By Eleven Thanks to the Holland Board of Public Works (HBPW), the new Holland Energy Park Power Plant has been completed with state-of-the-art equipment that surpasses citizen expectations of sustainability and style. However, a recent inspection by Region 5 of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) showed a rather high level of Technology Enhanced Naturally Occurring…
By Will Byers Earlier this week, mysterious fluids were found in the Lake Macatawa shores. This discovery left residents of Holland disturbed on early Monday morning, as one witness took her daily walk through downtown and into Kollen Park. After noticing this strange substance near the lake, she reached down to grab a small sample…
Can Earth be a synergistic system, allowing organisms to interact with their inorganic surroundings? By Eleven President Ronald Reagan has fueled his political fan base by seeking to deregulate all bureaucratic institutions. The root of this desire is held in his most celebrated quote: “The most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from…
On Saturday, Oct. 21, President Donald Trump announced that he would release all documents related to the assassination of President John F. Ken- nedy in 1963. He also explained that he will keep files holding names and addresses of people still alive confidential. Up to 3,100 documents that make up tens of thousands of pages…
Hope College’s newly created Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) chapter held its debut event outside of Phelps Dining Hall from 8 to 9 a.m. Carter Masek (’19), Matt Middleton (’21), Jake Williams (’19) and Luke Stehney (’19) handed out pocket constitutions, stickers, flyers and pins to educate passing students on the 16th anniversary of the…
The Latino Student Organization (LSO) at Hope College partnered with the Kruizenga Art Museum to present a Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Community Day celebration Saturday. The festivities were showed in the museum alongside the current exhibition “After the Rupture: New Directions in Mexican Art 1960s-1980s.” The collaborative event featured family-friendly Day…
Appropriate to the season, a spooky-themed Open Mic Night was held last week at Kruizenga Art Museum. Opus hosted the event Wednesday, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. The theme “Love Poetry for the Dead” was fitting, considering the event’s proximity to Halloween and the beautifully eerie setting created by the Kruizenga’s white walls covered in…
Located in the southeast region of Asia, a small Buddhist- majority country, Myanmar, holds an ethnic Muslim minority who are currently suffering violence and persecution. This minority group, called the Rohingya, differs from the Buddhist-majority in ethnic, religious and linguistic ways. The Rohingya consist of about 1.1 million people who live in the southeast Asian…
The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a new personalized treatment for cancer on Oct. 18. Yescarta, a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, is both a risk and a lifesaver since it holds dramatic side-effects in some patients and is costly. Doctors proclaim that Yescarta will be used as a last-resort treatment for specific…
On Monday, Oct. 16, Hope College students groups worked in unison to host the candidates for the upcoming mayoral election in a town-hall style debate of civil discourse in the Knickbocker theater in anticipation of the Nov. 7 election. Vox Populi, a club organized to encourage civil discourse on controversial issues, Hope Democrats and Hope…