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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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New Food in a New Rott

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

For the first week of classes, students' mealtime discussions often centered on opinions about the new food service, AVI Fresh, and all the changes it brought. While many students like the new changes, some do not. There are a variety of reasons for each...

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WVPE broadcasts student essays

Apr 29th, 2009 • Category: features

Paul Boers paid tribute to his kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Arnold, who reminded him that "everyone deserves to be treated with compassion and respect" -- including the school's janitor, whom Paul and his friends liked to call "Poopy John." Hannah Groff remembered Mrs....

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Squirrelly antics fascinate campus

By Laura Schlabach • Apr 15th, 2009 • Category: features

Beth Glick's walk to the library one March afternoon led to the discovery of what became the most famous squirrel on campus. Glick was originally fascinated with a particular black squirrel's habit of standing straight up on its back legs while eating a nut, and then...

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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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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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Neumann adds game design to his course schedule

Apr 1st, 2009 • Category: features

Chris Neumann Contributing Writer Michael Neumann, a junior art student, grew up playing video games. In the early 1990's, he played Super Mario Bros. on his two-button Nintendo Game Boy. In 1996, he bought a Nintendo 64, beating Mario 64, 1080 Snowboarding and a...

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30 Hour famine takes practice

By Laura Schlabach • Apr 1st, 2009 • Category: features

Melissa MacGregor had skipped both breakfast and lunch. She was well on her way to fasting a complete 30 hours. Unfortunately, it was March 20, a full week before the 30 hour famine was scheduled to take place. MacGregor and Lydie Assefa, both seniors, were among 154...

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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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Senior witnesses history in El Salvador election

By Anna Ruth • Mar 25th, 2009 • Category: features

The presidential election in El Salvador last week marked the first time that a left-wing political party has been in power, and a Goshen College student was there to help officiate. Bethany Loberg, a senior peace, justice and conflict studies major and Spanish...

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Dream dates rendezvous in Chicago

By Laura Schlabach • Mar 18th, 2009 • Category: features

Leah Moreno's spring break included something not many other students can claim: a day in Chicago with a man on a global search for his dream girl. Moreno, a sophomore, had a dream in December that included a man she interpreted as her dream guy, and after some quick...

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The fury of nature unleashed

By Aaron Kaufmann • Mar 18th, 2009 • Category: features

For many of us the idea of a tornado sends chills down our spines. For Josh Hofer, a sophomore, tornadoes bring different emotions. Hofer does not fear tornadoes. He chases them. Hofer has been chasing tornadoes with his father, Todd, since his elementary school...

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