Category: Features

Walking up the stage steps in downtown Hillsdale’s Dawn Theater, senior Michael Bunting was prepared to deliver his comedy routine. His involvement in theater made up for his inexperience in stand-up comedy. Initially, Bunting felt out of his element and was surprised that the crowd was so quiet. He delivered his prepared eight-minute routine on...

Sitting in his office on Kendall’s fourth floor, economics professor Roger Butters grins as he shows a colleague the latest McGraw-Hill advertisement for the economics textbook he co-authored. Nearby, a large photograph on the wall reads “Government: If you think the problems we create are bad, just wait until you see our solutions.” Butters began...

Jazz vocalists and piano accompaniment echo through the Howard Music Building as artist in residence Sunny Wilkinson instructs students in the master class. Wilkinson, who started her relationship with Hillsdale College three years ago, gives voice lessons for vocalists involved in jazz combos, and also instructs monthly master classes. The master class provides a setting...

Junior Cole Service-Benzing stumbled upon a business idea last summer that is proving to be extremely successful. Benzing’s grandfather started a business about three years ago creating wooden templates for electric guitars, sending them off to companies like Gibson and Fender. Benzing helped his grandfather with the marketing aspect of the business. “I noticed that...

The night of Monday, March 21, 1966 was pretty typical for the McIntyre Hall residents—until the UFO appeared. At about 10:30 p.m., according to an eyewitness account written by Gidget Kohn three days later, dozens of girls and other witnesses — 87 total — began to watch an “intense silver-white light.” The event was later...