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Calvin University's official student newspaper since 1907

Calvin University Chimes

Since 1907
Calvin University's official student newspaper since 1907

Calvin University Chimes

Calvin University's official student newspaper since 1907

Calvin University Chimes

Hadassa Ribeiro

Hadassa Ribeiro, Managing Editor

Hadassa is a senior from Brazil (yet calls many places home) majoring in International Relations with a minor in Journalism. She has previously served as Features Editor and is now Managing Editor for Chimes. Hadassa's favorite question is "what is your story?". In her free time, she enjoys writing, exploring cute coffee shops and soaking in Michigan's rare sunlight.

Hadassa can be reached at [email protected].

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University to freeze tuition costs in 2023-2024

University to freeze tuition costs in 2023-2024

Hadassa Ribeiro, Managing Editor
February 6, 2023

Calvin announced a tuition freeze for the 2023-2024 academic year last week. The freeze will keep the cost of tuition for the 2023-2024 academic year at the same rate as the current academic year. The...

Tabling events are one way students can use to promote different political and religious viewpoints on campus.

Learning in the messy middle: Student experiences of Calvin’s political climate

Adelaide Mei and Hadassa Ribeiro
December 4, 2022

For political science professor Micah Watson, civil discourse is “real engagement that tries to respect where someone else is coming from and understand.” It is predicated on a willingness to engage...

Students gathered outside the Prince Conference Center, where the Board of Trustees approved retaining all faculty with confessional difficulties last Friday.

Board of trustees retains faculty who disagree with CRCNA on LGBTQ+ relationships

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...

JVKE’s new album will make you want to fall in love again

Hadassa Ribeiro, Managing Editor
October 23, 2022

If you’ve ever wondered what being on cloud nine and then falling right back to the ground with no parachute feels like, to then learning how to walk again, wait no longer, for 21-year old pop artist...

UnLearn Week will include 13 events and feature both new and returning speakers.

UnLearn Week brings together new and returning speakers

Hadassa Ribeiro, Managing Editor
October 2, 2022

UnLearn week is a “kickoff event for our year-round program series” to provide “a safe campuswide forum for conversations designed to UnLearn biases and promote biblical antiracism,” Jane Bruin,...

The Global Campus is focused on expanding opportunities for non-traditional students at Calvin.

Calvin programs to reach into Grand Rapids and around the world with new partnership strategy

Hadassa Ribeiro, Managing Editor
September 11, 2022

Calvin’s Global Campus is working to expand existing partnerships and develop new ones in an effort to better engage with local communities. This new focus, informed by the university’s Vision 2030...

Since early April, students have been petitioning in support of Kuilema's reappointment. They learned this week that their efforts were unsuccessful.

[Photo] Calvin denies reappointment for professor who officiated same-sex marriage

Harm Venhuizen, Editor-in-Chief
April 21, 2022

Since early April, students have been petitioning in support of Kuilema's reappointment. They learned this week that their efforts were unsuccessful.

Since the announcement of the reasoning for the CSR split, members of the Calvin community have worked together to advocate for LGBTQ+ rights.

LGBTQ+ students and allies organize advocacy events in wake of controversy

Hadassa Ribeiro and Abigail Ham
April 10, 2022

More than 50 students, alumni and Center for Social Research employees lined the hall outside the provost and president’s offices Wednesday morning, waving pride flags while three current students and...

Three Calvin alumnae make list of 50 most influential women in West Michigan

Three Calvin alumnae make list of 50 most influential women in West Michigan

Hadassa Ribeiro, Features Editor
March 20, 2022

Megan Feenstra Wall used to split her time between Calvin’s engineering and art departments, lugging her toolbox filled with pencils back and forth between the two. But these days, she’s one of...

Masking will now be optional in specific areas on campus as part of a trial period following low case numbers on campus.

Masks now optional in certain areas of campus during two-week trial

Hadassa Ribeiro, Features Editor
February 20, 2022

From now until spring break, masks are recommended but optional in public areas of residence halls, the Spoelhof Fieldhouse Complex and on all floors of the Hekman Library except for the first. “In...

