When senior Esther Lagerwey got an email this summer telling her that the German major was being cut, she was nervous. Lagerwey is a double major in German and political science, and had only ever taken...

Calvin unveiled the 35th January Series speaker lineup on Thursday, including a sixth appearance by new testament scholar N.T. Wright, a record for the series.  The 2022 lineup features two other returning...

Michigan’s congressional districts, state senate and state house districts are currently being redrawn, and the decisions made by the mapmakers are likely to influence the results of the 2022 midterm...

In an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19, Calvin has implemented a new set of mask, vaccine and testing requirements.  Students are not required to get vaccinated, but Sarah Visser, chair of the...

Emmanuel Essien won the 2021 election for Calvin University student body president. Essien, a junior from Ghana majoring in human resources management, defeated Kay Casturo for student senate’s top position....

TW: this story contains references to rape and sexual assault. To this day, Sarah doesn’t remember what she told the man who assaulted her. It’s a fact she finds haunting—the inability to recollect....

With all students now eligible for COVID-19 vaccines under new state guidelines, what does life look like after getting the shot? Here are some guidelines from Calvin’s COVID Response Team and the CDC. Fully...

Calvin is planning to build a new Commons Union that will replace Commons dining hall and annex. To date, the university has raised $28 million for the project from donors.  Although the building’s...

Starting with the class of 2026, Calvin will require students to live in and pay for three years of on-campus housing. The new policy is a move to generate more revenue for the university. Declining enrollment...

Calvin’s Knollcrest campus has a new club: the Calvin Peacemakers, which seeks to educate students about restorative justice and connect the Knollcrest and Handlon campuses of Calvin.  The club got...

For the engineering department and its students, interim’s move to May and adding its cost to spring semester tuition has created new difficulties with taking a required senior special topics interim. Thanks...

President Donald Trump completed his re-election campaign in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in part because he was afraid picking another location might jinx his chances. Grand Rapids was where Trump held his...

Steve Kelso, marketing and communications manager for the Kent County Health Department has a message for college students: Please stop gathering in large numbers, mask up, wash your hands, and practice...

Campus Safety has determined that there is no threat to the community after investigating a campus visitor’s report that they were assaulted by several male students in the CFAC parking lot. The visitor...

Donald Trump and Mike Pence held the final rally of their longshot 2016 campaign in Grand Rapids, Michigan in the early hours of Election Day 2016. On Wednesday, Oct. 15, Pence returned to Grand Rapids...

While cooking dinner, junior Rebekah Baas had an idea. Looking at her leftover soup, Baas thought about students who are isolating or in quarantine because of the coronavirus, and from there, Meals to...

The death of Supreme Court feminist icon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on September 18 shook up the presidential race, bringing the Supreme Court and a potential overturn of Roe v. Wade to the front of voters’...

Due to risks presented by the novel coronavirus, use of smoker pits like this one outside Knollcrest East apartments is now prohibited.

The sky over Calvin grew hazy with smoke from West Coast wildfires on Sunday. For students from California, Oregon, and Washington, it was a grim reminder of what their families were facing at home: a...

If the coronavirus pandemic never happened, Calvin junior Michal Rubingh would be living in Budapest right now. COVID-19 threw the study abroad plans of dozens of students into disarray. Calvin cancelled...

“Black Lives Matter.” The slogan of a movement and refrain of a video created this summer by Calvin faculty and staff in response to the killing of George Floyd. The video, which has currently been...

Places: Millennium Park Why drive all the way to Lake Michigan when Millennium Park is only 20 minutes from campus? The park boasts a six-acre swimming beach which is open through Sept. 13 (despite...

President Michael Le Roy doesn’t want to make a promise he can’t keep. In a virtual town hall organized by student senate on Monday, Le Roy said that many in the Calvin community have been asking him...

Faculty working towards tenure or a five-year renewable term are now able to postpone their job review for one year. Automatic approval will be granted to those who apply to have their reappointment clock...

Under the shadow of Calder’s “La Grande Vitesse,” Senator Bernie Sanders addressed thousands of Grand Rapids supporters Sunday afternoon. Civil rights activist and former presidential candidate Jesse...

DUO multi-factor authentication became mandatory for all students, faculty and staff on Feb. 19. The program requires participants to use a second way of authenticating their identity in addition to their...

Bob DeKraker, the longtime laboratory manager in the engineering department, died of cancer on Feb. 19 at the age of 65. DeKraker worked at Calvin for over three decades and was the engineering...

Calvin junior Molly Vander Werp has always been drawn to both biochemistry and writing, but growing up she assumed that at some point she would have to choose between the two fields. Three years into her...

For Priscilla Liu, a junior at Calvin and president of the Chinese Student Association (CSA), the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak is closer to home than the news headlines. Liu grew up in Guangdong, but her...

