Art can act as a gateway into the ideals of the culture that created it. Despite being constructed in the seventh century B.C.E., we can analyze Greek marble sculpture and get a glimpse into the values and principles that were deemed important. Themes of beauty, strength, storytelling, and power still resonate with modern viewers even when much of the context and people have long since been forgotten. So what is modern art saying about our culture now? As much as I enjoy perusing art museums and overthinking abstract pieces, I can’t help but feel that the purpose of art has...

By Ryan Snider • October 30, 2025 • Features

On a chilly Friday night, the quiet Miller residence halls at Goshen College were haunted once again. This year’s Haunted Halls event drew around 200 people, 50 up from the 150 last year.  The event took place on the first floor of Miller, which is currently unoccupied. Residence life transformed the space into a ‘haunted’ hall. Each room was decorated differently and staffed by student actors. A sign by the entrance warned visitors of the scares to come and listed safety rules. Students entered in small groups to explore the rooms.   Kevin Schultz, assistant director of residence life, said, “It’s...

By Ana Alves Machado • October 30, 2025 • Features

My Study-Service Term to Red Lake, Minnesota with Mennonite Disaster Service was my first prolonged interaction with Kendra Yoder, and the first time I reflected on the weight of the gossip culture at Goshen College. Yoder is a professor of sociology and co-director of global engagement here at GC, and she happened to be one of my SST leaders. One evening, after a crappy service day, she and I went on a walk outside the reservation’s casino hotel — home for our time in Red Lake due to some behind-schedule renovations. We ended our walk by the entryway lawn, where...

By Eliza Alemán • October 23, 2025 • Features

At Goshen College, a group of people work their way through every building on campus from Monday through Friday: sweeping, mopping, dusting, wiping, emptying and neatening. Custodians report for duty as early as 5 a.m. to clean and maintain every classroom, bathroom, housing area and other spaces in each building on campus. Christy Farley oversees a staff of 12 in the custodial department. Farley is responsible for ensuring all supplies are ordered and stocked, work orders are completed, cleaning duties are completed for each building and summer schedules are coordinated.  Careful scheduling is needed to clean for various events from...

By Mafe Aguilar Vargas • October 23, 2025 • Features

If you’ve ever stepped foot on Goshen College’s campus, chances are you’ve seen Kellam Venosky. Maybe it was at a Maple Leafs game, a concert  or on a walk to the cafeteria.  Wherever he is, Venosky is known to stop and say hello — because he probably already knows your name. Venosky, a senior admissions counselor, is a man of many titles and many friends. This month, he is celebrating his 10th anniversary as a GC employee. This year, he was also honored with the “Fan of the Year” award at the Leafys event. “It meant a lot to me...

By May Boudreau • October 23, 2025 • Features

Despite several years of short jail staffing requiring just one section, the Goshen College course of the Inside-Out Prison Exchange program will be moved back to two concurrent classes this year as it had always been in the past. Held at the Elkhart County jail, the “outside” students, a cohort from GC, will join the “inside” students, those currently incarcerated in the jail, for two of the courses being offered.  Robert Brenneman, professor of criminal justice and sociology, will lead a section in the men’s ward entitled “Masculinity and Justice.” Regina Shands Stoltzfus, professor of peace, justice and conflict studies,...

By Kate Bodiker • October 23, 2025 • Features

At midnight on Friday, World College Radio Day began. World College Radio Day is an annual event that celebrates college and high school radio stations. On the day, all participating stations are on air for 24 hours straight. Listeners are encouraged to tune in and foster awareness for these radio stations and their role in promoting independent, diverse and local content. This year, 604 stations participated in World College Radio Day. One of these stations to take part was 91.1 The Globe, the student-run station of Goshen College. There are currently nine paid student positions on the station staff. Two...

