When Hope College professor Holly DeVivo’s mother left for the Mexican Consulate one morning, she hoped that she might finally be able to get help achieving permanent resident status in the United States. Instead, she missed her exit and ended up at the Canadian border, where she was arrested and placed in deportation proceedings. Since…
While Markets & Morality has long invited prominent speakers to Hope and regularly travels as a group to thought-provoking seminars, it has never had the chance to host an in-house conference of its own. Several logistical stars must align for such a gathering to take place, with a certain level of work required to gain…
Meet Your Media was a great opportunity for members of various media organizations on Hope’s campus to mingle and meet other members of the community. Intrigued students were able to to learn more about groups they might be interested in joining. Members of the media staff took turns in 30-minute shifts, playing games and engaging…
The Student Activities Committee (SAC) brought back a taste of the 70s on Friday with a fresh new twist on the classic disco. Instead of a crowded room of people pulling out their best dance moves to the sounds of a DJ, the silent disco consisted of a crowded room of people pulling out their…
Dr. Austin Channing-Brown, author of “I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness,” came to campus and delivered one of the year’s most powerful speeches in the Jack H. Miller Auditorium. She began her speech with a simple phrase: it is real talk. Too many times in conversations about race, the conversation…