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March 29, 2025 Vol 121

Day: February 8, 2013

Purple and Gold Basketball Spirit

If you weren’t among the dual colored throng of fans crowding the Nielsen bleachers last Tuesday night for the women’s…

Athlete Profile: Kristen Moose

Junior captain Kristen Moose came to Houghton from Swain, New York to play basketball. Although she has had to sit…

What Malcom X Taught a Black Christian

I believed the lie.  For most of my life I, like many of you, saw Malcolm X as the violent…

South Park and Sex: Censorship at Houghton

Censorship is one of those ever-present issues on campus that seem to only accentuate the disparity between the student body…

Rap: A Reflection of Culture; Not an Instigator

I’ll confess, I love rap. And not the clean Christian substitute that started making an appearance with groups such as…

Houghton Students Attend Calvin Conference

Fifteen Houghton students and two professors attended the eighth-annual Faith and International Development Conference at Calvin College in Grand Rapids,…

Jars of Clay’s Matt Odmark Lectures at Houghton

On Tuesday, January 29, Grammy award winning, Gibson guitar titlist of 2005 and platinum recording artist Matt Odmark  arrived at…

New Semester, New Opportunities

Here we are; a new semester is upon us! I present you with a question: What are you going to…

Townhouse Kill-A-Watt Challenge Raises Sustainability Awareness

Seven townhouses are competing throughout the month of February in the Kill-A-Watt Challenge, an initiative to raise awareness of energy…

Unauthorized Survey Causes Questions

On January 28, 2013, a survey was sent out concerning the performance of Greg Bish, the Director of Student Programs,…