The Tower Player’s bring to the stage a question appropriately timed for the day and age of COVID-19: “Has the world gone mad? In a word: Yes.” “War of the Worlds: the Panic Broadcast” premiered on Wednesday, Sept. 30 at 7:30 p.m. Directed by Assistant Professor of Theatre Christopher Matsos, the play examines hysteria and...
As the number of students in isolation because of COVID-19 nears 130, students are adjusting to the college’s contact-tracing protocol. As originally announced in the return-to-school plan in August, Hillsdale’s administrative team works closely with the Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Community Health Agency and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to observe Centers for Disease...
At the beginning of the fall semester, 17 Hillsdale College students traveled to a still partially-closed Washington, D.C., to spend the semester participating in the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program. Students on the program in the spring were sent home early due to April’s COVID-19 shutdown. Students are spending their fall semesters interning for D.C. organizations and...
Hillsdale native Megan Stiverson, a Hillsdale County family court referee and juvenile court administrator, is running for district court judge. “I was born and raised here in Hillsdale County so my run means something to me,” Stiverson said. Except for her time in college, Stiverson has spent her whole adult life in the Hillsdale and...
It was a sunny September morning in 1945. Along with the thousands of spectators that lined the streets the whole world was watching. A lone plane soared overhead. As it passed by, the spectators looked on at it, as they had been accustomed to do for months now. But, for the first time, it...