Most children have little interest in learning about constitutional amendments. Freshman Emma Turner said she thinks she has found a way to change that. For her high school senior project, Turner wrote and illustrated a children’s book called “My Living Constitution: A Children’s Guide to U.S. Constitutional Amendments.” The book discusses the framers’ role in...
Few people can say they’ve had ghosts as coworkers, but the building my brother Trevor and I worked in this summer was crawling with paranormal activity. Previously a meat packing plant, the five-and-a-half-story building in Salina, Kansas now operates as a locksmith shop. In their apartment above the shop, Sarah and Perry George, my boss...
This summer, Hillsdale faced some of the most severe storms its people have seen in years. The aftermath left Hillsdale residents with stories about some of their most well-known trees. One of the losses of the first storm was a large sugar maple between Delp Hall and Lane Hall. After it fell, professor of English...
What is one music genre you think is underrated? I’ve spent the past 25 years playing instrumental surf music, which was born in the early ‘60s in Southern California. Most acts from that scene were primarily instrumental, without much singing, with the electric guitar playing the melodies. My two bands, the Madeira and the Space...
Assistant Professor of English Kelly Franklin uses poetry to process his memories. “In the poem, ‘Trespass,’ we found this shack and broke into it thinking it was abandoned. But once we got there, we realized, ‘Oh, somebody lives here,’” Franklin said. As a child, Franklin spent three years in Latin America: one year in Costa...