Picture yourself in a boat on a river — then scratch that image because the Beatles are lame. Instead, picture yourself lying face up in an open field, your body swathed in a warm blanket, staring out at the October midnight as it opens into the Milky Way’s deep field of stars. Now call your...
Most Hillsdale College students take time for leisure over Fall Break, but for the first time in recent history, students have the option to take a class instead. The class, Visualization and Analysis of Data, will be taught Oct. 17-20 by George Forman, a senior machine learning scientist for Amazon. Forman will also give a...
Students claim they don’t have enough time to keep up music in college. Music Department Chairman James Holleman said he would disagree. Twenty-one years ago when he was first hired, only five percent of Hillsdale students participated in the music program. Now, more than 30 percent of students are involved in the music department. “When...
This is your brain on music. When you listen to music and, even more so, when you sing or play music, your brain lights up. And it’s not just one locale along the neuro-super highway. The entire map erupts like fireworks. It’s not unlike a satellite time-lapse view of the eastern half of our country...
“There is something in the very form of reading — the shape of the action itself — that tends toward virtue.” So writes Karen Swallow Prior in her newest book published last month, “On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books,” speaking of the forming influence of literature in her life. “My deep...