After three years working at Hillsdale College, Renee Surprenant is leaving to continue to teach, design, and work in professional theater on the East Coast. Surprenant, the visiting assistant professor of design and technical director in theater arts, has designed and created the sets for 12 shows during her time at Hillsdale. She credits her...
OPINION: Reverse the automatic walk: Pitcher’s perspective
To speed up the pace of a baseball game, Major League Baseball executives have eliminated the four-pitch intentional walk rule and replaced it with a simple signal from the dugout for the batter to go to first base with the intention of speeding games up. “Every little change that makes the game faster, I personally...
So long, Sunny: Jazz artist-in-residence to retire after this semester
Sunny Wilkinson blinked back a few tears as she performed with the Hillcats on March 26. Not only was she singing the music of Joni Mitchell — one of her musical inspirations — but she was performing with the Hillcats for the last time.
Alumna music teacher shares Oscar-nominated documentary ‘Joe’s Violin’
When Joseph Feingold left a Siberian labor camp after his six-year internment during the Holocaust, he found a black market and swapped a pack of American cigarettes for a violin. The instrument was his haven for more than 65 years, and now its legacy of solace will live on in the hands of young...




