On their first birthday, many kids get building blocks, new outfits, and a small cake. Ian Sheldon got his first regulation-sized basketball. A four-sport athlete in high school, the 6-foot-5 Traverse City native played defensive end on Hillsdale College’s football team for three seasons before transitioning to basketball for his last two years of college....
The Tower Players will hold casting auditions for principal roles for its upcoming production of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” on April 22 and 23. Auditions will take place in the Quilhot Black Box. Interested students can sign up for a 45-minute time slot on the call board outside the black box. “The calendar year next year...
Economist Israel Kirzner lectured to about 100 Hillsdale College students yesterday on the history of Austrian economics and how it relates to the theory of market process. Kirzner, a former student of Ludwig von Mises, focused on the deepening of the Austrian school’s understanding of subjectivism, especially between 1937 and 1948. “In that decade, Hayes...
With more than 14,000 Facebook likes, The Capri Drive-In movie theater in Coldwater will open tomorrow for its 51st opening weekend. “We’re back! We’re looking forward to seeing you again!” the drive-in’s official Facebook page posted on March 18. The box office opens at 7:30 p.m. and the shows begin at dusk every Friday, Saturday,...
Sitting in his office on Kendall’s fourth floor, economics professor Roger Butters grins as he shows a colleague the latest McGraw-Hill advertisement for the economics textbook he co-authored. Nearby, a large photograph on the wall reads “Government: If you think the problems we create are bad, just wait until you see our solutions.” Butters began...