“Lets go Brandon” chants have swept the nation, a tongue-in-cheek version of another four-syllable chant. As I listen to “Let’s Go Brandon” and its NSFW alternative sound off in stadiums throughout the country, I can’t help but be reminded of Hillsdale’s wonderfully unique Charger chants. Most stadiums at large schools feature tens of thousands of...
C.S. Lewis scholar, Michael Ward, returned to Hillsdale last Wednesday, but this time on the big screen. In 2015, Ward was Hillsdale’s commencement speaker. The accomplished senior research fellow at Oxford University and professor of apologetics at Houston Baptist University played the role of the parochial vicar in “The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story...
This December, the Hillsdale Arts Chorale will perform its first in-person concert since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The concert, titled There at the Manger, will be performed at 7 p.m. on Dec. 18 at College Baptist Church. “The concert is going to be a reflection of the Christmas story,” Kendra Bonjernoor, president of...
The Friday before Halloween, most college students may have been busy celebrating, but at Hillsdale a large crowd filled Plaster Auditorium to attend a jazz concert. The Little Big Band and Big Band, Hillsdale’s two jazz ensembles, mounted the stage at 8 p.m. with two setlists that incorporated all different styles of jazz. It was...
“This is a classy room,” said Aaron Tracey, director of hospitality operations for the Hillsdale College Dow Hotel and Conference Center. “You might feel out of place wearing shorts and a T-shirt here.” Renovations in the Dow A & B event room concluded Oct. 28, ending an 11-month project that cost $3 million. The task...