“When your name is Antigone, there is only one part you can play; and she will have to play hers through to the end.” Thus announces the narrator at the beginning of Jean Anouilh’s retelling of Sophocles’ “Antigone,” which opens tonight in the Quilhot Black Box at the Sage Center for the Arts. The story...
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Math core requirements to change
Future Hillsdale students will no longer have the option of fulfilling the core curriculum’s math requirement with an ACT score. At February’s faculty meeting, Hillsdale professors approved a motion to require all students take a mathematics course during their four years at the college, a change that will take effect beginning with the incoming class...
The Tutors : Students’ rock in the midst of writer’s block
Katie Kortepeter, English and French What essay-writing blunder do you find yourself fixing most often in your own papers, and how do you tackle that blunder? It’s hard for me to start the writing process if I don’t have my thoughts sorted out yet. Even if I’m not sure that my ideas are coherent, I...
‘War be damned:’ Tower Players produce ‘Mother Courage and her Children’
A woman drenched in blood staggers into view, screaming about her blown-off arm. A soldier assaults a young girl, permanently scarring her face with a dark red gash. Bodies lie strewn across the stage as a fife and drum chorus plays cheerily in the background. Jarring war scenes and bloody deaths confront the audience of...
Kenneth Olmstead: forever carved in our hearts
Kenneth Olmstead, lifetime Hillsdale resident and husband of long-time college employee Sue Olmstead, died of a brain hemorrhage Feb. 6 — a day before what would have been his 65th birthday. Sue Olmstead has been a much-loved staple of the Hillsdale College staff for 25 years and served the college in various departments, including the...