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Since 1907
Calvin University's official student newspaper since 1907

Calvin University Chimes

Calvin University's official student newspaper since 1907

Calvin University Chimes

The Calvin Music Festival is one of several opportunities for the community to hear music by Calvin students. Photo courtesy of Nate Glasper.

Music Department Expands Programming

Maya Oeverman, General Assignment Editor
September 30, 2024

Calvin’s music department has launched the new school year by welcoming several new programs and professors to their program. The new programming includes the return of the Bachelor of Music Education...

Don’t collapse the arts

Josh Parks
December 13, 2015

At last week’s faculty senate meeting, the core curriculum committee (CCC) presented a “draft working model” of a new core to the senators for feedback. Provost Brandsen stressed that it was tentative...

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Record Dialogue submissions this year

Josiah Kinney
November 12, 2015

Dialogue has re-established itself as an extremely popular creative outlet for Calvin students following an explosion of submissions for their fall 2015 issue. In fall 2013, Dialogue had 166 total submissions,...

Bronze Age of the Nineties Review

Michael Lentz
November 12, 2015

“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....

The dearth of non-pop

James Li
November 9, 2015

It’s an open-secret that the vast majority of billboard hits are written by a handful of middle-aged European and American songwriters. As Nathaniel Rich’s article for The Atlantic, “Hit Charade,”...

The Dearth of Non-Indie

Kelsey Powers
September 26, 2015

Do you like Indie music? If you like attending concerts at Calvin (hopefully you do) a good majority of their concerts have indie music. If you’re not the biggest fan of indie... well, you’re left...

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