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Being in a new place is hard. It’s scary, really, especially when you’re 348 miles from home and are visibly different from everyone else. I can’t speak for all students of color on campus, but for my first weeks here I had to contemplate…

The Hill News is only successful if it represents all students across campus. However, in past publications, we have failed to do this. As your student-led newspaper, we, The Hill News, would like to formally acknowledge and apologize for…

UFC 229 was one of the most exciting nights in UFC history to date. While the feature of Conor McGregor versus Khabib Nurmagomedov was expected to be explosive given their history, no one could’ve expected the brawl which broke out at the…

The news coverage around Brett Kavanaugh is yet another proof that women in the media can only be two things: the vicious villains that, purely out of spite and revenge on men as an entire gender, want to take down successful hard-working…

How many women must come forward with allegations against a powerful, white man in order for their accusations to be taken seriously? The fact that we even have to ask ourselves this question is something that makes me absolutely sick to my…

The current Congressional Budget Office estimates state that the Social Security Trust Fund will become insolvent by 2034. This means that seniors collecting Social Security will not be able to receive 100 percent of their benefits starting…

Two very important things coincided this past weekend: first, the trial involving supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser Christine Blasey Ford; secondly family weekend here on campus. For some of us that led to an extremely…

Brett Kavanaugh proves that you can get away with anything, and still get everything, as long as you’re a rich white man. Dr. Christine Blasey Ford proves that you can accomplish anything, suffer everything, and still get nothing, as long…