On Wednesday, Feb. 22, as- tronomers from NASA discov- ered a nearby solar system with seven Earth-sized planets, with three orbiting around their par- ent star at similar proportions like Earth and the Sun. The star named TRAPPIST-1 is located about 40 light years away, but with modern rocket technology, it would estimate about 11,250…
There are many complicated relationships that revolve around love and nothing is ever straightforward. Perhaps Caryl Churchill thought that if more information was given from different experiences, people could begin to tackle the intricacies of all kinds of interpersonal relationships. Churchill, who wrote the play “Love and Information,” has placed these relationships on display for…
Oh, to go back to the days of obviously fake news. The glory days when the National Inquirer would inform us of all the aliens masquerading as celebrities or The Onion letting us know how the “CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years.” Nowadays, fake news seems harder to distinguish. Traditional news…
Hope College students Ashley Arnoult (’19) and Abbey Peecher (’18) may seem like typical funny college friends, but recently they’ve taken their funniness to a whole new level by recording themselves for the entire world to hear. The pair has created a podcast, entitled “This Is Definitely A Podcast,” which can be listened to for…
Global Ambassadors for the Fried Center for Global Engagement are hosting a movie series this semester. The series will kick off Thursday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fried Hemenway Auditorium, where Alexandria Watts (’17) will be showing “Rams,” an Icelandic film. Each movie has been chosen by different Global Ambassadors to represent the…
Hope College has developed an after-school program for middle school students called Step Up, a collaboration of the Children’s After School Achievement (CASA) and TRiO Upward Bound programs for elementary and high school students. It’s a successful initiative that is continuing to grow. Initially enrolling five CASA students who were moving into middle school, Step…
Hope College receives two alumni, Sarah Sanderson Doyle and Josiah Dykstra, as recipients for this year’s Young Alumni Award. This honor recognizes extraordinary achievements for professional endeavor, research, volunteerism and/or involvement within the local or global community made by alumni who have graduated within the past 15 years. Special consideration will be given for those…
The Saint Benedict Institute is hosting “Hope for Restoration: Radical Hospitality and Prison Reform,” a day-long conference on restorative justice, on Saturday, March 4, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Maas Center at Hope College. The public will be able to do something that the event’s organizers cannot: attend. The conference was conceived…
This is for any groups, professors, workplaces, friends, family, and Campus events that I’ve ever gone to, known, or had con- tact with. Hi, my name is Adam, and sometimes I’m late. Sometimes I sleep in an extra 30 minutes or an hour and I get places slightly late with really wet hair. Occasionally I…
“Memento, homo … quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris” (cf. Gn 3:19). “Remember, man, you are dust and to dust you will return.” My mother would wake my sister and I early on every Ash Wednesday for the 7 a.m. Mass. We would get dressed and completely packed for school and be on the…