Calvin University Chimes

Trump 2.0: Political science department offers panel on current U.S. politics

Grace Buller, Managing Editor
April 14, 2025

On Tuesday, April 8, Calvin’s Department of Politics and Economics hosted a panel discussion on current U.S. federal government affairs. Issues discussed ranged from program cuts to democratic backsliding...

Funding for library services cut nationwide

Grace Buller, Managing Editor
April 7, 2025

Calvin student Alison Chen first used the Michigan e-Library Catalog — better known as MeLCat — to request a book when she was 10. Her relatively small local library didn't have the biography of a...

Calvin responds to federal challenges of DEI

Elisabeth Stevens, General Assignment Reporter
March 4, 2025

A recent letter from the Department of Education has brought questions about diversity, equity, and inclusion work at educational institutions like Calvin into stark focus. On February 14, 2025, the...

Calvin’s international community feels uncertainty amid recent executive orders

Grace Buller, Managing Editor
February 3, 2025

Since taking office on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump has signed over 45 executive orders, many of them pertaining to immigration and trade between the U.S. and other countries. Trump’s executive...

Professors, offices across campus react to a week of federal funding confusion

Elisabeth Stevens, General Assignment Reporter
February 3, 2025

The burst of executive orders at the outset of the Trump presidency included multiple measures pausing various kinds of federal financial assistance. The changes have left researchers and administrators...

Rep. Meijer faces censures, primary challenge, over impeachment vote

Isaac Seiler, Guest Writer
February 25, 2021

Michigan's 3rd Congressional District is no stranger to national political attention, having been the center of controversy in not one but both of President Donald Trump’s impeachments. During Trump’s...

Feelings on Trump mixed among Calvin Republicans, choose not to endorse

Josh Parks
October 22, 2016

Like many right-leaning Christians this year, the Calvin College Republicans have found Donald Trump to be an unsatisfactory candidate for president. The student organization has chosen not to endorse...

American Evangelicals take stand against Donald Trump

Kathryn Mae Post
October 16, 2016

On Thursday, Oct. 6, 94 prominent American evangelicals issued an open letter against Donald Trump as a petition on Change.org. This petition identifies the diverse voices of the Evangelical church, condemns...

Donald Trump’s black sheep pastors

Matt Leistra
September 16, 2016

A number of well-known, controversial pastors and spiritual leaders have endorsed or voiced support for Donald Trump as president of the United States. Many of Trump’s most famous religious supporters...

Trump’s political ascension predicted by “Bee Movie”

Jordan Petersen
September 16, 2016

Donald Trump is a possible choice for president, and as we get deeper into the election cycle, it becomes clear that the conditions leading to his rise were predicted in a 2007 film. Not in the Coen Brother’s...