What started as an art night in the Student Union turned into a surprise delivery to cheer up elderly residents in the Hillsdale community. The “Adopt-a-Grandparent” GOAL program held an art night on Friday, Feb. 19 in the Student Union TV lounge. Junior Emily Brickey, who leads the GOAL program, brought the finished paintings to...
For the audience, Mock Rock is a treat. It’s an hour of high adrenaline flips, tumbles, and aerials all provided free of charge. But what does it take behind the scenes to choreograph such daring stunts? What makes a winning Mock Rock routine? Step one: plan in advance. Far in advance. “If we go from...
There is something uniquely American about moving to a new place and starting over. This trek can be filled with excitement, dread, but most of all, hope — hope that things will get better, and that what you want will materialize. This hope marks Lee Isaac Chung’s Korean-American film, “Minari,” which tells the story of...
Jilly Beans Coffeehouse owner Mary-Ellen Sattler brought life to the walls of her downtown Hillsdale shop through scenic nature murals full of birch trees and animals. Sattler asked her niece Danielle Musch, a nursing student at Grand Valley State University, to paint two murals on different walls. Musch finished the first in August 2020 and...
Despite what many students learn in their elementary years, one plus one can actually equal up to fourteen. At Hillsdale, students who come from big families aren’t hard to come by. I interviewed five students, each with at least eight siblings, to hear about what it was like growing up in a big household. Sophomore...