Category: Stories In Focus
September 26, 2014
Stories In Focus
Album Review: ‘Alvvays’ Reaching Towards Joy
Alvvays’ self-titled debut album is a breath of cool, turquoise summer music. The band hails from Toronto, featuring lead singer…

September 24, 2014
Stories In Focus
New Coaches Join the Highlanders
Houghton welcomed two head coaches and six assistant coaches to the highlander coaching staff this year, bringing a season of…

September 24, 2014
Stories In Focus
Women’s Tennis Achieves Goals
In their second season headed by Coach Charlie Ellis, the women’s tennis team welcomes seven new players to their roster.…
September 24, 2014
Stories In Focus
Faith and Justice Symposium: Hope in the Midst of Deep Conflict
Houghton College’s fourth annual Faith and Justice Symposium will be tackling the weighty topics of War, Conflict, and Violence, with…
September 20, 2014
Stories In Focus
Birds of the Northeast: A Musically Constructed Work of Art
Last winter, nineteen-year-old Patrick Grace of Saratoga, New York began recording a collection of songs he started writing at the…

September 17, 2014
Stories In Focus
Houghton Welcomes Eight New Professors
Eight professors are joining Houghton faculty this semester. Newly minted profs. Aikens, Bate, Hutchings, Luebke, Murphy, Poythress, Suzano, and Taylor…
September 14, 2014
Stories In Focus
Cold Creek: Popular Local Band
Two Saturdays ago, on August 30st, the Fillmore Hotel was packed with over a hundred people, the audience of the…
April 26, 2014
Stories In Focus
Custodian Don Taylor to Retire After Nearly Four Decades of Service
You’ve probably noticed him sweeping the chapel or running a mop across the atrium floor in the music building. If…

April 26, 2014
Stories In Focus
After Houghton: Seniors Accepted to Graduate Programs
For those of us enveloped in the familiar “Houghton bubble,” the thought of life after college can easily get crushed…
April 26, 2014
Stories In Focus
House of Cards Returns with a Shocking Second Season
The smash hit political drama House of Cards came roaring back this year in its second season, continuing the story…