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Campus reacts to President-Elect Trump

Jaden Vander Berg- Staff Writer It has been a month since the nation elected Donald J. Trump as President of the United States. In the days and weeks after the […]

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Small campus music inspirations

Anna Veltkamp-Staff Writer Dordt College ranks highly for its student engagement – students who attend this college are informed, inspired, and challenged. This rating reaches far beyond the academic...

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One Body One Hope Receives Solar Panels

Elizabeth Helmkamp-Staff Writer Over Christmas break, the AMOR Liberia team installed 20 solar panels at the One Body One Hope children’s home in Monrovia, Liberia. Renee Ewald, chair of Dordt’s […]

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CZ’s Bleacher Meditations: Does Baylor Football Deserve the Death Penalty?

Christian Zylstra-Staff Writer Baylor football has some major issues. As I’m sure many of you are aware, there are major issues surrounding the culture and integrity of Baylor University, and […]

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Coffee Corner: The Old Factory

Jaden Vander Berg-Staff Writer Located in a former wooden shoe shop, The Old Factory, located in Orange City, is known by college students and locals from both Orange City and […]

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HireDefenders: A new way to job search?

Janelle Cammenga-Staff Writer No matter how much fun you might have eating at the Grille, being a part of events like the Prairie Grass Film Challenge and living within walking […]

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Featured Athlete: Paige Engbers

Clarissa Kraayenbrink–Staff Writer Senior Paige Engbers can’t really remember a time in her life when she wasn’t around basketball.    As a little girl living with her family in Chicago, Engbers […]

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A Fountain in the Rain

Connor Neal-Contributing Writer (Off-Campus: LA Semester) I was on my way home from church—about an hour-long walk—and was across the street from The Jim Henson Company when a man wearing […]

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Walk in the shoes of a football team intern

Clarissa Kraayenbrink-Staff Writer For the second consecutive season, I am working as the “anything social” intern with the Sioux City Bandits, a professional indoor football team.  In this position, I...

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Engineers debut pulse jet

Elizabeth Helmkamp and Janelle Cammenga-Staff Writer Because why not? ASME fights back with pulse jet Last year, electrical engineering majors took it upon themselves to make a rail gun. The […]

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PLIA 2017: A time to serve

Janelle Cammenga-Staff Writer Bonding usually means doing normal activities together, like watching movies, commiserating about homework and bowling. But sometimes, bonding means you take turns holding...

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Buffington Post: Solving a “fake news” problem

Elizabeth Bouwkamp-Staff Writer According to the English Oxford Dictionary, when using objectivity, you are “not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.” But...

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Dordt baseball’s best spring break in years

Christian Zylstra-Staff Writer This past week, Dordt College baseball and softball continued their yearly tradition of traversing south for spring break to soak up the desert sun. With snow on […]

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Music on the Road: Band and Orchestra Tour

Meagan DeGraaf-Staff Writer The audience stood up and clapped. Director Dr. Bradley Miedema and the band smiled back. Instruments glimmered back into the crowd under the spotlights. And that concluded […]

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Featuring athletes: Gingerich and Thayer

Clarissa Kraayenbrink-Staff Writer Seniors Cam Gingerich and Jake Thayer have a lot in common, the most noticeable commonality would being that they’re both baseball squad members. But when you dig […]

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The case for keeping conference tournaments

Christian Zylstra-Staff Writer Bright lights. Packed arenas. Squeaking shoes. Screaming fans. It must be March. With March comes one of the greatest stretches of basketball known to humanity. It’s a […]

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A message of love in Gateway City

Jaden Vander Berg & Luke Venhuizen- Staff Writers For most college students, spring break is a time to relax from classes, spend time with friends and party in a warm, […]

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Not Liberal Arts: Who Are We?

Justin Banks-Staff Writer Based on the responses of a small survey of both employees and students at Dordt College, the following unspoken truth may come as a shock to many—Dordt […]

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Space: The Revitalized Frontier

Kyle Fosse-Staff Writer In 2018, civilians, launched by a company called SpaceX, are set to travel into space for the first time.   It has been nearly 45 years since any human […]

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Jewish Cemetery Vandalism

Meagan DeGraaf-Staff Writer Over the past several weeks, many cities have reported the abuse and even destruction of cemeteries—but the only ones under attack have been Jewish burial places. These […]

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