Week two of college football ended with Hope College’s first win of the season at home. The Hope College football team delivered on Community Day, defeating the Defiance Yellow Jackets 38-0. Ray and Sue Smith stadium was packed for the Home opener, with over 2,500 students, alumni, and community members attending the game. OFFENSE: The…
Nearly 45 years ago, in 1972, man stepped upon the lunar surface during the Apollo 17 mission. In the decades since, the space industry and NASA have chosen to focus on low Earth orbiting projects, such as the International Space Station. While these programs provided humans with vital information about operating in space, manned deep…
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Freshmen aren’t the only new faces students and faculty will see on Hope College’s campus this fall. Fr. Nicholas Monco, a priest hired by the St. Benedict Institute, has started his ministry on campus this semester. “It’s like I’m a freshman in college all over again,” he jokes. Although he is based on campus, Fr….
Classes are in full swing at Hope College, yet summer is still fresh in the minds of students. For many, summer is synonymous with attending concerts, and that post-concert nostalgia lingers long after ears have stopped ringing from the eardrum-shattering bass. For those yearning to attend one final concert in 2017, fear not. The Hope…
The recent nullification of the executive order referred to as DACA brings into question, once again, the purpose of our representatives in Washington, and the morally reprehensible politicalization of human beings, many of whom have lived in this country since well be- fore they reached the age of ac- countability. You may recall that DACA…
MEN’S GOLF: The Hope College Flying Dutchmen fall sports teams continue to surpass expectations, as seen in last week’s events. It began at Monday’s Aurora Men’s Golf Invitational where Junior golfer Josh Gibson (`19) shot a two-round score of 140 (72-68) to finish first among individuals. A second-straight MIAA Golfer of the Week Award coupled…
Hope College joined the Holland Community Saturday, Sept. 9 to feature live music at a traditional picnic, celebrate a new era in Hope football and women’s soccer and see the sights of Windmill Island Gardens in the celebration of the 52nd annual Hope/Holland Community Day. Windmill Island Gardens proudly sports 256-year-old DeZwaan Windmill, 36-acres of…
(Photos by Kelly Ocock) During the fall sports pre- view, women’s soccer coach Leigh Sears made a point to dis- regard the first-place ranking her team received in the MIAA pre-season coach’s poll, emphasizing that rankings would mean nothing unless the Flying Dutch rose to the challenge. And now, four games into the season,…
As the air cools and the leaves fall, we want to close windows, grab a cup of hot coffee and curl up in a blanket. This is often accompanied by or watching multiple episodes of a TV show in one sitting—an action of which the television streaming company, Netflix, has declared themselves king. Classics…