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

For many first-generation college students, the transition from high school to higher education can feel like stepping into a completely different world. But at Goshen College, a new summer bridge initiative, known as the Leadership, Engagement, Academics and Development program, is helping students take that leap with confidence, community and purpose.  Launched in summer 2025, the LEAD program welcomed its first cohort of incoming first-year students for a three-week intensive experience designed to ease the transition to college life. Funded in part by the Lilly Endowment grant, the program specifically serves students who are first in their families to attend...

By Ana Alves Machado • September 18, 2025 • Features

Tucked away on Main Street in downtown Goshen, just blocks from the theater, sits a hidden gem, the Maple City Market. Known simply as “the co-op” to many longtime shoppers, this small but mighty store is more than just a grocery stop. It’s a hub for sustainable, local living and a symbol of community values in an ever-commercialized world. At first glance, the store seems relatively small, with not much going on outside. Once inside, though, the aisles reveal a treasure trove of goods from locally made soaps and creamery products to fresh produce and organic bulk foods. The aroma...

By Alianna Reyna • September 18, 2025 • Features

Goshen College is back online … well, mostly. Back in late July, the updated version of goshen.edu went live to the campus community and the broader public. It was clear within the first few days of its launch that the new website had some challenges.  The main goals of the website rebuilding process included visual branding and design, content migration and content formatting according to the “Web Launch FAQ” document shared by the Communications and Marketing Office. The document also stated that the process officially began in September 2024.  “It had been a while since we had done a complete...

By Eliza Alemán • September 18, 2025 • Features

Now that I’ve started my senior year at Goshen College, I cannot help but reflect on the time and contributions I’ve given to The Record. With this reflection comes a critique. A year ago, Carmen Merino wrote a letter to the editor, voicing her disappointment in the editorial staff and communication department over the misrepresentation of minority students.  Merino calls out the glaring pattern within the leadership application process. You would expect such a forewarning letter would encourage future executives to always be inclusive in each article they write. However, this was set on the backburner when it came to...

By Aaliah Higareda • September 4, 2025 • Features

Up three flights of stairs, tucked into the shelves of the Mennonite Historical Library, is the collection of Maple Leaf Yearbooks. They span the years from 1916 all the way through 2014, when their time came to an end. Cloth-bound and hardcover, they are surrounded by other historical records of Goshen College: Alumni Newsletters, GC Bulletins, The Record and more. They tell the story of the college.   The Maple Leaf, for its part, portrays the spirit and liveliness of students over the years. From literary society portraits to satirical dictionaries filled with inside jokes, the old yearbooks give insight into...

By Josiah Miller • September 4, 2025 • Features

On Wednesday, Sept. 3, immediately following the first chapel of the semester — where campus pastor Jen Shenk introduced the year’s theme, “The Time Is Now” — Goshen College hosted its annual Clubs, Organizations and Affinities Fair. The event gave student leaders the opportunity to showcase their passions and invite others to join the vibrant extracurricular life on campus. In a previous article for The Record, Kate Bodiker wrote, “Some of the most notable [clubs] that seem a bit far-fetched today are groups like the Aero Club … in which students paid roughly $390 to receive their private pilot’s license,”...

By Ana Alves Machado • September 4, 2025 • Features