Month: October 2017

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Andre Holmes ’11 gives back
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Andre Holmes ’11 gives back

When assistant coach Pat Hornak came up at the end of the football team’s practice last week, the team expected a routine announcement. Instead, Hornak unzipped his jacket, revealing new uniforms for the team. “They went nuts,” head coach Keith Otterbein said. Hillsdale alumnus and current Buffalo Bills wide receiver Andre Holmes ’11 donated the...

Plan a fall break staycation in Hillsdale
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Plan a fall break staycation in Hillsdale

As backpacks, shoulders, and eyelids start to sag during this season so fraught with midterms, only one thing sustains Hillsdale students and I’m sorry to tell you it’s not our love of the liberal arts. It’s fall break. The 96-hour vacation promises a retreat enjoyed alongside family or friends and with it, all the time...

Springer’s Civil War reenactments, banjos, and Christmas cards
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Springer’s Civil War reenactments, banjos, and Christmas cards

In his soundproofed office, on the dark wall behind Professor of Art Bryan Springer, hangs a single piece of artwork: a Civil-War-style banjo he built himself. The wood for the instrument came from walnut trees on an abandoned farm. Springer, who instructs Graphic Design courses, participates in Civil War Reenactments, a hobby that led him...

Downtown holds annual fall event
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Downtown holds annual fall event

When Addison Gaff looked up and saw two horses driving a carriage past her downtown Hillsdale shop, she knew the local fall festival was a bigger deal than she’d imagined. “I had no idea it was this big of an event,” Gaff said of Hillsdale’s “Awesome Autumn” fall fest, held annually for the past seven...