Filling the halls –– or at least the Formal Lounge –– with memorized verse and archaic language, the Shakespeare Society held its first sonnet competition on Friday, Feb. 14. Students across campus prepared and recited sonnets. The club originally planned to perform exclusively Shakespearean sonnets. “We dropped that requirement just because we didn’t want to...
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Griffiths to retire from the Hillsdale theatre department
This weekend the Hillsdale theater program will perform “Much Ado About Nothing,” and Professor of Theatre Dave Griffiths will direct his last play at Hillsdale. “It’s been just about 40 years,” Griffiths said. “We’ve been rounding it off a lot, but it does not make a huge difference –– it’s been a long time.” Griffiths...
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Tower Players set ‘Much Ado’ in 1940s
Live, soft jazz sparkles as the final troops of World War II in the Pacific return to Washington D.C., the setting of the theater department’s production of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing.” The show opens with the return of Don Pedro and his companions Benedick and Claudio from the Pacific theater. Dressed in khaki uniforms,...
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Kidnapping attempt
A local Hillsdale woman, 18, was abducted by a man possessing a gun while walking alone on Hillsdale Street just north of Carleton Road Feb. 23 around 11:15 p.m. The woman escaped unharmed shortly after and reported the attempted kidnapping to the city police. She told the police an unknown white male forced her into...
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K2: dealing in drugs
Two weeks ago, The Collegian reported on a Camden, Mich., couple facing life in prison after being charged with six felonies each, including the delivery of more than 1,000 grams of a controlled substance and maintaining a drug house. Douglas Dean Cardwell was vomiting repeatedly when officers from the Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Office and the...