This year is full of lasts. It is my last semester at Hope College, and this is one of my last print edition issues of The Anchor. I am taking my last courses, and I am enjoying my last breaths of this simulated world we call college. I say “simulated world” because at college we…
“She has gripped the attention of the entire nation” – Ryan Ruocco, NCAA Sports Analyst With 53.7 seconds remaining in the second half of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship game, the cameras are not fixed on the soon-to-win Louisiana State University basketball players, but on the disappointed face of Iowa Hawkeyes’ Caitlin Clark,…
Tiktoker Camille Munday went viral for her daughter’s attachment to a wad of hair. In this video, Camille is out on a mission to Target in hopes of finding her daughter a doll to replace her strange attachment to the tangled wad of human hair she carries with her everywhere. Though most children do not…
By: Noah Jacobs What do you have to give up to become the person who you want to be? If it’s not everything, it might not be enough. Moral Obligation “You are morally obligated to do remarkable things.” Jordan Peterson Wow, those are tall marching orders. But, whenever I live with that rule in mind,…
By: Aidan CharronTwo weeks ago, The Anchor published a lovely article reporting on a student panel that was held by The Bell Tower on Jan. 22. I want to take this opportunity to personally, and on behalf of the whole Bell Tower team, thank The Anchor, the reporter Tacy Kratt, and The Bell Tower’s very…
Cancel culture. We’re all too familiar with this buzzword, especially in our present culture. We’ve seen cancel culture manifest in a multitude of ways. Professors have been fired, mobs of people boycotted Bud Light and Target, and readers no longer subscribe to J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. A new development in cancel culture has been…
By: Carter Speelman The prospect of finding work upon the completion of a degree program at a college or university has always been a daunting task, but I propose that it is getting harder and harder each year. The state of the economy at the time of graduation has always been a leading factor in…
Many years ago, when I was just getting started on Instagram, I saw a clip of The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah interviewing a woman wearing a hijab. The woman claimed that hijabs are actually empowering for women because it privatizes their sexuality. She continued that if women with private sexualities are powerless, it means that…
Author: Anna Whittle Guns are the number one killer of my generation. Since I’ve been a student at Hope College inMichigan, there’ve been at least two school mass shootings in the state. On Nov. 30, 2021, Tate Myre, Hana St. Juliana, Madisyn Baldwin, and Justin Shilling were shot and killed at Oxford High School. In…
Author: Nico Kazlauskas Auteur Theory is the idea that film directors have total control and operate as the true writers of a movie more than the actual writers. It makes sense; directors are given the option to control lighting, cutting, editing, camera movements, lenses, colors, tone, mise en scene and the camera operation as a…