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Students piece fellowship with fabric

By Paul Boers • Apr 8th, 2009 • Category: features

Hymns from the nearby sanctuary drift through the open door as both church women and college students settle in to quilt. Some days participants pin on a name tag and get right to work, while other weeks they eat soup and bread together before getting started. This...

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Bike, carpool or walk: Just don’t drive

By Paul Boers • Mar 25th, 2009 • Category: news

Goshen College students, faculty and staff could have carpooled to Albuquerque, biked or walked to Indianapolis and taken the trolley between Elkhart and Goshen six times with the miles they saved with Don't Drive Day on Friday. Approximately 46 persons walked,...

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Don’t drive day spurs spontaneity

By Paul Boers • Mar 25th, 2009 • Category: features

Getting to work at the Good Library without a car took some extra planning for Lisa Guedea Carreno on Don’t Drive Day – planning that didn’t quite work out. Don’t Drive Day was a campus challenge to avoid driving by biking, carpooling or walking on...

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For the Record Mar. 12

By Paul Boers • Mar 12th, 2009 • Category: for the record

Something quietly disappeared with the launch of the Record's new Web site. I think it deserves a few words. I'm talking about the Record's online archives. When we transferred to the Wordpress software – which now provides the foundation of our Web site – we retired...

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S.S.T. relationship spans three decades

By Paul Boers • Mar 4th, 2009 • Category: features

An S.S.T. planning error led Tina Schlabach to stay with what was supposed to be a temporary host family in 1980. Two weeks ago – almost 29 years later – Schlabach introduced her children to that family. Schlabach, now a member of the pastoral team at Waterford...

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Smith featured in Sony Pictures film

By Paul Boers • Feb 18th, 2009 • Category: features

Goshen College students may recognize a face on the silver screen this spring. Isaac Smith, a senior, has a small role in "Sugar," a movie about a man from the Dominican Republic who comes to the United States to play baseball. Smith plays Clubby, a clubhouse manager...

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Who is Spacemaker Peaceman?

By Paul Boers • Feb 11th, 2009 • Category: features

An anonymous Facebook profile got people talking last week. The profile was created on Wednesday under the name "Spacemaker Peaceman." The page is full of odd references to intra-dimensional travel, the tenth-dimensional gulf, his army of "Spacemaker Juniors" and eating...

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Lessons on extension

By Paul Boers • Feb 4th, 2009 • Category: perspectives

It’s far from original for a college student to call himself busy, but for years it was the first word I used to describe myself. Then, I left my hectic life for a semester and had to find new ways to see myself. I spent last semester in a program called the Oregon...

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From Iraq to Goshen: a student veteran’s story

By Paul Boers • Feb 4th, 2009 • Category: features

For Wayne Short, a first-year, the war in Iraq is more than a news topic or campaign issue. He served two tours of duty in the war. Short is a 24-year-old business and accounting double major with a Bible and religion minor. He lives locally in LaGrange...

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With their own eyes: GC students travel to Washington

By Paul Boers • Jan 21st, 2009 • Category: features

They traveled hundreds of miles to stand for hours in cold temperatures in a crowd of over one million people. But for the handful of Goshen College students who saw Barack Obama's inauguration firsthand, it was worth it. Some traveled to Washington by car, others...

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