Five Calvin student bloggers and one vlogger regularly document their Calvin experiences online: Dana Drosdick, Temi Ogunnoiki, Kurt Delos Trino, Jay De Man, Purun Yeo and Dario Lirio. Each blogger has...
“There's no perfect way to do orientation” said John Witte, dean of students. “We’re always assessing how orientation is going. I’ve been in conversations in other years where we have asked,...
"No movement or ideology captures the attention of millions without, on some level, pointing to something genuinely good." This is why we must contend with nationalism, according to Professor Michael Watson,...
This past interim, nearly forty Calvin students took a class entitled, "The Complex World of Drugs." The class, which was offered as both a DCM and a non-DCM, included a diverse mix of lower and upper-level...
Each year, at the precipice of the second semester, campus ministries hosts ReGathering — a time for students to come together in reunion with the Calvin community. It is a time, specifically, for students...
This past Monday night the dorm sustainability coordinators, in partnership with Residence Life, hosted a Kill-a-watt kickoff event in the Covenant Fine Arts Center.
The event began with a video narrated...
The greatest commandment is: love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength. And the second greatest is like it: love your neighbor as yourself. Of all the commandments, these are...
Fall at Calvin has long been commemorated by a nightly celebration of doughnuts, cider, hayrides, a corn maze, goats and cows to pet, s'mores and line dancing at Post Family Farms. This year was no different....
Some Calvin students may realize that this year, due to a thoughtful and necessary shift, the familiar "Unlearn Week" has been renamed "Unlearn 365." This is a programming shift and a focus shift – instead...
Perhaps in your travels around campus, you have noticed the two new Nissans sitting at the end of the Schultze-Eldersveld strip of short-term parking spots. Those vehicles are part of the new Car Share...
Perhaps you went to Cokes and Clubs last night and witnessed the wonderful madhouse and monument to student involvement that are Calvin's student organizations (affectionately called "student orgs"). There...
This past Thursday night, as part of the Festival of Faith and Writing, a prominent indie-punk-humanist group, The Mountain Goats, performed a concert to a three-quarters-full CFAC. The crowd was made...
“Bronze Age of the Nineties,” the debut album from Liance (musical vehicle of senior James Li), is an album about death. It is an album that claims life is a collection of interactions with death....
Last week there was an article published in the op-ed section of Chimes which observed that the Calvin student activities office (SAO) seems to only invite/book/care about "indie" musical artists for the...
In the song "John Wayne Gacy Jr." from his 2007 album, "Come On, Feel The Illinoise", Sufjan Stevens sings: "And in my best behavior / I am really just like him / look beneath the floorboards / for the...
