Last Thursday, Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. in the A. Paul Schaap Science Center, the Hope College student organization Growing Respect, Authentic Community and Education on Sexuality held a Transgender Panel, commonly known as GRACES, which opened dialogue for students to talk about creating a community more equipped to welcome transgender individuals. The ads for…
(Photos by Kelly Ocock) “All I could think about was 15-year-old me – fresh off of braces, sitting in the back of Starbucks coffee with my best friends [listening to live musicians], saying ‘I can’t believe people are playing music for their lives,’” Michaela Stock (‘20) explained about opening for the band Michigander in East…
As the 2017 cross country season comes to a close, both the men’s and women’s teams now find themselves gearing up for the MIAA Championships hosted by Adrian College on Oct. 28. Competitions throughout the month of September and up to this point in October have favored the women’s team, as the Flying Dutch have…
Homecoming weekend gave Hope College Greek organization, The Fraternal Society, a chance to reconnect with alumni. Frater James Bultman (’63) came to Hope’s new student center, named after him and his wife Martie, to give a speech to his old college fraternity. The Jim and Martie Bultman center went underway in 2015. It was built…
There are two types of reactions that I have received from people whenI tell them I am a history major: “ew, I hated that in high school” (along with your minor, Economics),or, “that is awesome, I love history too.” To the first response, I often ask whether or not their high school history course was…
The Hope College soccer team went into Homecoming Weekend with one mission— retribution. The Flying Dutch kicked off this Saturday, Oct. 14, against Kalamazoo College. The Hornets had handed the Dutch their only loss of their otherwise stellar season exactly one month earlier on Sept. 14, when Hope visited Kalamazoo on the road. The excitement…
On the morning of Oct. 6 in Oslo, Norway, the 2017 No-bel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons,also known as ICAN. This is a group of non-governmental organizations from approximately 100 different countries around the world who are campaign-ing to eliminate nuclear weapons. Banning nuclear weapons as an international…
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A VARIETY OF MEDIUMS — The pieces of art shown throughout Grand Rapids used all sorts of materials, such as the textbook pages seen in Chris Vitiello’s “The Language is Asleep,” shown above left. (Kelly Ocock) For the ninth year in a row, downtown Grand Rapids is alive from Sept. 20 to Oct. 8 for…
The school year began in a familiar swing of busyness but the casual and cozy Thursday evenings of weekly SAC Coffeehouses have brought mixed emotions out of students. The new location, in the Program Area of the Jim and Martie Bultman Student Center, can hold a larger audience but the bright lights and audience –…