On Saturday, May 2, 2015, Hessel “Bud” Bouma III, a professor of biology at Calvin College, passed away after a battle with metastatic melanoma, leaving behind Ruth, his wife of 43 years, and their...
Imagine being a hard-working Calvin student who has a midterm in two days, a paper due at the end of the week and all the regular homework that goes along with it. Makes for a stressful week, right?
Now,...
Calvin College’s endowment fund is an important aspect of Calvin’s fundraising structure, but what exactly is it, and why is it so important?
Essentially, an endowment is a financial account from...
Christian guy meets runaway girl. Girl and guy deny attraction. Girl and guy fall in love. We can all guess what happens next of course, right? Wrong. Although “Old Fashioned” has all the elements...
Located up four flights of stairs, through a black locked gate and up a steep flight of metal rungs is the Calvin College Observatory. The observatory is open to the public, students and astronomers alike.
Calvin...
The Sparrows
Ericka Buitenhuis
As customers slowly peruse the large selection of lidless jars covering the top of the counter, the barista at The Sparrows on Wealthy Street patiently waits for them...
Ericka Buitenhuis (and Hayley Cox)
As the rush of finals week begins to wind down, first semester comes to a long-awaited close and students begin perusing various class textbook lists for second semester,...
Intro:
Every year, the Calvin dorms seem to add a new leadership position. At this rate, some fear that students not in leadership will soon become the minority in the dorms. So what’s with all the...
Among the new dining options, bright-eyed first-years and smooth asphalt, Cindy Kok joins the list of changes occurring on Calvin’s campus this fall. Kok has been asked to serve as the interim vice...
During a pivotal scene in the film “Dead Poets Society,” a teacher takes his English class to the school’s trophy room and asks them to look at the photos of their previous classmates, making the...
“Music is like girls — I like it, I am bad with it and I don’t have a type,” smirked Calvin student Jeff Peterson. “Music is a way of expressing something with more dimensions than words,”...
This October marked the first time in 17 years that the U.S. government shut down, and the inaction of Congress is having a direct impact on family and friends of Calvin students.
“My brother got in...
The Grand River recently became the center of a new restoration plan, the Grand Rapids Whitewater Project, which aims to remove several of the dams that have been constructed over the years, which have...
Grand Rapid’s busing system, The Rapid, was recently named “The Most Outstanding Mid-Sized Transportation System” in North America for 2013.
Many students, however, are not fully aware of the benefits...
