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Going, Guzzling, Gone? The Effects of Gasoline Prices on Consumer Vehicle Procurement
No full textFirst enacted by the United States Congress in 1975, Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards were imposed by policymakers on manufacturers to regulate automobile fuel efficiency, with the goal of steadily improving average fuel economy. However, if consumers’ vehicle procurement decisions counteract fuel efficiency regulation during periods of low gasoline prices despite CAFE standards, alternative regulation targeting gasoline prices directly may be more effective. I will use monthly, state-level panel data from IHS Automotive during 2010 - 2015 to estimate the effect of gasoline prices on new vehicle registrations in models incorporating state and month fixed effects. Since the data are categorized by vehicle class and method of acquisition (purchased versus leased) with retrospective gasoline prices, I can consider both the magnitude and length of gasoline price changes necessary to impact new registrations of various vehicle classifications, with an emphasis on SUVs (Sport Utility Vehicles). By evaluating different classes of vehicles purchased, as well as the acquisition methods during periods of changing gasoline prices with varying length and intensity, this study will analyze the potential myopia in the consumer vehicle acquisition process
A Modern Medea: Fitting into a Digital Age and the Methodology Behind Writing a Play
No full textIn an era where getting the news on Twitter or Facebook is commonplace, and connecting with people is easier than riding a bicycle, it is hard to imagine how a play that is thousands of years old still has a place in mainstream society. Euripides’ Medea is a play that has survived in popular culture since its inception in 431 B.C.E., but the question remains if it can survive in the eyes of millennials and command the same attention it always has. My solution was to give the play a social media facelift by replacing the Greek chorus with fully-fledged social media accounts for all characters that interact with the audience in real time before, after, and during performances. I will argue how this keeps an ancient play relevant and expands on the theory of environmental theatre by Richard Schechner. Also, I will be arguing that including social media, to the extent that I do, creates a new type of immersive theatre. The lesser degree of active involvement that this take on immersive theatre requires, allows for broader audiences to engage, interpret and digest the material while keeping the integrity of the theatrical theory. In keeping with the long-standing mythic tradition of adding to and changing narratives, I will also demonstrate how my decision to change a few key plot points is in line with this tradition and pays homage to how Euripides wrote his version of the myth. Finally, I will discuss my methodology in writing my adaptation and how it leads to the innovations I made
“For the Boys Over There”: The 1918 United War Work Campaign
No full textThis project, the culmination of a summer of historical research at Hope College and the Library of Congress, is an online exhibit on the United War Work Campaign (UWWC), an American fundraising effort for World War I. Headed by the government’s Commission on Training Camp Activities, the campaign involved a confederacy of seven civilian groups wishing to aid the federal government in its war efforts, mainly by providing morally sound recreational services both in training camps and overseas. Sometimes called The Seven Sisters, the organizations included the Jewish Welfare Board, the YMCA, and the National Catholic War Council. Five of the seven were of various religious affiliations. While the name “United War Work Campaign” implied unity, this was not always the case for the Campaign nor for the public it aimed to reach. The Seven Sisters often came to a head over questions of politics, religion, and more, and Americans at the time were divided by class, race, language, gender, politics, and religion. The groups of the UWWC, while ironically not completely united themselves, nevertheless aimed to present their coalition as a single united front against immoral recreation, and the campaign’s leaders hoped that their wartime reform would carry on past the armistice, drawing the diverse population of the country into a new, more unified American society. As we near the centennial of America’s involvement in the war, this website aims to offer a historical exhibit accessible to today’s American public, and to address the historical and ongoing question of what it means to be American
Dancing through Hope’s History
No full textDance is the art of capturing emotion by creating movement that pulls an audience in, makes them think, and makes them feel. Yet, the art form is often misunderstood, especially within a traditional Dutch, old-fashioned, church community such as Holland, Michigan, the home of Hope College. The college’s dance department is unique in that the student is nurtured technically, academically, and spiritually. However, the relationship between Hope College’s dance department and its religious values as a reformed-tradition college is complex. When dance was first taught in the late 1960s, Hope’s administration could not bring themselves to pay someone a salary for teaching dance classes. Thus, for two years Maxine Debruyn, the founder of Hope’s dance department, was paid in paintings. With time, attitudes changed and the program was allowed to grow. Today, Hope’s dance department is an integral part of the campus community. This project explores the manifestation and transformation of dance in the Hope College community in relation to the values of the Reformed Church of America by examining the department both then and now
Self-forgiveness and Forgiveness-seeking in Response to Rumination: Cardiac and Emotional Responses of Transgressors
Get PDFSelf-forgiveness and forgiveness-seeking are important and understudied aspects of forgiveness. We examined the cardiac and emotional patterns of healthy young adults (40 women, 40 men) who recalled an unresolved offense they had caused another person. Participants engaged in four imagery conditions: ruminating about the offense, being humbly repentant and engaging in self-forgiveness, seeking forgiveness from the victim and receiving forgiveness, and seeking forgiveness from the victim and being begrudged. Being repentant and begrudged forgiveness by one’s victim was associated with the same level of guilt as when ruminating, but significantly more negative emotion, less control, and less empathy than when ruminating, self-forgiving, and receiving forgiveness from the victim. Compared to ruminating about one’s wrong-doing, self-forgiving alleviated guilt and negative emotion, increased perceived control, decreased heart rate, and increased parasympathetic activation. Imagery of receiving forgiveness from the victim resulted in these same patterns and was equivalent to self-forgiveness across variables
Book Review: Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, and Amending Issues, 1979–2015
Get PDFThe Anchor, Volume 129.24: April 27, 2016
Get PDFThe Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor\u27s history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular
The Anchor, Volume 130.03: September 14, 2016
Get PDFThe Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor\u27s history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular
The Anchor, Volume 129.20: March 16, 2016
Get PDFThe Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor\u27s history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular
The library and undergraduate research in the liberal arts: Present contributions and future opportunities
Get PDFThis study sought to describe library value as seen through its various contributions to the mentored undergraduate research experiences of students in the arts, humanities, and social sciences at Hope College. Concurrently, it explored new opportunities for how librarians might become more directly connected with students involved in this hallmark of the academic program. Findings were intended to both highlight existing library contributions and initiate a well-informed movement toward aligning library priorities with the greater institutional academic mission