Auditorium, Justin Jackson, associate professor of English, captivated his audience discussing the familial and political significance of the biblical story of David. “I don’t think there’s a biblical narrative better than the David story,” Jackson said in a later interview. “It is a great piece of literature up there with Shakespeare and Dostoevsky.”...