War-torn Germany at the height of the Thirty Years’ War will be the scene for next month’s Tower Players’ production of “Mother Courage and her Children,” opening at Markel Auditorium on Feb. 24, but themes found in the play also apply to today’s political landscape. Written by German communist playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht in...
Author: Vivian Hughbanks (Vivian Hughbanks)
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Rick Snyder signs Flint funding bill
As the U.S. House Oversight Committee commenced with hearings on the Flint crisis Wednesday morning in Washington, D.C., Gov. Rick Snyder announced that his upcoming budget proposal will include a $30 million request for water bill repayments for residents of Flint. Snyder also signed a $28-million appropriation bill to send relief to Flint at the...
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No arrest warrants issued yet for drug-related Litchfield fire
Local and state police responded to an explosion on Friday evening at the Riverside Apartments just north of Litchfield, 12 miles north of Hillsdale. “I was upstairs in my apartment feeding my two-month-old,” Litchfield resident Ashley Perks wrote in a Facebook message to the Collegian. Perks lives in an apartment above the crime scene and...
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Only ten seconds to live: Life in the Kfar Aza Kibbutz
When a group of Hillsdale students visited the Kfar Aza Kibbutz less than one mile from the Gaza Strip on Jan. 4, residents of the kibbutz had not experienced an incoming Qassam rocket in four days. Chen Abrams, who has lived at Kfar Aza nearly all her life, remarked to the group that it had...
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An ode to Ramen
When I was 7, I dreamed of becoming the next Rachel Ray. Dutifully watching the Cooking Channel every time I visited my grandmother (who had cable television), I imagined myself one day in the distant future, skillfully combining ingredients and producing swoon-worthy flavors à la Gordon Ramsay. Until then, I could make Ramen. At 7,...