The GOAL program is hiring seven new leaders for volunteer organizations and a new coordinator for the fall 2014 semester. Senior Travis Cook, GOAL director, will be replaced by current coordinator sophomore Jackie Frenkel. “So far we’ve had 30 to 35 applications,” Cook said. “We typically conduct 30 to 40 interviews every spring, which takes...
In the next 10 days, Hillsdale College Security and ITS plan to finish a software upgrade of every ID card reader on campus. The new software, called CCure 9000, is more compatible with ITS’ databases than the old software. The databases contain which students have access to which buildings. For instance, the database would inform...
Hillsdale’s faculty jazz ensemble, The Hillcats, will perform a concert Friday night at 8 p.m. in Phillips Auditorium. “The music we present at this concert or at any other concert is always very difficult,” said Teacher of Music Chris McCourry, trumpet player and leader of the group. “The idea is to present the highest quality...
Audiences enjoying the student-directed play “Woyzeck” this spring will see the debut work of Renée Surprenant, set designer and technical director. Surprenant is working with the cast and crew to build a set representative of the fractured mental world of the play, using mirrors and screens to comprise most of the set. With the retirement...
In a 2012 interview with Pitchfork Media, garage rocker Ty Segall expressed worry about the current state of the music world: “All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music — what are they gonna think when they hear rock ’n’ roll?” DIY thoroughbreds and dubstep skeptics everywhere rejoiced, for...