Saturday, November 21, 2009

Author Archive

Custodians left communism, found Christian college

By Kathryn Birky • Apr 15th, 2009 • Category: features

Holiness is at work on the Goshen College campus. Four Physical Plant custodians have the story: Olga Rabchuk, Olga Astakhov and two named Olga Panchelyuga. Each flew independently to the United States from Ukraine during the last decade, but somehow they landed jobs...

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Ministry for a new generation

By Kathryn Birky • Apr 8th, 2009 • Category: features

Wednesday evenings in the Yoder residence hall last semester were fight nights. Fifty students crowded into the second-floor lounge, pulsing in a ring around two boxers. Levi Yoder, the sophomore who organized the event, described the tentative first few blows. For...

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Concert venue pumps sound, fights cancer

By Kathryn Birky • Mar 4th, 2009 • Category: features

Kevin Kleptz talks about booking bands as if asking for musicians' phone numbers and haggling over guarantees is something he's done for the past decade, not just the past ten weeks. "It's just like being friendly," he explained. By now, "being friendly" has resulted...

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For the Record Feb. 12

By Kathryn Birky • Feb 12th, 2009 • Category: for the record

When the Record's expert delegator – Sheldon Good, editor-in-chief – informed me that I would be responsible for this week's "For the Record," I was hardly in a position to refuse. The problem, however, was that I actually am too busy to spend any more time on the...

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Kenyan perspectives enthusiastic toward inauguration

By Kathryn Birky • Jan 21st, 2009 • Category: features

"When Obama first obtained his Senate seat, I was in a rural area of Kenya doing fieldwork," said Ryan Sensenig, assistant professor of biology. "My field assistants were excitedly discussing Obama's run for the Senate seat before I knew who Obama was." Sensenig, who...

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