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

The sight of young children playing and running around campus is a familiar one, but not many know that the students in Goshen College’s Laboratory Kindergarten located in the College Church are part of a very unique educational program.  Since 1959 when the school was founded, children ages 4 to 6 from around the community have been learning through play.  Kathy Meyer Reimer, a professor of education and chair of GC’s education department, was involved when the school transitioned from a private kindergarten to a partnership with the public school system in 2008. Because the school is part of the...

By Claudia Mobley • January 28, 2022 • Features

This Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Goshen College hosted the first annual King Celebration “Voices in the Movement” arts competition. Separated into multiple artistic categories, including writing or spoken word, film, music, and visual art, Goshen College students and Elkhart County High School students were asked to demonstrate high artistry while addressing themes embedded in Dr. King’s vision.  Students were split into two tracks. The first, entitled “Descendants of Dr. King,” was a category created to highlight the experiences of students from the Black community. The second, entitled “Allies of Dr. King,” was for students outside of the Black community...

By Phil Witmer-Rich • January 20, 2022 • Arts

To make a little extra cash during the semester, I DoorDash from time to time around Goshen and Elkhart. For those who don’t know, DoorDash is a food delivery service where customers can use the app to order food from a variety of restaurants in the area. My job is to drive to the restaurant, pick up the food, and deliver it to the customer. Pretty straightforward.  Well, last week I got an order from a place that I hadn’t been to before: Potrillos Mexican Grill. I made my way to Potrillos, and, as I pulled into the parking lot,...

By Denver Beck • January 20, 2022 • Funnies

During the May 2022 term, the Goshen College Criminal and Restorative Justice Department will welcome back the Inside-Out Exchange Program.  The program was created as an educational tool to bring imprisoned students, referred to as “inside students,” and college students, or “outside students,” into a classroom-like environment. The goal is to study issues from crime to societal problems while learning from each other and creating strong relationships.  Inside-Out was brought into fruition in May 2014 by the late conflict studies professor Carolyn Schrock-Shenk. “After Carolyn’s death, I inherited some of her classes and projects; Inside-Out is one of them,” said...

By Jakyra Green • January 20, 2022 • Features

Students have likely noticed new furniture, flooring and study areas in Newcomer. The renovations that took place over winter break are meant to benefit more than just those who take classes in the building.  A joint effort between the Center for Community Engagement (CCE), the physical plant and a $90,000 grant from the Lilly Endowment, the project will help Newcomer serve as a hub for the community. The improvements to Newcomer are part of a larger project of improving the connection between Goshen College and the community.  Dr. Erika Buhring, executive director of the CCE, hopes that the renovated building...

By Caleb Shenk • January 20, 2022 • News

Greetings readers of the Goshen College Record! We have arrived. We know you have been waiting four long years for the funniest people on campus to be in the position to make you laugh every week. Well, wait no longer. We are your new Funnies editors for the spring semester: Leah Kauffman and Denver Beck. In an effort to share with you all our true selves, we figured, what better way than to be unnecessarily vulnerable and share our most embarrassing stories from the past few months? Enjoy 😉

By Leah Kauffman • January 20, 2022 • Funnies Denver Beck • January 20, 2022 • Funnies

A new proposal could bring an ice rink to the edge of Goshen College’s campus.  A project years in the making, the original idea for the multi-use pavilion and ice rink was announced by the City of Goshen in 2017. Its construction was set to start in 2020, but when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the project stalled. Now, it has come back onto the city’s agenda in 2022, and the first issue to settle is where the rink will be located.  The original idea, and the city’s preference, is for the rink to be built downtown adjacent to the Millrace...

By Annika Alderfer Fisher • January 20, 2022 • News

“Ain’t gonna let nobody… isolation… denigration… injustice, turn me around. I’m gonna keep on a-walkin’, keep on a-talkin’, marchin’ up to freedom land!” sang the Voices of the Earth choir as they performed the iconic civil rights movement song “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around” during the King Convocation on Monday.  In celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and legacy, the choir also sang two other selections: “Ndandihleli” and “Will the Circle Be Unbroken.” According to H. Roz Woll, assistant professor of music and director of Voices of the Earth, “Ndandihleli” is “an anti-apartheid song that was...

By Julia (Hyeyin) Jun • January 20, 2022 • Arts