Last night in Markel Auditorium, the Tower Players performed the first show of the season, Pedro Calderon de la Barca’s Spanish comedy “Life is a Dream.” When I sat down in the darkening auditorium to watch the dress rehearsal performance of “Life is a Dream,” a plummy purple glow lit up a zodiac pattern on...
The full force of the Democratic Party has been deployed in a last-minute smear campaign to prevent the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. First, there was Christine Blasey Ford. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) had been holding her ace in the hole since July: A letter from Ford that claims Kavanaugh attempted to sexually...
Qianying “Jennie” Zhang is the newest addition to Hillsdale College’s business and economics department. She is an assistant professor of finance and economics and teaches two sections of quantitative analysis this semester. Zhang was born in Shanghai, China and earned her bachelor’s degree in economics at East China Normal University in 2008. It was...
Jilly Beans Too: Putting the Jo in Jonesville, opened as the only coffee shop in town Friday, relieving Jonesville residents from the limitations of six years of coffee-house-famine. Mary Ellen Sattler, owner of Jilly Beans in Hillsdale, first got the idea to open a sister-shop in Jonesville from a friend who said that a...
Some streets in Hillsdale underwent an extreme makeover this summer as part of the City of Hillsdale’s summer-long infrastructure project, which initially focused on replacing aging water and sewer lines close to the St. Joseph River. The city didn’t stop there, as more projects are on track to be completed before the project...