Three visiting professors joined the music department this school year, while two professors are away on sabbatical. Mark Douglass and Brad Holmes are filling in for Professor of Music, Choirs, and Orchestra James Holleman, and Michael Ruhling has taken over for Associate Professor of Music Derek Stauff. Douglass is standing in as the conductor of...
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Victor David Hanson speaks on California, path to unity
California was once a great place and can be again, but not without serious work by its residents, Victor Davis Hanson said in a speech on campus. “If we don’t have some type of unity,” Hanson said, “If that progressive movement is not defeated and we don’t have a normal Democratic Party and people self-select...
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Spilling her ‘GUTS’: Olivia Rodrigo successfully avoids the sophomore slump
Olivia Rodrigo beat the curse of the sophomore slump with her new album “Guts,” released on Sept. 8. “Guts” follows Rodrigo’s transition from her teenage years to her early 20s. The album, which Rodrigo describes as “the confusion that comes with becoming a young adult,” is a homage to the feeling of being scared of...
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Why you should celebrate V-J Day
Sept. 2, 1945 — the Japanese officially surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. World War II, the deadliest conflict in human history, finally came to a close. Seventy-eight years later, Victory over Japan Day is a date typically forgotten by Americans and overshadowed by controversy. At its core, however, V-J Day is a...
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Q&A: Victor David Hanson shares secret to reliability
Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Buske distinguished fellow in history at Hillsdale, and the author of almost 30 books. Who won the recent Republican presidential debate? Certain people are kind of boilerplate and detract from the debate because they don’t have a realistic chance. Essentially, they’re...