Louisa May Alcott’s beloved “Little Women” took the stage in Hillsdale during the last weekend of February and brought a fresh take on the story of the March sisters. Unsure that Alcott’s story would lend itself to a musical, it was a pleasant surprise to find that the musical that Allan Knee, Mindi Dickstein,...
Students had the chance to get experimental with food this past weekend as they competed to create the tastiest cuisine. The Student Activities Board hosted “Charger Chopped,” a cooking competition event over Parents Weekend on Saturday, Feb. 29. The Weightless Warriors Team dominated the competition to earn the coveted title of Chopped Champions. Twelve teams...
This week, Peter discusses the season with his former girlfriends in a live setting. All 30 of them. The live audience is filled with just the kind of viewers you would expect – scholars, esteemed professionals, and men whose girlfriends dragged them there. Before we hear what the women have to say, we finish...
American film historian and writer Joseph McBride believes filmmaker and Oscar-winning director John Ford can be summed up in a line from Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass”: “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.” “That’s John Ford,” McBride posits. Ford and his westerns are the subject...
With the U.S. death toll at 11 as of Wednesday night, COVID-19, or novel coronavirus, has states and municipalities scrambling to respond. Hillsdale College “is developing additional strategies for combating coronavirus,” in the case the disease makes its way to Hillsdale County, Director of Health Services Brock Lutz said in an email. COVID-19 is a...