Samuel Knecht, professor of art, is one of a number of professors taking the whole semester off on Sabbatical. He’s been painting, a lot. “Some local, and some involving travel,” Knecht said, “The travel points, three of them: the Upper Peninsula, Leelanau near Traverse City in upper Michigan—the third destination was Monhegan Island, Maine.” Knecht,...
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October 31, 2013July 12, 2022Culture
Symbolism in storytelling: masks in ‘Mirror’ bring personality
The Hillsdale Theatre Department has been positively driven to abstraction. Professor of Theatre George Angell, director of the upcoming production, ‘Mirror of the Invisible World,’ has chosen to use nothing more than masks, manpower, and imagination to represent a bird of prey large enough to swoop down and carry off the play’s wayward king. “I...
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October 31, 2013July 12, 2022Sports
Men finished 3rd at GLIACs, women 4th
Freshman Joe Newcomb’s got four stitches after last Saturday’s GLIAC meet. Newcomb was spiked in the first mile of the men’s 8000 meter race at Houghton last weekend. He finished the race, however, coming fourth for his team, helping Hillsdale College to a third place overall finish at the meet. The women’s team finished fourth...
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October 31, 2013July 12, 2022Culture
“The Counselor:” nice poetry, bad movie
When English major types watch “The Counselor,” they’ll see a term paper ready to be written. The rest of the world will just see a bad movie. Despite the help of a cast and crew more talented than Space Jam’s Monstars, McCarthy’s script proves unwieldy for the silver screen. The nuggets of poetry sprinkled throughout...
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October 31, 2013July 12, 2022Culture
Postmodernity and hamburgers
Like any good child of the postmodern era, I am a sucker for Americana. Maybe it’s my disgust with the mediocrity of corporatized 21st century America, or maybe I’m just a bored, upper-middle class, white kid without a cultural identity, but either way I love the remnants of the time when things were Made in...