Year: 2013
October 06, 2013
Opinions
Honesty is Not the Best Policy?
I started listening to Lorde recently. She is a sixteen-year-old musician from New Zealand who just released her first album…
October 06, 2013
Opinions
May the Force (of Words) Be With You
I was challenged and encouraged by the Faith and Justice Symposium last weekend, as I have been every year. Props…
October 04, 2013
News
Terrorist Attack in Nairobi, Kenya
Last week’s terrorist attack at the Westgate Mall in Kenya hit me hard. Kenya is my second home. I grew…
September 28, 2013
News
Houghton Student Investment Group Reaches $300,000
Student Investment Group closed their portfolio with over $300,000 this summer, reaching past their initial goal for the semester. The…
September 28, 2013
News
Annual Faith and Justice Symposium to Focus on Hunger
Houghton College‘s third annual Faith and Justice Symposium addressed the issue of “Global Poverty and Hunger,” on local, national, and…
September 28, 2013
News
Contemporary Contexts Program Cut
With recent low enrollment numbers in Houghton’s three first year honors programs – East Meets West, Science Honors, and Contemporary…
September 28, 2013
News
Common Core Curriculum in Western NY
Allegany County schools are currently grappling with new curricula and state-mandated Common Core standards, a new set of national educational…
September 28, 2013
News
Addie’s Ice Cream Coming to Houghton
An ice cream business selling forty different flavors of handmade ice cream, along with sundaes, handmade waffle cones, and milkshakes,…
September 28, 2013
Opinions
“Slut” is Now a Compliment
Earlier in September a black woman named Brandi Johnson took her black boss to court after he called her the…
September 28, 2013
Opinions
Let’s (Not) Talk About Sex
Many have, rightfully, bemoaned the decline of the family and the unquestionably devastating consequences of the so-called ‘sexual liberation’ of…