Next year’s students can expect a 3.75% increase in tuition, and an overall increase in total cost of up to 4.2%, depending on the room and board arrangment.
Although every increase is difficult, next year’s increase is smaller than increases in recent years, and a far cry from the 32% increases recently proposed in California.
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Houghton’s Technology Services has been kept busy during the past year. Specifically, Houghton’s laptop program has been put to an end, so freshmen students will no longer be provided a laptop for their four-year stay at Houghton. Also, in the past several months, Technology Services has orchestrated the transition of Houghton’s e-mail server from Windows to G-mail.
Houghton has provided laptops for its students since the 1990s.
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Three years on the staff of The Houghton Star has taught me that there is sometimes a disconnect between what the readers of the newspaper expect and what its staff is actually trying to accomplish. This editorial seeks to narrow that gap and offer some insight into the goals, function, and limits of a student newspaper at Houghton College.
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In America, Islam has a formidable population, and it is important to be aware that some Islamic organizations secretly give money to terrorist organizations. Many of these groups have obtained a perception as charities this allows them to circumvent scrutiny. Some organizations like the Islamic Society of North America are using Saudi money to spread Wahhabism. The FBI uncovered a document that explained Islam’s “plan” for North America, and their goal is to put America under the Sharia (Islamic law). Americans must be aware of this activity within our nation to protect our treasured freedoms that are nonexistent under the Sharia.
Just because the means by which the self-appointed spokespeople of the “religious right” communicate their beliefs is technically legal, does not mean we are succeeding. Similarly, the fact that the secular/liberal (often read “Godless”) media often falls prey to the same shrillness that politically conservative Christians do, does not mean politically conservative Christians ought to be pleased with themselves. Whatever their political convictions, Christians are called to be salt and light to the world. In that way, the religious right has seriously failed itself. More specifically, the spokespeople of the “religious right,” official and unofficial, have failed to represent their constituency to the detriment of the entire group. If a large group of young and energetic conservative Christians can handle something like the Equality Ride as well as Houghton students did, why can’t the spokespeople who are supposed to represent this demographic learn from them? Why can’t the public face of the religious right exhibit the same grace, love, and humility shown on campus this week?
Shutter Island is an interesting study of madness and monstrosity. From Teddy’s perspective we see many horrifying crimes of humanity, and like Teddy, we cannot understand them. What do we as humans do? Do we look the other way? Or do we confront those images of monstrosity within ourselves? By the end of the film, the answer is not obvious for Teddy or for the viewer.
My previous article was an attempt to question the usefulness and validity of using t-shirts to communicate a message like this. T-shirts give a person the opportunity to see what you are wearing, make a judgment, and move on based upon that fact alone. They have the danger of cheapening the words on them into clichés. If we are known only by the t-shirts we wear, and not by our stories or actions, then we have failed. I assume that many on the Soulforce bus would find the message of the shirts applicable to their own lives. This further illustrates the potential confusion caused by the shirts. Surely the purpose of the shirts was not to affirm homosexuality.
The quad is usually a place for Frisbee games and sealing the deal for a future spouse, but on Tuesday night, students took advantage of the power outage to climb atop buildings, light fireworks, and commit random acts of vandalism. Safety and Security took action and brought extra staff onto campus having “as many as four Safety and Security Staff on campus during the blackout,” according to Ray Parlett, Director of Safety and Security. Further action included notifying the College electrician, contacting Rochester Gas & Electric, and making sure no one was stuck inside the elevators. No students were found to be trapped.
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For years the Houghton College Artist Series has engaged an eclectic array of musical ensembles for on-campus concerts. Friday evening’s concert featuring The Claremont Trio exhibited a rare combination of technical facility, musicality, and stage presence. Comprised of a cellist, violinist, and pianist, these Julliard graduates have been touring and recording for ten years and command an immaculate level of technical and interpretational brilliance, earning them the justifiable hailing as the “premier trio of its generation.”
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