Year: 2014

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...

“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...

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...

Sunlight streamed through the windows of McNamara Rehearsal Hall as one hundred choral voices blended to one. At the President’s Ball, a roaring pop band enchanted crowds of spiffily-dressed students, moving them to rock to the beat. The crooning of a spicy saxophone cast a spell on swing dancers, another night, jiving in celebration of...

The art world breathed a sigh of relief as the 16 month-long bankruptcy trial for the city of Detroit drew to a close in November, ensuring that none of the treasures of the Detroit Institute of Arts will be sold to help pay the city’s debt. “To have sold off that collection would have been...