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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

COVID-19 precautions continue to come as the pandemic nears its two year mark.

Spring semester launches with free COVID-19 testing, reduced quarantine times

Lucy Kalebjian, Staff Reporter
January 16, 2022

The COVID Response Team is ready to safely ring in the spring semester, announcing changes including updated isolation and quarantine requirements, mask recommendations and food and drinks limitations...

COVID concerns make recycling difficult.

Recycling to return to campus by early December

Abigail Ham, Managing Editor
October 23, 2021

Recycling bins will once again be dispersed across campus by early December. COVID-19 restrictions, not staffing reductions, have been the main source of delays in reintroduction of campus-wide recycling,...

Professors are no longer required to record classes for students who are sick or quarantined.

Lack of hybrid learning leaves students feeling unsupported

Jocelyn Nuñez-Colón, Campus and Community Co-Editor
September 26, 2021

Calvin is ready to return to in-person learning, but some students want the university to embrace hybrid learning as the new normal. The COVID Response Team announced during their first town hall on...

Calvin offered the Abbot BinaxNow rapid antigen test which provides results in 15 minutes.

Testing plans spot COVID cases early

Michaela Giovannelli, Religion Editor
September 13, 2021

All unvaccinated students returning to campus this semester were required to undergo screening tests twice — once when they arrived and again 3-5 days later. As of Sept. 3 at 11 a.m., five on-campus...

Students who declined to get the COVID-19 vaccinated are required to pay $15 for weekly testing.

Calvin’s COVID policies draw support, objections

Katherine Benedict, Campus & Community Co-Editor
September 13, 2021

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...

Student senate held a town hall with members of the Covid Response Team in order to "bring people with differing perspectives together to help foster understanding.”

CRT, Student Senate respond to COVID policy pushback

Jocelyn Nuñez-Colón, Campus & Community Co-Editor
September 13, 2021

Following weeks of mixed reactions to Calvin's COVID-19 mandates, a six-member CRT panel addressed HIPAA privacy issues, the decision-making process for COVID rules and adjustments to quarantine policy...

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