The Pull has been postponed for the Fall 2020 semester. This 123-year-old tradition has yet to be completely cancelled, though. Representatives from both the Even and Odd Year Pull teams have shared that they are working to make the competition happen some time in the Spring 2021 semester. “We are looking for ways to move…
This past Saturday, President Trump announced his Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg after her death last week. By replacing her with a conservative favorite, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Trump potentially secures a 6-3 conservative majority on the Court—a change that could dramatically alter healthcare, abortion laws and gun rights. Trump also…
The latter half of the 2019-20 year at Hope College was disrupted in the early spring by the spread of COVID-19, with many changes and protocols being implemented then and throughout the year. The Hope administration worked diligently throughout the long summer to make sure that they could bring students back on campus safely for…
Protests in Belarus have reached their 50th consecutive day, with citizens taking to the streets to show their disdain for the country’s authoritarian state. This past Saturday, more than 100,000 Belarusians arrived in the capital city of Minsk and marched. These protests stem from the reelection of President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power…
The upcoming election is already proving to be one of the most contentious in recent American history, with a flurry of ads and social media campaigns taking aim at some of the most sensitive topics in U.S. politics. Questions of race, the economy, foreign policy, the COVID-19 response and scandals continue to trend as areas…
Muhammad Ali once said, “Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names but all contain truth.” Hope College is a school that was founded on the principles of the Reformed Church of America. Since its founding, however, Hope has changed in many ways, one of those…