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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

This group from 2019 was one of the last groups to go on SLC spring break trips before
the pandemic. The revival of these trips hopes to reinvigorate student opportunities and
offer historic Calvin programs that were paused due to COVID-19.

Calvin’s Service Learning Center provides spring break opportunities to work in disaster relief

Ethan Meyers, General Assignment Reporter
January 22, 2024

For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, Calvin students will have the opportunity to travel around the United States with the Service-Learning Center over spring break. Service-learning trips for...

Photo courtesy Calvin Sports Information

Women’s tennis has hot spring break

Mark Peless
March 30, 2016

The women’s tennis team traveled to Florida for spring break this year, accumulating four wins and one loss. On March 14 they faced the University of Dubuque and won convincingly, 8-1. The doubles...

Photo Courtesy Nate Roels

It’s Worth the Trip: service learning for spring break

Natalie Henderson
March 30, 2016

For most, spring break is a long-awaited time to sit back, relax, sit on a beach, or for those who aren’t as lucky, watch lots of Netflix. However, for a number of Calvin students, spring break was filled...

Photo courtesy track and field team

Track and field race their way to the beach

Makenzie Vos
March 26, 2015

Spring is a season of beginnings: the flowers are blooming, the snow is melting and the track and field team is forming new bonds down in Alabama. Thirteen hours in a bus and practicing in the blistering...

Photo courtesy Erin Smith

Service-learning trip goes local with *culture is not optional

Erin Smith
April 3, 2014

Habits such as eating vegan, buying dye-free dish soap, wearing thick-patterned sweaters and drinking tea out of mason jars have been around for decades as generation after generation of young people tries...

Photo courtesy service-learning center

Service-learning trip to Louisiana experiences servanthood

Jennifer Hartstein
April 3, 2014

This past week, I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in a service-learning trip to Chauvin, La. While there, I was struck by the resilient and selfless attitudes of a community that has been...

Photo courtesy Service-Learning Center

Calvin’s Perkins Fellows meet John Perkins over spring break

Sarah Stripp
April 3, 2014

While most Service-Learning spring break trips send off a group of students that can fit in a 15 passenger van, this past week, 28 students and two faculty members loaded up a charter bus and travelled...

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