GRAPHIC DESIGN: NOW IN PRODUCTION The art show “Graphic Design: Now in Production” features 21st century designs of logos, posters, film titles and more. The show is hosted by Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Mich. and co-organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and Cooper-Hewitt from the Smithsonian Institution...
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April 11, 2013July 12, 2022Culture
Theatre student puts on staged reading of script
After 11 months of writing, revising, planning, and rehearsing, senior Lauren Hughes has brought her play, “Among the Others,” to the stage. Hughes play, an original script, was performed at 8 p.m. on April 9 and 10 in the Hames room of the Sage Arts Center by the Hillsdale Tower Players. “My show is entitled...
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April 11, 2013July 12, 2022Culture
Pongracic and band to perform at Dawn Theatre
200 miles off the North African coast lies the Portuguese island Madeira. Europeans and Africans know the island for its beaches and surfing, but Professor of Economics Ivan Pongracic appreciates other aspects of this island. Nine years ago, Pongracic and three others created a surf band called Madeira, inspired by the island’s surfing culture and...
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April 11, 2013July 12, 2022Culture
Student film investigates dreamworld
Paul Poiselle, a 19th century French poet, paces the streets of downtown Hillsdale ravenously puffing on a weary pipe. His long mustache tickles his lips and reaches for his twitching jawline, the tips of his mustache bobbing a bit with each fervent step. Senior Mark Keller follows the foreign figure with a camera to capture...
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April 4, 2013July 12, 2022Opinions
Faculty voice: smoking cigarettes is utterly selfish
I will never forget the look on my husband’s face as he helped carry his grandmother’s casket to a hearse waiting outside a little Catholic church in a tiny town in Nebraska on a cold, windy November afternoon. Marcella Svendsen, my mother-in-law’s mother, died of lung cancer in 2010. She smoked for much of her life....