After eight years in retirement, a jewelry class will once again be offered as an elective this May with the help of Tiffany Wyse-Fisher, assistant professor of art.  Jewelry began at Goshen College when Marvin Bartell, a professor emeritus of art, joined GC in the 1970s. Bartell first taught the jewelry-making class before leading courses in ceramics and art education.  Judy Wenig-Horswell, an associate professor of art from 1973-2009, took over the class when she began her tenure. “She was my jewelry professor,” Wyse-Fisher said, “I took every jewelry class I could under her. She was fantastic.”  After Wenig retired...

By Aaliah Higareda • September 4, 2025 • Features

The graduation ceremony is not just the culmination of years of hard work and dedication for students; it’s also a finely oiled machine that needs to funnel about 1,900 people in and out of the Recreation-Fitness Center in a timely fashion. Cynthia Good Kaufmann,  director of planning and events, is in charge of logistics, but was keen to mention that the ceremony is put together by “a bunch of departments coming together.” Coordination between departments such as the Registrar, the Dean’s office, Comm-mar and the Events office as well as cooperation from students is necessary for a successful ceremony. Brian...

By Phil Witmer-Rich • April 18, 2025 • Features

“Voces Fuertes” means “strong voices,” and it is also the name of the new immigrant advocacy group on campus that will be making its official debut on Thursday, April 17 at 3 p.m. in Schrock Plaza. This group has been in the works for some time, meeting weekly since spring break as they prepared to have at least one event before the semester was over. Areli Guzman, a senior biochemistry major and one of the founders of Voces Fuertes, made reference to racist remarks in bills such as HB 3133, an antiterrorism  act passed in Oklahoma, and executive orders by...

By Josiah Miller • April 18, 2025 • Features

In Goshen, Indiana, approximately 30.9% of the population identifies as Hispanic or Latino, with many speaking Spanish as their primary language, according to Data USA. For nearly a decade, Goshen College has responded to this linguistic and cultural diversity by offering English as a new language classes to adult learners from the community — who range in age from 18 to 70. What started as a small initiative has grown into a program that now serves nearly 200 students. Launched in 2016 through GC’s Center for Intercultural and International Education, the ENL program does more than just teach English. As...

By Ana Alves Machado • April 18, 2025 • Features

Writing your final editorial is a daunting task. I seriously considered writing an editorial about some random topic and never acknowledging the fact that this is the last one. But, here we are, and I can’t pretend that this isn’t the end —  in barely over a week I’ll stroll across the stage and receive a diploma, ending four years of hard work. Shout out to the rest of the seniors, we really are a great class aren’t we? But the ending of our college journey makes me think about how we end things, and what it feels like to...

By Tyson Miller • April 17, 2025 • Features

At the beginning of this semester I decided to make a small change to the masthead. Next to the editorial, the masthead features the staff of The Record, as well as a few other bits of information.  I added the line “The Record is made without the use of A.I.” It felt important. We live in a world where A.I. is being used for more, and getting better every single day. Over the past 18 months, A.I. has hurtled forward at breakneck pace.  I remember first playing with A.I. as a first-year. I signed myself up for a beta version...

By Tyson Miller • April 3, 2025 • Features

The less “green” parts of campus are due for an update, from the poles that literally light students’ way at night to the most hidden away boiler rooms on campus.  For all the students currently at Goshen College, the light pole replacement project has been an ongoing effort since before they arrived on campus. When it first started out, the poles were only getting switched out if they needed to be replaced due to damage or other issues, but now the whole host of new light poles are getting an expedited arrival time on campus.  Brian Mast, director of facilities,...

By Kate Bodiker • April 3, 2025 • Features

  In Sara Method’s backyard stands her former residence, a portable tiny house that housed her, her husband and her two children for five years. Since it no longer serving as their home, it has now been repurposed.  The journey of the tiny home began with Method, assistant professor of art and department chair, and her husband needing to find a place to live quickly before she attended graduate school.  “We needed a home, we had looked at tiny homes for years and it became quickly apparent that we were not going to be able to pay rent where we...

By Kevin Liddell • April 3, 2025 • Features

Look! What’s that up in the sky? A bird? A plane? It could certainly be Superman, but a whole new flying man has been added to the usual list of suspects. Isaac Sensenig, a senior marketing major, recently conquered the skies by earning his A license for skydiving.  Though anyone can jump from extraordinary heights with supervision, this A license allows him to jump on his own, without a skydiving instructor guiding him, like someone fresh off the street would have to do.  Sensenig has been skydiving for three years after a close friend introduced him to the sport. As...

By Kenna Rohrer • April 3, 2025 • Features

Costa Rica, a small Central American nation, is the home of a sizable Conservative Mennonite population. In 1968, my uncle immigrated with his family to the Arenal region of central Costa Rica. His family, along with a handful of others, were amongst the first Mennonites to call the country home.  Costa Rica is historically known for its peaceful approach to both global and local politics as the only country in Latin America to boast no military. Given the combination of untouched wilderness and a culture of peace, it only makes sense that the Mennonite tradition would take hold there. In...

By Adrian Delgadillo • March 27, 2025 • Features

For a campus that’s over a century old, there are plenty of secrets and surprises littered throughout that facilities staff have to work with, or in, every day. On this ride along with Brian Mast, I was allowed to get a glimpse into it all. The whirring of fans and generators was the white noise that filled the Heating Plant on Tuesday morning, and Brian Mast, director of facilities, worked diligently on the bottom floor, tinkering with a pipe that was leaking water.  At the end of the steep blue staircase, the leaking pipe had a black and yellow screwdriver...

By Charlie Aldrich • March 27, 2025 • Features

  I live a short 58 minute drive from Payson High School, in Utah, where the movie Footloose was filmed.  Footloose, which was released in 1984, is about a boy named Ren McCormack, played by Kevin Bacon, who moves to a small midwest town where dancing and rock music have been made illegal.  He spends the rest of the movie trying to convince the town that dancing should be allowed. In the end, a prom is held behind a grain mill, across town lines, and the teens dance the night away.    Imagine my surprise, when I learned that Goshen College...

By Alyssa McDonald • March 27, 2025 • Features

A staring contest — possibly one of the first games we ever learned how to play. The goal is to out-stare your opponent.   As young children, this game brought out light-hearted joy and competitive spirits. The Asian Pacific Islander Desi American  Student Union decided to spark some of these light-hearted memories throughout campus with their own staring contest. On Tuesday, March 25, APIDA, formally known as the Asian Student Association, hosted a staring contest, with the winner walking away with sore eyes, a free t-shirt and a $50 cash prize. Jason DuBois, the president of APIDA, was thrilled about the...

By Egypt Boyd • March 27, 2025 • Features

As I get to the end of my college career, I am, like every senior before me, incredibly daunted by the fact that I am going to have to go do something with my life. Like, very soon.  All the seniors are at different places with our future plans, and some of us have better ideas about what we want to do than others. I am one of those with nothing concrete, with no goals.  It sounds scary, but the more reflection I’ve done over the past few months, I’ve realized that I really just don’t have any big goals....

By Tyson Miller • March 27, 2025 • Features

Throughout my grade-school years, I thought of college as a big deal because of the extreme academic rigor I was sure was about to ensue. I imagined spending endless hours in the library grinding away at the research paper that would determine my future. And yes, I did end up spending hours at the library, but I’d say about half of that time was spent talking with people, or playing some obscure game from the reserves with a group of friends. I have learned a great deal academically throughout my time at GC, but academic improvement was simply not what...

By Phil Witmer-Rich • March 13, 2025 • Features