Before the set is built and the costumes designed, before the dress rehearsals and the opening-night butterflies, a director must choose a play and select the actors. The cast of “Dancing at Lughnasa,” Hillsdale College’s 2015 winter play, was announced Sept. 24. The play, which will run Nov. 18-21, stars seniors Matt Sauer and Allyn...
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Kirby Center chief Matthew Spalding testifies before Congress
By giving a history of the rule of law in the West, Hillsdale College Professor Matthew Spalding attempted to show a congressional committee the dangers resulting from the Dodd-Frank Act on Sept. 17. In his testimony, Spalding, the Allan P. Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship’s associate vice-president and dean of education programs, warned...
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Michael Ward to speak tonight
Hillsdale College has Michael Ward in orbit. Like a comet, the 2015 commencement speaker returns to Hillsdale from Oxford and will speak at 7 p.m. tonight in Phillips Auditorium. The interdisciplinary talk, sponsored by the history department, is titled, “Great Balls of Fire: C.S. Lewis, Narnia, and Medieval Cosmology.” The Anglican minister is the author...
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Bookbinders on campus: Hillsdale student and professor craft handbound books
To create something both useful and beautiful is a “human” practice, according to Assistant Professor of English Kelly Franklin. “Think of the swords in ‘Lord of the Rings,’” Franklin said. “They’re tools of war, but they’re always beautiful.” Like swordmaking in Tolkien’s works, the art of bookbinding gives both functionality and beauty to text, according...
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Hillsdale launches Little Big Band: New ensemble jazzes up music program
A new jazz ensemble has swung into the rhythm of Hillsdale College: the Little Big Band. According to saxophone instructor Jonathon Gewirtz, the band’s director, this smaller ensemble was added to the jazz program to provide jazz students with an alternative to Big Band. All but three of last year’s Big Band members returned this...