Category: Culture

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.” Not quite. While it’s true that it took watching “Warm Bodies” for me to realize that what “Romeo and Juliet” had always been missing was zombies, the two don’t quite smell the same. “Warm Bodies” is a...

While theater programs across the country busy themselves with productions of  well-known shows such as “Grease” or “Annie,” the Hillsdale Tower Players reject the norm and undertake instead a production set in that bastion of republicanism and aqueducts, Ancient Rome. Such a choice is not surprising in an institution where the students discuss ancient philosophers...

Consider the phrase: “city upon a hill.” Is your first thought of Jesus’ metaphor regarding the church in Matthew 5:14? Do you think of John Winthrop’s address to his fellow Puritans on the Arbella as they made their way to the new world in 1630? Or do your thoughts turn to America as a nation?...

Cellist Ben Whitcomb, who will be performing on Hillsdale’s campus this week, is an experienced and well-traveled cellist who has performed in countries all around the world. His musical story began, however, with an instrument shortage and an alphabetical curse. “I was in the 5th grade, and I really wanted to play violin,” Whitcomb said....

Becky Schoon can’t remember a time without singing. Ever. One of her earliest memories is of tagging along with her mom to an accompaniment practice. “When I was really little one of the girls was sick and couldn’t hit the note,” senior Becky Schoon said. “So I sang the note for her. ” She hasn’t...