It’s an old routine—ripped from that part in Jurassic Park when the Brontosaurus first appears on screen in glorious CGI—and I recite it every time I visit the Prehistoric Forest, an abandoned amusement park just off the side of US-12 in the Irish Hills. “You’ve said you’ve got a T. Rex?” “Uh-huh.” “Say again?” “We...
Some RAs at Hillsdale may think that their weeklong training to get ready for the school year is a burden, but it could be worse. Simpson RAs Josh Bailey and Adam Buchmann would know. They have been through Officer Candidate School for the Marine Corps. Senior Josh Bailey finished Officer Candidate School this summer and...
Balls are bouncing again at the old tennis courts by Academy Lane. But instead of tennis rackets, players are sporting Wiffle balls and wooden ping-pong paddles. The game is called pickleball. It has 2.8 million players nationwide, according to the United States of America Pickleball Association (USAPA), and was labeled the “fastest growing sport” in...
Since they were young, Hannah and Chloe Stewart had a knack for writing. “We’ve always written some kind of newspaper or other,” Chloe said. They hand wrote their first newspaper, which consisted solely of news at their house, when Hannah was 7 and Chloe was 4. They titled the family newspaper The Stewart Gazette. “We...
You can tell a lot about professors by the things displayed in their offices. Professor of German Stephen Naumann displays maps. The walls of his basement office in Delp Hall are covered in maps — of Poland before and between the two world wars, of Germany, of Prussia. He even has a “metro map” of...