ACROSS 1. Gross things, in slang 5. It does not contain blue blood, despite a common misconception 6. Ice, in Spain 7. “___ zero” 8. Spanish bears DOWN 1. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. 2. Green who was on ‘The Voice’ four times 3. Metric units 4. Cold shower? 6. “Euphoria” network   Answer key below:                    

By Caleb Shenk • February 11, 2022 • Funnies

Many visitors come to the Music Center to attend performances in Sauder Concert Hall or Rieth Recital Hall, but another notable stop is the Hershberger Art Gallery. The gallery is currently featuring a collection of works by artist Greg Constantine. The exhibit will be open until March 13. Constantine is a visiting artist with the Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist Program, a memorial for a student artist who attended Goshen College and passed away at the age of 20. The program has hosted visiting artists from around the globe since 1988, but the last artist featured by the program visited...

By Sarah Miller • January 28, 2022 • Arts

The Good Library is launching its first-ever Geek Off contest this year, with students, faculty and staff encouraged to express themselves creatively by submitting an artistic piece focused on one of their favorite fandoms. The deadline for submission is Feb. 4 and the winners will be announced a week later on Feb. 11.  The top three winners will choose from a prize selection including a Nintendo Switch Lite, a VIP ticket to Elkhart County’s Comic-Con and a ThinkGeek collection box. “People have a lot of talent,” Kelsey McLane, the service specialist for Good Library, said. “We want to present it...

By Dakota Cain • January 28, 2022 • News

The Record published an article “Counting Eggs and Logging Hours at Miller Poultry” on Jan. 20. describing the experience of five Goshen College students who participated in a micro-internship provided through the business department.   The article contained statements about Miller Poultry and the students’ experience that were in some cases incomplete and could have been misleading.   For example, a vivid quote from one of the interns describing the process of beheading the chickens should have been accompanied by the fact that the chickens are put out painlessly with a gas stunning technique before they are processed.   The details in the...

By Sierra Ross Richer • January 28, 2022 • News

Maria Maldonado can run a 60-meter sprint faster than any runner in Goshen College history.  She also holds the GC record for the 200-meter dash in both indoor and outdoor track. A sophomore who moved to Goshen from Venezuela three years ago, Maldonado is determined not to stop there.   Maldonado found her love for track at age 13, following in the steps of her father and uncle who both had a gift for running.  When she was young, an olympic coach told Maldonado she had the potential to be a great runner; she hasn’t looked back since.  “I was like,...

By Sadie Brenneman • January 28, 2022 • Sports

Three Goshen College students participated in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Region III Festival over winter break. Dontaye Albert and Fatima Rhana, two first-year theater majors, participated in an acting competition while Sarah Bailey, a sophomore theater and sign language interpreting double major, entered a directing competition. Albert was awarded the Irene Ryan Selection Drama Award, while Bailey directed the winning team in the Design Storm competition. The acting competition included many steps.  “You audition with a monologue, and if you make it to the semifinals, you have to do a different monologue and a scene,” Rhana said. “If...

By Phil Witmer-Rich • January 28, 2022 • Arts

From Adidas cleats to Vans slip-ons, all shoes are welcome on the futsal turf. All players are welcome, too, from Goshen College athletes to high school students and community members who love the game.   With outdoor soccer fields under a layer of snow, the turf room in the GC Recreation-Fitness Center has become a gathering spot for soccer enthusiasts.   “We are really trying to invite literally everyone to come play,” said Cormac Koop Liechty, a first-year who is one of the lead organizers for the group. “We know that it’s a lot of fun, and the amount of fun doesn’t...