There are 45 students registered for the course. Disclaimer: photo was taken pre-COVID. Photo courtesy Nick Nichols.

Inside out: Knollcrest students to join CPI classmates for first ever joint course at Handlon campus

Hadassa Ribeiro, Features Editor
January 23, 2022

It’s a Friday afternoon. You’re headed to your last class period of the week. Instead of walking across Knollcrest campus, though, you’re in for a 40-minute drive to Ionia, Michigan. You...

The WSW team: from left to right, Professor Molewyk-Doornbos, nursing student Camilla Bjelland and Jenna Woodrow and Professor Zandee. Photo courtesy Gail Zandee.

Calvin nursing department empowers women to take agency over their mental health

Hadassa Ribeiro, Features Editor
December 5, 2021

Datasha Merritt was working as a human resource manager when her life turned around: she was diagnosed with a sudden brain disease that required two brain surgeries. Unable to work due to the repercussions...

Common's Union, now renamed the Learner's Common, is on the docket for construction in the next ten years.

Commons Union project still needs $45.5 million in donations to get off the ground

Jocelyn Nuñez-Colón and Hadassa Ribeiro
December 5, 2021

Commons Union, which will replace both dining halls and Commons Annex to act as Calvin's hub for dining, retail and community life, was first proposed in Calvin's Campus Master Plan in 2015 as an immediate...

BeAnka Masefiade (pictured on the left) supports students in Ghana through her nonprofit.

Calvin alum founds non-profit for transracial foster care adoptees, global partnership

Hadassa Ribeiro, Features Editor
November 7, 2021

Born and raised in the southeast side of Grand Rapids, BeAnka Masefiade has had many experiences beyond West Michigan. Her wide open smile and her bright eyes sparkle as she shares about one of her most...

Since the start of the Calvin Prison Initiative, the CMS department has had no full-time staff. Cioffi shares his time between CMS and directing CPI. Photo courtesy calvin.edu

Congregational and ministries studies: A look inside the department with no full-time professors and no major

Hadassa Ribeiro, Features Editor
October 16, 2021

“I came to Calvin specifically to help start the CMS department,” said Professor Todd Cioffi. The job description stated that Calvin was starting a new department focused on interdisciplinary teaching...

To be eligible for the Spanish Immersion Program, students must have attended a Spanish Immersion program since elementary school.

Dual enrollment, language immersion programs bridge gap between campus and local schools

Hadassa Ribeiro, Features Editor
October 7, 2021

Nearly 100 dual-enrolled high school students are attending classes at Calvin this fall, including students in the Spanish Immersion program, which is now in its second year. Each year, the university...

Jenny with students from one of the classes she taught in Korea. Photo courtesy of Jenny Shin.

Mind the gap: How students made the most out of their time off school in 2020

Hadassa Ribeiro, Features Editor
September 27, 2021

“It was a year for growth,” said Isabel Post, looking back to last year. Post, now a first-year student, took a gap year in 2020 before attending Calvin. “I knew that if I did go to Calvin straight...

Emily Steen with the now-sophomore class at the Calvin Theatre Company.

New year, new Calvin? For sophomores, return to “normal” is anything but normal

Hadassa Ribeiro, Features Editor
September 9, 2021

“When I visited Calvin and went to chapel, it was so evident how people really wanted to be there and worship together and join together as a community. And it was so cool to see college students so...

Calvin has hosted this dinner for over 30 years.

Annual Named Scholarship Dinner Replaced by Virtual Program due to COVID

Hadassa Ribeiro, Guest Writer
October 30, 2020

After over three decades of tradition, the annual Named Scholarship Dinner was canceled and replaced by a virtual program due to COVID-19 restrictions. For over 30 years Calvin University has been hosting...

For international seniors, a deeply uncertain post-graduation

For international seniors, a deeply uncertain post-graduation

Hadassa Ribeiro, Guest Writer
May 22, 2020

Senior Debora Haede remembers the rollercoaster of emotions she went through the day Calvin announced that classes would go online for the rest of the semester. “When am I going to see these people ever...

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