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‘Where our republic is being strengthened’
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‘Where our republic is being strengthened’

Fifty charter schools in the next 10 years. That’s the goal for Hillsdale College’s charter school initiative. Two schools in the Barney Charter School Initiative, a Hillsdale College project started in 2009 to start up charter schools, opened this fall: the Estancia Valley Classical Academy in Moriarty, N.M., and the Founders Classical Academy in Lewisville,...

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Tocco Challenge change-up

This year marks the 10th Tocco Challenge at Hillsdale College, and the end of the event as it has been known. Don Tocco, a businessman and longtime donor to the college, is pitted against the combined-average score of college athletes in various athletic contests. Each athlete is sponsored by a different campus organization. If an...

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Beneath the yellow awning

Her father calls her “the human cyclone” that runs around his shop.  The employees love her even though she has the propensity to “fire them” if they don’t give her pickles on demand.  The customers laugh as they hand their money over to the little girl helping at the cash register of Oakley! Deli. Eight-year-old...

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Firearms Club replaces Shotgun Club

The Firearms Club, previously known as the Shotgun Club, is making changes this year to make club leadership stronger and the club more organized. “We need stronger organization this year to be able to reach out to more students who want to have fun and gain experience shooting in a comfortable setting,”  said sophomore Matteo...

Married couple heads Suites
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Married couple heads Suites

Five student and three adult house directors found themselves directing new residences this fall. Many student positions were left vacant after spring graduation, others because of residence changes, and still others because the deans believed some house directors to be a better fit elsewhere. “We lost our director for Sigma Chi because he graduated,” said...