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April 2, 2025 Vol 121

Category: Stories In Focus

Album Review: ‘Alvvays’ Reaching Towards Joy

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…
New Coaches Join the Highlanders

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…
Women’s Tennis Achieves Goals

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.…
Faith and Justice Symposium: Hope in the Midst of Deep Conflict

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…
Birds of the Northeast: A Musically Constructed Work of Art

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…
Houghton Welcomes Eight New Professors

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…
Cold Creek: Popular Local Band

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…
Custodian Don Taylor to Retire After Nearly Four Decades of Service

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…
After Houghton: Seniors Accepted to Graduate Programs

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…
House of Cards Returns with a Shocking Second Season

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…