As Michigan colleges hurtle into arguably the most unpredictable and frightening semester in recent history, each administration is toiling at forming the safest (yet affordable) procedures for monitoring COVID-19. With plans seeming to shift with each week, encompassing strategies that try to grasp at both safety from sickness and students’ mental and social sanity, each…
A livestreamed lecture event hosted from Hope College on September 7 featured Christian economist Dr. Peter J. Hill and was attended by a nationwide audience. “Stewardship for Everyone,” sponsored by Hope’s Markets & Morality (M&M) student organization, was distinctive in two ways. As the opening event of the annual lecture and film series M&M has…
This image is not from a science-fiction movie about a far-off planet destroyed by the elements. This is a picture of the damage caused by the West Coast wildfires this month. One San Francisco resident stated that it “looks like the apocalypse right now. This is a once in a generation event.” The sky holds…
This year has been long. It’s only September and we’ve had to deal with wildfires, a global pandemic, murder hornets, deadly explosions, locust swarms and the deaths of public figures like Kobe Bryant and Chadwick Boseman. Many of these things have been attributed to a 2020 “curse,” and they are all one-time tragedies that have…
Setting political views aside, it is safe to say that Donald Trump was an unexpected candidate in the 2016 election, and perhaps an even more unexpected winner. The majority of polls across the country had him behind Hillary Clinton throughout the 2016 election season. Aren’t polls supposed to be accurate and serve as an indication…
With the November 3 election looming on the horizon, students’ votes are more important than ever. In order for issues that directly pertain to students, such as student debt, healthcare and minimum wage, to be recognized, students need to prove their importance in the election by showing up to vote where it matters. Student voter…
On August 31, the United States made the decision not to participate in an effort put forth by the World Health Organization (WHO) to create a multi-national COVID-19 vaccine research and distribution program. This America-first approach is not new, as was seen with the decision made earlier this year for the U.S. to withdraw from…
It’s a challenging job to feed thousands of students every day, three times a day, for a whole academic year. Student dining at any higher education institution is a touchy subject, with a variety of complaints, both legitimate and illegitimate, coming from students. Even with plenty of staff on hand and enough physical food resources,…
One of the issues at the top of everyone’s minds lately has been diversity. At Hope, we’re lucky to have a place actively working to make inclusion a reality: the Center for Diversity and Inclusion (CDI). Since their founding in 2016, as part of Hope’s “Hope for the World” initiative, the CDI has been located…
It’s no secret that this semester is different. Between hybrid classes and six-foot distances, it’s been hard trying to get back into a routine. Most students on campus have at least some idea of what college is supposed to look like; what life was like before the pandemic. However, for the class of 2024, coming…