Chaos reigned in Olds Residence this month as roommates betrayed each other, RAs paired off against residents, and one freshman racked up eight kills in the dorm’s inaugural “spoon assassin” tournament. “At one point, multiple roommate pairs had each other,” sophomore resident assistant Kate Mureen said. “There were lots of skirmishes that went down, especially...
Book: “Lincoln in the Bardo” by George Saunders (2017) Saunders drops readers into the hallucinatory, heartbreaking, and creepily beautiful “bardo” occupied by Willie Lincoln, the recently deceased 11-year-old son of a grief-stricken president. Bardo is the Tibetan Buddhist concept of an interstitial space where souls in limbo wait for whatever comes next. It’s an emotionally...
The book cover for “Killing Orpheus” by Forester McClatchey. Courtesy | The University of Chicago Press Dog carcasses, bad paintings, and hiccups: Everything is game for poetry to Hillsdale alumnus Forester McClatchey ’16. After years of teaching poetry in the classroom and publishing his own in journals, McClatchey released his first volume of poetry, “Killing...
Daniel Palmer started playing guitar when he was 13 years old. Since then, he’s dreamed of performing on the big stage. Today, he’s planning on releasing his first 11-song debut album “NorthWest,” fulfilling a piece of that childhood dream. “When I first started playing, I used to stand in front of the mirror and pretend...
Freshman Lilly Williams and sophomore Dave Bellet perform a duet. Anna Northcutt | Collegian Students performed everything from original ballads to comedy sketches about being in church during “Storytime: A Variety Show,” hosted by sophomore Gabriel Schutte and Hillsdale College for Life Sunday Feb. 15. Proceeds from the $3 entry fee for the show will...