“Actors ready?” “Ready,” the students under the stage lights said. “Actors go,” senior Elena Creed replied as she paced the audience rows in Markel Auditorium with the discerning eye of a director. Creed is in her final stretch of directing “An Italian Straw Hat — A Five Act Comedy With Song,” which opens April 25....
Author: Lillian Quinones (Lillian Quinones)
Pomp and circumstance at Hillsdale commencement
In this year’s commencement academic procession, you might catch a doppelgänger of Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn — but, it’ll be the two postdoctoral graduates of the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship, wearing their new academic regalia styled after Arnn’s royal blue and black-velvet gown. “There had been favorable remarks of Dr. Arnn’s...
Planning takes practice
One of the habits that I’ve wrestled with over my college years is keeping a planner. I’ve tried the online Google Calendar, the Hillsdale student planner, a fancy store-bought planner, and opting for the planner-less lifestyle – liberating, yes, but overwhelming in a week of studying for three tests, making Collegian article deadlines, and taking...
City seeks to fill treasurer position
Hillsdale City Council received 20 applications for the position of city treasurer, which was left vacant when Julie Beeker resigned the first week of March to work in the county treasurer’s office. The deadline for applications ended on Friday, March 23. City Manager David Mackie has yet to begin reviewing the candidates and make...
Instagram, robots, and the human mind
Hillsdale professors combined their technical knowledge and cultural aptitude to address the topic of the Lyceum Friday Forum on March 16, about technology and human identity. Asking a room full of parents and students if they’ve experienced such social media phenomenons as phantom vibration syndrome or fear of missing out, Associate Professor of Physics Paul...




