Human short-term memory only has a capacity for five to seven items — like the digits of a phone number — yet expert musicians can learn and retain music they may have heard for the first time only a few minutes ago. According to Professor of Music Melissa Knecht, these feats of memory involve the musician’s schema, the framework of...
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Seniors in the spotlight: Tower Dancers share their perspective on their final dance performances
The curtain may have fallen on their time with the Tower Dancers, but their potential has just begun to be unveiled. Three senior Tower Dancers share their perspective on their final dance performances, and the program’s progress in their time dancing. Senior theater major Dani Morey praised Tower Dancers director Holly Hobbs for her creativity the past two years with...
Dienstagsschmaus: A tasty Tuesday tradition
Imagine a dinner table filled with sausage, currywurst, and cheese spreads, surrounded by a number of students having conversations with one another in their foreign language of study: in this case, German. This is what happens every other Tuesday as German-speaking students gather together for a night of feasting and great conversation in German at “Dienstagsschmaus.” Junior Finnegan Cleary, president...
Philos Project premieres new documentary about journalism in Gaza, Israel
The Philos Project, which has funded multiple Hillsdale College trips to Israel, teamed up with HonestReporting, a media watchdog for anti-Semitic journalism, to co-host screenings of this documentary, most notably one at King’s College, a New York-based journalism school.
