Month: March 2012

For 37 years, the DePauw Undergraduate Honors Conference in Communication and Theater has been gathering students of extraordinary talent to its campus for a conference. For the first time in its seven years competing, 100 percent of the Hillsdale applicants were accepted. Out of only 36 students chosen for the entire conference, Hillsdale accounts for five this year.

For 37 years, the DePauw Undergraduate Honors Conference in Communication and Theater has been gathering students of extraordinary talent to its campus for a conference. For the first time in its seven years competing, 100 percent of the Hillsdale applicants were accepted. Out of only 36 students chosen for the entire conference, Hillsdale accounts for five this year.

When I locked the front doors to the old Dawn Theatre in Hillsdale on March 29, 1982,  I hoped I had remembered to do all my usher responsibilities. I was in a rush. I wanted to watch on TV the end of the Academy Awards; I wanted to see if “Chariots of Fire,” my favorite...

39.3 million. That’s the number of people who tuned in to watch ABC’s broadcast of the 84th Academy Awards on Feb. 26. Two weeks ago, the Grammys captivated 39.9 million, making history by beating out the Oscars for the first time.