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Surprise Recruit Joins Basketball Days Before Semester’s Start

By Anna Ruth • Oct 28th, 2009 • Category: features, lead

When six-foot six-inch basketball player Daniel Butler graduated from Milwaukee Tech Community College in 2006, he never expected to play basketball as part of a team again. As it turns out, Butler’s career on the court did not end there. Though he was born in...

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Yoders to run a marathon in Marathon, Greece

By Anna Ruth • Oct 14th, 2009 • Category: features, lead

A year ago, Campus Pastor Bob Yoder would never have imagined himself running the route of the original marathon through the hills of Greece. But in November, Yoder and his wife, Pamela, will do just that. This will be Yoder’s second full marathon,...

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Coffee, Cushions and Christianity

By Anna Ruth • Oct 7th, 2009 • Category: features

Coffee or tea with your Bible study? Or how about a cushion to sit on? Coffee, meditation, and singing are but a few of the many diverse focal points of groups that reflect an increasing spirituality at Goshen College. Arienne Johnson, who has a double...

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New faculty join GC community

By Anna Ruth • Sep 23rd, 2009 • Category: features, lead

Joining the Goshen College community for the 2009 fall semester are twenty-one new faculty, accounting for eleven departments with new staff. Every school year brings changes in faculty, but this year the Art and Communications Departments have had significant...

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Tamara of the Jungle

By Anna Ruth • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: features

Summer typically means a break from school, but for Campus Pastor Tamara Shantz, this past summer was her chance to be a student again. Shantz applied for a faculty grant from the Center for Intercultural Teaching and Learning that would allow her to study...

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UPDATE: Two alumni survive canoeing accident

By Anna Ruth • Apr 13th, 2009 • Category: lead, news

Nick Loewen and Glenn Schumacher, both Goshen College alumni, were involved in a canoeing accident near the Goshen dam on March 17. Loewen is currently at home in Goshen. Schumacher recently began breathing on his own but has developed pneumonia. He remains at...

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Goshen College keys up marine biology partnerships

By Anna Ruth • Apr 1st, 2009 • Category: news

In a celebration of the marine biology program, Goshen College recently named their Florida Keys facility the J.N. Roth Marine Biology Station. The station was named in honor of former Goshen College biology professors Jonathan Roth and Franklin Bishop, for whom a...

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Senior witnesses history in El Salvador election

By Anna Ruth • Mar 25th, 2009 • Category: features

The presidential election in El Salvador last week marked the first time that a left-wing political party has been in power, and a Goshen College student was there to help officiate. Bethany Loberg, a senior peace, justice and conflict studies major and Spanish...

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Raising world hunger awareness: Students to skip, give up meals

By Anna Ruth • Mar 18th, 2009 • Category: news

By 2:00 a.m. on March 27, some Goshen College students will have tasted their last meal for the next 30 hours. A group of students will participate in a 30 Hour Famine, inspired by an event from World Vision organization each year. After finding sponsors and pledging...

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Can social justice work be ’sweat free?’

By Anna Ruth • Mar 11th, 2009 • Category: features

For Adam Rice, doing his part to improve working conditions for under-paid laborers in sweatshops is as straightforward as crossing the street. Rice is completing the field project required for his sociology major by interning with SweatFree Communities, an...

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