With a striped button down and tucked sleeves, he enters the classroom. “Hello.” He takes his reading glasses from his shirt pocket and begins the class, as he does every class, with a poem: She was young; / I kissed with my eyes / closed and opened / them on her wrinkles. / ’Come,’ said...
Do everything in love: Not just Valentine’s Day When I first sat down to write this piece, I wanted to crush spirits, break hearts, and absolutely slaughter any and all ideas of Valentine’s Day being underrated. Then I called my mom, who — much to my chagrin — told me that Valentine’s Day is her...
The Boondocks – with its sweeping, pillared porch, its garden of cigarettes, and proximity to the best burgers in town – has housed members of the Phi Mu Alpha Music fraternity for the past few years. Of its residents, junior Will Smith and senior John Szczotka make up a third of the band Art Morgan...
“A band is a great way to destroy a friendship.” -Julian Casablancas There are many bands that prove this claim (Oasis, The Pixies, My Chemical Romance, One Direction?). Hillsdale College’s student bands, however, might echo their predicament. The college is ripe with bands and students who love playing music — particularly music with their friends....
Overrated: Our society requires too much entertainment The Super Bowl is the ultimate feast day of the commercialization of professional sports. John Senior, a humanities professor at the University of Kansas, paints the picture of the American’s gross consumption of professional sports. “The armchair quarterback, puffing his gut on insipid American beer and potato chips,...