The peak of the Division I basketball season has begun and the conference tournaments are underway. This past weekend, many Hope College students may have celebrated as the University of Michigan Wolverines won the Big Ten Championship tournament, giving them an automatic bid into the NCAA tournament. Michigan defeated the Purdue University Boilermakers on Sunday…
The Hope men’s and women’s basketball teams played two tough games over the past weekend as a part of the NCAA tournament. Both teams were victorious in the first round of competition on Friday night, with the men’s team beating Augsburg University (Minnesota) 93-91, and the women’s team defeating Cornell College (Iowa) 75-50. The…
Yogis are popping up all over the internet and many people are hopping on the fad of centering themselves and stretching out. So what are the benefits to yoga and is it a good form of an alternative exercise? The first pro of yoga is that it is a good form of stress relief….
Spring break is right around the corner and maybe you don’t have plans yet. No worries though, because there are plenty of last-minute things you can do. You can even plan a fun staycation with some friends or take time for some self care. Here are some ideas for you to get going on…
For 90 years now, the Oscars has celebrated cinema. This year it was also a celebration of the growth of diversity and culture in the film industry. “The greatest thing art does, our industry does, is to erase the lines in the sand we should continue doing that when the world tells us to…
James Fixx (’18) will be the fourth student at Hope College to complete a recording arts composite major. Up until the fall of 2015, only one small recording studio existed, in the basement of Dimnent Memorial Chapel. With the help of many hardworking individuals, including the current director of recording arts, Drew Elliot, a…
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As we reach the midpoint of the second semester, some of you may be wondering, “Jeez, how did I get so productive and successful this year? I want to get back to that blissful ignorance after Jack taught me how to not prepare last semester.” Well, if you have somehow, despite not preparing, come…
Divisions can often make up the true barriers of the modern world. With classifications that separate countries from one another, the network of interconnectedness and similarities between nations can be hard to see. However, as these division shift and change with progress and regress, their definitions often do not account for the holistic well-being…
Syria, a country of 18.43 million, has now lived almost half a century under the rule of a dynasty of authoritative dictatorship and has, been fighting a civil war since 2011 that has seen over 500,000 casualties and nearly 400,000 of its own people living in siege. As the Syrian people continue to struggle, …