Tomorrow marks the day there was no more Che: Oct. 9 is the 48th anniversary of Guevara’s execution in Bolivia. In an upper-level Spanish class in my high school, we spent three class periods watching “Motorcycle Diaries,” a movie based on a young Ernesto Guevara’s trip through South America with a friend. While the movie...
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October 8, 2015July 12, 2022Culture
Tower Light celebrates 60th anniversary
After more than a half-century of publishing Hillsdale students’ creative writing, the Tower Light is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a reunion during homecoming weekend. Amid the return of many other students and alumni, both the founder of the Tower Light, Rich Hill, and Kjerstin Kauffman ’09, who has her master’s degree in poetry from...
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October 8, 2015July 12, 2022Culture
Sauk Theatre produces ‘The Mousetrap’
Rehearsals are underway at the Sauk Theatre in Jonesville for the longest-running play in modern theater, Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap,” which opens on Oct. 15 at 8 p.m. According to the show’s director, Kristin Hood, the Sauk puts on a mystery or thriller every fall, and Agatha Christie immediately came to her mind for...
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October 8, 2015July 12, 2022Culture
Osmond brings Western opera to China: Hillsdale voice instructor performs in Guangzhou
Giving a style of music its debut is no small task. But if the dozens of roses onstage after the performance are any indication, Melissa Osmond’s performance was a success. Melissa Osmond, teacher of music at Hillsdale College, traveled to Guangzhou, China, this June to perform a soprano opera concert. The concert was, according to...
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October 8, 2015July 12, 2022Culture
Hillsdale students, professors visit ArtPrize: Grand Rapids hosts annual art show until Oct. 11
Every year, thousands of artists attempt to define art in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, at ArtPrize, a 19-day art show from Sept. 2 to Oct. 11. This year Professor of Art Barbara Bushey is joining those ranks of artists by showing three of her quilts at the ArtPrize venue Processing Fiber. Last year, Lecturer of...