Hope College’s Kruizenga Art Museum (KAM) is featuring artistry worn this week through April 16. The exhibit, called “Spring Collections Reveal,” includes the latest spring and summer fashion. Modeled by fully styled mannequins, the fashion is taken from six independent women’s clothing stores in downtown Holland. These stores include Blu Veranda, Frances Jay, Jean…
Hope College Theatre is pleased to welcome guest artist Julia Stemper to play the role of Prospera in “The Tempest.” Hope is fortunate to have professional guest artists collaborate with the art departments in many areas. “The Tempest” also features professional scenic designer, David Barber, from New York City. Stemper is a Chicago native and…
Even at a young age, Christopher Fashun loved music. He set up anything he could use as drums—pots and pans—and sat in his kitchen playing them. In middle school, he began to play the viola, and after begging his parents to join band, they reluctantly gave in. Despite being a year behind the other seventh…
Hope College’s Ballet Club put on “Wonderland” on April 8, 9 and 10. The show told the story of “Alice in Wonderland” through costumes, backdrops and ballet, and the cast was made up entirely of Hope students. The performance was also directed by Hope students Christina Sarosiek (’16), Elise Riddel (’17) and Emily Mejicano-Gormely (’18)….
755 megapixel cinema camera can refocus post-production The realm of what was thought possible in the world of cinematography has just gotten a lot wider. Lytro Inc., a company that specializes in developing light field cameras, unveiled their newest 755 megapixel cinema camera on Monday, and the reaction from those within the industry could…
Article in proceedings of National Academy of Science reveal brain areas activated by psychedelic drug LSD. Lysergic acid diethylamide. The name of this particular drug conjures up images of the psychedelic 60s and 70s, of hippies, tie-dye and the song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” by the Beatles. The drug was first…
With the stoke of a pen, California’s governor Jerry Brown turned the nation’s most populous state into an economic lab rat last week when he signed legislation that would gradually raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022. Despite increasing calls for a “living wage” nationwide, California is the first state to…
The “Panama Papers,” a huge leak of secret intelligence, possibly the biggest in history, is creating headaches for many of the world’s power brokers. 11.5 million confidential documents were leaked. The leaks shocked the world, as it showed how some of its leaders may have used offshore bank accounts and shell companies to hide their…
Paul Boersma remembers laying in bed as a child and hearing his parents read scriptures together, hearing them pray together before they went to sleep. “My parents were strong, strong Christian parents. And not only in belief but in how they lived it out in the life as well, too,” Boersma said. Boermsa is often…
Proposal would extend Cook Village complex east on 11th Street Only three years after opening the new $3.6 million Cook Village townhouse-style apartment complex, Hope College is again seeking city approval to build new student apartments on 11th Street between Lincoln and Fairbanks avenues directly across from the DeVos Fieldhouse. In a bid…