Before senior Ian Dupre takes a shot, he touches the barrel of his Perazzi shotgun to a pad and wiggles his feet. When he’s ready, he puts the gun to his shoulder and leans in. “Pull.” Within a seventh of a second, he aims and shoots at a target hurdling at 70 miles an hour....
From his corner-office window in Lane Hall, Gary Wolfram, the economics program director, can look down into Kresge Plaza and see a similar figure to his own: Abraham Lincoln. While sculpting the 16th president of the United States for Hillsdale College’s Liberty Walk, Professor of Art Anthony Frudakis used Wolfram as his model for the...
Two men stand on the first car of the train: one waves, the other holds a shovel. Black steam billows out of the engine in a spiraling gray cloud. The second car, securely hinged to the first, carries blocks and blocks of hard black coal. Against a copper background, the name PETRIE is written in...
When junior Nainoa Johsens was a “young and reckless” 16-year-old, he found himself thrown to the bottom of the ocean, wrapped in kelp, asking, “Is this it?” Tangled in seaweed and thrashing against the turbulent seawater, Johsens learned a valuable lesson from surfing: respect the power of the ocean and its control over him. “Surfing...
Most people remember Gerald Ford as the president who pardoned Nixon — few know he was once a UFO investigator. Ford was a United States congressman representing Michigan’s fifth district when people all over Michigan started reporting unidentified flying objects in March 1966. Sightings occurred first in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Dexter, Michigan, on March...