On Nov. 15 the Student Federation recognized Hillsdale’s latest student-led organization: The Camerata, a “pan-disciplinary” musical club named after the 17th century Florentine Camerata, which was comprised of the prominent thinkers of the day. After discussing ideas for a club over the past semesters, seniors Kokko Chou and Jennifer Franklund with junior Viktor Rozsa and...
Year: 2012
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Off the record
I didn’t really get into Harry Potter until my sophomore year of college. I’d read the first few books as a child, but hadn’t picked one up for years. Then, a couple weeks before finals, I unwisely picked up “Half-Blood Prince.” I blew off school, then read the entire series over Christmas break. Last summer,...
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Students to attend March for Life
Washington, D.C., is a popular place for Hillsdalians: to study and to sightsee, to work and to play. But in January, a group of Hillsdale students will be piling into buses at 4:30 a.m. and driving to D.C. not to study Supreme Court rulings, but to protest them. Since the year following Roe v. Wade,...
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Students present gospel in Detroit
Senior Esther Ashmore wrapped her arms around Neoja, a 15-year-old black girl from inner-city Detroit. For half an hour, Ashmore held the sobbing teen and didn’t say much. At Charity Lutheran Church, where shootings are not uncommon, in the heart of Michigan’s largest city, 33 students from Hillsdale College brought reinforcements to a ministry on...
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Sex-trafficking documentary in Phillips
A small group of seniors will be showing a documentary on sex-trafficking in Phillips Auditorium at 7 p.m. tonight. The documentary is titled “Nefarious: Merchant of Souls.” Senior Esther Ashmore described the film as “a startling glimpse of the horror of sex-trafficking in the world at large.” Ashmore first viewed the documentary after spending two...