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Calvin University's official student newspaper since 1907

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Calvin University's official student newspaper since 1907

Calvin University Chimes

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Trump 2.0: Political science department offers panel on current U.S. politics

Grace Buller, Managing Editor
April 14, 2025

On Tuesday, April 8, Calvin’s Department of Politics and Economics hosted a panel discussion on current U.S. federal government affairs. Issues discussed ranged from program cuts to democratic backsliding...

Students and faculty hold signs. Photo by Seth Hoeksema.

Social work students lead pro-DEI protest on campus

Addy Offutt and Ethan Meyers
April 14, 2025

“Say it once, say it twice, we will not put up with ICE!” students chanted in unison near the Burton St. entrance to campus. The protestors waved signs and cheered as cars honked in support. The protest...

CPI Fall Convocation 2024. Photo courtesy of calvin.edu.

Transubstantiating decadence: CPI celebrates 10 years

James Chelekis and Robert E. Hine
April 7, 2025

Ten years! Ten years of transforming lives, not just of the incarcerated students enrolled in Calvin Prison Initiative (CPI), but also the lives of those whom they impact daily. This impact has been observed...

Theft from Grab and Go Markets is a common theme in this year's Campus Crime Blotter.

Incarcerated students react to the Campus Crime Blotter

Kerry Holley and Kyale Williams
April 7, 2025

When incarcerated students on Handlon’s campus read about crimes committed on Knollcrest’s campus, many of us laugh. Our laughter likely results from the relatively petty and harmless nature of most...

The ability to focus resources is especially important for smaller libraries and those with less funding.

Funding for library services cut nationwide

Grace Buller, Managing Editor
April 7, 2025

Calvin student Alison Chen first used the Michigan e-Library Catalog — better known as MeLCat — to request a book when she was 10. Her relatively small local library didn't have the biography of a...

President Greg Elzinga addresses Synod 2024 in the chapel sanctuary.  
(Banner photo by Steven Herppich)

Calvin sends their final report to Synod before the 2025 meeting

Last week, Calvin’s board of trustees (BOT) made public its report to Synod 2025 – a document detailing Calvin’s plan to deal with faculty dissent on certain key topics, including human sexuality.  The...

In 2022, Jennifer VanAntwerp published a co-authored book called “Sex, Gender, and Engineering: Harassment at Work and in School.”

The Faculty Gender Divide at Calvin: A Complex Picture

Elisabeth Stevens, General Assignment Reporter
April 7, 2025

“Role models matter,” says engineering professor Jennifer VanAntwerp, especially when you’re talking about gender. Fifty-three percent of Calvin’s student population are women. But this ratio is...

Synod 2024 met this summer in Calvin's chapel.

Calvin releases plan to handle faculty disagreement on questions of sexuality, other confessional issues

Grace Buller, Managing Editor
March 31, 2025

Calvin University leaders released a report late last week detailing a long-anticipated update on how the school will handle faculty disagreement with certain positions of the university’s parent denomination,...

One of this year's trips took students to Chicago. Photo courtesy of Sofia Shevtsova.

Service–learning trips return to Calvin: How the S-LC is managing costs

Stella Stachowiak, General Assignment Reporter
March 24, 2025

This spring break, groups of Calvin students and faculty traveled to nonprofits across the United States as a part of the Service-Learning Center (S–LC)’s spring-break trip program. The program, which...

Left: Knollcrest Dining Hall
Right: Commons Dining Hall

Knollcrest closes indefinitely, Commons offers new “all-day dining” experience

Addy Offutt, Campus Reporter
March 24, 2025

Knollcrest Dining Hall, previously the only dining hall offering dinner on campus, has indefinitely closed. To alleviate any drawbacks of this change, Commons Dining Hall, previously only open for breakfast...

Schultze Challenge wraps up fourth annual competition

Anna Caruso, Campus Reporter
March 24, 2025

On Wednesday, March 5, freshman Luke Bennetsen was crowned the winner of the 2025 “Schultze Challenge.” Established in 2021 by a Schultze-Eldersveld (SE) social events team, the Schultze Challenge...

Every fall, Calvin hosts a scholarship dinner for recipients and donors of named scholarships. Photo courtesy of calvin.edu.

The importance of scholarships for students “from every tribe and language and people and nation”

Ethan Meyers and Sarah Sparling
March 24, 2025

According to a recent article by the U.S. News and World Report, the annual tuition cost of attending a private college in the United States has risen about 41 percent since 2005, after accounting for...

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