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[email protected]. NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE SPRING 2017 VOLUME 48, NO. 3 LIVING RESEARCH Day1: Watershed creates residential learning community for freshmen. pages 16–19 2 NEWS FROM HOPE COLLEGE ROPE OF HOPE Faith and community find expression in many ways at Hope, not least of all together as students journey alongside one another and faculty and staff as they grow into a fuller understanding of what they believe and how it will guide their lives. At the school year’s final Gathering worship service each April, the connection — to one another, to a faith tradition that spans millennia — is symbolized by the “Rope of Hope,” a tangible reminder to the seniors whose time at the college will soon end of learning and ties that will endure long after graduation. SPRING 2017 3 ON THE COVER Junior Abagail Jeavons of Shelbyville, Indiana, collects a sample from Upper Macatawa River alongside participants in Day1: Watershed, a residence hall-based program through which first-year students conduct original research from, as the name says, day one on campus (and even a little before, since they begin a week before classes start).