Ava Bell It has been over 130 days since the Writers Guild of America (WGA) put down their pencils and picked up their strike signs. Headed straight for the picket lines, the labor union consisting of 11,500 film and television writers across the United States began their strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and…
Heidi Hudson Celebrities seem to be getting canceled much more frequently nowadays as compared with a decade ago. From Ellen DeGeneres and Will Smith to Target and Balenciaga, there seems to be a never-ending list of celebrities and companies that have been exiled from the land of fame for controversial things they have said or…
Shane Pitcher On Sunday Sept. 10, headlines out of East Lansing swept through the college football community. An incident occurred around two years ago following the Michigan State’s football team as they hosted Brenda Tracy, a rape survivor who has devoted her life to educating athletes about sexual violence. This visit took a turn and…
Grace Rossman As a piano player of 13 years, Kellen Woolhiser (‘27) decided to share his talents at the Student Activities Committee Coffeehouse event on Thursday, Sep. 14. Performing a variety of pieces, such as orchestral pieces and Broadway songs, Woolhiser filled the Bultman Student Center Family Room with his serenades for over an hour. …
Sydney Hughes This past Monday, Hope College’s Students Demand Action for Gun Sense chapter partnered with the Peace and Justice Department to bring the community a guest speaker, Shane Claiborne. Natalie Schiller (‘26), a member of Hope’s SDA and survivor of the 2021 Oxford shooting, opened Claiborne’s lecture with words on her experience as an…
No social media, no sweet food and cold showers every day for a whole semester may not sound like fun. However, for the 100+ men involved in Exodus 90, this lifestyle of sacrifice has become the norm. Exodus 90 is a program run through the Saint Benedict Institute here at Hope College. Those enrolled in…
This weekend, over 800 students gathered in the Dow to take part in Dance Marathon — one of Hope College’s greatest traditions. Energy was high, silly dancing occurred, and almost $400,000 were raised in support of the Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital. Along the way, Hope students got the life changing opportunity to bond with the…
Higher education is fundamentally broken. Over the past four decades, the cost of a college education has increased by over nine hundred percent, while wage inflation has increased by only two hundred and sixty. It is becoming increasingly difficult for families to pay for college, and as a result, students are often forced to take…
The Bird of the Month sign hangs over the stairs between the first and second floor of the Van Wylen Library. Hundreds of students walk underneath it, many without acknowledging the sign and the ever-changing selection of hand-drawn birds. However, a few may stop and wonder who is drawing the bird of the month. And…
“Miracle” in the Rubble On February 16, 17-year-old Aleyna Olmez was rescued from an apartment building’s rubble in southern Turkey. This rescue, called a miracle by many, came ten days after an earthquake of 7.8 magnitudes hit Turkey and neighboring Syria. The total death toll of the earthquake is uncertain; however, estimates currently fall above…