By Liam Shaw • October 9, 2025 • Features

Coming to the United States is not an easy decision, nor is it an easy process. My parents sacrificed many things in their lives to give my brother and me everything we needed — a home, food, clothes to wear and just enough to send us to school. I never knew how our family was doing financially before we moved to the U.S. I thought we were doing just fine, so the idea of moving to another country seemed like a luxury. As I grew up and learned that many people across the world come here for a better life,...

By Mafe Aguilar Vargas • October 9, 2025 • Features

A decade ago, on any given Friday at Goshen College, students, staff and faculty could be seen across campus wearing the same dark purple cotton T-shirt. The front carried a question in canary yellow Times New Roman font: “Where is my LGBTQ prof?” The five words hinted at a much larger policy discussion happening in GC Board of Directors meetings. Until 2015, a section of the GC Community Standards documents stated, “The Mennonite Church USA Confessions of Faith places intercourse within the convent of marriage between a woman and man, and therefore employees are expected to follow this understanding.” Simultaneously,...

By Eliza Alemán • October 9, 2025 • Features

The Marine Science Club has become the second science club on Goshen College soil, the first being Women in STEM. It arrived at GC in the fall semester of last year, with their inaugural event being the Halloween Bash on Oct. 31.  Following their start in October, the Marine Science Club took their first annual trip to the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago on March 9, with a total group of nine members. According to Katie Dunderman, the club’s co-founder and president, its main aim at GC is to “create a space where people could come who were just interested in...

By Caoimhe Farrell • October 9, 2025 • Features

The members of the Goshen College Cycling Club have set out on their journey of giving the cycling community a means to socialize, stay fit and ride safely. Through three rides and counting, the members are making history as part of the first official cycling club at GC. The two club leaders, Henry Meyer, a senior biology major, and Levi Moser, a sophomore environmental science major, led the inaugural group ride on Aug. 31, six days after the start of classes. 14 people joined in an 18-mile ride that day along the Pumpkinvine Trail that goes from Goshen to Shipshewana,...

By Caoimhe Farrell • September 25, 2025 • Features

Over the past summer, I participated in an internship program at Fallingwater, a UNESCO World Heritage Site designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. I was a land stewardship intern, and I was appointed to this position by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, the organization that owns Fallingwater and the surrounding land. This position began with me being in the midst of the hiring process, only to receive an email stating that the Department of Government Efficiency, headed by Elon Musk, was cutting funding to my AmeriCorps program in half. I was told that I would not get the job because of the...

By Jacob Dixon • September 25, 2025 • Features

The Connector is one of campus’ most recognizable landmarks. Not only does it attach to the Kratz, Miller,  and Yoder residence halls, but its additional roles go from walkway, to bulletin board, to event space and study area. However, there is an even more lively side of the Connector that perhaps not every student has encountered. Anywhere from 8 to 10 p.m., depending on the night, comes the rush of activity and energy that accompanies the evening crowd. The central first-floor area of the Connector is filled for hours with the buzz of conversation, which can be heard from one...

By Josiah Miller • September 25, 2025 • Features

Catitude Café, a new cat cafe in downtown Goshen, has been open for three weeks now. The cafe is the first of its kind in Elkhart County.     Brenda Summers ’93, Catitude Café owner, said, “I really want people to come in here and just be able to feel. If they need quiet, if they need space, there is ample [room]. It is a calm and relaxing environment.” Summers wants people to find comfort in the lounge. She said it is okay to just go in there and only pet cats for a bit. She wanted to make the...

By Al Gabrielson • September 25, 2025 • Features

This past week, I was assigned to read a chapter from John D. Roth’s, “A Mennonite College for Everyone (?)” for junior seminar. Our discussion focused predominantly around the role of love in historical analysis: Is this Christ-like love — the kind that prompts empathy, and is void of quick judgment — a helpful tool in academic research? Though after class, I found myself juggling a rather different question: at what point is an unwavering allegiance to a particular cause … necessary? In the chapter, “Redefining Community: The Long  Struggle for LGBTQ+ Inclusion, 1990-2010”, Roth covered Goshen College’s internal and...

By Eliza Alemán • September 18, 2025 • Features