Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is the most common example of the popular genre of game known as the tabletop roleplay game (TTRPG). Created in 1974, Dungeons & Dragons has been an outlet for people all over the world. It is a community builder where friends gather to be immersed in the daunting adventures and deep…
While no single person is the same, there tends to be a handful of defining moments in an artist’s life. It could include picking up a new media, be it in the flick of a paintbrush or the snap of a shutter. It might be the first visit to a professional gallery, where looking over…
Big green tractors. An ice cold beer. Blue jeans and dirt-covered work boots. This imagery might make you think of the early 2000s. You might be transported to your grandfather’s truck with artists like Jason Aldean and Kenny Chesney singing their Southern-accented hearts out through the car radio. On the other side of things, you…
“To this world, you will never be enough, but with God, you are always more than enough” (Whispers of God, Chapter 4). When I was a five-year-old girl, if you would have told me that my future consisted of trauma, a divorce, abuse, bullying, a near-death illness and an eating disorder that almost killed me…
The student body is going through a lot right now with COVID-19, that is undeniable. However, our freshmen are also going through a huge transition: the shift from high school to collegiate life. I interviewed two freshmen, Liliana Fraser-Shade and Brianna Tomczak, from the Hope College Theatre Department’s production of “Twelfth Night” to get their…
1 Welcome readers to this incredibly momentous article that will leave you feeling a bit funky. Hopefully this intro doesn’t come off too punny. Hey, you like flamingos? If so you will love Sol Lewitt. If you like dreaming you better keep reading! 2 You have happened across this somber sentence blissfully unaware of what…
Maura McCoy is a freshman from a town in the suburbs of Chicago, the oldest child in a family of five and graduated in the top ten percent of her class in high school. She plans to major in Creative Writing with a possible minor in Communication in order to pursue her goals of becoming…
Let me ask a pretty simple question; what qualities do you want in your romantic partner? Respectful? Communicative? Attractive? Funny? Let me tell you what. You are going to forget about all of that when I tell you, yes YOU, can date a manipulative, mindless, unethical, bland and tasteless pile of moldy leftover pizza crusts…
As your email inbox may have clued you in at the beginning of the month, Hope College’s literary magazine known as Opus began taking submissions for its fall semester edition. The magazine takes written work such as poetry, flash fiction and prose, as well as visual art submissions such as photography, digital art and paintings….
This article was written by Susanne Davis, a professor in the English department. The best piece of writing advice I got as a young writer came from an unassuming guy, Jim McPherson, who in a bare whisper told a roomful of fiction writers at the University of Iowa that it was our job to write…