What is one thing on your bucket list? I want to go visit the cathedrals of Frances like Chartres. That’s one of the reasons I’m working on the French language right now. What is one memory from your college years that stands out to you? There is the time my best friends and I had a milk-drinking contest. We all...
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Love in Lane Hall: Grad students return to teach at Hillsdale
After spending quarantine alone in Texas, Bruno and Ali Cortes are calling Hillsdale home this semester. “When we were in Texas and everything went down with the coronavirus, we didn’t know anybody. And so that was just basically three months by ourselves in a little apartment,” Ali said. “That whole situation was kind of a good reminder of how important...
Under the Zacchaeus tree: Outdoor classes during COVID-19
Thanks to COVID-19, Associate Professor of English Patricia Bart’s students get to enjoy the outdoors while learning about great books. “I just decided, until we have to be driven in, let’s just sit outside,” she said. “I’m not overly worried about getting coronavirus myself or other people getting it. But I figure, why get it?” In August, Bart gave her...
QUICK HITS: James Holleman
If you could personally attend one of the performances of any music composer throughout history, who would you choose? I would attend a concert in Vienna of a Beethoven symphony. Although I would have to say, too, if I could hear Ella Fitzgerald live, that would be amazing. If you could be in “Guinness World Records,” which world record would...
Alumnus’ journey to Oval Office
Philip Wegmann ’15 strides into the historic Willard Hotel clad in jeans, a yellow T-shirt, and a worn leather motorcycle jacket. It’s a Thursday afternoon in Washington, D.C. and under different circumstances, Wegmann would be dressed in a suit and tie, breezing in after a press briefing at the White House. “Because of COVID, they’ve limited the number of reporters...
Treasures in books: student learns the art of used book sale
Two men, armed with plastic gloves and headlamps, faced a dumpster brimming with the buried treasure they’d been searching for: books. Senior Daniel Rognlie and Evan Gage ’14 spent their summer journeying into “book mines,” dumpsters behind retail bookstores filled with cast-off books. They dug into the stacks of books and filled their milk crates with volumes waiting to...
