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February 12, 2026
Bowlers knock down competition
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...
February 12, 2026
New Winter Olympic 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...
February 12, 2026
GC assistant coach recovers from heart attack
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...
February 12, 2026
Toews to take off: time to travel
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...
February 12, 2026
A new chapter with sports
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...
February 12, 2026
the art box: In Loving Memory
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.
January 29, 2026
Bikes, feet and scooters
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...
January 29, 2026
‘Goshen Genius’ loses in postseason tournament
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...
January 29, 2026
Stern announces resignation
Kortney Stern, assistant professor of English, has announced that she will be resigning at the end of the school year with plans to relocate in June. Currently, she is unsure exactly what next year will look like, but is currently applying for positions in teaching English faculty at colleges on the West Coast and in the Southwest. Stern emphasized that this was not a decision made easily but rather one that was “deeply painful” and made out of a necessity to care for her mental health. She comes from a tight-knit family from the Bay Area, most of whom still...
January 29, 2026
the art box: Premature
Your home isn’t a home yet. You decided to introduce yourself earlier than expected. We weren’t surprised though. You have been ready to arrive. Your home isn’t a home yet. Your long but fragile body, laying on a soft sea of cottons. Wires attached, on every part of you like vines wrapped around a tree. Your home isn’t a home yet. Those vines doing the job they are supposed to do Beep, beep, beep, beep The sounds drown out slowly. I look down to you, my baby I say. You are not my own, but I will love you and...
January 29, 2026
Students and buildings brave the cold
The power went off in Yoder Residence Hall on Jan. 19. Though the power soon returned, the heat did not. Concern quickly mounted as students began to realize the temperatures in their rooms had drastically dropped. “Our entire floor was freezing,” said Egypt Boyd, a sophomore film production and writing major who lives on the second floor of Yoder. “We would go outside, be freezing, and then come back inside and nothing would change. It was terrible.” The problem persisted until Tuesday night, when Chandler Buchfeller, director of Residence Life, brought the issue to the attention of Steve Shantz, systems...
January 29, 2026
‘Actually scared’: the great scooter takeover
A seemingly newfound fad at Goshen College, the motorized scooter is fast approaching the title of most-used method of transportation on campus. Electric scooters have seemed to wax and wane through the GC career of Kevin Schultz, assistant director of Residence Life, but it was a noticeable uptick at the beginning of the fall semester. “I think it’s been an ebb and flow over the years as far as seeing more one semester but none the other semester,” Schultz said. Junior social work major Isaiah Beiter said, “I think [having a scooter] is a good idea, especially when trying to...
January 29, 2026
Athletes prove academic prowess
On Jan. 7, the Goshen College dean’s list was released for the fall 2025 semester. The dean’s list honors students who achieve a 3.75 GPA or higher throughout a semester. This year, 69 student-athletes appeared on the dean’s list. This is a 23% increase in student-athletes on the list compared to the fall of 2024. Of these student-athletes, there are 24 soccer players, 13 softball and baseball players, 10 track and field and cross-country athletes, nine volleyball players, five tennis and basketball players and three bowlers. Brenna Spangler, a senior nursing major, is a member of the women’s volleyball team...
