On the day Hurricane Florence destroyed her hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina, sophomore Madie Schider, affectionately dubbed “the little hurricane” by her teammates, was spiking, digging, and blocking her way through a volleyball game against the University of Findlay. Schider spent the week prior to the game and the storm worrying about the outcome of...
It began with twin brothers, a fledgling college radio station, and a lot of “zazz.” Now “Off Topic” is Radio Free Hillsdale’s longest-standing radio show and an Intercollegiate Broadcast System finalist for best talk show. The show’s three hosts characterize “Off Topic” as a discussion of obscure topics and events, interspersed with comedic...
Hillsdale County’s community theater, The Sauk, mounted the world premiere of Lindsay McNair Patton’s “The Flower Girls”, last weekend. The play followed the story of three semi-estranged sisters, Violet, Rose, and Lily, who come together for one night after years of not speaking to one another. The ensuing chaos includes fights, power outages, a potential...
Seniors Ryan Kelly Murphy and Genevieve Suchyta jockey against other finalists to win first place for radio submissions to College Broadcasters, Incorporated. They were the first Hillsdale students to submit radio pieces to and be nominated as finalists in the CBI, for the Audio Newscast and Public Affairs Documentary categories respectively. In October, Murphy and...
Hillsdale theater students swept two award ceremonies across the country this year at both the The Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival and the DePauw Undergraduate Honors Conference for Communication and Theatre. Junior Austin Benson, senior Nikolai Dignoti, junior Katherine Buursma, and junior John Rohman, all took a Theater History class with Professor of Theater...