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Milestone 2015
Get PDFMilestone, the Hope College yearbook, is an annual publication of Hope College. The first yearbook was published in 1905 as a single edition and was titled The Hope College Annual. The yearbooks became an annual publication in 1916, which was also when it was titled Milestone.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/milestone/1103/thumbnail.jp
The Anchor, Volume 128.23: April 22, 2015
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 129.12: December 9, 2015
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
Opus: Fall 2015
Get PDFAn issue of Opus from fall 2015.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/opus_2010s/1006/thumbnail.jp
The Contribution Of Millisecond Pulsars To The Galactic Cosmic-ray Lepton Spectrum
No full textPulsars are believed to be sources of relativistic electrons and positrons. The abundance of detections of gamma-ray millisecond pulsars by Fermi Large Area Telescope coupled with their light curve characteristics that imply copious pair production in their magnetospheres, motivated us to investigate this old pulsar population as a source of Galactic electrons and positrons and their contribution to the enhancement in cosmic-ray positron flux at GeV energies. We use a population synthesis code to predict the source properties (number, position, and power) of the present-day Galactic millisecond pulsars, taking into account the latest Fermi and radio observations to calibrate the model output. Next, we simulate pair cascade spectra from these pulsars using a model that invokes an offset-dipole magnetic field. We assume free escape of the pairs from the pulsar environment. We then compute the cumulative spectrum of transported electrons and positrons at Earth, following their diffusion and energy losses as they propagate through the Galaxy. Our results indicate that the predicted particle flux increases for non-zero offsets of the magnetic polar caps. Comparing our predicted local interstellar spectrum and positron fraction to measurements by AMS-02, PAMELA, and Fermi, we find that millisecond pulsars are only modest contributors at a few tens of GeV, after which this leptonic spectral component cuts off. The positron fraction is therefore only slightly enhanced above 10 GeV relative to a background flux model. This implies that alternative sources such as young, nearby pulsars and supernova remnants should contribute additional primary positrons within the astrophysical scenario
Social Context and College Completion in the United States: The Role of Congregational Biblical Literalism
No full textPrior research has documented the influence of religion on a variety of stratification processes. Largely absent from this research, however, are explicit examinations of the role religious contexts play in educational outcomes. In this study, we focus on the congregation-level prevalence of a salient religious belief: biblical literalism. Using national multilevel data (U.S. Congregational Life Survey [USCLS]; N = 92,344), we examine whether individuals\u27 likelihood of completing college is dependent on the percentage of fellow congregation members who are biblical literalists. We find that college completion is tied to congregational literalism in important ways. Net of individual biblical literalism and other controls, congregational literalism decreases the likelihood of completing college. In addition, while congregational biblical literalism decreases the likelihood of college completion for both biblical literalists and non-literalists, the relationship is strongest for non-literalists such that in highly literalist congregations, non-literalists\u27 likelihood of college completion more closely resembles that of literalists
Forgiveness Increases Meaning in Life
No full textClose relationships are a source of meaning in life. Interpersonal offenses can disrupt one\u27s sense of meaning within close relationships. To restore a sense of meaning, people may employ relational repair strategies such as forgiveness. We hypothesized that forgiveness is a meaning-making mechanism because it helps repair relationships, thus restoring the positive effects of relationships on meaning. Study 1 (N = 491) revealed that dispositional forgiveness and the degree of forgiveness following an offense were positively related to meaning in life. Study 2 (N = 210), a 6-month longitudinal study of romantic couples, revealed that participants who regularly forgave their partner reported increased meaning in life over time. In addition, forgiveness helped recover lost meaning among those participants reporting more frequent partner offenses. These results provide initial evidence that forgiveness recovers a sense of meaning in life after interpersonal offenses
Sweatshops: How Can We Change An Industry That is So Inherently Intertwined With Today’s Culture?
Get PDFMany people around the world work eighteen hours a day with no air conditioning and no bathroom breaks only to receive less than minimum wage. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, this would be defined as a sweatshop because it violates two or more labor laws. Due to the fact that sweatshops pay more than other businesses in the community, it is unrealistic to request the eradication of these sweatshops however a transformation is necessary. One of the major reasons that sweatshops still exist today is that our society places such a high value on consumerism. Since it appears that most individuals are unwilling to stop buying their favorite brands, we decided to survey Hope College students for their thoughts. Would they be willing to pay extra for products from their favorite brands if that ensured workers would receive wages on which they could survive? The overall response was yes; 80% said that they would be willing. Therefore, the ideal way to confront this problem would be to simply remove the “sweat” from the sweatshops by spreading awareness about the sweat and tears behind our favorite brands and striving to place a higher value on human lives than on consumerism
Stable Standards or Fluctuating Fancies? Stability and Change in People\u27s Mate Criteria Over 28 Months
Get PDFPast research on mate standards has generally been built on the assumption that people’s mate standards are relatively stable over time, and that the criteria people report at one point in time should predict their future partnering behavior. However, very few studies have directly examined the temporal stability of standards and those that have have found that although standards are fairly stable overall, there appears to be notable variation in this stability (e.g., Zentner, 2005). The current study builds on this research by exploring factors that may help explain for whom and under what conditions mate standards are stable over time. A sample of 285 unmarried, heterosexuals (71.93% women; M age = 30.52) were recruited from college night courses, community organizations, and social media sites. Participants completed an initial online survey and three follow-up surveys at 9 to 10-month intervals. Although mate standards were moderately to strongly correlated across the four time points (reflecting rankorder stability; rs = .51-.74), t-tests revealed significant mean-level increases from T1 to T4 on all standard dimensions. Individual growth curve modeling showed that, on average, participants’ standards followed a positive linear trajectory, but that there was significant variability in this pattern. As hypothesized, individuals who were older reported more stable standards than younger people over 28 months with respect to rank-order and mean-level stability, however age did not have an effect on individual-level stability (i.e., the rate of change in standards over time was not significantly lower for older participants). No consistent gender differences in stability were found across any of the standard dimensions. Taken together, these results show that despite an overall pattern of stability, change did occur, especially among younger individuals. To the extent that younger individuals’ standards fluctuate over time, mate standards may be minimally useful in predicting their future partnering behavior