Sophomore Kiara Freeman awoke on a Monday morning to a text reading: “How busy are you this semester?” That afternoon she found herself with senior Mehgan Cain in a WRFH Radio Free Hillsdale meeting, where the duo joined the growing number of student shows on 101.7 FM. They recorded their first episode of comedy show...
August Hotel headlined student music festival Wombstock before its songs had been released, but junior Adam Cieply still knew all the lyrics and sang them until his throat hurt. Senior Dean Sinclair is the drummer of the Chicago-based pop group, which released its first EP last week. August Hotel has played at Hillsdale five times:...
Nearly 200 listeners packed Markel Auditorium on Saturday for an evening that highlighted traditional Native American culture through both classical and tribal music. Robert Mirabal, an acclaimed Native American musician, performed with the trailblazing string quartet ETHEL as part of the Hillsdale College Professional Artist Series. The group presented its album “The River.” Mirabal is...
When World War I broke out, there was no federal intelligence community, no CIA, FBI, or NSA. There was Elizebeth Smith Friedman. The 1915 Hillsdale alumna remains one of history’s all-time best code breakers, influential in the development of America’s intelligence-gathering bodies. Her expertise brought officials from the FBI, U.S. Navy, and Treasury Department knocking...
When I took Physical Wellness Dynamics the first semester of freshman year, the “food journal” section had the misfortune of coinciding with the Hillsdale County Fair. For a class of freshmen tasked with recording everything that went into our bodies, this was depressing. The fair offered us elephant ears, funnel cakes, fried Milky Ways —...