How is this famine different from others in the past, and what can be done to save a life? Countries in Africa are experiencing a deadly drought. But wait, before you skim your eyes to the next page, ask yourself this, how do people suffer differently in America than in African countries? Of course we’re…
Students Teaching and Empowering Peers (STEP) is a group of Hope College students that wish to educate, empower and encourage members of the campus community. It is the vision of STEP to have a campus free from interpersonal violence, a campus where every member feels safe and respected, where every member is knowledgeable about how…
The seventh annual HOPEYs program on Monday, April 24 in the Richard and Helen DeVos Fieldhouse Athletics Center celebrates the top individual and team performances from Hope College Athletics and senior student athletes. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the program begins at 7 p.m. Hope College head coaches and athletic administration nominate athletes…
Hope College partners with the Saint Benedict Institute to present the lecture “‘Gold Out of Egypt’: Christian Art and International Influences,” by artist Daniel Mitsui, on Thursday, April 20, at 7 p.m. in the Fried Hemenway Auditorium of the Martha Miller Center for Global Communication. The Apostles of Jesus were instructed to go teach all…
Facing an immigrant crisis much more severe than our own, the French people will vote in the preliminary presidential election on April 23. The current leaders in the multi party, two tiered election system are Marine Le Pen of the National Front and Emmanuel Macron of the En Marche party. Le Pen’s party, the National…
Trump has yet again made headlines this week, this time for dropping a MOAB. What’s the MOAB? The MOAB is the “mother of all bombs.” It was dropped on an ISIS stronghold in Afghanistan last week. Touted as the largest non nuclear bomb ever, the MOAB had never been dropped in combat before and it’s…
This week has been a wild one in terms of the U.S. and its relation to the World. Most strikingly, of course, were the missile strikes leveled against Syria. Trump authorized these as a chastisement for the use of chemical attacks that were used against the Syrian people earlier in the week. These strikes became…
Reusing, reducing and recycling: effective actions or solely common good beliefs? In too many cases of environmental degradation, good intentions are morphed into excuses for the rapidly increasing clutter, carbon and catastrophe that plagues our growing world. In the very economic “Theory of Good Intentions,” Dr. Paul Niehaus, an economics professor at the University of…
Just over a year ago, North Carolina’s former governor Pat McCrory signed the House Bill 2 that stated transgender people are required to use public bathrooms that match the sex on their birth certificate. This struck opposing controversies, as supporters claimed this bill was supposed to protect privacy rights, while critics claim that this was…
We can all use our voices to change the culture to prevent sexual violence. Sexual Awareness Month is this April and we can take on a role of changing the culture to prevent sexual violence. Prevention requires addressing the root causes and social norms that allow sexual violence to exist. Steps to taking these…