Follow Kate on Twitter City residents and employees sat around four, big tables and discussed ways to improve the city of Hillsdale at the Master Plan Charrette meeting Tuesday. Amongst the more than 40 proposed ideas included suggestions for unique restaurants, extending coffee shop hours, turning abandoned buildings into entertainment venues, and installing transportation to...
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November 13, 2014July 12, 2022Culture
Wayfarers: Senior art exhibit looks forward to launching into life
On Monday, this semester’s only senior art exhibit will open in Sage’s Daughtrey Art Gallery. The exhibit, titled “Wayfarers,” is a collaboration between long-time friends, housemates, and art accomplices Maggy Smith and Kittie Helmick. “We’ve been friends pretty much the entire four years and have been living together for three… yeah, three because I slept...
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November 13, 2014July 12, 2022Culture
Choir to deliver “Requiem for the Living”
On Sunday, the college choir and chamber choir will perform one of Dan Forrest’s most acclaimed compositions, “Requiem for the Living,” at College Baptist Church. The concert will open at 3 p.m. with a special piece from the chamber choir. “It is designed to be in remembrance—it is for those who are still here,” said...
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November 13, 2014July 12, 2022Culture
Write that novel this month, NaNoWriMo
“For fall break I just stayed here and wrote 10,000 words in two days,” said Chandler Ryd, a freshman from Colorado. National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) has come to Hillsdale. A small number of authors will spend the month writing novels with the goal of reaching at least 50,000 words. Writers meet for at least...
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November 13, 2014July 12, 2022Culture
Music fraternities grow: Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Mu Alpha, and SAI all add members
Hillsdale students’ passion for music continues to draw them into friendship and fellowship. Men’s musical fraternities Mu Alpha and Phi Mu Alpha, and women’s musical fraternity Sigma Alpha Iota have all added new members to their choruses since September. Although the fall semester is not as busy as the spring for the three groups, each...