Student senate and my experiences with policy
The topic of how influential student senate actually is can be approached from various perspectives. For me, it starts with...
Kampochea, I love you—oo—oo—oo—oo
One of the things I looked forward to the most in coming to Goshen College was the Study Service Term...
Paradise lost
During my high school years, I was eager to attend Goshen College. I looked forward to being a student at...
The hipster marvel: plaid clad and wonderfully witty
Do you have a Tumblr? If you said “yes,” then you might already be aware of the large hipster population...
Sénégal: It’s the place to be
As a current second semester senior, I have a lot of things to be doing right now. I have a...
Do You Believe in the Truman Show?
I was outside last Wednesday. I march around outside quite a bit every day, actually, but last Wednesday was special....
Amrán Na BhFiann (The Irish national anthem)
It seems like we were framed by the cosmos to play a tiny part in history, to experience the tragedies...
Praying for salaam in Egypt
As thousands of anti-Hosni Mubarak protesters continued their sit-in at the center of Cairo, we, a group of 19 Goshen...
Conjugality on campus: married life vs. student life
A lot of people see us as differently ever since we got married on August 11, 2010. Perhaps rightfully so—married...
Open letter to the peace studies community
What is the task of a peace witness when violence explodes? What is the task of a healer? In the...
The leak on Geeks
“I paid 7 dollars to get into this!” someone sitting near me at spring Kickoff kept shouting indignantly during the...
Learning to control fear
As most everyone in the Goshen College family is already aware, an act of violence was committed against one of...
Nation building, globalization, and decolonizing the mind
“Nation Building, Globalization, and Decolonizing the Mind;” this is what I spent my fall semester tackling while studying in Namibia...
To Yellowstone and beyond
Last April I walked across the stage in the Rec-Fit, shook Jimmy B’s hand and that was that. Four years...
A Peruvian epiphany
As I face the frigid wind and blizzard snows of winter, it is not difficult for me to miss the...
