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POETRY: “What Am I: a Conversation of Identity With the Divine”

By Sarah Rich • Nov 19th, 2009 • Category: arts

By Nathan Stoess You ask me What am I? What am I? What am I? I am what eyes would perceive as a vanishing point of humanity That couldn't be Because you go all the way from A to Z Alpha omega someone once put it to me Me a reflection of this cosmic poet’s...

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Pen-dueling to publication: writing opportunities at GC

By Sarah Rich • Nov 11th, 2009 • Category: arts

Sarah Rich Fiction writers and poets have been crawling out of the Goshen College woodwork in the past few weeks. The Broadside board recently hosted a short fiction contest, which received almost 30 submissions written by students. Abe Pauls won the contest...

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Artists Corner: Alana Kenagy

By Sarah Rich • Nov 11th, 2009 • Category: arts

Sarah Rich Alana Kenagy, a junior, remembers taking this ceramic pendant out of the raku smoking chamber her first year at Goshen College and thinking, “I am going to have to make more of these.” Since then, Kenagy has created and then sold or given away 60...

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Parables members sing, dance and act their spirit

By Sarah Rich • Nov 4th, 2009 • Category: arts

With diverse interests and artistic specialties, the Parables worship team comes together about once a week to share their many gifts but same spirit with congregations and other Christian functions in the area. They recently held one such program for prospective...

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Hovan and Seitz perform in the parlor

By Sarah Rich • Oct 14th, 2009 • Category: arts

Matthias Stegmann, who teaches guitar at Goshen College, joined Rebecca Hovan on stage during her "In The Parlor" recital, Saturday. Photo by Molly Kraybill. Dressed in long sparkling evening gowns and lit by the glittering lights of Rieth Recital Hall, music professors...

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Artist’s Corner: Emily Miller

By Sarah Rich • Oct 7th, 2009 • Category: arts

Emily Miller saw this old, decrepit schoolhouse across the street from her church in Waco, Tex. every Sunday this past summer. The building was recently burned down as part of a string of arsonist felonies, but the “crackpot” lady who owns it, Miller explains,...

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Artist’s Corner: Julia Baker

By Sarah Rich • Sep 30th, 2009 • Category: arts

Sarah Rich Julia Baker was biking along one fall day last year when she saw a red leaf stuck in the fence of the tennis courts at Bethany Christian High School. “I screeched to a halt,” said Baker, “knowing that I had to take a picture.” There were...

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Goshen students salsa to Valparaiso

By Sarah Rich • Sep 23rd, 2009 • Category: arts

Sarah Rich The 12 members of the Goshen College salsa team danced on the University of Valparaiso's ballroom floor last Friday night for their first ever paid performance. The salsa team, a group of experienced dancers from the salsa club, danced as...

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Noah to perform, as she is

By Sarah Rich • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: arts

Sarah Rich This Friday evening at 8 p.m. Angie Noah, a theater major, will present her senior recital to the Goshen College community, revealing bits of herself on the Umble Center stage. Noah's production, directed by recent GC graduates Emily Swora and Grace...

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Artist’s corner: Alex Caskey

By Sarah Rich • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: arts

Sarah Rich "Clay Fish", created by senior Alex Caskey, will be displayed in Java Junction sometime in the next year. "In making this piece," says Caskey, "I often reflected on the process of creation, both in the studio and in the natural world. The natural...

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Jayber Crow plays on Goshen’s front porch

By Sarah Rich • Sep 9th, 2009 • Category: arts

By Sarah Rich Accustomed to performing on the porch stoops of old Midwestern country homes, the folk-acoustic band Jayber Crow was more or less at home playing beneath a string of Christmas lights in the courtyard outside Java Junction on Monday evening. Zach...

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Artist’s corner: Andrea Kraybill

By Sarah Rich • Sep 9th, 2009 • Category: arts

When Andrea Kraybill, a junior Art major, began working on the banner that was to be hung in chapel, she couldn’t quite grasp its theme of “making peace with God.” “One of the first images that came to mind,” says Kraybill, “was that of colors emerging from...

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By the broken shield: Silent vigil invites healing

By Sarah Rich • Apr 15th, 2009 • Category: lead, news

A crowd of nearly 100 people gathered next to the broken shield in front of the Administration building on Wednesday to join in silent objection to Goshen College’s policy against employing openly L.G.B.T.Q. faculty and staff. A card table was set up next to...

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For the Record Apr. 2

By Sarah Rich • Apr 2nd, 2009 • Category: for the record

When approaching people to inquire whether they might consider writing a perspective for the Record, I always feel slightly guilty – a bit like a door-to-door carpet cleaner salesperson must feel. I feel this guilt mostly because I know people are already so busy. The...

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Professor recalls path to political science

By Sarah Rich • Feb 18th, 2009 • Category: features

Born in 1943 into a family of African-American migrant farm workers living in cramped quarters two miles down the road from Lake Placid, Fl., Lee Roy Berry Jr. declares that, truth be told, his childhood home was anything but placid. As a boy, Berry traveled from...

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