When senior Sarah Nolting submitted a paper in her theatre class last fall, she didn’t expect to receive a prestigious award for it months later. Her professor, Chairman and Professor of Theatre James Brandon, entered the piece into the competition for the Undergraduate Theatre Scholar Award, a national award through the Kennedy Center in Washington,...
Year: 2020
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Republicans should fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat before November
On the night of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, hundreds of people gathered around the steps of the Supreme Court to pay their respects to the former judge. People were crying, but not for Ginsburg. They never knew her. They were crying for what this meant for the future of the Supreme Court (and by extension,...
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Averkamp takes over women’s basketball
The Hillsdale College women’s basketball team welcomed Charlie Averkamp as the new head coach this spring, right in the middle of a pandemic. Averkamp previously coached at Benedictine University, an NCAA Division III institution in Lisle, Illinois. His five-year run as head coach at Benedictine was the best in the school’s history. Now, Averkamp said...
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Arnn leads White House panel on teaching US history
Hillsdale College made a strong showing at the White House Conference on American History last week. The event, which took place on Constitution Day, was not only a celebration of the document’s 233rd birthday, but a meeting to address the Trump administration’s concerns that public schools are teaching history from an anti-American perspective. Held in...
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Local watercolor artist captures natural landscapes
It all started out West for local artist Kaitlyn Dear. When she looked at the massive Rocky Mountains, she knew she had to capture them in some way—so she did. “We set out west in a minivan that we took the seats out of, and I quit my job to do all of that,” Kaitlyn...