First Heyns in BHT and First Kalsbeek and Huizenga in KHvR will no longer be traditional first-year and sophomore housing floors starting next fall.
Jay Wise, director of housing, explained that the...
Calvin College Campus includes expansive dorms with various living-learning communities that offer many unique opportunities. Throughout their first two years at Calvin — or longer, if they become an...
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....
Last weekend as part of International Education Week, every dorm on Calvin’s campus participated in an event called International Treasure. For this event, each dorm represented a different country and...
Many floor communities and sports teams at Calvin welcome new students with a community activity, generally called a “welcome tradition” as opposed to “initiation” or “hazing.” The purpose...
During a pivotal scene in the film “Dead Poets Society,” a teacher takes his English class to the school’s trophy room and asks them to look at the photos of their previous classmates, making the...
When reading the recent article by Ben Rietema on how budget cuts are affecting resident assistants (RAs), I saw something other than the discontent with the new deskie policy being voiced.
As a returning...
It has been seven years since Kalsbeek-Huizenga-vanReken (KHvR) last won Chaos Day, but residence life staff is confident in their chances of seizing the glorious first place this year.
“We are in the...
After last year’s unsuccessful vie for the coveted first place, Rooks-VanDellen (RVD) is coming back with a passion for victory in Chaos Day this year. Much of this year’s hype comes from formidable...
If Boer-Bennink’s (BB) Monsters, Inc. theme of Chaos Day doesn’t scare you, it should, according to dorm residents.
“What we are doing to prepare is a long-fortified secret, and if I spoke of it...
When it comes to Chaos Day, you might think of hula-hoops, racing games and tug-of-war, but first VanderWerp resident assistant Atticus Getz is thinking about a particularly prominent judge of this year’s...
In the four years Emily Colledge has been resident director (RD) of Schultze-Eldersveld (SE), she’s won all four Chaos Days --- 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2012.
And she’s confident that her undefeated streak...
