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March 6, 2026 Vol 122

Features

Mark Corbin: Men’s Volleyball Coach

by WES STEVICK ’29 • October 31, 2025

This fall, Mark Corbin was hired to be the head coach of the men’s volleyball team. According to the Houghton Athletics News, he has more than twenty years of experience, including coaching at Emmanuel University in Georgia, Truett McConnell University, and Bob Jones University under Vicki Denny. Corbin looks forward to working with “a group of men who are eager to grow in the game of volleyball and in their love for Christ, their school, and their community…

ENCORE: Who Are These Secretive Seniors?

by GRACE DESPAIN ’29 • October 25, 2025

Carolyn Pollock giggles and chats like all of the other girls in Introduction to Communication Theory. The only difference is her lifetime of experience. “I suppose I wanted to just be more engaged,” Pollock said about her involvement with the ENCORE senior citizen program…

Interim Provost Dr. Jill Jordan

by Emma Illian ’27 • October 10, 2025

As a student, graduate and professor, Interim Provost and Dean of the Faculty Dr. Jill (Brautigam) Jordan ‘99, has spent many years living and loving on Houghton University’s (HU) campus. Jordan graduated from HU with a Bachelor’s degree in mathematics and psychology with a violin performance minor. After getting her undergraduate degree, Jordan attended Bryn Mawr College for her master’s and Ph.D. in mathematics…

Finney Portrait Unveiling

by Elizabeth Carpenter ’27 • October 03, 2025

This Saturday at 10:30 a.m., a portrait of Constance “Connie” Finney will be unveiled in the Recital Hall. Finney graduated from Houghton University (HU) in 1978. Since then, she has served at HU as the field hockey coach, the Resident Director of East Hall, the Director of Student Life at HU’s West Seneca campus, and a professor at both Houghton’s West Seneca campus and main campus…

Tanya Perkins

by Kate Ulrich ’29 • September 26, 2025

At the beginning of the 2025-2026 academic year, Houghton University (HU) graduate Tanya Perkins ‘95 became the school’s new Director of Student Engagement…

Dean Scott Hallman

by Grace Bailey ’28 • September 19, 2025

Scott Hallman is Houghton University’s (HU) new Dean of Spiritual Life and Campus Pastor. For the last 30 years, Hallman worked as a pastor, in various capacities, in Pennsylvania, Maine and California. He is a licensed minister in the Brethren in Christ (BIC) Church…

In Defense of Student Council

by Aidan Fish ’25 • April 11, 2025

Members of Houghton University’s (HU) Student Council have become increasingly aware of the student body’s confusion regarding the organization’s role…

BeanBots: Friends or Enemies

by Vicky Gigi ‘XXV • March 28, 2025

It’s a slow morning on the campus of Houghton University. As the sun rises and people get ready to start their day, several machines placed in faculty lounges and offices wait for the first round of faculty to arrive…

Remembering the Chamberlains

by Houghton Star • March 21, 2025

President Daniel Chamberlain and his wife, Joyce Chamberlain, served Houghton’s community for three decades…

A Call to Theater

by Aidan Fish ’25 • March 14, 2025

From being on the tech team to being a performer, theater has been a part of the…

Evelyn Simanowski’s Musical Journey

by Jiana Martin ’26 • February 14, 2025

Senior Evelyn Simanowski ‘25’s greatest passion since childhood has been music. Pursuing music in her studies…

Dance Club

by Aivery Shuck ’26 • February 07, 2025

Houghton University’s (HU) Dance Club is a new affiliated campus club that meets in Presser Hall…

Grace Vuolo

by Rebecca Dailey ’25 • December 06, 2024

Grace Vuolo, a recent graduate from the Houghton University class of 2024, is gearing up to…

Rallying the Den

by Bethany Tubman ’25 • November 22, 2024

The sports marketing club failed to recharter, and the leaderless Den (the affectionate name for the…

Salvation Army Student Fellowship

by Logan Caroll ’26 • November 15, 2024

The Salvation Army was created when William and Catherine Booth saw the poverty stricken people in…