The government wasn’t the only thing shutting down last week. On Tuesday, the New York City Opera announced its intention to file for bankruptcy. And on the same day, the Minnesota Orchestra, already locked out for more than a year by management, lost both its conductor and the head of its Composer Institute. The day...
Author: Faith Liu (Faith Liu)
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Students to attend March for Life
Washington, D.C., is a popular place for Hillsdalians: to study and to sightsee, to work and to play. But in January, a group of Hillsdale students will be piling into buses at 4:30 a.m. and driving to D.C. not to study Supreme Court rulings, but to protest them. Since the year following Roe v. Wade,...
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Mickey shot first: Star Wars, Disney, and the future of a cultural phenomenon
L uke, George is no longer your father. Last Tuesday, George Lucas announced his retirement, and the sale of Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion to the Walt Disney Company. The corporate giant now controls LucasArts, Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), Skywalker Sound, most of “Indiana Jones”… and all of “Star Wars.” The controversy among the fans...
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Tower Light flooded with submissions
In the last week, with deadline fast approaching, over 150 pages of material was submitted by students into the email inbox of the Tower Light, Hillsdale’s biannual creative literature publication. During the first half of the semester, students submitted poetry, prose, translations,and photography to the Tower Light’s editorial board, which includes the editor-in-chief, nine literature...
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Princeton Review ranks Hillsdale profs No. 4
Hillsdale College professors were recently ranked fourth best in the nation by the Princeton Review. Every year, the admissions consulting company surveys over 122,000 students from 377 colleges and universities to create lists of the top schools in 62 categories. The diversity of categories — from “Best College Library” to “Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree-Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians” —...