National politics tend to energize a majority of Hillsdale College students, but with the Michigan gubernatorial race gearing up for the Aug. 7 primary and the general election Nov. 6, it’s time for students to turn their attention toward the principles and solutions of the 18 candidates vying for governor. The race is particularly interesting...
Hillsdale theater students swept two award ceremonies across the country this year at both the The Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival and the DePauw Undergraduate Honors Conference for Communication and Theatre. Junior Austin Benson, senior Nikolai Dignoti, junior Katherine Buursma, and junior John Rohman, all took a Theater History class with Professor of Theater...
Near the end of our time together in Physical Science, my chemistry professor asked who had taken a chemistry class before. Everyone’s hand shot up but mine. I tried desperately to make eye contact, hoping to be noticed. It didn’t work. “Good,” the instructor said. “You all have.” I barely passed Physical Science, a class...
I grew up 2,325 miles from where I live. I don’t have that number memorized. Google told me, after I entered my two home addresses—one in Hillsdale, Michigan and one in Newberg, Oregon. The number popped up along with two warning symbols followed by yellow text: “This road has tolls,” and “Your destination is in...
Practice makes perfect, but Keely Rendle’s talent makes practice short and rewarding. By the time most winners of the annual concerto competition step on stage to solo with the orchestra, they will have prepared their pieces for a full year. A winner of this year’s competition, sophomore Keely Rendle didn’t leaf through the pages of...