This May’s Study-Service Term with Mennonite Disaster Service will take place in Lahaina, Hawaii. Leaders Michael McHugh and Dale Klassen will accompany 13 students on this service trip to help restore Lahaina after the devastating wildfires it experienced in August 2023. Two spots on the trip are still available. Students will be spending eight-hour days at jobsites working on home construction and repairs for various members of the Lahaina community.  Similar to this year’s term, Goshen College’s previous Disaster Service SST May terms have been organized with Kaelan Swartley, an MDS coordinator for weekly volunteers. Each term follows the loose...

By Rose Snyder • February 12, 2026 • News

On Monday, the annual housing info night was hosted by Residence Life for all students to learn more about the housing options for next year. After introducing the system first imposed last spring for applying for housing and roommates, an emphasis was also placed on reinforcing the correct way to go through the process.  Hosted by Chandler Buchfeller, associate dean of students, it was revealed that Coffman Residence Hall will now be used in place of Kulp Residence Hall. This is due to the fact that Coffman holds a better student-to-fixture ratio, including bathrooms and kitchens. Coffman also includes the...

By Griffin Eash • February 12, 2026 • News

Men’s and women’s disc golf, the newest athletic teams on campus, have officially started practicing. Jason Samuel transitioned from his role as full-time station manager at 91.1 The Globe to his current position as disc golf head coach on Feb. 1, while still maintaining some responsibility in the communication department. Emerson Landis, a first-year social work major and recent recruit for the team said, “Jason is preparing us to do our best … his end goal is to make it to nationals … he wants this team to be successful.” To welcome GC disc golf to the league, the Great...

By Griffin Eash • February 12, 2026 • Sports

Students at Goshen College participated in a weekend-long training for the Prevention Intervention Network between Jan. 21 and Feb. 2. The program focused on the prevention of different forms of assault and interpersonal violence against students and to educate and make the campus community a safer place for everyone.  While first-year students all receive active bystander training from PIN members which educate them on the warning signs of abuse and ways to intervene, those who seek to join PIN receive a different type of training. This training includes teaching members how to be a community resource and peer educator. Anna...

By Lauren Foster • February 12, 2026 • Features

You may have seen them at the recent Black History Month convo, or at a table in Westlawn Hall, but how well do you really know those heading the Black Student Union? Egypt Boyd, Jalen Borneo John and Miguel Aguilar are all newly appointed leaders of BSU, but that isn’t all they do. Boyd probably has the fullest schedule of the group. Boyd is a sophomore with a double major in film production and writing, which already leads to a busy class schedule. But adding her involvement in PIN, Student Senate, The Record, Squirrel Digest and BSU, it’s easy to...

By Greta Miller • February 12, 2026 • Features

This week, I decided to venture away from Goshen College’s Visual Arts Building and Music Center (my usual haunts) to the Roman Gingerich Recreation-Fitness Center for a change of pace. What little-known extremities of our fine campus remained unknown to my keen eye? To my delight, there was a sport performance about to begin when I stopped by. What luck! I first approached the box office and inquired whether there were any available seats in the mezzanine. I picked up a playbill (title: “Men’s Volley-Ball”) and was directed by the usher into the audience where I sat among the other...

By Ben Koop • February 12, 2026 • Funnies

The Goshen College men’s and women’s bowling teams finished the Crossroads League Tournament last week with a fifth and a third place finish respectively. The event was held at Western Bowl in Indianapolis. Rebekah Muzyk led the women, taking second overall with a score of 622 across three games, with her best game being her final one with 223 pins. Goshen’s second highest varsity bowler was Abigail Kenestrick, who placed 22nd overall with 524 pins. The highest Goshen bowler on the junior varsity team was sophomore Samantha Bean, placing 14th with 551 pins, six pins ahead of her JV teammate...

By Adam Sherrill • February 12, 2026 • Sports

After much deliberation with the International Olympic Committee, we are thrilled to announce the new Olympic sports that will be debuting in the French Alps 2030 games.    Winter Triathlon: Inspired by the beloved Summer Games tradition, winter triathlon provides a similarly rigorous endurance-based competition for those that prefer to compete in the cold.  In this all-new event, athletes will begin their first stage with a 10-kilometers snowshoe trek up a mountain.  At the top of the mountain, they will remove their snowshoes and jump onto their luge, beginning the 1,500 meter slide down the track, which will include 15...

By Kate Bodiker • February 12, 2026 • Funnies

Goshen College’s baseball assistant coach Mike Brouillette suffered a heart attack on the morning of Jan. 22 at his brother-in-law’s house in Warsaw, Indiana.  Brouillette went down minutes after complaining about back pain and was immediately taken by an ambulance to the Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne. There, the medical team administered defibrillation 31 times and performed CPR for approximately 43 minutes. He was then placed on a ventilator and a temporary pacemaker for a day and a half before returning to a steady heartbeat. The doctors referred to it as “a complete miracle,” his wife said, Mandi Brouillette, considering...

By Igor Sapucaia • February 12, 2026 • Sports

Following 22 years of work at Goshen College as the assistant director of institutional research and academic database manager, Bob Toews has announced that he will retire at the end of this semester. Over the course of his time at GC, Toews worked across the institutional research office and the registrar’s office. His role includes managing student and some faculty data, course evaluations and setting up courses. “My job has changed a little bit over the years,” said Toews; he started in the registrar’s office as a student records data manager. Toews’ responsibilities increased to his current position as the...

By Isabel Woodcox • February 12, 2026 • Features

A consistent adage in my senior seminar this year has been that you can never really ruin your life — unless you start committing crimes or doing drugs, those are the exceptions. But, even if it’s hard to ruin your life, you can change it pretty fundamentally in a moment or two. For me, that happened the first time I dislocated my knee when I was 14, pretty much forever destroying my dreams of playing college soccer, set in stone when I dislocated it again two years later.  While being an athlete is no longer a defining part of my...

By Kate Bodiker • February 12, 2026 • Features

Bright red dahlias Adorn your marble tombstone, Making mockery   Of our black mourning Clothes, the early autumn breeze Turning tears to ash.   The preachers words rang Through the old family graves. Grandpa waited for   Her to come as dust Inched over the ridges of A date six years old.   Red petals scatter As the box is lowered in The unforgiving   Dirt. Our last chance to Say goodbye to something soon Lost to endless time.

By Sydney C. Lawrence • February 12, 2026 • Arts

Walk: Beka Youngberg Vigorous, sparkly, snowy Junior art major Beka Youngberg has a great love for the walking technique. In part because she doesn’t have many other options, you will always catch Beka on the walk. Beka’s walking shoes of choice are her “adventure shoes.” She is sure to stay away from wearing Converse if she wants to thoroughly enjoy her walk without knee pain. Beka’s favorite things about the walking technique are the exercise involved and being able to enjoy the environment because of the slow pace walking forces upon her. Beka did bring up the fact that she...

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After a five-episode winning streak, $105,915 in winnings and a call to make a return for the seasons-end “Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions,” Ben Ganger made a swift exit on the first episode of the tournament.  The episode that aired on Wednesday, Jan. 21 also led to Goshen College and community support and a watch party at The Fold, a restraunt and bar in downtown Goshen.  Ben Ganger ’16, a GC and Bowling Green State University graduate, first made an impression on national television when he went on his five-day winning streak in late spring of 2025, and the impressive display...

By Griffin Eash • January 29, 2026 • News