Last month, SpaceX announced that they would be partnering with a Canadian startup company, Geometric Energy Corporation, to launch a satellite into the atmosphere for advertising purposes. The satellite, named CubeSat for its shape, would only be 10 cm long and would have a “selfie-stick” attached to the cube that would allow for the screen…
School is back in session, meaning the 70+ student clubs and organizations are up and running, eagerly awaiting new members. On September 5, 2021, students could be seen preparing for the Multicultural Student Organization’s (MSO) first event of the academic year in the Bultman Student Center — offering good music, yummy snacks and a lively…
As the fall semester begins, Hope’s policies towards the Covid-19 pandemic have shifted significantly from last year to accommodate all of the changes that have taken place since the start of the pandemic. On August 23, the FDA announced full approval of the Pfizer vaccine for anyone over the age of 16. This announcement led…
Back in May, Governor of Texas Greg Abbot signed into law a bill that banned abortion procedures after six weeks of pregnancy. Last Wednesday, this law went into effect, tying Texas with Mississippi, Georgia and Kentucky for the state with the most restrictive abortion laws in the country. Additionally, the Supreme Court has initially refused…
The United States Armed Forces finished their withdrawal efforts from Kabul, Afghanistan late on the night of Monday, August 30, effectively ending a two-decade-long occupation that began in response to Al Qaeda’s terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The occupation, which cost over $2 trillion and over 170,000 lives, was ended by the Doha Agreement,…
President Biden spoke to a joint session of Congress in his State of the Union Address on Wednesday, April 28, laying out an ambitious $1.8 trillion social spending plan to expand health care, increase access to education and reduce the cost of child care by raising taxes on the wealthiest earners. The American Families Plan…
On Wednesday, April 28, a federal grand jury indicted three men on hate crime and attempted kidnapping charges for the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was fatally shot while jogging last year. Arbery’s death, which sparked a national outcry, occurred near Brunswick, Georgia, on February 23, 2020. He was chased down…
Over the past few weeks, cases of COVID-19 have skyrocketed in India as part of a new second wave of the virus to hit the country. As of April 30, there were over 400,000 cases. There were less than 120,000 cases in early April. India accounts for a third of all global COVID-19 cases, and…
Freshman have had a rough go of it. The end of their senior year of high school was ruined, and they have only known college through the lens of COVID-19. With all of the restrictions and safety guidelines it has been harder to do everything, from getting lunch at Phelps to going to club meetings,…
With two weeks left in a long and difficult semester, Hope College students were able to relax one more time on April 28 as the final Break Day took place. Similar in many respects to the Break Day preceding it, the college sponsored a number of events on campus for students to engage in. Most…