Hillsdale is one of Michigan’s safest cities, according to a recent Munetrix study. This is based on data collected by the municipal metrics firm for a 2014 study determining Michigan’s 15 Safest Cities. It rated Michigan cities by “crime per capita,” including Part I and Part II crimes. Hillsdale was not included in the study....
Year: 2015
Remember Guevara’s real legacy
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...
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...
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...
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...