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...

By Record Staff • January 29, 2026 • News

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...

By Nata Mayorga • January 29, 2026 • Arts

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...

By Lindsey Graber • January 29, 2026 • News

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...

By Griffin Eash • January 29, 2026 • Features

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...

By Liam Shaw • January 29, 2026 • Sports

By Griffin Eash • January 29, 2026 • Arts

“Welcome to Africa in Goshen!” exclaimed Yamoussa Bangoura as he introduced his Cirque Kalabanté show on Tuesday evening. As a part of Sauder Concert Hall’s Performing Arts Series, Bangoura and his crew brought the culture of daily life in Guinea to Indiana through his show, “Afrique en Cirque.”  Through acts of contortion, acrobatics, drumlines and dancing accompanied by live music, the performance left viewers in awe. Bangoura led the audience to participate during the show through call and response exercises, clapping along to the music and leading them in song.  With each stunt and contortion routine, the energy in the...

By Rose Snyder • January 29, 2026 • Arts

The Goshen College men’s volleyball team played their first home game of the 2026 season in a matchup against the Judson University Eagles on Tuesday. After winning the first two sets, the Maple Leafs lost the next three, giving Judson the win.  The Leafs got off to a hot start in the game. Taking 10-7 lead largely due to the first-year connection of Nash Hubick and Ryan Kabrich. The Eagles went on a 6-0 scoring run to take a 13-10 lead, before first-year head coach Wyatt Bollinger called the first timeout of the contest. As the first set unfolded, the...

By Jonas Wyse • January 29, 2026 • Sports

Despite being just one of thousands, your jacket is unique; it has been through the experiences that make it yours. Now imagine it is gone. You left it somewhere, but luckily, you have an idea where. Do you go back and search for it? Do you go about your business and buy a new jacket as if nothing happened?  Odds are, by the time you realize it is missing and return to the spot you left it, it has been turned over to the local lost and found. There it will join coats, jackets, water bottles and other forgotten items....

By Adam Sherrill • January 29, 2026 • Features

Longtime professor of music at Goshen College, Marvin Blickenstaff, died on Thursday, Jan. 22, at the age of 90. Blickenstaff taught at GC as a piano professor, among other roles, from 1978 to 1999 and continued working as an educator after his retirement. He wrote several books, as well as working as an editor for musical instruction materials.  One of Blickenstaff’s last performances was a show at Carnegie Hall. His final performance occurred at GC after hosting a pedagogical workshop. This was an intentional move from Blickenstaff, as he explained at the end of the concert that he wanted to...

By Record Staff • January 29, 2026 • News

While many know Patty Hartshorn as Goshen College’s  director of health and wellness and Title IX coordinator, there is a side to her that not many have met at GC. Mermaid Periwinkle regularly hosts library children’s visits, attends MerPod gatherings and occasionally partakes in mermaid modeling. Hartshorn’s fascination for mermaids and water has been prevalent since childhood, when she would play pretend to be a mermaid at swimming lessons in the pool. Hartshorn explained that she would pretend that her legs were stuck together as she dove into the pool. Her favorite mermaid film was ‘Splash’ because the mermaids appeared...

By Caoimhe Farrell • January 29, 2026 • Features

My name is Pomme Lou Miel Campbell. Named for the apple spot on my back (and the French music artist), I am a 2-year-old Chihuahua Jack Russell terrier mix, now sitting at 13.5 pounds after my recent weight loss journey. I love all food, tug of war, watching squirrels, running, napping and people. I hate other dogs and don’t get me started about golf carts! If you see me around campus, come say hi! Here is a day in my life! 6:00 a.m. – Mom gets out of bed and kills the birds in the light box. I close my...

By Emma Campbell • January 22, 2026 • Funnies

As of this semester, Scott Hochstetler, professor of music, is o n sabbatical until the fall. In this time, changes have been made in the music department to accommodate for his absence. The two most notable changes are Jimin Seo, visiting assistant professor of music, who has taken over Chamber Choir, and Jeshua Franklin, executive director of the GC music center, who has taken over Vox Profundi for the time being. The Goshen College Chamber Choir is a group of 24-45 students, selected after a round of auditions. They perform a variety of music throughout the school year, both on...

By Isabel Woodcox • January 22, 2026 • Arts

The basement of the Administration Building hides a department that most students rarely have a reason to visit: the Advancement office. While many don’t spend much time there, the work people in this department do helps all students. Neal Friesen is one such worker, although his career path was not exactly a straight line. Friesen graduated from Goshen College in 2007 with a major in Bible, religion and philosophy, after transferring from Kansas State University where he had bounced between majors of architectural engineering, psychology and education. Friesen has great things to say about his time as a student at...

By Greta Miller • January 22, 2026 • Features

Going to college with your parents might seem like a dream to some and a nightmare to others, but for a handful of Goshen College students, this is their reality. The children of faculty members on campus have a unique experience, studying at the same place as their parents and seeing them around campus. Harry Cruz, first-year history pre-law major, is one of the students on campus who is the child of a faculty member. “My mom works here in the music center, Veronica Kindel,” Cruz said, “At first, when I went to college, I felt uneasy with my mom...

By Isabel Woodcox • January 22, 2026 • Features