Behind the leafy green of the Calvin Community Garden lies a quite ordinary looking house. Apart from the candle with the skull on the front doorstep, 3151 Hampshire Avenue could just as well be any other...

Calvin professor Forrest Wakeman is about to drop his newest contemporary worship album — “Messes to Miracles” — this spring of 2017. The album, which is being produced by Wakeman, features a series...

Faculty senate is in the throes of debating a new core proposal. This proposal would allow students pursuing a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) or a Bachelor of Computer Science (B.C.S) degree to be exempt from...

Over 300 students danced the night away at the Amway Grand formal downtown on Saturday night, March 4. In addition to a mashed potato bar, casino games and a dance floor, a live band entertained the crowd...

In a lecture entitled, “This Is What Men Call God,” guest speaker John Fry from Trinity College delved into Wilder’s life; her relationship with daughter and editor of her manuscript, Rose Wilder...

Lee Swafford, a former Calvin campus safety officer, was arrested and charged with reckless use of a firearm on Wednesday after an incident on Calvin’s campus last November. On the morning of Nov....

The average person wastes 4.3 pounds of food a day. Now multiply that by the number of students at Calvin. That’s about 12,900 pounds of food a day wasted by Calvin College students. Most are ignorant...

Last Friday and Saturday night, the packed CFAC audience erupted in applause as the lights dimmed, signaling the start of this semester’s Dance Guild performances. Dances ranging from Audition Swing,...

Officials at Wheaton College in Illinois are looking to Calvin College as they consider arming their campus safety officers with firearms. Calvin officers have been armed since 2008, and there are currently...

As of this semester, Calvin’s arts and writing journal, Dialogue, will be including a new category for submissions: film. Former editor-in-chief Jack van Allsburg first planted the idea of including...

The Fish House hummed with energy as students packed into the small space last Tuesday, April 12, to hear poems performed and written by both students and alumni at this year’s Poetry Slam. The Multicultural...

Active Minds is a student organization that seeks to educate the Calvin community on the various types of mental illnesses, provide resources for students who might be struggling, and aid in dispelling...

Last Thursday, Calvin hosted renowned journalist Jeff Chu for a Q&A with students in the English department. Chu tackled a variety of topics in journalism, from the practical, economic side to the...

Schultze-Eldersveld (SE) won the 46th annual Chaos Night, formally known as Chaos Day, thanks to their tug-of-war triumph that broke the tie between them and Beets-Veenstra (BV) while Bolt-Heyns-Timmer...

On Monday, Calvin’s chapter of The Free Project placed red flags around campus as part of their project to raise awareness and to help people understand when their children are at risk of being trafficked. According...

Calvin’s music department is now offering jazz band as a class. In past years, jazz band has been offered as a music class similar to Wind Ensemble or Campus Choir, but due to the waning interest, it...

Bands. Every college has them. Rock bands, indie bands, singer-songwriters. Playing gigs at various campus locations and around town or absentmindedly strumming a guitar outside, cheered on by crowds...

Junior Sam Auyeung recently became Calvin’s 16th Goldwater scholar since 2008, a record that no other undergraduate college has attained in the same amount of time. The Goldwater award is a national...

Last Tuesday, President Le Roy sent out an email that resulted in a flurry of mixed emotions among the history, music and art and art history departments. Professors from these departments now have...

For pastors and scholars who usually spend hours perusing the library for information, Calvin has three online resources that could reduce research time considerably: The Christian Classics Ethereal Library,...

Last summer, Calvin introduced uniFLOW as the new printing system to replace WebPrint. This new system aimed to reduce paper waste and facilitate the printing process. Some students would argue that...

The next big battle of the bands could take place at Calvin College. Over the past several months, student senate has been working on a group music space for bands to use for practice. The space will...

Last Friday, Calvin added another first to their list of events: the first library sleepover. Students in the honors program were invited to spend the night in the library playing board games and disc...

uKnighted, an all men’s a cappella ensemble, will serve as the opening act for Home Free on February 20. The ensemble, referred to by some as Calvin’s very own boy band, consists of 16 guys, ranging...

Contrary to the rumors swirling around campus, Airband is not cancelled. It is alive and well, though slightly changed, after being restructured due to the lack of acts. “We all of a sudden had a...

Calvin students are experiencing the thrill of seeing their name in published journals. Since 2000, Over 200 students have co-authored publications with a professor in the biochemistry/chemistry department...

Last fall, the Calvin Public Relations Organization (CPRO) participated in a pilot program hosted by the Ford Motor Company with the goal of creating a video and PR/social media campaign that portrayed...

The service-learning center (SLC), located in the Commons Annex is an important part of the Calvin community. Through the SLC, each dorm has a partnership with an agency in the Grand Rapids community....

The Calvin Academy for Lifelong Learning (CALL) is a program for people over the age of 50 to take classes at Calvin for a small fee. These classes are taught by Calvin professors and usually last four...

Calvin is now offering students a musical break from their busy schedules in the form of a new noontime concert series, Notes at Noon. These occasional noon concerts will start at 12 p.m. and last anywhere...

On Friday, Oct. 10, students will have the opportunity to participate in a Food With Faculty gathering hosted by a professor or staff member. Most of the events cost only five dollars, but the cost can...

S’mores, capture the flag and sleeping under the stars are all part of the plan for the Campus Campout happening this Friday night. this type of event is a first in Calvin history. “This is a new...

 Last Friday, students in Engineering 101 kicked off the semester by firing bottle rockets across commons lawn. Their assignment required them to build a rocket capable of flight using nothing but pop...