To the editor of “Erica’s Cuisine Corner,”   As someone who has had my fair share of cereal, ranging from name-brand cereal to the now presumably extinct Tootie Frooties, I could not sit idly by as you bench the best cereals in the game only to praise Fruity Dyno Bites—a B-Tier cereal at best.  Just like a store-bought banana, Fruity Dyno Bites will only be good and primed to eat for about 2.46 seconds before they become a mess, just like the Frosted Mini Spooners you criticized. Even when I can slurp the cereal part, I’m left with milk that...

By Record • September 30, 2021 • Funnies

Hello, readers! I’m Liam, and I’m the music director at 91.1 The Globe this year. Part of my job is to pick out new tunes and add them to the system. I’ve only been doing this for a month now, but I’ve stumbled across several gems already. Without further ado, here are my favorite fall additions to the Globe music library:   “Danger” by AHI (pronounced EYE): I had never heard of this indie-soul singer until Jason Samuel, associate professor of communication, sent me this track. I appreciate AHI’s raw, stripped-down sound.    “Better Be Lonely” by Samantha Fish: Fish...

By Liam Morris • September 30, 2021 • Arts

Although early in the season, the men’s soccer team has already shown improvement from last year. In the 2020 season, The Maple Leaf Men’s Soccer team won zero games, posting a 0-5-3 record.As the team prepares for conference play, they have improved to 4-3-3, already winning more games than they did in their COVID-19 season. Senior Tristan Smucker explained how the team is “hungry” to prove themselves in the crossroads league and how being an underdog is something that the team looks to embrace.  “The guys and I are all super excited for conference,” said Smucker, “We have the feeling...

By Gabe Kermode • September 30, 2021 • Sports

Lee Bergey may be in their third year of college, but they still take the bus to school.  The purple school bus parked behind the Romero Student Apartments is the ongoing project of Bergey, an art and sustainability studies double major, who has been converting the bus into a mobile home for the past nine months.  The bus is the realization of one of Bergey’s lifelong dreams.  “I always wanted to live in some sort of mobile home,” they said. “I just want the lifestyle of being able to move around and go where I’m needed and not be attached...

By Augusta Nafziger • September 30, 2021 • Features

Goshen College welcomed Cathy Stoner to the role of campus pastor on Tuesday.  Stoner took over the position from Joanne Gallardo, who had held it since 2019.  Stoner received the position after an extensive hiring process that began over the summer. The process culminated with Stoner’s presentation at the first chapel of the semester. Stoner interacted with students and faculty at the event and, after a period for feedback, the search committee offered Stoner the position.  Stoner graduated from Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary last May with a Masters of Divinity degree. She has lived in the South Bend area for...

By Olivia Krall • September 30, 2021 • News

The Record launched a new website today after months of designing and digital troubleshooting. The new site is the product of a joint effort between Goshen College students and LightBox, a local design firm founded by Goshen College alumni.  It replaced the newspaper’s original website, created in 2008, which had become inconsistent and hard to navigate over the years. “One of the biggest issues with any student-produced product is the brain drain that occurs,” said Jordan Graber Kauffman, one of the founders of LightBox. “The knowledge base disappears as people graduate, which we hope this new website will help address...

By Record • September 30, 2021 • News

Members of the Goshen College community near and far watched last Monday as Girl Named Tom, a sibling band featuring two GC grads, sang for renowned musicians on NBC’s The Voice.  After winning the favor of all four judges, the group will continue to perform on the 21st season of the popular music competition show under the tutelage of multiple Grammy award-winner Kelly Clarkson. The show’s other judges are John Legend, Blake Shelton and Ariana Grande.  Girl Named Tom is a sibling band with three members: Caleb, Joshua and Bekah Liechty from Pettisville, OH.  The two oldest are graduates of...

