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Twenty One Interim Trips Currently Abroad
January 17, 2019
Madalyn Buursma, Features Editor
Calvin gives many students the opportunity to study abroad and see new places during January Interims. These trips take students all around the world,...
Calvin Students studying in Kenya safe following terrorist attack
January 17, 2019
Madalyn Buursma, Features Editor
On Tuesday, Jan. 15, terrorists made an attack on Nairobi, Kenya, one of the destinations for Calvin students studying abroad for interim. The group of...
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof speaks at January Series, advocating for global empathy and hope
January 17, 2019
Katherine Benedict and Michal Rubingh
Nicholas Kristof is a journalist for the New York Times and Pulitzer Prize winner who is known for his humanitarian work around the world, advocating especially...
‘Foodietravelours’ student-owned food marketing business comes to an end
January 13, 2019
Yolanda Chow, Campus Co-editor
A student-owned food marketing business that began last July has come to an end after its CEO, Calvin senior Esther Ryou, decided she no longer had the...
Barbara Bush comes to January Series in sister’s place
January 12, 2019
Katherine Benedict, Staff Reporter
Barbara Pierce Bush, a guest at the this year’s January Series, filled in for her twin sister, Jenna Bush Hager who had to withdraw from the event at...

Calvin Students studying in Kenya safe following terrorist attack

Calvin Students studying in Kenya safe following terrorist attack

Madalyn Buursma, Features Editor

January 17, 2019 • No Comments

On Tuesday, Jan. 15, terrorists made an attack on Nairobi, Kenya, one of the destinations for Calvin students studying abroad...

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof speaks at January Series, advocating for global empathy and hope

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof speaks at January Series, advocating for global empathy and hope

January 17, 2019

‘Foodietravelours’ student-owned food marketing business comes to an end

‘Foodietravelours’ student-owned food marketing business comes to an end

January 13, 2019

Barbara Bush comes to January Series in sister’s place

Barbara Bush comes to January Series in sister’s place

January 12, 2019

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Opinion & Editorial

A final editorial before finals

A final editorial before finals

Michelle Hofman, Editor-in-Chief

December 10, 2018 • No Comments

Finals are upon us and the pressure is on. Stress is high, and time is short. But the end is near. It may only be the end of the...

An Open Letter from a Gay Christian

December 3, 2018

Editorial: Thankful for weariness

Editorial: Thankful for weariness

November 16, 2018

Re: Double-sided printers leads to wasted paper (and frustrated students)

November 15, 2018

Clemson topples Alabama in National Championship

Clemson topples Alabama in National Championship

Patrick Roelofs, Sports Editor

January 10, 2019 • No Comments

Any doubts about which NCAA football team is the best were put to rest in the College Football Playoff National Championship. Clemson...

Calvin men’s basketball holds off Hope in first rivalry game of season

Calvin men’s basketball holds off Hope in first rivalry game of season

January 10, 2019

Calvin Men’s Soccer Defeats Chicago in Final Four, Loses to Tufts in National Championship

Calvin Men’s Soccer Defeats Chicago in Final Four, Loses to Tufts in National Championship

January 8, 2019

Volleyball finishes second in nation

Volleyball finishes second in nation

November 30, 2018

Local church receives racist death threat

Local church receives racist death threat

Jonathan Boer, Staff Reporter

December 5, 2018 • No Comments

A young white man threatened to kill the first black person he saw at Brown Hutcherson Ministries or the funeral home across the...

Local bishop discusses martyred saint

Local bishop discusses martyred saint

October 15, 2018

GR welcomes college students back with College Week

September 13, 2018

Rich DeVos, Amway Founder and Calvin donor, dies at 92

Rich DeVos, Amway Founder and Calvin donor, dies at 92

September 8, 2018

Science & Technology

$Mathematics and Statistics Department Host Hope Professor During Colloquium$

Mathematics and Statistics Department Host Hope Professor During Colloquium

Bernard Boadu, Sci-Tech Editor

January 9, 2019 • No Comments

On Nov. 31 the mathematics and statistics department hosted Yew Meng Koh, a mathematics professor from Hope College, to introduce...

Talk discusses discerning artificial intelligence from Christian worldview

Talk discusses discerning artificial intelligence from Christian worldview

December 10, 2018

DotCMS refresher for workshop for web developers

November 29, 2018

Dead Star: Crab Nebula expanding

Dead Star: Crab Nebula expanding

November 29, 2018