As the United States heads into a contentious presidential election in 2020, Calvin is preparing for potential conflicts that may arise. A chartered task force of administrators, faculty and staff created...

More than 100,000 native plants are grown every year by Calvin-based organization Plaster Creek Stewards. Each plant will aid in the restoration of Plaster Creek, the most contaminated urban waterway in...

Calvin received three new beehives for its campus community garden over the summer, to replace the previous which were destroyed last winter.  Dr. Jamie Skillen, professor of Environmental Studies,...

One in ten people have a rare disease, yet silence surrounds this topic both socially and scientifically. A group of researchers at Calvin is aiming to change this by pursuing knowledge of rare diseases...

“It’s never too late to start thinking about grad school, but it’s also never too early,” said engineering professor Christopher Hartemink. Hartemink was speaking to a large group of engineering...

Michigan is currently experiencing an outbreak of the deadly mosquito-borne virus Eastern Equine Encephalitis, commonly abbreviated EEE. So far (as of 10/2/2019), there have been nine cases resulting in...

Calvin Information Technology is implementing a new multi-factor authentication system called DUO this fall in response to last year’s phishing email attacks. Multi-factor authentication is a way of...

If Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” revealed the scientific truths behind the development of all living things, then the play “Mr. Darwin’s Tree” seeks to reveal truths behind Charles...

“First off, we’re not sending a rover to Mars,” Fenton Lawler stated, regarding the most common misconception about the Rover team he helped found. The Calvin Mars Rover Design Team, entering their...

The long-awaited fourth avengers movie is a cinematic triumph. “Endgame” perfectly concludes the beloved saga, satisfying hardcore and casual fans alike. A nice bonus is the film’s record-breaking...

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposed “Green New Deal,” a package designed to make America more sustainable, has generated a flurry of controversy. Last Thursday an interdisciplinary...

Opening the bee boxes in the Calvin community garden won’t result in an angry fury of bees trying to protect their queen, but only a quiet crunching of dead bees. During the winter of 2018-2019, every...

A new art exhibit in the Center Art Gallery explores the fragility of bees and reckons with their rapid decline in the world. Artists Craig Goodworth and David Hooker created multimedia pieces about bees,...

Malaria deaths have dropped over the last decade thanks to greater access to treatment, but for those who survive the disease, physical recovery is not when the effects of malaria end. Katherine Miller,...

In some parts of the world, desktop and laptop computers are not very practical. They are large, fragile, need a strong and consistent internet connection, and fail to work when they get...

Students who are counting down the days until spring break know that as of today, Friday March 8, they only have eight more days until freedom. If these students were at Calvin two decades earlier, however,...

“If your faith is strong, you shouldn’t be afraid to learn about other faiths,” Calvin sophomore Tuba Jaheran told her audience. Jaheran was a keynote speaker at “The Annual Abrahamic Dinner,”...

Records on global temperature changes go far beyond modern temperature measurements. Dr. Melinda C. Higley, a member of the Ohio Geological Survey, addressed this as part of her lecture on Friday, Feb....

Calvin students no longer have the option of renting on-campus Enterprise cars for transportation. Enterprise terminated the program at Calvin and removed the cars in January. The Enterprise CarShare...

Calvin College hosted its first ever hackathon this week. The event was named “Calvin Hacks” although the word “hacking” brings to mind malicious online activity. At hackathons, students build...

The ongoing controversial question of whether or not same-sex marriage is compatible with Christian doctrine was the spotlight of Tuesday’s Sexuality Series event: “Talking Across the Divide on Same-Sex...

Former Ireland president Mary Robinson concluded this year’s January Series with a presentation on climate change. Robinson was prime minister of Ireland from 1990 through 1997, and then became the United...

Calvin College heard from Black Panther costume designer Ruth Carter at the January Series on Friday Jan. 18. Carter told the story of her work dressing the inhabitants of the fictional African country...

Nicholas Kristof is a journalist for the New York Times and Pulitzer Prize winner who is known for his humanitarian work around the world, advocating especially for the rights of women and children in...

Barbara Pierce Bush, a guest at the this year’s January Series, filled in for her twin sister, Jenna Bush Hager who had to withdraw from the event at the last moment due to scheduling conflicts with...

“They started staring at me weirdly and asked  ‘Are you Muslim?’” This is part of the story of sophomore Blerta Lika, who is a mathematics major at Calvin College. She is also a Muslim. Lika was...

Professors from various departments and a staff member gathered on Tuesday evening to talk about the threat of climate change and how Christians should respond. The event was hosted by the student-run...

The Calvin College Geology Department hosted guest speaker and expert sedimentologist Dr. Brian Romans last week. Romans’ lecture was about the value of the marine sedimentology record and focused on...

On Friday, Oct. 19, students who conducted scientific research over the summer were given the opportunity to share their research with the Calvin community through a poster fair. For around three hours,...