“A Wrinkle in Time,” it seems, is meant to be a book — and nothing more than that. Last month I warned fans in a Collegian review of Madeleine L’Engle’s novel “A Wrinkle in Time” that Disney’s movie adaptation would disappoint if it departed from the foundations of the book and swapped a story for...
Gun found in student’s bag in Pittsford school shooting
Pittsford Middle/High School went into a hard lock down when school officials found a handgun in a 13-year-old male student’s bag at 1:43 p.m. on March 14. Police were notified and worked alongside the school to restrain the student, according to the Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Office. “Some students came to us and said that...
Business and beer: Van Note wins scholarship for entrepreneurial plan
Senior David Van Note recently won a scholarship worth one semester’s tuition for the business plan he created during a seminar titled “How to Start and Manage a Small Business.” The Twardzik Business Seminar Scholarship is awarded to the student who develops the most deserving business plan during the seminar. Van Note’s plan was for...
CCA Q&A: Daniel Kimmel
Daniel Kimmel spoke on the “Comedy of Billy Wilder” at Hillsdale College’s fourth Center for Constructive Alternatives of the academic year on Billy Wilder. Kimmel is the past president of the Boston Society of Film Critics and the founding co-chair of the Boston Online Film Critics Association. For many years his reviews appeared in...
The boulevard bricklayer
“A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant, and a bastard.” This is how Billy Wilder described his role in 1960, the year of “The Apartment,” for which he won three Academy Awards as not only director, but also producer and screenwriter. Anthony Lane from The New Yorker wrote of Wilder’s...




