The Pink Jalapeno Poppers, a deep-track Red Hot Chili Peppers cover band, snuck into the jazz studio in the Howard Music Building late one Sunday night to rehearse for the 2015 Battle of the Bands. I was the band’s singer. Inspired by the brash vulgarity of the Chili Peppers, we removed our shirts to rehearse...
At 3 a.m. on Monday, most students were either fast sleeping or regretting a weekend full of procrastination. The Hillsdale College baseball team, however, was only just returning to campus. The Chargers were returning from Lebanon, Illinois, where they split doubleheaders with the McKendree University Bearcats on both Saturday and Sunday. Perhaps the biggest storyline...
Hillsdale College’s science departments reduced stipends for six-week summer research this year by $400-$1,000 for faculty and students. Stipends dropped from $2,500 per researcher to $2,100 for each faculty member; $1,800 for every participant in the Laboratory for Advanced Undergraduate Research Education Adapted for Talented and Extraordinary Students, or LAUREATES, Program; and $1,000 for other...
After a restless night in January, June Bjorge had the words of an 1830s poem on her mind. The poem was by Sandord Tracy, the great-great-uncle of a friend, and, after reading the verses about finding rest, the Adrian resident said she knew she needed to turn it into a song. On that January...
A postgraduate student equipped with honors and diplomas once went to the Swiss biologist Louis Agassiz to receive the finishing touches on his degree. The great man offered him a small fish and told him to describe it. Postgraduate Student: “That’s only a sunfish.” Agassiz: “I know that. Write a description of it.” After a...