Congressman Tim Walberg, R-Mich, placed 10th among his colleagues in both the House and Senate for holding 66 town hall meetings since January 1st, 2015. He held one of the most recent meetings at the Hillsdale City Hall on March 3rd. In response to the recognition for holding so many town halls, he answers with...
Dienstagsschmaus: A tasty Tuesday tradition
Imagine a dinner table filled with sausage, currywurst, and cheese spreads, surrounded by a number of students having conversations with one another in their foreign language of study: in this case, German. This is what happens every other Tuesday as German-speaking students gather together for a night of feasting and great conversation in German at...
Art Around Town will feature local artists
The Heritage Association will host Hillsdale’s biannual Art Around Town event in downtown Hillsdale on May 5th from 5 to 7 p.m. Downtown businesses plan on hosting 25 local artists in their stores, giving them an opportunity to display their artwork to the public and bring foot traffic to local shops. Some of the artists...
Kappa Kupcake competition raises hundreds for children’s literacy
Tuesday night never tasted so sweet. The Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority held its annual national philanthropy event, Kappa Kupcake Wars, raising $320 for Reading Is Fundamental, a national organization dedicated to supporting children’s literacy. “Kappa Kupcake Wars has been an annual philanthropy tradition within our chapter,” Philanthropy Chair junior Katie Mersereau said. “It allows students...
Of free markets and music: Ivan Pongracic
Some know him for his libertarian rants in economics classes, others know him by his surf band, the Madeira, which has toured the U.S. and Italy and released six CDs since 2004. Ivan Pongracic was born in 1969 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, a country run by communist dictator Marshal Tito at the time. Pongracic’s parents worked...