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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

All content by Jonas Weaver

Sacrificing identity for profit won’t work long term

Jonas Weaver, Class of 2018
July 3, 2021

My name is Jonas Weaver and I graduated from Calvin in 2018 with a double major in Philosophy and German. I am currently pursuing my Ph.D—nearing qualifying exams—in German Studies at the University...

Letter to the editor

Jonas Weaver, Guest Writer
October 5, 2017

It is unclear to me what, precisely, the authors of “Thoughts on Nashville” hoped to achieve. If it was dialogue, as they suggest in replies on the website to Peterson and Kuilema, they have successfully...

Letter to the Editor: Whitewashing MLK

Jonas Weaver
February 3, 2017

In the current political moment I would hope that Chimes would exercise a bit more discretion in the op-eds that it publishes. It seems to me that publishing an op-ed whitewashing, making palatable, what...

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Meetings are not enough

Jonas Weaver
December 4, 2015

Calvin got together and vowed to stand against racism. That’s great, honestly it is. The immediacy with which the administration dealt with the swastikas and words “white power” is impressive and...

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