Calvin University Chimes

Michigan households caught in divide over federal food assistance funding

Greg Kim
September 12, 2013

This week is “Hunger Action Week,” an effort hosted by various Grand Rapids organizations to tackle the problem of food insecurity in the city. Members of Congress also returned to Washington this...

Senate’s #WeAreCalvin not representative of student opinions

Greg Kim
March 15, 2013

From March 4 to March 10, the Calvin Student Senate put on the #WeAreCalvin project. The project was a way for students to participate in the prioritization of college resources over the next five years....

Kenya set for first presidential elections since post-election violence in 2007-2008

Greg Kim
February 1, 2013

Kenyan citizens and international observers are keenly reviewing activities of Kenyan political parties as presidential elections are just a month away. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission...

Mike Kim seeks to raise awareness on North Korean refugee situation

Greg Kim
January 23, 2013

My politics professor once told me that there was a journalist who was known for the extensive research she did before interviewing someone. She would read everything there was from news articles, books,...

Korea joins other nations as its voters choose new president

Greg Kim
November 28, 2012

On Dec. 30, 2011, Fareed Zakaria, a CNN foreign affairs journalist and writer, posited that if 2011 had been a year of “historic change” with its widespread protest movements such as the Arab Spring...

Explosion in Beirut threatens Lebanon’s stability

Greg Kim
October 24, 2012

A bomb went off last Friday in Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, killing three people and injuring over a hundred bystanders. Wissam al-Hassan, the intelligence chief of the Lebanese Internal Security...

Russia expels USAID, debate over NGOs grows

Greg Kim
September 26, 2012

Russian authorities have ordered USAID to close its offices and leave Russia by next Monday. This abrupt announcement has strained diplomatic tensions between Russia and the United States, and has raised...

Rise in sectarianism with Iraqi vice president death sentence

Greg Kim
September 12, 2012

Tariq al-Hashemi, the Sunni vice president of Iraq, has been sentenced to death by Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council. This verdict, which has been made against a member of the Sunni sect of Islam by...

Hurricane Isaac leaves mess

Greg Kim
September 6, 2012

Thousands of residents in the Gulf Coast states are returning to flooded homes after Hurricane Isaac dumped up to 16 inches of rain in the region. The Category 1 hurricane took landfall last Wednesday...