Senior Martin Cervantes successfully raised nearly 300 cases of water and 64 gallons jugs last Saturday for Flint residents affected by the ongoing water crisis.
Around 50 students gathered on campus...
Last week, Chimes ran an article that targeted the Republic of Indonesia and offered what appears to be a critique of Indonesia as a religiously intolerant country and thus painted to readers an image...
A decision to renovate Commons dining hall has been postponed until next summer, pending a lack of specifications in the proposed project.
Discussion for renovating the dining hall began in February...
An estimated $50,000 will be the price tag on the upcoming renovations in the library fireplace lobby, marking the final project of this year’s student senate. To finance the project, student body president...
Around two years ago at this time I received an email from then editor-in-chief Ryan Struyk which would forever alter my Calvin experience. If I recall it correctly, it was a simple letter of encouragement...
This year’s professor of the year award was given to engineering professor Matthew Heun, who was selected by the class of 2015 from a group of six finalists.
Heun, who is completing his 13th year...
Ethan DeVries and Andrew Darmawan have won this year’s student senate executive team race with 41 percent of the vote (622 votes). Nearly 40 percent of the student body voted in this year’s elections.
“Andrew...
On Wednesday, about 150 students gathered in the CFAC Recital Hall for the annual student senate electoral debate. Three executive teams will face off in this year’s student senate elections, while six...
Next Monday at midnight marks the start of campaign week where students running for student senate begin a week-long effort to persuade the student body to elect them into office.
Candidates will be...
Over 10 percent of the student body here at Calvin is considered international, and in many cases, the struggles of the international student are often overlooked. A lack of intentional dialogue...
Since its inception in 1995, Rangeela, the annual celebration of international culture and diversity, seeks to showcase stories and traditions from various cultures around the world.
This year, four...
This year’s executive team Jona Eigege and Laura Sterenberg won last April’s election promising to refocus student senate both internally and externally. In addition, the executive team aimed to “reconnect...
Calvin College was placed on lockdown last night as campus safety and the Grand Rapids Police Department (GRPD) worked to clear campus and search for the suspect of a robbery that occurred at the bus stop...
As part of the ‘Hands Up! Walk Out!” national movement, members of the Calvin community were invited by the “We Are Calvin [Too]” collegiate group to march from the chapel patio to commons lawn...
A new report issued by the Cultural Intelligence Center (CQC) found that, while Calvin has “some level of commitment to diversity and inclusion, the college doesn’t consistently put that commitment...
At their October session, the Board of Trustees approved a recommendation by the college to put the Ladies Literary Club building up for sale.
The historic downtown building, which frequently hosts...
At this semester’s town hall, President Le Roy addressed student concerns regarding Calvin’s master plan, smoking pits, hiring practices, zero-tolerance policy and LGBT housing.
One of the first...
Last Saturday, the Chimes staff soundly defeated the student senators 4-1 on the Phi-Chi fields for the second annual Chimes vs. senate showdown.
The game started off with student body president Jona...
The first faculty senate meeting of the year kicked off Monday, Sept. 22 at 7 p.m. in the Fieldhouse and saw President Le Roy as chair and English professor Jennifer Holberg as vice-chair.
New faces to...
A major effort to establish a campus master plan is in progress under the guidance of the Facilities Task Force (FTF) as part of the Master Planning Steering Committee, a subcommittee of Calvin’s Planning...
In a major comeback after coming in sixth at last year’s Chaos Day, Beets-Veenstra (BV) emerged victorious in this year’s event. Trailing behind the Harry Potter-themed dorm was last year’s victor,...
On Tuesday night, the DeVos Center was home to the 83rd annual student senate debate. The well-attended event featured two executive teams running for the top position while also showcasing the two candidates...
Last Saturday, Chimes soundly defeated student senate 3-0 in a best of five series of dodgeball games. The victory comes in the wake of last semester’s Chimes/senate soccer game, which Chimes also won...
Located in 2041 Raybrook, Calvin College’s Center for Social Research (CSR) works to conduct social-scientific research on behalf of Calvin faculty, the Christian Reformed Church and a wide array of...
A new floor, dubbed the “wellness” floor, is anticipated by residence life to be started as a pilot program at the beginning of the next academic year. Brandon Jacob, resident director of Noordewier-VanderWerp...
Coach Amber Warners, who led Calvin’s women’s volleyball team to win the 2013 national championship title, is set to work with legendary Karch Kiraly, currently the head coach of the U.S. national...
On Monday night Faculty Senate unanimously passed a recommendation to revise the political science curriculum
The proposal was constructed by the political science department and recommended to the Educational...
The Office of the Provost has launched a new online faculty comment form — available via Portal — for students to send feedback on courses and professors to academic deans.