By Phil Witmer-Rich • January 28, 2022 • Features

ACROSS 1. Reactions to cute puppies 4. Biblical king before David 6. “Already on it” 8. Type of board 9. “Where did ___ wrong?” DOWN 1. Take ___ (sample some) 2. Type of board 3. Largest branch of Islam 5. Type of board 7. Liz Cheney’s state: Abbr.   Answer key below:                    

By Caleb Shenk • January 28, 2022 • Funnies

Four Goshen College students spent the first three weeks of January studying public health at Harvard University.   The January term, which ended last week, was mostly remote due to concerns over COVID-19, but the students still traveled to Boston.   The program was brought into fruition by Brianne Brenneman, assistant professor of public health at Goshen College along with William Hsiao, a Harvard professor of emeritus, and Winnie Yip, a professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “I have been looking for ways to create opportunities for my students to learn from people other than just me,” said...

By Jakyra Green • January 28, 2022 • Features

The men’s and women’s track teams traveled to Marion, Indiana this weekend to compete in the Indiana Wesleyan Invitational. The invitational was the fourth meet that the teams have competed in this season. While this event was not scored as a team competition, several Goshen College students placed well in their respective events.  “I’ve been really happy to notice the improvement over the past few weeks,” said Rustin Nyce, head coach for both the men’s and women’s teams. “It seems like the team is getting back into the competitive mindset.” On the men’s team, Simon Graber Miller, a senior, placed...

By Meaghan Godzisz • January 28, 2022 • Sports

If you are on Instagram and keep up with any Goshen College meme activity, you’ve probably heard of the infamous new account, the Black Squirrel. This account, with its slightly aggressive, albeit well-designed content, is obviously hoping to be like The Onion (if you haven’t heard of The Onion, I’m sure you are more than capable of using Google), and it pokes fun at Goshen College culture by posting fake news stories on subjects like Becky launching a new line of GC-themed hard seltzers or negative reviews of the new menu at the Fraker.  Coincidentally, their account name is abbreviated...

By Greta Lapp Klassen • January 28, 2022 • Funnies

It gets dark way too early. It’s cloudy all the time. And, oh yeah, about six inches of snow have fallen since Saturday night. You can’t leave the building without a coat. You have to watch your step or you’ll slip on the ice.  Some of us love the winter and everything that goes with it. But for many of us, the months between fall and spring seem to last forever and can take a toll on our physical, mental and emotional well-being. Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a depressive disorder that affects millions of people during the winter months....

By Rick Eby • January 28, 2022 • Features

Ah yes, the start of a new semester. What an exciting time of year, and with it comes another semester of SST. Students get ready to be shipped off to places all over the world like Ecuador, China and Tanzania to have transformative experiences full of self-growth and mental breakdowns. This year there are two groups: Ecuador and Indonesia. The Ecuador group, as the name suggests, is in Ecuador, and everything seems to be as it should. However, we have been receiving some strange reports from the group in Indonesia. For one, the food seems to be cheesier than expected....

By Denver Beck • January 28, 2022 • Funnies

Marshall King, a journalist and adjunct professor at Goshen College, shared about his recently published book, “Disarmed: The Radical Life and Legacy of Michael ‘MJ’ Sharp,” in Umble Center on Tuesday evening.   In the book, King tells the life story of Sharp, a Mennonite peacemaker for the U.N. who was kidnapped and killed in the Congo in 2017.    Sharp, whose death touched many in Mennonite circles and beyond, grew up in Goshen and attended Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, VA. He later started his work in peacemaking in Germany.  Sharp worked with soldiers who wanted to be conscientious objectors, and...

By Gabriella Klopfenstein • January 28, 2022 • News

Sauder Concert Hall kicked off the 2022 Goshen College Performing Arts Series on Friday with a concert by brother-sister duo Watkins Family Hour and soloist Courtney Hartman. The first part of the show was run by Colorado-born artist Courtney Hartman. The folk singer and guitarist wowed the crowd with her talent, performing music she had written over the years and songs from her second solo album, “Glade.” While it was her first time on the Sauder Concert Hall stage, Hartman said that she hopes to return for more performances in the future.  After an intermission, the audience’s anticipation finally came...

By Sarah Miller • January 28, 2022 • Arts