Kelsey Powers is one of the opinion and editorial editors for the 2016–17 year, after serving the same position last year. She's a senior from Kalamazoo, Michigan studying English writing and literature, with plans to go into book publishing to become an editor. She greatly enjoys video games, creative writing, “ripping media apart and putting it b...

Sadie Burgher is utterly tickled to be making her Chimes debut as the Science and Technology editor. She is a half-Ecuadorian native of Montgomery, Alabama, and is double majoring in Writing and Environmental Studies with a focus in Geography. In addition to editing for Chimes this year, she is also serving a Resident Assistant in the Knollcrest Ea...

Kathryn Mae Post is a junior political science and writing major who occasionally refers to herself in third person. She is passionate about worship leading, being from New Jersey and drinking hazelnut lattes. Additionally, she is highly prone to spontaneous outbursts of song. Kathryn loves the one true triune God with the entirety of her being.  S...

Brandon Schreur is the Arts and Entertainment editor this year. He’s a junior majoring in writing and film studies. He’s from Holland, Michigan, and this is his first year on the Chimes staff. Brandon has an intense love for all things media and especially film — watching movies is how he spends almost all of his free time. Some of his favorites...

Carolyn is your local editor for the 2016–2017 school year. When in class, she studies language and people and how they’ve shaped one another throughout history — the disciplines formally known as linguistics and literature. Outside-of-class activities include eating (lots of it), sleeping (less so) and running (sporadically). Carolyn has the...

Mike isn’t sure if this bio is supposed to be in the first person or the third person, but he has decided to go with the third person even though he wrote it himself. Mike is a resident assistant on second Huizenga, a fresh choreographer for Dance Guild, a senior linguistics major taking 20 credits this semester and a campus co-editor for Chimes (what...

Courtney Zonnefeld is a co-campus editor for the 2016 year, having previously written for that same section. She is a junior writing major from Des Moines, Iowa (home of the nation’s best Farmers’ Market). Courtney can often be found in the kitchen trying a new recipe or in a cozy chair enjoying a new book. If she’s not currently sipping a cup ...

Julia is a co-campus editor for the 2017 spring semester. She is a junior literature major and business minor, hoping to someday go into the book publishing industry. She currently lives in Eastown and digs all the trendy coffee shops. She admires thought provoking literature and films that highlight current social issues. She loves learning, especially...

Claire Niemeier is the photo editor for Chimes this year. She is a senior from Wrightstown, Wisconsin, majoring in graphic design with minors in photography and Spanish. She loves hiking, taking photos and traveling (or even better, doing all three at once). Claire also find much joy in great pieces of design, live music and beating her father at ping pon...

Mark is the online editor this year, which means that he has control of everything that goes on the Internet. Last year he was the sports editor, so his expertise with hard-hitting journalism will now transcend final scores and statistics. A junior writing and social work double major from Grand Rapids, Mark never strays too far from home, which will no...

Maddie Hughey is the print editor for the 2016-2017 school year after having been campus co-editor, on-call writer and staff writer in years past. She is a junior from the south of France and sometimes the southwest of Michigan, double-majoring in classical studies and environmental studies — and no, she will not tell you about the climate in ancie...

Josh Parks is the Editor-in-Chief of Chimes this year after rising through the ranks as a copy editor, religion editor and then print editor. He’s a junior from Holland, MI, studying violin performance and English literature, and he splits his time approximately equally between the Commons Annex basement and the CFAC practice room hallway. He also ...