POV: you’re walking around the interest fair, quite overwhelmed by all of the faces before you. However, even though you might be nervous, you crave to find a niche, a passion, or even a family. The next thing you know, you are staring at a theatre auditions poster. Maybe you did theatre in high school…
Hey, Hope College! It’s your friendly Arts Editor, Katy! Artists: welcome back! This first week of classes at Hope College has felt… normal. Entirely, genuinely, refreshingly normal. It almost feels too good to be true. Dancers are beginning to imagine a maskless, in-person Dance 48. Actors are crossing their fingers for audiences in DeWitt once…
As the fall semester begins, Hope’s policies towards the Covid-19 pandemic have shifted significantly from last year to accommodate all of the changes that have taken place since the start of the pandemic. On August 23, the FDA announced full approval of the Pfizer vaccine for anyone over the age of 16. This announcement led…
Back in May, Governor of Texas Greg Abbot signed into law a bill that banned abortion procedures after six weeks of pregnancy. Last Wednesday, this law went into effect, tying Texas with Mississippi, Georgia and Kentucky for the state with the most restrictive abortion laws in the country. Additionally, the Supreme Court has initially refused…
The United States Armed Forces finished their withdrawal efforts from Kabul, Afghanistan late on the night of Monday, August 30, effectively ending a two-decade-long occupation that began in response to Al Qaeda’s terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The occupation, which cost over $2 trillion and over 170,000 lives, was ended by the Doha Agreement,…