Evaluation forms cannot...
Known as the ‘George Washington’ of ESPN and the Father of Cable Sports, Bill Rasmussen started the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network in 1979.
His vision started with a $9000 credit card...
Featuring some of the biggest figures in the nation, including Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson, former U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe and New York Times bestselling author Bob Goff, the 2014 January...
Designated as a “Global Leader for Tomorrow” by the World Economic Forum in 2003, Zachary Karabell has emerged as one of the world’s leading economists and is scheduled to speak at the CFAC on “Trend...
Kevin Schut will present on his book “Of Games & God” in tomorrow’s January Series. A 1996 graduate of Calvin College, Schut is now a professor of media and communication at Trinity Western...
With Gallup reporting a 13 percent job approval rate for the U.S. Congress in 2013, the legacy of the America’s legislative body has fallen into a political pitfall. The extent of the political polarization...
Faculty senate delayed a crucial vote to approve the new strategic plan one week to Monday, Dec. 16 at 4:45 p.m. after several faculty senators voiced concerns about the timeline for the document Monday...
Brian Fuller, professor of media production at Calvin College, was placed on leave effective Monday, Nov. 11. The communications arts and sciences (CAS) department notified students via email about the...
Not too long ago — at a dinner with friends — I was asked where I was from. I calmly responded that I am from Indonesia. After some short conversation my friend proceeded to ask, “I hope you won’t...
It was an epic duel of the fates, destined to go down in Calvin College history. On Saturday, a soccer match pitted the college’s two historic student organizations against each other in a battle royale...
On Wednesday night Christian rock band Needtobreathe performed for their first time at Calvin College’s Covenant Fine Arts Center for its 2013 ‘The Stomping Ground Tour.’
The show started off with...
This year, Calvin ranked 100th in the U.S. News and World Report and 61st in the Washington Monthly College Guide’s list of best liberal arts colleges. Last year, Calvin ranked 110th in the U.S. News...
The latest from the Princeton Review’s annual college guide “The Best 377 Colleges” ranks Calvin as eighth in the “LGBT Unfriendly” rankings. It rose from last year’s position of 11th.
However,...
Several students from Schultze-Eldersveld, including one who jumped on top of a minivan, chased Calvin’s legendary Moses statue before Chaos Day Saturday morning, prompting the statue’s failure to...
Under the leadership of executive team David Kuenzi and Alicia Smit, student senate has high expectations for this year’s prospective freshmen senators.
With less than a week left until the application...
Tomorrow the 45th annual Chaos Day is set to once again spark one of the fiercest dorm-based sport competitions in the history of Calvin College.
The stakes are high this year, with defending champion...
It has been seven years since Kalsbeek-Huizenga-vanReken (KHvR) last won Chaos Day, but residence life staff is confident in their chances of seizing the glorious first place this year.
“We are in the...
After last year’s unsuccessful vie for the coveted first place, Rooks-VanDellen (RVD) is coming back with a passion for victory in Chaos Day this year. Much of this year’s hype comes from formidable...
For a full list of professors who signed the letter, see the bottom of this page.
20 Calvin professors joined 200 evangelical professors from across the country in writing a letter to Congress urging...
If you ask anyone about snowball fights at the English department's annual writers' retreat, one can easily remember the enthusiasm of one professor William Vande Kopple.
His ardor for the sport has yielded...
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake that struck China’s rural southwest Sichuan province left at least 179 dead and more than 6,700 injured, the Huffington Post reports. The earthquake struck shortly before 8...
Egyptian security officials reported a clash between Muslims and Christians early Saturday which left five men, four Christians and a Muslim, dead in a suburb of the city of Shubra el-Kheima, north of...
A week ago today saw President Obama sign into place an order for $85 billion in automatic spending cuts within the US economy, marking a series of drastic cuts to government funding throughout the nation.
Only...
In the latest Group of 20 summit held at Moscow, the 20 finance ministers from the major economies of the world gathered to discuss and calm fears of a potential rising currency war.
The financial leaders...
“Four More Years” was highlighted as the vibrant and victorious slogan as Barack Obama was re-elected as the president of the United States. Throughout his initial four years, the Obama administration...
“The Rocky Mountains just got a whole lot higher,” said Matt Ferner of the Huffington Post as Colorado becomes one of two states which have passed a historic referendum calling for the legalization...
As elections within Ukraine come to a close, several international observers, including the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), have delivered a staggering degree of criticism towards...
John Silber, president and then-chancellor of Boston University from 1977 to 2003, passed away at the age of 86 due to kidney failure in his Brookline home on Sept. 27.
Known as America’s highest...
