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The Hillsdale College debate team returned this weekend from the Indianapolis Forensics 500 Competition wihtout any medals but with high hopes for their new team members and confidence in their competitiveness for the upcoming tournaments this semester. The mostly inexperienced six-student team traveled to Indianapolis, Ind., this past weekend. The team, lead by debate coach and Assistant Professor of Speech...

The Pi Beta Phi sorority house was inadvertently overcharged for its energy bill by the Hillsdale Board of Public Utilities for more than a dozen years, but it was not until this past summer that the mistake was caught. To make amends, BPU sent a $110,000 check to the Pi Phi house in July as reimbursement. This problem was recently...

When Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn stepped in front of the hundred-plus crowd gathered in the Knorr Student Center, he was thinking about World War II. The fire and panic from the TV screen he had just turned off was still reflected in the faces of his audience. “I just want to say something,” The Collegian reported him to have...

The Niedfeldt Residence group photos that line the halls and the basement of the dorm now include three groups of women hidden among the tradi- tionally male residents. “We are excited to get our faces on the wall for sure,” said junior Jessica Youngstrom, Nied- feldt house director. At the close of the spring semester, Niedfeldt was a men’s dorm...

The vase of flowers in the Niedfeldt Residence lobby at- tests to the feminine influence its new residents have exerted, just as the residents attest to an unusual shift in the demograph- ic of the incoming freshmen class. Of the 389 freshmen, only 43 percent are male, compared to 57 percent women. This is a significant trend away from last...

Mike Koh, 54, a State Farm Insurance financial service representative, had not been to school in 29 years. Then he heard Rush Limbaugh pitch Hillsdale College’s Constitu- tion 101 Course. After watching 10 weekly 40-minute online lectures taught by six different profes- sors, Koh had a greater ap- preciation for the Founding Fa- thers, the Constitution, and the mission of...