Tattering pointe shoes lay next to stacks of school books, exhausting practice coupled with rigorous academics. This is the world of the dancer at Hillsdale. Two students, senior Sarah Schweizer and sophomore Priscilla Larson, want to take their commitment to dance even further and introduce Hillsdale’s dancers to a new dance honorary. The National Honor...
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September 14, 2014July 12, 2022Culture
Theatre and Dance charge on with renovations
A remodeled performance studio, black box renovations and a new dance honorary mark an exciting year of new beginnings for Hillsdale’s dance and theatre departments. In addition, Director of Dance Holly Hobbs is implementing a new method of ballet instruction, the Tower Players are focusing on contemporary performances and nearly 50 students auditioned for the...
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September 11, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
Raising the minimum wage is the wrong call
I don’t want more money. Yes, Michigan legislature, that’s correct. I’m a college student. An English major. An aspiring journalist with little hope of ever making big money. In addition, I currently work a minimum-wage job. I even come from Massachusetts, where, until this summer, our minimum wage was $.60 higher than yours and coming...
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September 11, 2014July 12, 2022News
Gas leak threatens off-campus residents
An off-campus gas leak evacuated residents in three houses on Oak and Fayette streets last Thursday, and they couldn’t return until Friday morning. Seniors Matt Perkins and Kevin Frost were walking back from SOMA on Thursday, Sept. 4, when they smelt a gas leak on Fayette Street near the abandoned Mauck elementary school. “We decided...
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September 4, 2014July 12, 2022News
Bon Appétit débuts on campus
Bon Appétit, the replacement food provider for Saga, Inc., made its debut this week at Hillsdale. “We are here to fulfill a need that the student body was craving,” Jeffrey Every, general manager of Bon Appétit said. Every worked for two years at Trine University in Angola, Indiana, but transferred to Hillsdale as the new...