Book: “Lincoln in the Bardo” by George Saunders (2017) Saunders drops readers into the hallucinatory, heartbreaking, and creepily beautiful “bardo” occupied by Willie Lincoln, the recently deceased 11-year-old son of a grief-stricken president. Bardo is the Tibetan Buddhist concept of an interstitial space where souls in limbo wait for whatever comes next. It’s an emotionally...
Freshman Roman Barrett, junior Luke Johnson, and senior Davis Hay all placed. Courtesy | Hillsdale Athletic Department. The Hillsdale shotgun team swept the podium at the Hillsdale Invitational Shoot Feb. 21, taking first overall and winning three of the four events at the shoot. The shoot included both collegiate and high school competitors in the...
Sophomore Grace Brennan won $1,000 in the inaugural Kenyon Cox Art Critics Essay Competition, sponsored by Hillsdale alumnus Nathaniel Stewart ’95 and art critic William Newton. “We were hoping to inspire students to take a shot at learning how to write some art in a succinct and lively article format,” Stewart said. “We didn’t want...
Courtesy | Unsplash The snow has melted away, but it has left behind a valuable lesson. We saw the trails students created across the snow, and learned the shortcuts they want to take around campus. The college should build new sidewalks on the most popular pathways. These include a path that cuts diagonally across the...
Courtesy | Ashley Van Hoose Thanks to two late-game rallies, the Hillsdale baseball team won two of three games on the road against Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee Feb. 6-8, lifting its season record to 3-3. “We are learning more and more about our team each week and the type of competitors we are,” head...