When Lecturer in English Andrew Brown begins his Great Books class, he usually starts a discussion about the weekend’s Charger football game. Brown has taught an English course each semester for a few years, but he’s spent more than half of his life as a broadcaster for Charger football. So after he tells students to...
When assistant coach Pat Hornak came up at the end of the football team’s practice last week, the team expected a routine announcement. Instead, Hornak unzipped his jacket, revealing new uniforms for the team. “They went nuts,” head coach Keith Otterbein said. Hillsdale alumnus and current Buffalo Bills wide receiver Andre Holmes ’11 donated the...
American media has failed to understand what actually happened in Austria, the small European nation with about 8 million inhabitants. On Sunday, the Austrian people voted Sebastian Kurz, 31, and his center-right Austrian People’s Party into power. The People’s Party, known in Austria as the OVP, won 31.6 percent of the vote. The left...
In his soundproofed office, on the dark wall behind Professor of Art Bryan Springer, hangs a single piece of artwork: a Civil-War-style banjo he built himself. The wood for the instrument came from walnut trees on an abandoned farm. Springer, who instructs Graphic Design courses, participates in Civil War Reenactments, a hobby that led him...
Tucked in a third-floor corner of Lane Hall, the office of Assistant Professor of Economics Gary Wolfram is strewn with mementos of races past. A newspaper clipping shows his son competing in a soccer game, and a pair of red, green, and white Nike spikes dangle by their laces off a wall. His own story...