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January 23, 2025
Dash’s Cache goes mobile
Goshen College Student Life started placing purple boxes in prominent places around campus in late October 2024, with the hope to improve accessibility of the college’s food pantry. Dash’s Mobile Cache is an extension of Dash’s Cache, a food pantry and free store for students located in the Student Life suite on the first floor of Wyse Hall. There are nine mobile caches around the GC campus, including in Newcomer, Romero Apartments and the Connector, which are the most frequented according to Patty Hartshorn, director of health and wellness and Title IX coordinator. “We want to help normalize the fact...
January 16, 2025
Student Senate Weekly 01/16
Student Senate met on Monday night for their first meeting of the new semester. The agenda was light, with mostly housekeeping items discussed. One initiative that was discussed was a goal relayed to the student senate from Patty Hartshorn, director of health and wellness, to make feminine hygiene products more readily available for students. The senate expressed a desire to assist her in this goal. Other notes included a potential leadership skills workshop for the spring semester, a potential collaboration with CAC for a prom event and potential “flower grams” for Valentine’s Day. One thing that did get finalized was...
January 16, 2025
A familiar face joins the AV staff
As of the beginning of 2025, Isaac Bontrager, a senior music and biology major, has taken the position of AV Operations Manager at Goshen College while still completing his undergraduate degree. Bontrager first got a taste of the AV world before college. “What kind of got me interested in that was when I was in high school, I played trombone in show choir and we needed someone to work with sound stuff … I knew nothing about it, but … I’ve always been interested in taking things apart and putting them together, seeing behind the scenes, that sort of stuff,”...
January 16, 2025
AD building elevator is operational again
Roughly a year ago, the elevator in the Administration Building went out of operation. What was originally thought to be an issue with the elevator jack turned out to be a much larger problem; when workers went to replace the jack they discovered that they couldn’t get it down far enough because dirt had gotten into the hole. Brian Mast, director of facilities, said the hole for the jack was about 45 feet into the ground, and “because the water table is so high, water came up in [the hole]. And when the old [jack] failed, there was oil, like...
January 16, 2025
Center for Nursing and Public Health
The start of the spring semester marks the beginning of the first classes held in Goshen College’s brand-new Center for Nursing and Public Health. This state-of-the-art facility marks the final stage of the $21 million Westlawn Hall renovation. Nursing faculty relocated from Wyse Hall to the administrative suite, found on the second floor of Westlawn, in December, a week after students left. The new nursing center has triple the square footage of the old space in Wyse Hall, three inpatient simulation rooms, an exam room and a 10-bed skills lab. Jewel Yoder, who is a professor of nursing, chair of...
November 21, 2024
GC’s ‘Fruit Vent’ tradition ends
High above the sidewalk on the north side of the Science Building sits the “Fruit Vent,” a small, square hole, about six feet from the top of the building, designed to let water drain off the roof. As it sits, looking towards the dining hall, it’s in the perfect position for students walking from the dining hall to see as they make their way back to their dorms. Starting in around 2015, according to Chad Coleman, director of campus safety, students began to take whole fruits from the dining hall and throw them up at the vent, attempting to put...
November 21, 2024
GC launches new composting system
Since Dan Barwick, the sustainability coordinator at Goshen College, was hired in September 2023, faculty, students and staff have awaited a composting system. When looking for a new coordinator in the area, the hiring committee made clear their idea to have Barwick as the person responsible for overall composting on campus. However, it was not until the spring semester of this year that Barwick started the sustainability project. Barwick stated that the school’s primary thought was composting everything, back when the cafeteria was reestablished in the Union Building, but the volume of the materials that were to be composted was...
November 21, 2024
GC reassures despite sex offender proximity
An email from Campus Safety was sent out on Monday afternoon, notifying students that a registered sex offender had moved into a home adjacent to Goshen College. The email was intended to provide information to students rather than cause any alarm. Also, in an effort to ensure that students felt safe and valued, campus representatives from human resources and student life held a listening session in Newcomer 17 on Monday evening to ensure that students had a space to be heard. The email was released adhering to GC’s official policy on sex offenders, stating that when Campus Safety is notified...
