Amid confusion and unrest over the fate of the Student Activities Office (SAO), both a short-term as well as a long-term plan have been reached. The short-term plan includes fundraising $150,000 by June...

It’s not just Ken Heffner from the Student Activities Office (SAO): staff positions in other areas of the college will be reduced in the coming school year, as confirmed by Sarah Visser, vice president...

For many international students on Calvin’s campus, stepping into dorm life is like navigating a different world. Chimes spoke with several international students who are currently living in the dorms...

Sixteen massage businesses were found to run illicit (as in sexually favored) massage businesses in the greater Grand Rapids area. Social work professor Rachel Venema, along with two student research assistants,...

In the midst of losses due to budget constraints all around the college, President Michael Le Roy shared thoughts on the community’s values of cultural engagement, creation care and diversity at Tuesday’s...

In response to rumors about budget cuts around the college, President Le Roy stated that Calvin is in a “strong financial condition” despite constrained budgets resulting from declining enrollment....

Calvin, as an institution, bids farewell not only to its name as “Calvin College” but also to the class of 2019 this summer. The class of 2019 will be Calvin’s last class before the school’s switch...

The Center for Counseling and Wellness (CCW) seeks to connect with campus through its student advisory board. The board, which began last fall, is made up of 12 students of various ages, grade levels and...

Stories that move you, paired with people onstage who move about in flashes of color and pride: that was Rangeela 2019, themed “The Story We Tell.” The two-night, annually sold-out cultural show, named...

A half-inch of standing water filled the Bennink dorm laundry, storage and trunk rooms through the drains this past Sunday afternoon, leaking into the basement hallway. Campus safety was alerted that afternoon...

We all have stories, and our stories are a part of who we are. This past weekend, I joined a sold-out crowd in watching Rangeela, Calvin’s annual cultural showcase largely created by students. The...

In 1993, 22-year-old Rafael DeJesus was sentenced to 60-100 years in prison for a first-time non-violent drug offense. DeJesus is a student enrolled in the Calvin Prison Initiative program working toward...

Calvin is no stranger to “ring by spring” culture: the goal of having an engagement ring by spring semester of senior year. Even students who bear neither ring nor significant other have probably heard...

In relation to Black History Month, the annual Poetry Jam hosted by the Multicultural Student Development Office (MSDO) is back. The event will take place Tuesday, February 26, 7-10 p.m. in the Fish House....

A poster for the Fair Trade Fair.

A small liberal arts school in predominantly white Vermont offers a window into institutional and internalized racism in the latest production by the Calvin Theatre Company (CTC), showing this weekend....

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 capacity to keep up with its demands. Foodietravelours...

The idea that “God so loved the kosmos,” from the translation of the original Greek in John 3:16, inspired the title of William Matthews’ sophomore album, “KOSMOS,” which was released November...

President Michael K. Le Roy has made efforts to limit the compensation he receives, despite a strategic plan goal that puts his earnings at a competitive median to those in his position at similar institutions. In...

A small wooden house housing books quietly showed up on Johnny’s Patio this week. Chimes sat down with the engineering students responsible for the creation of this house, known officially as “The...

Porn is a trap that one can be freed from, according to panelists at a discussion held Monday night in the Meeter Center Lecture Hall. Four senior male students who are taking steps to be free from using...

With one photo a day for each day leading up to Thanksgiving, a Calvin employee is posting positivity on social media in a project which started at the beginning of the month. Jesús Delgado, administrative...

The elusive Calvin Crushes agreed to do an exclusive interview for the first time ever with Chimes. While the page’s administrator wishes to remain anonymous, they shared some insight about the popular...

Career coach Carena Gang, in addition to her work in the career center, has started a new fashion business, Rena's Boutique. Gang, who previously worked in Calvin’s pre-college programs, began her new...

The office of student conduct sat down with Chimes to discuss discipline policies at Calvin with regard to sexual misconduct. “We are guided by the mission of Calvin. We are a Christian community,...

The first-to-second-year retention rate for Asian, Hispanic/Latino, African and Native American (AHANA) students at Calvin has been increasing over the last few years. Todd Dornbos, director of retention,...

For over 15 years, the Multicultural Student Development Office (MSDO) has hosted UnLearn 365 Week, offering a week’s worth of speakers and events with the goal of providing a safe campus-wide forum...

The “Calvin Grand Prix” (bed races), soccer, Donut Dash, food, a movie showing of The Incredibles and fireworks — all of these were part of last week’s homecoming events. This year’s homecoming...

Reduced hours for the DeVos Grab-n-Go Cafe have stirred unrest among those on the east side of campus, particularly for friends of Patsy Westra, the cafe’s designated operator. Budget cuts have placed...

Several native garden planting events are happening this fall around the Bunker Interpretive Center as part of the renovations of the Ecosystem Preserve. Last Saturday, Sept. 22, was the first of six such...

Thirteen academic departments at the college have hired new faculty for this year, according to the office of the provost. These departments are: philosophy, mathematics and statistics, economics, biology,...

“That 70s dorm” proves it is not only the groovy bell bottoms and flower power head bands of the 70s that can make a comeback. Calvin Knights witnessed the awesome Dudes and Dudettes make a strong...

  Since student senate brought 100 fluorescent-orange SPIN bikes to campus in March, there have been 291 bikers and 1,300 rides logged into Calvin’s bike share program. The total sum of miles...

 As media attention focuses on the prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses, the #MeToo movement and rollbacks on Title IX, sociology and social work professor Rachel Venema is taking a look at...

Faculty senate voted this week to approve a professor salary structure that brings full professors to salaries that are comparatively competitive in the job market. This proposal is drawn from the college’s...

Christian doctrine has historically held same-sex attraction to be a disorder — a mark of the fall — and same-sex intimacy to be a sin. As the college of the CRC, Calvin takes the position that “homosexual...

Bill McKibben, an American environmentalist and writer, delivered the closing keynote of the Festival of Faith & Writing held at Calvin last weekend. His speech, titled “Storytelling, activism, and...

What once was the general business major and minor will soon become five specific majors and two minors. The new entrepreneurship minor will be offered starting fall 2018. Other degrees in finance,...

Update, 3/5/18 11:47 a.m.: New meal plan options and extended hours will begin in the fall, not Mar. 5. Dining services is introducing several changes, starting this Monday, Mar. 5 with recyclable to-go...

CRC executive director Steven Timmermans joined over 100 Christian leaders in signing a letter addressed to the US president and Congress, urging better care for immigrants in the formation of national...

Beer crafted from crusts of bread — a scrap that tends to get thrown out—is just one example of how to recover what is often wasted (and perhaps also how to get wasted with care), as environmentally-conscious...

Several new displays have popped up around campus, created by students from a new January interim course on public history. History 293: Public History, taught by professor Kate van Liere, explored...

Schools from the Association of Christian Schools International (ASCI) set up booths in the Prince Conference Center on Tuesday, Oct. 31 to share with students about jobs at international schools all over...

This is a revised version of an article we published which incorrectly stated that mail services lost around 30 staff members this summer due to voluntary buyouts and layoffs. There were 30 total staff...