By Levi Friesen • September 17, 2026 • Funnies

The Goshen College art department held a reception and award ceremony on Sunday to recognize the closing of the juried student art exhibit which was on display in the Hershberger art gallery. The exhibition featured student art selected by juror Judy Wenig-Horswell, associate professor emerita of art. At the ceremony, Atty Montague, a junior interpreting major, received the best in show award for her painting “Discarded.” She said that the inspiration behind the piece is political. “[I am] incredibly honored to have received this award. Thanks everyone who made this possible,” she said.

By Tom Leinbach • September 17, 2026 • Arts

The Leafys were hosted this last weekend, but really, does anyone care? The awards that the whole campus has actually been waiting for are finally here, it’s the Teachys! Kudos to those who were nominated, and a HUGE congratulations to our winners listed below! Most likely to mispronounce a Goshen athletes name: Kate Bodiker, assistant athletic director of communications and game day operations and GC’s biggest yapper 2021-2025 Most likely to try hard to remember your name – Robina Sommers, associate professor of education and emphatic pianist Most likely to get avian flu – Dan Smith, professor of chemistry and...

By Nathan Anderson • September 17, 2026 • Funnies

When I was a child, my uncle informed me that everyone has a dessert pocket in their stomach. This is, of course, the reason why no matter how much food you eat for dinner, there is always room for dessert. He also said that because I am Canadian I have an additional doughnut pocket, just for doughnuts. And while my trips to Tim Hortons are less frequent these days, I still have a profound love for, and exquisite taste in, doughnuts. So while I reside on this side of the border I have to get my doughnut fill somehow. The...

By Mackenzie P. Miller • September 17, 2026 • Funnies

Goshen College athletes, coaches and athletic department staff gathered at the John S. Umble Center on Sunday for the Leafys, GC’s annual sports awards show. There were 14 awards up for grabs including athlete of the year, rookie of the year and coach of the year. The master of ceremonies for the show was Jason Samuel, head disc golf coach. During his opening speech he congratulated student athletes on their work both in the classroom and on the playing field. Before the first awards were announced, Samuel gave some words of encouragement for the upcoming season. Throughout the night, GC’s...

By Deecon Hill • September 17, 2026 • Sports Liam Shaw • September 17, 2026 • Sports

Across 2. Smallest Bone in the Body 3. Local Bike Trail 5. Highest Grossing Movie of the Year 7. Goshen ESPYs 9. Buffalo QB 11. Land of the Long White Cloud 13. Scoring Method in Rugby 14. State Bird of Indiana   Down 1. Current Europa League Winners 3. ____ the magic dragon 4. C6H1206 6. _____ of Fire 8. First Floor of Library 10. Longest Reigning British Monarch 12. Opposite of Nocturnal Answers 

By Zeke Bodiker • September 17, 2026 • Funnies

The Goshen College men’s cross-country team has opened the season ranked 16th in the NAIA Men’s Cross-Country Coaches’ Top 25 Rating, their highest ranking since 2023.  After finishing 17th in last year’s final standings they look to continue climbing the rankings with the addition of nine new first-years and five transfers.  Rustin Nyce, the team’s head coach, said that the runners were “just focused on their individual growth.” “I don’t think anybody said anything about their rankings, really … it’s not something that we think about often,” Nyce said.  Lisa Voyles, the team’s associate head coach, spoke similarly about their...

By Jonas Wyse • September 10, 2026 • Sports

The Goshen College Center for Health and Wellness recently expanded their medical and mental health services for students. Along with GC’s long term partnership with Goshen Family Physicians that has served as the college’s primary medical care for students since 2014, two formal agreements with Maple City Healthcare Center and Center for Healing and Hope have been finalized. Both of these partnerships aim to provide affordable and easily accessible healthcare for GC students.  Patty Hartshorn, director of health and wellness and Title IX coordinator, shares what prompted these new health service expansions. “When I arrived two years ago, we did...

By Hannah Smith • September 10, 2026 • Features

A choir from Goshen College traveled to Spain and Portugal for a tour this summer. From June 9-18, the group of 33 singers toured throughout the Iberian Peninsula, performing in Madrid, Spain; Seville, Spain and Batalha, Portugal.  The choir consisted of current students, faculty and alumni who performed a program entitled “Joy, Peace and Love.” The tour was organized by Marcia Yost, former director of the arts. The choir was led by H. Roz Woll, associate professor of music and Scott Hochstetler ’97, professor of music.  Because the group was open to any students or alumni, it required a mixed-voice...

By Anton Alstrom-Brookhyser • September 10, 2026 • Arts

Jesse Loewen ’17 and Isacc Hernandez ’13 departed the Goshen College Academic Success Center after 13 years of service between them. Loewen has joined Duquesne University’s School of Nursing as a student success coach and Hernandez has returned to his hometown of Nampa, Idaho.  Loewen, who attended Bethany Christian High School and played soccer at GC, was on campus for over a decade. He believes that now is the correct time for him to move on. “I’m just at a time of my life where, it’s like, do it now or just find yourself here for another year,” he said....

By Liam Shaw • September 10, 2026 • Features

Samuel Klopfenstein, a senior biochemistry major, qualified in July for the Ironman 70.3 triathlon world championships.  Klopfenstein is a triathlete who, since 2021, has been competing in and heavily training for sprint, Olympic and Ironman 70.3 triathlons, the last of which are commonly known as “half Ironmans.”  His first race was in 2019, at the Rock the Quarry sprint triathlon in Goshen. He signed up with his father, who was a triathlete himself. “The reason that I got into triathlons was my dad,” Klopfenstein said. “As a kid, we would get up at the crack of dawn … and drive...

By John Eash-Scott • September 10, 2026 • Features

Jessica Baldanzi, professor of English, had the chance to publish one of her poems in the North American Review over the summer.  Since its foundation in 1815, the North American Review has been one of America’s most prominent literary journals. Mark Twain, Margaret Atwood and Walt Whitman are among the writers that have been published by the journal in its 211-year history. Thomas Jefferson was an early subscriber of the publication.  Baldanzi’s poem, titled “Respects,” is a work in conversation with Seamus Heaney’s 1966 work “Mid-Term Break.” In the work that inspired Baldanzi, Heaney writes about the experience of losing...

By Teo Kingsley • September 10, 2026 • Arts

On Aug. 27, The Crossroads League Council of Presidents announced that Manchester University has accepted an invitation to compete in the Crossroads League pending approval from the NAIA. Should they be accepted, they will join the conference for the 2027-28 school year. MU was previously a member of the NCAA and competed in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference. President of Goshen College, Rebecca Stoltzfus, serves as the Chair of the Crossroads League Council of Presidents. Stoltzfus welcomes the expansion of the conference. “I think from the perspective of the Crossroads League, we are attracted to the idea of adding one...

By Liam Shaw • September 10, 2026 • Sports

G’day and vie bischt du and welcome back to campus for the new year!  We are Nathan and Zeke, the funnies editors for this semester and your favourite Aussie and Amish duo on campus.  This week, we are here to give you a couple tips and tricks to make the most of the fall at the big GC. So grab your horse, hook up your buggy and get ready for a wild ride.  The most important thing to know about campus is where the best watering hole is, and there is nothing better in Northern Indiana than the famous Westlawn,...

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