Last Saturday featured the Student Activities Committee’s annual Really Big Talent Show. A total of nine acts competed to win free textbooks for the fall semester. The competitors, ranging from freshmen to seniors, gave it their all in front of a cheering audience in the Bultman Student Center Great Room. The first act was Andrew…
The Hope College Ballet Club brought a beloved fairytale to life over the weekend. This year, the club’s annual production was “Cinderella and the Glass Slipper.” The production featured Prokofiev’s “Cinderella” as performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andre Previn. Directed by Jenny Lussenhop (’19), Emma Scannell (’20) and Emma Barnhart (’21), the…
“Hypnosis? Wait, is this for real?” “I don’t believe in hypnosis.” “Hypnosis is so fake…just a lot of people acting like fools.” “Dude, hypnosis is definitely real. There’s no way people could act that realistically in front of a crowd.” On Friday, Hope College was visited by a hypnotist named Chris Jones, and as the…
In 1994 playwright and female activist Eve Ensler released her play “The Vagina Monologues” and took the world by storm. Ensler based the play off of dozens of interviews that she conducted with women of all ages and backgrounds, asking them a variety of questions about their vaginas. The mission was to address women’s sexuality…