Month: January 2018

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Alumna presents passion for pottery
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Alumna presents passion for pottery

One summer in the 1970s, while driving home from discussing art theory in a watercolor class, alumna Linda Shiffler noticed things didn’t look the same.  “I saw things in a completely different light,” she said. “That a tree isn’t black, or it isn’t grey, or it isn’t brown, it’s a mixture of many colors. And...

Meet the new Councilmen: Greg Stuchell
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Meet the new Councilmen: Greg Stuchell

  Greg Stuchell of Hillsdale’s Ward 1 was not only elected to the city council at the ballot booths in November, but he was quite literally sent by the people. His name wasn’t even on the ballot, but 101 people wrote in his name, giving him 42 percent of the vote in Ward 1. Stuchell...

Inside Aaron Zenz’s art and the child’s imagination
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Inside Aaron Zenz’s art and the child’s imagination

Aaron Zenz said he used 119 Prismacolor pencils — taking each from great big pencil to little, itty bitty stub you can’t even hold — and broke 251 pencil tips in the making of his first children’s picture book, “The Hiccopotamus.”  Zenz’s casualties stem from his unorthodox use of colored pencils. His manipulation of this...

Trending now: Winston Churchill
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Trending now: Winston Churchill

The Churchill craze is creeping beyond Hillsdale College’s campus. Stories of the late British Prime Minister Winston Churchill were trending earlier this week, as College President Larry Arnn’s most recent book surged on Amazon’s bestseller lists. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences also announced the Churchill-centric film, “Darkest Hour,” was nominated for several...