The new National Football League kickoff rules will not only be beneficial for player safety but also begin games with more exciting action than the previous rules had promoted. The NFL unveiled new kickoff rules this season, changing the starting positions of the returning team’s blockers and adding new zones that determine where the ball...
Month: October 2024
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Shotgun Team Wins Gold and Bronze in Lima, Peru
Four members of the Hillsdale shotgun team competed in Lima, Peru at the International Shooting Sport Foundation Junior World Championship, from Sept. 26 to Oct. 7 to represent the USA Junior National Team. Sophomore Madeline Corbin shot a 112/125 and finished 5th in the women’s final. Senior Joshua Corbin shot a 116 and lost a...
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College considers Jewish studies program
Robert Holmstedt will offer a class on Early Judaism next semester, potentially followed by expansion of Jewish-focused curriculum. Courtesy | University of Toronto The college is currently discussing ways to increase Jewish studies in its curriculum and facilitate a stronger Jewish community on campus, administrators said. These discussions are preliminary, but they include plans for...
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Professors Picks: Mark McClay, assistant professor of classics
Book: Susanna Clarke, “Piranesi” (2020) The narrator inhabits an endless maze of halls that are populated with classical statues and sometimes flooded with seawater. He does not know how he got there, or even remembers who he is, but mysterious events compel him to seek out the truth. Lyrical and atmospheric, it’s “The Bourne Identity”...
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‘I sing arms and the man’ – emphasis on the singing
They’re singing arms and the man — no, seriously: singing — in a new musical rendition of Vergil’s “Aeneid” written in part by sophomore Nate Shackelford. Shackelford never thought that he would wind up writing an adaptation of one of the greatest epics ever penned for his senior musical because he wasn’t supposed to have another...