It has been two weeks since Hope College students packed their bags and said goodbye to their friends and families to embark on this college journey. We’ve gathered from all parts of the world eager to find ourselves and to begin our academic endeavors at Hope. For some of us, it was easy. We were…
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…
POV: you’re walking around the interest fair, quite overwhelmed by all of the faces before you. However, even though you might be nervous, you crave to find a niche, a passion, or even a family. The next thing you know, you are staring at a theatre auditions poster. Maybe you did theatre in high school…
Hey, Hope College! It’s your friendly Arts Editor, Katy! Artists: welcome back! This first week of classes at Hope College has felt… normal. Entirely, genuinely, refreshingly normal. It almost feels too good to be true. Dancers are beginning to imagine a maskless, in-person Dance 48. Actors are crossing their fingers for audiences in DeWitt once…
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…