Month: March 2015

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Orchesta concert tonight

Tonight at 8 p.m., the Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra will give its first concert of the semester. The performance will feature winners of the 2015 Student Concerto/Aria Competition. Tickets have already sold out, but James Holleman, chair of the music department and conductor of the orchestra, says not to worry. “If students who haven’t gotten...

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Here from Chicago, August Hotel

In January 2011, freshman Dean Sinclair and the other members of alt-rock band August Hotel were just four kids from the northwest suburbs of Chicago, cobbling together a last-minute winning set for a church-basement battle of the bands in Des Plaines, Illinois. Four years later and 220 miles away, August Hotel opened Phi Mu Alpha’s...

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Don’t be afraid of on-campus jobs

When I came to Hillsdale, I didn’t intend to have any on-campus jobs. I planned on doing school from August to May and then focusing on work in the summers. I upheld this philosophy throughout my freshman year, and remember fondly long, dark, cold fall and winter evenings spent in my tiny room in Olds,...