“Meter” may just be another word associated with poems and “syntax” a similarly obscure term, but reading Ellen Bryant Voigt’s latest poems gives these words a fuller understanding, if not a new meaning. As this semester’s second visiting writer through the English department, Voigt will be delivering a lecture entitled, “Lost and Found: On Randall...
Senior Madeline Greb has inscribed a fall tradition with her “Inktober” drawings. Inspired by an interdisciplinary creativity seminar and her own desire to explore drawing mediums, Greb outlined a plan to draw every day in October. Creating something everyday seems intimidating, she said, but she started with a month-long goal as an “attainable baby step.” ...
Johann Sebastian Bach starts each of his hundreds of fugues the same way: The master composer beckons forth a simple strain of melody before he recapitulates the original tune. From there, he introduces a countermelody, piles on new textures and styles, and reverses the original order of the notes. It all culminates in glorious counterpoint...
You’ve heard Wiz Khalifa on the radio a million times, and you might’ve heard Future’s hit “Mask Off,” but the rappers have more of a connection to Hillsdale than playing over the loudspeakers at frat parties. Now they’ve recorded songs with a Hillsdale alumnus. Hyde, aka Chris Greene ’13, has rapped and sung on tracks...
Most people know Thurgood Marshall as the first black judge to sit on the United States Supreme Court. Few know the details of the legal slog he had to endure in the years beforehand. Beginning in 1934, Marshall worked as a defense lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, travelling the...