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Facebook: The writing on the wall?

By Marlys Weaver • Nov 4th, 2009 • Category: features, lead

Since Mark Zuckerburg and three friends began the thefacebook.com for Harvard University Feb. 1, 2004, this social networking site has grown into an international sensation. Not even 6 six years old, Facebook has grown from an informational host to an eruption of...

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Stressed? You aren’t the only one

By Marlys Weaver • Oct 28th, 2009 • Category: features

Anna Pasquarello had hoped to go home for midterm break, relax and let her mind rest a little, but that’s not what happened. Pasquarello spent her break on campus, trying to work at her on-campus job as much as possible to fix her car, finish up her book to be...

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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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Hour Afters, coffeehouses yet to come

By Marlys Weaver • Oct 14th, 2009 • Category: features

Every year the Campus Activities Council (CAC) hosts several events that highlight student talent and help students bond campus-wide, but this fall, many students have been discussing how there have been fewer of their favorite events, Hour Afters. Some students even...

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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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Skipping school to be with cows

By Marlys Weaver • Oct 7th, 2009 • Category: features

Most students at Goshen College have some hobby or interest that very few others know much about. For several past and present students, including myself, that interest is for an animal: the dairy cow. Maybe surprising for some, it's also a reason to take off some days...

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Global Anabaptist Wiki Builds International Community

Sep 30th, 2009 • Category: features, lead

This article was reported by Andrew Shenk Goshen College’s Mennonite Historical Library has developed what it hopes will be an authoritative, expansive, and constantly evolving source for information about international Anabaptist-Mennonite groups. The...

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Film Program Gives Students a First-Hand Look Into Hollywood

Sep 30th, 2009 • Category: features

This article was reported by Katelyn Yoder. Last year Goshen College sent four students to study for a semester in California at the Los Angeles Film Studies Center. Taylor Stansberry, a senior communication and theater double major, Doug Hallman,...

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Trolley yourself across towns

By Marlys Weaver • Sep 23rd, 2009 • Category: features

Goshen College students have a reputation of being avid bikers. But what happens when biking isn't possible? What if it’s raining, or you need to transport bags of groceries? What do you do if you don’t have a car? The Elkhart-Goshen Interurban Trolley is one...

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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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Puerto Rican telenovela actor a student at GC

By Marlys Weaver • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: features

By Sara Alvarez The shopping district has been closed, the street is blocked, and screaming fans are crowded around roadblocks. This scene is common for movie stars and famous musicians, but not one that most Goshen College students have experienced. Most, that is,...

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Maple Scholars study pigeons, cholesterol, women’s co-ops and more

By Marlys Weaver • Sep 9th, 2009 • Category: features

By Joshua Delp For many students, the fall signifies a return to academics and college life. To many, it feels as though they never left. To some, however, this sentiment is more reality than witticism. This summer seventeen Goshen students spent eight weeks here...

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