Zach Dankert ('21) is one of the Campus Co-Editors at the Anchor.
I know that for me, picking up my cap and gown was a moment heavy with an overlying anxiety. The plastic bag with my blue ceremonial clothes sits on my shelf, and I try not to think about it. It’s not because I’m overly sentimental or despise thinking about leaving Hope College. It’s not the…
[Disclaimer: This is full of snark, as I have read far too many COVID-related articles in preparation for it not to be.] Welcome back Hope College! I’m sure many of you were in the same state of uncertainty as I was these last few weeks, wondering whether we would start on January 25, be pushed…
The word “quarantine” has always possessed a powerful connotation, something that stands testament to itself in today’s reality. When Hope College students hesitantly prepped for this semester, many considered the worst case scenario and wondered what would happen if they or someone they were in contact with contracted COVID-19. Students knew that Hope had prepared…
Sometimes, political propaganda is just that: propaganda. A flyer or button with a name and a year, something small enough to hand out that offers a casual expression of opinion. Sometimes, it’s a bit more than that. A simple political advertisement, in the right hands, directed toward the right people, can say more than a…
The day when everything changed for me (I exclaim dramatically as I narrate the beginning of a dystopian YA film) began in regenerative stillness, a small waking exhale in the dark curtained womb of my Dublin apartment. Over the last few weeks I’d perfected my ideal morning routine, in which I woke to slow-plucked guitar…
Detective Wright and I visited the Griffiths estate the day following the murder and visited privately with Claire Griffiths. The poor girl, still in quite a sorry state, controlled herself well and helped as much as she could. She and her late father had maintained a strong relationship, at times perhaps too strong. Claire had…
Editor’s Note: Zach Dankert is a junior majoring in biology and English. After working as our Arts Editor last semester, he’s back to share his writing with us in the form of a serial story during his study abroad experience in Ireland. Look for the next three installments in our upcoming print editions this semester!…
When Wang Guangyi first started to capture the contradictions between China’s communist political system and its capitalist economic system in a series of paintings and prints that he titled the Great Criticism, he knew that his art could land him in prison or even cost him his life. The Chinese government of the 1990s and…
It’s rare to find one’s passion at a young age and to stick with it, but for Katie Tracy (’22), that was just the case. “When I was two, I would stand at the door of my sister’s dance classes and do their warmups with them so then my mom was like ‘Oh she’d be…
For their second event this semester, The Great Performance Series invited Cuarteto Latinamericano to the stage, playing alongside the artist Jiji. One may think that a Latin American classical quartet and a South Korean guitarist wouldn’t blend smoothly. However, once the music began, one quickly understands the genius of the combination. The two created an…