The Hillsdale College orchestra, choir, and chamber choir joined together the weekend of April 9 to perform Handel’s “Messiah” in Christ Chapel for the first time. James Holleman, a professor and chairman of the music department and the director of choirs and orchestras at Hillsdale College, described how he helped to design Christ Chapel as...
The Mary Waterman Memorial Organ in Christ Chapel was dedicated Thursday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m. with a ceremony and recital by an expert guest organist. “It’s important to have a dedication because of the sacred nature of the music that gets played on it,” said Jim Holleman, music department chair and director of the...
Hillsdale College alumnus Shavit Rootman ‘20 represented his home country of Israel in a discussion about COVID-19 and the Middle East on “The Hill,” an independent political news site on Dec. 7. “I was contacted, out of the blue, by a lady from the Israeli embassy who told me that she wanted to interview me....
Assistant Professor of English Kelly Franklin uses poetry to process his memories. “In the poem, ‘Trespass,’ we found this shack and broke into it thinking it was abandoned. But once we got there, we realized, ‘Oh, somebody lives here,’” Franklin said. As a child, Franklin spent three years in Latin America: one year in Costa...
Most have seen it, few have been part of it, but all acknowledge it: Hillsdating. Hillsdating is a colloquial term used to define a relationship in which both parties are interested and spend large amounts of time together but avoid the commitment of a label. But it is not commitment that Hillsdating “couples” are afraid...