A menagerie of maps, a plethora of posters and a glut of greenery can be spied in the Yoder, Miller and Kratz dorms this year. As a person keeps looking, more individualized items start materializing. One can find plaster lion heads mounted on walls and displays of flat brimmed hats. Original Goshen College art is harder to come by, but for what it lacks in quantity it is make up for in quality. Tessa Ray, a first-year, hates white walls and has brought with her three large canvases she painted last year to conquer the barren atmosphere. Two of the...

By Elizabeth Derstine • September 12, 2012 • Arts

The difference between 11:00 and 11:15 for the KMY dorm halls on Tuesday night was about as vast as the difference between a summer storm and a winter blizzard. At exactly 11:14 p.m., an email sent by Jim Histand, Vice President for Finance, notified students and faculty that due to the blizzard conditions, classes and activities for Wednesday would be cancelled, marking the second time in the college's history  that classes were cancelled due to snow. By 11:15, the whoops and hollers from frequent-email-checkers notified other students, who shot out of bed and joined the yelling. In the KMY connector,...

By Becca Kraybill • February 5, 2011 • News