Hillsdale College football and baseball athletes are working at the Filling Station Deli in downtown Hillsdale. A handful of students have been rotating through and taking shifts since 2014. Cindy Bieszk, the owner, will celebrate 17 years of running the deli on May 1. With a steady stream of business from the football, baseball, and...
Author: Joe Pappalardo (Joe Pappalardo)
NyQuil and Chills: I lost a week to the flu
By the time the hot water hit my feverish head, I realized I wasn’t hungover on a Tuesday morning. The headache hadn’t passed, my skin was oddly numb despite our enthusiastic water heater, and my body felt like a piñata salvaged from an eight-year-old’s birthday party. Getting sick during the school year is a higher...
The art department got my crooked nose, while I got minimum wage
I celebrated the end of my first 15-minute pose by picking up my feet and smacking them against the floor like the limbs of a mannequin, confirming their numbness to the cluster of artists gathered for Sketchy Sunday. In a few months, I’d gone from pretending to model Walmart clothes on Instagram to posing for...
Library adds new streaming service, research tool to its website
The Mossey Library recently added two new features to its online resources for students. The website now offers Ambrose, an online video widget, and Yewno Discover, an innovative research site. Ambrose brings more Shakespeare and historical movies to the library’s growing collection of films. IndieFlix, FilmStruck, and Films on Demand, all movie resources the library...
I lost my credit card in D.C.
The fourth time I pull my head out of a District Taco garbage can in Washington, D.C., I still can’t find my credit card. The discarded plates of diners who came before me have been scraped clean in my frantic search for the piece of plastic I failed to bet against. It’s an afternoon in...