Across the nation, teenage girls and their mothers are braving the night in Target parking lots, as if the fate of their hydration depends on the store’s opening. Their mission? To secure an object much more unassuming than the latest iPhone or gaming console. They’re after a water bottle most popularly known as a Stanley cup, and before you think...
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Professors’ Picks: Scot Bertram, general manager at WRFH 101.7 FM
Song: “The Ballad of El Goodo” (1972) by Big Star Arriving the same year as The Raspberries’ debut album and Todd Rundgren’s “Something/Anything?,” Big Star’s “#1 Record” helped usher in the commercially unpopular (at the time) yet highly influential sound of power pop. “The Ballad of El Goodo” is the best song on that album and one of the finest...
“The Boys in the Boat”: brotherhood in the Great Depression
“The Boys in the Boat,” released Dec. 25, tells the true story of the men on the University of Washington’s rowing team during the Great Depression. The film centers around Joe Rantz, one of the eight team members. Desperate for funds to pay his college tuition, Rantz tries out for the rowing team and is accepted for the junior boat,...
Academics and artists: creating art as college students
Students at Hillsdale College find it worth their time to cultivate their inner artist by working on crafts outside of the classroom. “Freshman year, I didn’t craft very much,” sophomore Lulu Celecia said. “My crafts were more prank related. We made a cardboard cutout of our head RA, and I took a Guess Who game and created it into Dale...
