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February 8th, 2018
News In Brief Come support the Knights at the Quad game Friday afternoon at Aragon!
Snow Ball Formal is on Saturday at 8PM! Watch the 2018 Winter Olympics from 2/9 to 2/25!
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Movie Night Moves Students Eilleen Zhang Editor-in-Chief On January 19th, the Hillsdale Effect and Girl Up club teamed to host their second ever movie night at Hillsdale, showing He Named Me Malala. Students were encouraged to go to this educational event, and there were extra credit offerings from select history teachers. The event was free, with all profits from concessions going towards fundraisers for both clubs. With the power of Malala’s inspirational survival story and her actions afterwards, students learned the importance of education, women’s rights, and standing up for what you believe in. Malala Yousafzai became known worldwide in 2013, after she was shot on a bus by the Taliban, a terrorist group, at age fifteen for going to school. But her fight for girls’ education began years before that, at age eleven, when she wrote a diary to BBC’s Urdu service on life under Taliban rule. The movie seamlessly flows between flashbacks of Malala’s experience, explanations of conditions for girls’ education, and clips of Malala adjusting to her new life in Britain. As the title demonstrates, the movie also delves into how her father, a schoolteacher and speaker, influenced Malala as a child to value education and pursue knowledge above all else, as well as the culture that Malala grew up with. Throughout
it all, Malala’s personality imparts a lighthearted yet passionate feel to the movie, with her humble view of her accomplishments and determined attitude on speaking out for her beliefs. A s senior and Girl Girl Up and Hillsdale Effect work together to educate students on women’s issues. Photo Credit: Sophia Dew Up president Sophia Dew says, the club “was created to support female especially girls, don’t have that same access, empowerment within our own community and the struggle every day is incredibly and within other communities, and so we difficult. We’re hoping that by sharing that do that specifically by spreading awareness story we can get it out to our community and spreading education.” The club has and that, us as a community, can figure out five initiatives around education, safety, a way to solve and better inform citizens.” health, empowerment, and leadership. The Hillsdale Effect club raises Sophia explained that Girl Up chose to do awareness and money to help women a movie night event because “education is in Guatemala. These women receive another big central theme to Girl Up club… it’s definitely something that we take for microloans to start their own businesses granted in our community, that we have an and break the cycle of poverty. Senior access to such a great education. We want Madison Luzar says, “we learn about to share the story about how other people the entire process they go through… (continued on page 5) in other communities, especially females,
HIT Competes at Olympics
Ben Liao Editor-in-Chief
the AIT), Hillsdale’s coach and host of The 9th annual Improv Olympics, the competition, Ian, a head-to-head competition between the gave the audience Hillsdale Improv Theater Squad (HIT a rundown of how Squad) and Aragon Improv Team (AIT), was t h e c o m p e t i t i o n held on the nights of February 1st and 2nd. would go. He would Walking into the Little Theatre introduce a topic, Thursday night to watch the show, it was a a n d b o t h t e a m s little surprising to realize how intimate the would have to make setting was. With an audience of about one up a scene, based hundred people, the accompanying piano off a subject chosen player off to stage right with no external by the audience. At speaker to amplify the sound, and no the end of a scene, visible sound system, it was immediately five judges (one of obvious that this event would be very which entered the The HIT Squad spontaneously crafts a scene for the different fom scripted drama productions. theatre on a bike, audience. Photo Credit: Ben Liao After the improvisors on both teams prompting an early introduced themselves (seven members for chuckle from audience members) would endless stream of jokes, one-liners, the HIT Squad and eight members for rate the scene on a scale from 1 to 5, and at amusingly cringey moments, and logical the end of the show, yet creative narratives embedded in the Each member of the AIT making up a verse to an imaginary the points would be scenes and games. The audience was also song. Photo Credit: Ben Liao tallied; whichever very involved, laughing quite often and even team had a higher walking up to the stage to participate or to point total at the end provide subjects for the next improv game. of the night would An early highlight, on both sides win the competition. was when Ian challenged both teams to W i t h t h a t , t h e improvise a scene with heavy audience Olympics began. involvement. The HIT Squad performed From the a scene in which one improvisor served beginning of the as a town hall leader and the rest of night to the end, the improvisors spread out amongst the players on both the HIT Squad and the audience as the people of the town—taking AIT continued to advantage of the intimate setting mentioned provide the audience earlier. An audience member suggested... (continued on page 5) with a seemingly