For the first time since its founding in 1951, the Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra will perform for a national audience. The ensemble will play at the College Orchestra Directors Association’s national conference in Fairfax County, Virginia, on Friday, Feb. 3. The conference runs from Feb. 2 to Feb. 4. Hillsdale’s orchestra won the chance to...
Orchestra concerts are always team events. But at the Hillsdale College symphony orchestra’s two spring concerts, four virtuosos will get the chance to shine solo. Last Monday, the Music Department announced the winners of their annual concerto and aria competition. Out of the 23 hopefuls who auditioned, sophomore violinist Tova Forman and junior mezzo soprano...
From year to year, the Atlanta Falcons never know what version of Matt Ryan they are going to get — this year they got the likely NFC MVP. It’s because of this version of Ryan — along with the rest of the of the second best offense in the league — that the Falcons have...
More than 23 million results come up in a Google search for “freshman 15,” but recent evidence suggests the freshman 15 doesn’t even exist. A December 2016 study in “Demography” compared the weights of college-enrolled individuals ages 17-23 with those not in college and found that on average, students in college weighed about 10 pounds...
In two buzzer-beater games last week, the Hillsdale College women’s basketball team clinched a last-second win against Lake Erie and lost in the final moment to Ohio Dominican. Between the two games, the lead changed more than 15 times as the Chargers battled two evenly-matched teams, but the final score in both came down to...