“Meter” may just be another word associated with poems and “syntax” a similarly obscure term, but reading Ellen Bryant Voigt’s latest poems gives these words a fuller understanding, if not a new meaning. As this semester’s second visiting writer through the English department, Voigt will be delivering a lecture entitled, “Lost and Found: On Randall Jarrell and the Use of...
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Art student draws ‘a small, simple doodle’ a day for Inktober
Senior Madeline Greb has inscribed a fall tradition with her “Inktober” drawings. Inspired by an interdisciplinary creativity seminar and her own desire to explore drawing mediums, Greb outlined a plan to draw every day in October. Creating something everyday seems intimidating, she said, but she started with a month-long goal as an “attainable baby step.” Her steps may have felt...
‘Stranger Things,’ like good music, deserves binging
Johann Sebastian Bach starts each of his hundreds of fugues the same way: The master composer beckons forth a simple strain of melody before he recapitulates the original tune. From there, he introduces a countermelody, piles on new textures and styles, and reverses the original order of the notes. It all culminates in glorious counterpoint as melodies and countermelodies unite....
Alumnus collaborates with Future, Wiz Khalifa
You’ve heard Wiz Khalifa on the radio a million times, and you might’ve heard Future’s hit “Mask Off,” but the rappers have more of a connection to Hillsdale than playing over the loudspeakers at frat parties. Now they’ve recorded songs with a Hillsdale alumnus. Hyde, aka Chris Greene ’13, has rapped and sung on tracks with each of them, no...