November 20, 2024
The Leaf Raker is back in business
With West Lawn dining reopened, the Leaf Raker has been able to return to its intended duties. Ben Bontrager, vice president of finance and operations, explained, “The Leaf Raker offered a nice complement to Westlawn dining with great sandwich options off the grill, smoked meats prepared in-house by our own Jeremy Corson, and an assortment of other ‘comfort’ foods prepared to order.” He also shared that it is a good quick service option as students are able to place orders and take their food to go. Additionally, the Leaf Raker serves coffee, Bontrager shared. “The Leaf Raker was also a...
November 19, 2024
KKK flyers leave Goshen residents on edge
On Sunday evening, Goshen residents reported that Ku Klux Klan flyers had been distributed around the city. The flyers were signed by a chapter of the KKK, the Trinity White Knights, who have members across various Midwest and Southern states. Similar incidents have been reported in neighboring cities as well, including South Bend. Víctor Vegas, a senior music major, said he first heard about the flyers Sunday night as he was leaving his dance class downtown. Vegas said, “I was leaving, and I had two of my friends go pick me up and they were like ‘We just didn’t want...
November 14, 2024
Ecuadorian grad students visit Goshen
This past week, a group of eight Ecuadorian student delegates from Rumiñahui University as well as current Ecuador Study Service Term coordinator Kléver Guevara, visited Goshen College and experienced a six-day immersion in the environment of GC and the City of Goshen. Both Guevara and the students were hosted by various community members, GC faculty and families and experienced a full schedule of local activities. Among the events that the group participated in was a welcome lunch with President Becky Stoltzfus, visits to several on-campus classes, meetings with several student groups including the Latino Student Union, the Black Student Union,...
November 14, 2024
SST enrollment drops
In 1983, at the height of Goshen College’s Study Service Term program, 82% of that year’s graduating class went on a semester SST and GC ran three to four programs each semester. Now, this past academic year, only 36 total students went on the three semester programs that were offered, which were Ecuador (twice) and Indonesia. A multitude of factors are at play in why exactly the numbers have drastically dropped so much — such as price, athletic responsibilities and overall appeal — but Kendra Yoder, co-chair of the Global Engagement Office, said that after attending a global education conference...
November 14, 2024
Globe TV goes live for the first time
The Globe hosted a live election recap special at 10 p.m. on election day. The show, broadcast on 91.1 The Globe and their YouTube channel, was their first crack at live television. Alyssa McDonald, senior broadcasting major, and Kate Bodiker, junior communication and writing double major, served as television anchors, with Tyson Miller, senior journalism major, Lily Herrera, junior broadcasting major, Kyle Hufford, associate professor of communication, and others playing key roles in the production process. The YouTube description reads: “For the first time ever, 91.1 The Globe will be going live with election coverage. We’ll focus on local elections...
November 3, 2024
Students spooked at Haunted Halls
While Miller Residence Hall typically sits empty, last Friday, Oct. 25, Res Life once again hosted their Haunted Halls event. While some may remember the event from last year, Kevin Schultz, assistant director of Residence Life, says this year’s turn out put last year’s to shame. Schultz stated that he “lost count,” of how many people went through during the night, some groups coming back multiple times. There were a total of seven rooms — each designed to scare — that were put together by resident assistants. Chandler Buchfeller, resident director, was responsible for leading each group through the darkened...
October 31, 2024
Mayor Leichty speaks at convocation
On Wednesday, the Goshen College convocation featured Mayor Gina Leichty, ’95. Leichty’s presentation, titled “The Politician’s Guide to Not Being a Politician,” came at the height of the national election season. Leichty spoke on the dramatic differences between local and national politics, but also acknowledged her own position as the first woman to be mayor of Goshen, and the relevance of the current presidential race which could result in the first woman being elected as president of the United States. Leichty grew emotional telling the story of a young girl who thought that it might be alright to have...