Calvin’s board of trustees decided last Friday to approve the Professional Status Committee (PSC)'s recommendation to retain all faculty in the "pioneer cohort" — a group of faculty who were the first...

Halloween is a time to reflect on all things dead, buried and ghostly. Front yards are transformed into graveyards. Trick-or-treaters become zombies and ghouls. Cult classics are dug out of the vault for...

Junior economics major Misgana Dinberu hopes to spend the upcoming spring semester in Washington, DC getting valuable internship experience. As an international student from Ethiopia, however, she's unsure...

Calvin admissions has revamped visit days for prospective students considerably, tailoring them to individualized interests and needs.

When senior special education major Ella Peterman student-aided with kindergarteners before the pandemic, her students were emergent readers and fairly fluent in social interactions.  Now, as a student...

It’s a moment many can relate to: rolling out of bed and immediately hopping onto an online meeting or class.  "If I have my glasses on in the morning that means I just woke up like a minute before...

Earlier this year, the indie pop band Bleachers appeared on “Saturday Night Live” and performed sold out shows at iconic venues like Radio City Music Hall in New York City. This Saturday, they'll be...

Being an undergraduate college student with loan payments looming in the future, it can be hard to reckon with the tough financial reality they promise.  "It's sometimes easy to forget that it's real,"...

Amid Calvin’s first wave of major cuts in 2013, arts faculty formed an unofficial council on their own time to discuss the future of the arts at the university.  “Part of our thinking was [that]...

In 2018, Phoebe Bridgers performed for the Student Activities Office concert series. Just three years later, she’s a globally touring artist with four Grammy nominations. As a small Christian college...

In the fall of 2014, then-Calvin physics professor Matthew Walhout pitched an idea to a new film professor, Sam Smartt: a documentary about the first astronomer to publicly predict an explosion of a star...

Rehearsals have looked a little different for the Calvin Theater Company this fall. As they practiced for their steampunk version of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on the chapel patio, the actors and...

Concert-goers gathered in the Covenant Fine Arts Center lobby last Wednesday, just as they have since the Student Activities Office was founded over 25 years ago. But this time, they had to produce both...

School is back in session. With the flurry — or maybe more accurately, the avalanche — of new schedules, assignments and commitments, it can be easy to forget to look around and appreciate one’s...

Calvin's facilities department entered the school year with noticeable understaffing.

Things have been apocalyptic lately. The plague rages on. The planet is on fire. It feels like the Lord should be returning any day now. In the meantime, another Lorde has returned. “Lead the boys...

Calvin’s dating culture has given the world many happy couples--and many, many, many Chimes op-eds. Throughout the years, the students of Calvin have partnered up, hooked up and broken up. They’ve...

This semester, it was hard for students to get away from campus. Calvin cancelled spring break to prevent a COVID-19 outbreak and scattered advising days throughout the semester rather than joining them...

COVID-19 vaccine appointments are easier to book than ever. Spectrum Health expanded vaccine eligibility to everyone 16 and older on Tuesday, a week earlier than the expected April 5 date. Students, faculty,...

After years of debate, disagreements about LGBTQ inclusion are threatening to split the Reformed Church in America. The General Synod, the RCA’s governing body, will determine the denomination’s decision...

Calvin alumnus James Joshua Li is pretty sure the 2013-2014 residents of Schultze-Eldersveld thought their basement was haunted. During his sophomore year, people would hear mysterious sounds and voices...

Junior biochemistry major Katherine Koning fondly remembers using paint as a prop in another student’s choreographed piece for the dance minor showcase. As a freshman dance minor, Koning had four years...

“Suckitude.” That’s how English professor Jennifer Holberg described the disappointments of the pandemic—not being able to see students’ faces, not being able to have events with the English...

Last summer, Black Lives Matter activists protested the murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and others at the hands of police. Members of the Calvin community urged the school’s administration to...

When Reddit-fueled retail investment in GameStop took the stock market for a wild ride in January, a few Calvin students joined in the fun.  “It was like FOMO,” said Darian Seale, senior civil...

Recent COVID-19 vaccine developments have evoked joy, relief and for some, including one popular TikTok user, apocalyptic fear. In October, Taylor Rousseau posted a video depicting a near future where...

When militias squared up against the federal government in 2014 to defend a rancher whose cattle were being rounded up for grazing on public land, a British reporter interviewed Calvin’s very own James...

More students can now expect to participate in proactive surveillance testing, in addition to monitoring their symptoms through the Campus Clear app.  According to the CDC website, surveillance testing,...

As of late, the tinny sounds of recorders have been vibrating the walls, vents, and floorboards of the Knollcrest East apartments. For those wondering who is practicing an instrument used in meme versions...

Elbowing its way into a crowded streaming landscape, Quibi (short for “quick bite”) believes we want more. The new platform, which debuted this month, is defined by its limitations. All content runs...