By Tyson Miller • September 30, 2021 • News

Current and retired faculty members of the art department are displaying their work in the Hershberger Art Gallery until October 29. The exhibition includes art from current Goshen College faculty Merrill Krabill, Randy Horst and John Mishler, along with art from retired faculty Marvin Bartel, John Blosser, Abner Hershberger and Judy Wenig-Horswell.  The exhibition is free and open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends. It is located in the Hershberger Art Gallery in the Music Center, which is named for former GC art professor Abner Hershberger. One...

By Amelia Witmer-Rich • September 30, 2021 • Arts

The list of words written on the board in Newcomer 14 reads: fridge, note, appointments, shopping list. At the classroom tables, four adult students are bent over their books, fiercely concentrating as they complete an exercise in matching sentences to pictures. These students in Goshen College’s Adult English Language Class, are part of an endeavor which has recently seen high demand from the greater Goshen community.  With locations at Goshen College and Ivy Tech Community College, the classes are the largest they have ever been in their five-year lifespan. To accommodate the need, six levels of classes are offered in...

By Tyson Miller • September 30, 2021 • Features

This fall, Sister Veronica Adeduro is beginning her first year of teaching as an assistant professor of nursing at Goshen College. She is the first nun to teach at GC. Adeduro is from Nigeria, where she worked as a registered nurse for many years. She later went on to serve as a missionary in Germany for five years before making the move to the United States. Adeduro shared that “the joy of working in different places is that it makes the people in those places real to me.” She added one thing she has found that all people have in...

By Madeline Bollinger • September 30, 2021 • Features

In-person convocation and chapel, free coffee in the library and DIY waffles are back. But one pre-COVID campus staple has yet to see a rebound: composting.   The composting operation that once kept food waste from the dining hall out of the landfill was suspended over a year ago due to safety concerns around COVID-19 and new dining practices.  But this fall, students are noticing its absence.    “It is surprising to see how nothing is really happening,” said Jackson Steinmetz, a junior who volunteered with the composting initiative in the past. “All of the first and second-years have never seen composting...

By Caleb Gingerich • September 16, 2021 • News

ACROSS 1. Mode of transportation 4. Prefer 6. Alpha and 7. Previously aired show 8. Was a little too sweet (on)   DOWN 1. Frequent role for Stan Lee in Marvel films 2. Avoid, as a crash 3. Nissan SUV model 4. Eponymous innovator of the 1-across 5 . McNally (mapmaker brand you might find in the back seat)   Answer Key Below            

By Caleb Shenk • September 16, 2021 • Funnies

Sam Grewe, a highly decorated high jumper, a three-time World Champion, a world record holder and, most recently, a Tokyo 2021 Paralympic gold medalist, is a familiar name to some at Goshen College.   Coached by Kyle Mishler, track and field assistant coach, Grewe has done much of his training at GC.  “Sam had a family connection to former GC high jumper Don Williams,” Mishler said. “Sam started para track and field in 2015 and Don brought him to the indoor facility to practice, which is where we first met.” Grewe contracted osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer, at just 13...

By Graysen Cockerham • September 16, 2021 • Sports

In a life full of turbulence and change, few things remain steady. Of those constants, the noblest is undoubtedly a bowl of cereal.  Nobody knows this better than college students. We appreciate the many uses, including (but not limited to) a low-effort meal, post-workout treat, dessert, or midnight snack to briefly alleviate the crushing stress of an imminent project deadline. Luckily, the Rott is always here with its unending supply of nutritionally dubious grain.  That being said, the folks at Westlawn are constantly switching up the rotation. The cereal section has a solid lineup that varies throughout the year, so...

By Erica Gunden • September 16, 2021 • Funnies

Last week, I debuted my journalistic skills in the news section of The Record. This week, I have decided to flex my growing investigative skills in a new area: ghost hunting. At the request of an anonymous advanced ceramics student here at Goshen College, I have set my sights on the ghost that this person claims haunts the art building. You may be thinking to yourself, “What ghost?” I, too, was skeptical. I’d never heard of an art building ghost. My source, however, was convinced. They described the strange sounds heard in the basement studio regularly: banging, rattling, ‘thumps’ in...

By Eli Reimer • September 16, 2021 • Funnies