Faced with deteriorating infrastructure and a tight budget, the governor of Michigan has come up with a new plan to fill potholes without an unpopular hike to the gas tax: make every Michigander responsible for fixing and maintaining their own ten-foot stretch of road. “If Michigan residents don’t want to pay more taxes, they’re going…
With rising global temperatures and concern over melting icebergs, political figures around the globe are encouraging creative approaches to solving the world’s climate change crisis. Many businesses are turning to common measures to reduce their ecological footprint: reducing CO2 emissions, pulling plastic from ocean tides, cannibalizing humans to reduce cow consumption and so on. But…
As polarization and divisive partisan rhetoric erode trust in American democracy, one political science expert has proposed a new way of choosing governing officials, inspired by Hope College’s longstanding tradition known as the Pull. Democratic elections would be replaced by a massive, threehour tug-of-war competition between Democrats and Republicans. The party that holds the most…
Tensions were high at noontime last Sunday after the weather did not cooperate. What was once peaceful chatter and pleas for reasoning quickly boiled over into shouting, insults and displays of violence. “This injustice will not stand!” a student cried out, holding up her DIY protest sign reading “No peace.” Gatherings at the Pine Grove…
What is the bookstore? I guess you go there to buy books, but there is so much more. You have clothes, socks, coats, folders, candy, cold medicine for those nights when you feel like crap, and a helping hand named Miles Pruitt (’19), who has many nicknames. The bookstore is committed to serving its customers,…
The phrase is commonly known around Hope’s campus: “ring by spring.” You hear it mentioned in a conversation your first year, but you are not sure what it means. What kind of ring? A championship ring? Maybe those people you overheard were athletes. Spring is only a semester away though. How could they expect to…