COVID-19, foreign oil war spark stock decline, hit university portfolio
David Swartzentruber, Staff Reporter
March 20, 2020
The pandemic of COVID-19, along with the ongoing Russian and Saudi Arabian oil wars, has driven down the value of the stock market, according to Mike Wilson, Chief Investment Officer of Morgan Stanley, over a conference call. According to Jim English, vice president for finance, Calvin University, althoug...
Study abroad students lament, reflect on the impact of COVID-19
McKinley Anderson, Campus and Community Editor
March 20, 2020
COVID-19 has not only impacted Calvin students locally as they transition to online classes, but globally as study abroad trips return home. Students on the Ghana, York and Chicago semesters discussed the process of returning to Calvin and home to other parts of the United States. Cynthia Slagter, t...
Classes to go online for rest of spring semester due to COVID-19
Juliana Knot, Editor-in-Chief
March 18, 2020
Calvin’s classes will be online for the rest of the semester because of the coronavirus, according to an email sent out by President Michael Le Roy. The administration previously announced that the shift to online classes would last until April 14. Residence halls will close this Saturday, Ma...
Festival of Faith and Writing postponed due to coronavirus
Juliana Knot, Editor-in-Chief
March 12, 2020
The 2020 Festival of Faith and Writing (FFW) has been postponed to April 8-10, 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic. This would have been the 30th anniversary of the FFW. In the announcement on March 5, the FFW website read, “After two years of planning, we are so disappointed to be postponin...
Calvin to suspend classroom instruction amidst COVID-19
Juliana Knot and Joshua Polanski
March 11, 2020
Calvin is taking steps to slow the spread of the escalating COVID-19 pandemic. Classes will move online effective Monday, March 16, according to a campus wide email sent Wednesday night by President Michael Le Roy. Classes will be held on campus as usual Thursday, March 12, but will be cancelled Frida...
Coronavirus: the epidemic’s impact on the Calvin community worldwide
Katherine Benedict, Sci-Tech Editor
February 7, 2020
For Priscilla Liu, a junior at Calvin and president of the Chinese Student Association (CSA), the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak is closer to home than the news headlines. Liu grew up in Guangdong, but her family is originally from Wuhan, and she has many relatives inside the city at the epicenter of th...