Konrad La Prade ’05 remembers spending a lot of time on roofs. Cooking meals in a fire pit carried up from ground level. The first pipe he ever smoked. Conversations with friends that would stretch for whole evenings. One long conversation – six hours – with a female acquaintance, Joy, who would become his friend,...
Author: Andrew Egger (Andrew Egger)
Thursday is jazz day at Hillsdale
Before heading over to Broad Street Market Thursday nights for Jazz from the Underground, students can now join their peers in Conrad Recital Hall at 6:30 p.m. for a vocal jazz club. Sophomore Gianna Marchese is founding the club under the direction of music faculty. The college has a thriving jazz program, but the singing...
Intervarsity playing host to The Gray Havens
We can all thank senior Tim Allen for bringing the pop-folk husband and wife duo The Grey Havens to the Dawn Theater again this Saturday. The show is free for Hillsdale College students and begins at 8:00 p.m. at the Dawn Theater. Last year, front man Dave Radford announced a tour and asked fans for...
The Tower Light, a shared space for beauty
In the semester’s waning days one morning they appear suddenly: slim paperbacks with glossily inviting covers, stacked in tidy piles on library tables, on columns in the union, in the window wells of classroom buildings. They are picked up, pored over, pondered, passed from hand to hand. The student-written poems and photographs they contain are...
WIC cuts milk choices to promote healthy eating
Signs posted in the checkout lines at Hillsdale’s Kroger and the Wal-Mart in Jonesville announced low-income Michigan families who rely on the Women, Infants, and Children’s Nutrition Program are no longer able to purchase 2 percent or whole milk through the program. The change, which is being implemented in all 50 states after a national...