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Hooray for May Term

Author: johnm68 • Apr 18th, 2013 • Category: funnies
They say, “Goshen College is good because, May Term.” Who says that? I don’t know. I made that quote up. I guess I say that. Nonetheless, it’s time for Goshen to acknowledge its true selling point. Each year, about halfway through Goshen’s six month winter, I...

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Faculty Quotes Out of Context 4/18/13

Author: johnm68 • Apr 18th, 2013 • Category: funnies
Faculty Quotes Out of Context 4/18/13 "We need a little comic relief, so I'm going to show you an explicit sex scene." -JoAnn Brant "It's like some wild threesome... That's a bad analogy." - Kevin Gary “If you want to be sitting in a chair, that’s okay. If you want to be holding a beer...

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Conclusions of a failed thought experiment

Author: johnm68 • Apr 18th, 2013 • Category: funnies
By Michael “Graduating Bear” Zehr As we near the end of an era here at Goshen College, I can’t help but reflect on the past four years I’ve spent as a GC student; a stoic yet fierce maple leaf I have been. In four years’ time, I’ve seen a lot go down on...

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“All science is bias”

Author: johnm68 • Apr 10th, 2013 • Category: funnies
By John Miller, Funnies Editor I recently had the wonderful opportunity to sit down with Josh Yoder, junior ecology and Literalism double major, and have a chat about ecology. I had some misunderstandings about the environment that he was happy to set me straight on....

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‘HOW WAS SST?!’

Author: johnm68 • Apr 10th, 2013 • Category: funnies
By Jess Sprunger, Contributing Writer How to welcome home friends from Study-Service Term is the leading cause of emotional stress and confusion for people on campus. SSTers are globetrotters, but definitely not as famous as the Harlem Globetrotters, so how do we show...

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Inside/Outside Voices 4/4/13

Author: johnm68 • Apr 3rd, 2013 • Category: funnies
"I don't always call I/O Voices, but when I do, I'm Jared Miller." - Luke Slagel "Mother! This is Vasti Rosado, Clare Maxwell and Alison Krawiec, and we're just a little bit upset because we've noticed that most of the writers for the Funnies section are bros. And as...

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By order of the king

Author: johnm68 • Mar 20th, 2013 • Category: funnies
By order of the king Last Saturday I was elected “King of Goshen College” at Goshen's first-annual masquerade ball. Candidates were chosen based on the quality of their masks, and I was elected through a complex cheering process. I'd like to acknowledge that the stunning mask I wore was...

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Faculty Quotes Out of Context 3/14/13

Author: johnm68 • Mar 13th, 2013 • Category: funnies
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Pandemic alert: seniors come down with contagious disease

Author: johnm68 • Mar 13th, 2013 • Category: funnies
By Mike "Zehr Bear" Zehr, Contributing Writer Here's a clue: it rhymes with gingivitis. No, it’s not tendinitis, although it is equally as potent. You’re close if you guessed Bettywhitis, the very rare syndrome that causes elderly women to become hilarious and...

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Something to whine about

Author: johnm68 • Mar 13th, 2013 • Category: funnies
By John Miller, Funnies Editor This last Monday, March 11, 2013, I witnessed a brazen disregard for Goshen’s community standards. The Rott (occasionally referred to by its nickname, “Westlawn Dining Hall”) was serving pork chops for lunch. What made these pork...

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Inside/Outside Voices, 3/7/13

Author: johnm68 • Mar 7th, 2013 • Category: funnies
"Hi, this is Sophie Lapp, and if you're interested in going to the ISC coffeehouse dinner, I can provide you with a ticket, and a not-so-blind, but well-dressed date... which would be me. Also, disclaimer is that I can't provide you with a ticket to the show. So email me if...

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GC charges ‘an arm and a leg’ for 2013-14 school year

Author: johnm68 • Mar 7th, 2013 • Category: funnies
By Jonny Hersh, Contributing Writer Earlier this week, Goshen College announced a tuition hike for the 2013-2014 school year that was met by a number of varied responses. Stuart Graber, a junior informatics major---always the optimist---responded in favor of the...

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Artist’s Corner picks the wrong corner

Author: johnm68 • Feb 21st, 2013 • Category: funnies
Artist’s Corner picks the wrong corner John Miller hasn’t always considered himself an artist. “I didn’t realize that what I did with my food could be considered art,” he said over a meal at the Rott. “Now that I consider it art, it is.” Miller, a junior physics major, has been making faces out of...

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Faculty quotes out of context 2/21/13

Author: johnm68 • Feb 21st, 2013 • Category: funnies
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Overheard at the Brew

Author: johnm68 • Feb 20th, 2013 • Category: funnies
Overheard at the Brew By: Kate Friesen and Jessie Gotwals, Contributing Funnies Writers As a way to support the local Goshen economy, we go to the Brew every Tuesday. One particular day, we were working hard on hdubz (homework, that is) when all of a sudden we heard from the table next to us...

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