Taylor Swift released her long-anticipated “The Tortured Poets Department” on April 19. The album has a lot of impressive songwriting and commentary but fell short in some significant areas. The album featured a number of songs that were lyrically and musically complex, but also a number of filler songs. With 31 tracks on the full...
Professors talked Taylor Swift, tattoos, and Colonel Sanders while eating hot wings on stage in the third annual Hillsdale Hot Ones event hosted by Niedfeldt Residence in Plaster Auditorium last Friday, April 19. Assistant Professor of History Miles Smith IV, Associate Professor of Classics Eric Hutchinson, and Chairman of the Psychology Department Collin Barnes volunteered...
Song: “Wayfaring Stranger” (1858) It’s a song I play on guitar and sing. It’s very beautiful, and it is one of the most highly recorded old Appalachian folk songs. Book: “Rats, Lice and History: A Chronicle of Disease, Plagues and Pestilence” (1935) by Hans Zinsser It’s a picaresque account of how epidemics have shaped...
Hillsdale College student workers can be found in every corner of campus, from the admissions office to AJ’s. Some people, however, work more niche jobs on Hillsdale’s campus. Sophomore Johannes Loock cleans whiteboards and chalkboards in Strosacker. “When I signed up for this job, I expected to be entertained by the doodles of artistically inclined...
If you could time travel to one event, which would it be and why? Jason Gehrke, history: “Well that’s pretty easy. I would go to the Resurrection.” Jason Peters, English: “The Athenaeum Club. Anthony Trollope overhears two clueless clergymen complaining about Mrs. Proudie, a character in his serialized novel ‘The Last Chronicle of Barset.’ Trollope, unable to...