After opening the second weekend of competition against three nationally-ranked teams, the Hillsdale College women’s volleyball team earned its first victory, defeating Urbana University 3-0 this past Saturday, Sept. 8. “We practiced really hard this past week and it showed on the floor,” sophomore Alexis Waugh said. “Girls were working harder to get the ball...
Year: 2012
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Otter and sons: football is family business
If you open the desk drawers of football coaches Keith Otterbein, Steve Otterbein, and Brad Otterbein, you’ll find something in common: candy. “It’s a candy library,” offensive coordinator Nate Shreffler said, laughing. Brad Otterbein and Steve Otterbein said that along with sharing a love for candy, they also tend to use the same phrases. “We...
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Jazz finalists announced
After twelve competitors braved their way through a night of auditions on Sept. 6., sophomore Carrie Blanton and freshman Dani Shillingstad were announced the newest vocalists in Hillsdale College’s Jazz Band. “Those two singers just gave me goosebumps,” Director of Jazz Studies and Trumpet Instructor Chris McCourry said. McCourry asked auditioners to sing “My Funny...
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A musical maturity
Up until a few weeks ago, someone would mention the words “teen singer” and immediately my mind would fill with Taylor Swift’s thin voice singing “Love Story,” or, worse, the grating strains of Rebecca Black’s Friday. But thanks to Jasmine “Birdy” Van den Bogaerde, a fifteen-year-old indie artist, my hope for talented youth is renewed....
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Movie review: “Obama 2016”
“Love him, hate him; you don’t know him” is the tagline advertising the new documentary: “Obama 2016.” Based on Dinesh D’Souza’s 2010 book, “The Roots of Obama’s Rage,” the film explores Obama’s past, and focuses particularly on the influence of his absent father, Barack Obama Sr., a man full of extreme anti-colonial and anti-American values.The...