How would you describe your style? Victorian, as exemplified by the first outfit. Charles Dickens, Tiny Tim. Another one that’s pretty obvious — living with ACL tears. Has your fashion evolved recently? I definitely would say that my bruising has evolved, but other than that I would say my fashion has been pretty stagnant. Where do you like to shop...
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A survivor’s story of silence: living through the Holocaust
For the Hillsdale students who visited the Holy Land over Christmas break, the experiences were largely separated into two categories: those which touched the treasury of Israel’s past, and those which wrestled with the realities of Israel’s present. But past and present converged on Jan. 11 with a trip to Yad Vashem, Israel’s central Holocaust memorial, which ended with the...
Only ten seconds to live: Life in the Kfar Aza Kibbutz
When a group of Hillsdale students visited the Kfar Aza Kibbutz less than one mile from the Gaza Strip on Jan. 4, residents of the kibbutz had not experienced an incoming Qassam rocket in four days. Chen Abrams, who has lived at Kfar Aza nearly all her life, remarked to the group that it had been a peaceful week. “Today...
Genuine Draft and the beauty of genuine jazz
When performing jazz, musicians never quite know where the music will take them until they’re in the middle of it. The flutist nears the end of the song and decides she’s explored every aspect of the solo she wanted to that night. She begins to play quieter as she finishes out the bar, signaling the next soloist to begin. Jazz...
Wandeling Press: Alumnae wander into publishing
For some graduates, the concept of working together with the dear friends made at Hillsdale seems unfeasible. For Hillsdale alumnae Betsy Howard ’10 and Laura Kern ’12, however, their common ideas developed into a shared vision to found a publishing house for children’s books, entitled Wandeling Press. Howard and Kern knew each other from afar as Hillsdale students, as they...
Students adopt grandparents with the GOAL program
Joyce Webb has seven children, 29 grandchildren, and 61 great-grandchildren, but they don’t visit often. So Hillsdale College senior Codi Jo Broten adopted Webb as her “grandma” as part of the Adopt-a-Grandparent GOAL program. Broten drives to the Hillsdale County Medical Care Facility and Rehabilitation Center every Monday to play Bingo with Webb. “It seems my children don’t have much...
