Claire Buck ('22) is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Hope College Anchor. As an English major and a pre-med student, she gets excited whenever she finds places where science and storytelling intersect. When she's not editing articles or wrestling with WordPress, she enjoys wandering around farmers' markets, writing sonnets, and baking bread for her housemates.
On the morning of Wednesday, Jan. 27, Consumers Energy was in a crisis. Across Michigan, two days of bitter sub-zero cold caused by a polar vortex created record demand for natural gas. Then, a fire at Consumers’ Ray Natural Gas Compressor Station in Macomb County shut down gas flow from the key facility, which is…
As the March 29 deadline for the UK to exit the EU approaches, Brexit has been back in American headlines. Mark Turner, an exchange student from a city near Manchester who’s studying computer science at Hope, looks back on his experience in England when the UK first voted to leave and explains what the future…
In her internship at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Hope College student Isabelle Rembert (’19) would have worked on planning and running an international summit, giving her an opportunity not only to gain experience in her field of interest but to interact with the diplomats who would attend the summit. Her fellow student intern in…
Late last year Hope College senior Johnny DeMaagd made two major life decisions in quick succession. In November he opened a coffee shop in Middleville, Michigan. Then, on Dec. 31, he announced his candidacy for state house representative of Michigan’s 87th district. DeMaagd says his interest in local politics grew out of his interactions with…
Last Tuesday County Administrator Alan G. Vanderberg delivered his State of the County Address. Based on his speech and the Holland Sentinel’s reporting of it, here are three issues to watch in the coming year. Diversity: On Dec. 11 the Board of Commissioners voted to establish a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Office. If the Board…
Holland, Michigan made national news earlier this month in a New York Times article featuring factories that have been hurt by President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese steel. Because of its history as an industrial center, Holland and the surrounding western Michigan area were initially receptive to Trump’s promise to protect American businesses by taking a…
With the government shutdown now approaching a month, Hope College professor Dr. Jennifer Hampton is among the millions of Americans wondering how long this can go on. “At this point, the main impact is uncertainty,” said Hampton, who teaches physics and serves as director of her department’s summer research program. In November she applied for…
As Americans across the country feel the effects of the longest government shutdown in the nation’s history, a Hope College student finds that it could impact one of the most important decisions of her life: where she goes to graduate school. Senior chemistry student Grace Kunkel has applied for a graduate fellowship, which could make…
Film critic Richard Brody begins his review of “Gavagai” in The New Yorker, “Every now and then, I like to highlight noteworthy films that aren’t, or are hardly, available to the public, both because they should be and because their unavailability…is a kind of news in itself.” Beginning Monday, Nov. 12, this “hardly available” and…