When floating in a raft on the sea, half-dead, and hallucinating, Louis Zamperini gazed up at the stars and whispered to God: “If you save me, I will serve you forever.” As told by Laura Hillenbrand in Zamperini’s biography and in Angelina Jolie’s feature-film adaptation, “Unbroken,” Zamperini, an olympic athlete and American soldier during WWII...
The arrival of fall means fairs and festivities, but also hails the coming of winter, with all its treacherous road conditions. This winter, the City of Hillsdale’s Department of Public Services is newly equipped to handle the winter onslaught with three new dump trucks purchased with the aid of a grant awarded by the Michigan...
Practice makes perfect, but Keely Rendle’s talent makes practice short and rewarding. By the time most winners of the annual concerto competition step on stage to solo with the orchestra, they will have prepared their pieces for a full year. A winner of this year’s competition, sophomore Keely Rendle didn’t leaf through the pages of...
When most students reach the last month of spring semester, the constant refrain is “we’re almost done!” Those seniors heading to graduate programs, however, have only just begun. After forcing down an alphabet soup of tests, including the MCAT, GRE, and LSAT, students have finally heard the verdict on where they will spend the next...
Senior Madeline Greb has inscribed a fall tradition with her “Inktober” drawings. Inspired by an interdisciplinary creativity seminar and her own desire to explore drawing mediums, Greb outlined a plan to draw every day in October. Creating something everyday seems intimidating, she said, but she started with a month-long goal as an “attainable baby step.” ...