The Hillsdale College Shotgun team finished strong at their final tournament of the fall season this weekend. The team finished second place overall, achieved first place for Division-II sporting clays and wobble trap, and second place for the 5-stand, and third for skeet shooting at the Scholastic Clay Target Program “Spooktacular” Collegiate Regional Championship hosted...
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November 6, 2014July 12, 2022Culture
Making it in today’s big bad art world: The economics of the arts from the Hillsdale community perspective
Artists are entrepreneurs; they have to market themselves and their work, and experiment and take risks in order to find what people like. Art as an industry has transformed alongside culture and the contemporary economy. Our Internet age has changed the market and artists have to be creative as they navigate that new frontier. Gallery...
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November 6, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
There was always an England
The Collegian recently published a tribute to Hillsdale resident Aimee England, who died last week. England was a dedicated advocate of Hillsdale, even creating her own news site on Facebook, Hillsdale Community News, in which she published statuses and pictures of local and college events. She rarely missed a city council meeting and ran for...
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November 6, 2014July 12, 2022Culture
War, hell, and heroics in “Fury”
In his latest film, “Fury,” writer and director David Ayer (“End of Watch”) explores familiar war-movie territory: the brotherly bonds of soldiers in combat. While a few questionable directing decisions disrupt the tone of the 134 minute affair, Ayer pulls off an affecting WWII drama due to compelling acting on all fronts and religiously-charged cinematography...
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November 6, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
West’s political solution goes in the wrong direction
Last week, Garrett West argued that we should abandon the discourse of “human rights” and instead adopt the language of “human goods” (“The unappealing politics of universal rhetoric,” Oct. 30). His solution makes it seem that we have only two options: Franklin D. Roosevelt or John Rawls. Considering the consequences from these two lines of...