Tomorrow night, various Hillsdale students from all over campus will go to Brooklyn, an off-campus house, for blind dates with other Hillsdalians chosen for them by junior Haley Talkington and senior Carly Hubbard. The two women started this blind dating service, which they call “Date Party,” and which others have dubbed Hillsdale’s “Underground Dating Ring” after Hubbard vented to...
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The poetics, tradition, and appeal of rap for Hillsdale
At first glance, it would seem unlikely that rap, a genre typically associated with racial and urban struggle, would find a significant following at a conservative college like Hillsdale. Nevertheless, students and faculty alike have professed a liking for the genre. “You find a lot of freshness in rap music that’s not present in other genres,” Assistant Professor of...
Brewing beer, friendship, and virtue
Beer — whether a hoppy straw-colored India Pale Ale or a barrel-aged, almost-black stout that tastes like a liquefied loaf of bread — is more than just a drink. For the plethora of professors and growing number of students on campus who brew, beer brings people together, encourages crazy experiments, and cultivates virtue as both brewers and drinkers. With its spectra...
Radio quiet zone: Physics students study gravitational waves
In Green Bank, West Virginia, cell phones don’t work. There is no AM or FM radio or wireless devices of any kind. The town uses landlines and cables for internet and telephone. That is because, in this “radio quiet zone,” the world’s largest movable land object rests. Amidst farms and forested hills, a massive white dish, capable of holding a...
Miller serves with simple kindness in the sports complex
Every weekday, from 5:40-10 a.m., Jerry Miller sits at the front of the Roche Sports Complex. For this mild, white-haired gentleman, interaction with people gives life and work their richness. “We laugh here together every morning,” he said. “I do not want people coming through the door with a frown on their face. I share so much joy...
Students reach out to deaf community through ASL
Senior Daniel Slonim and junior William Persson can say plenty without making a sound. Slonim interprets songs and sometimes sermons at Pine Ridge Bible Church in Quincy, Michigan, on Sundays, and Persson formerly interpreted his high school’s theater productions in Minnesota. Those experiences, they said, allowed them to access a community they wouldn’t have otherwise. Slonim learned ASL with...
