The Hillsdale Chargers baseball team lost three of four games against the Bellarmine University Knights this weekend in Louisville, Kentucky. The Chargers’ lone win of the weekend came in the first game of Sunday’s doubleheader, when the Chargers knocked off the Knights 5-4 in a seven inning affair. The win came on the back of...
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March 5, 2015July 12, 2022News
Polyglotism and praxeology: Gage translates von Mises
In many circles on campus, Ludwig von Mises remains one of the most well-respected economists and philosophers. His ideas have influenced many of the faculty and students, including Will Gage, a junior studying Spanish and German, who is now translating a previously untranslated excerpt of one of Mises’ books. Gage learned that one of Mises’...
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March 5, 2015July 12, 2022Culture
‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ and the sincerity of subtext
Last week’s highly enjoyable Tower Players production of The Drowsy Chaperone was a surprising exploration of how individuals understand art and apply it to their own lives. The frame narrator, a character known only as Man in Chair (played by the engaging, ever effervescent junior Matthew Sauer) walks the audience through his beloved recording of...
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March 5, 2015July 12, 2022News
Lamplighters adds new members
“It’s not what you do, it’s who you are,” Professor of Chemistry Lee Baron said. Baron, faculty co-adviser for the Lamplighters — with Professor of Speech Kirstin Kiledal — said that membership in the organization is more than an activity and more than a mark on your resume. It is a shared way of life....
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March 5, 2015July 12, 2022Culture
Next for Tower Players: ‘Vanja and Sonya and Masha and and Spike’
Two middle-aged siblings who’ve held down the fort at home are confronted by news from their actress sister, who comes home with a boy-toy boyfriend and wants to overturn their complacent lives. This is the plot of Christopher Durang’s newest show, “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” which the Tower Players will perform in...