Coming to the United States is not an easy decision, nor is it an easy process. My parents sacrificed many things in their lives to give my brother and me everything we needed — a home, food, clothes to wear and just enough to send us to school. I never knew how our family was doing financially before we moved to the U.S. I thought we were doing just fine, so the idea of moving to another country seemed like a luxury. As I grew up and learned that many people across the world come here for a better life,...

By Mafe Aguilar Vargas • October 9, 2025 • Features

This past week, I was assigned to read a chapter from John D. Roth’s, “A Mennonite College for Everyone (?)” for junior seminar. Our discussion focused predominantly around the role of love in historical analysis: Is this Christ-like love — the kind that prompts empathy, and is void of quick judgment — a helpful tool in academic research? Though after class, I found myself juggling a rather different question: at what point is an unwavering allegiance to a particular cause … necessary? In the chapter, “Redefining Community: The Long  Struggle for LGBTQ+ Inclusion, 1990-2010”, Roth covered Goshen College’s internal and...

By Eliza Alemán • September 18, 2025 • Features

I don’t think I’m alone in saying that this has been a rough week. (It’s Tuesday as I write this — long way to go) There’s a lot going on, and if you’re tired of hearing about it I get it, but stay with me because I think this is important.  Everyone has their own reactions, feelings and fears related to the events in our country this week, and I’m privileged to be a straight white non-disabled male.  When we hear about the things that are happening in our nation’s capital, and the fallout around the country and the world,...

By Tyson Miller • January 23, 2025 • Features

In my time at Goshen College, I believe I experienced a prominent shift within the GC student body: party culture.  We do not congregate on the weekends like we used to, for better or worse. Currently, most on-campus students spend weekends together in their same friend groups, huddled in dorm rooms and apartments. It’s cliquey and exclusive, but not intentionally. I think we just don’t know how else to gather. Some will invite a larger group to their spaces, but that risks noise complaints and violations. It hasn’t always been this way, though. For much of GC’s history, students, especially...

By Sadie Brenneman • October 3, 2024 • Features

“The grass isn’t greener on the other side,”  That’s what I heard from my former coach after I told him I was transferring to Goshen College.   Now, before we dive into that lovely, totally optimistic quote, I’d like to give some context. To start, school sucks. At least for me it does. For as long as I can remember I’ve always struggled. Everything from the ‘simple’ concepts of algebra to the early mornings scrambling to the bus. As hard as that was, though, the hardest part was working with teachers or any sort of authoritative figures. Words such as...

By Charlie Aldrich • September 5, 2024 • Features

I wasn’t always going to be a communication major. Originally, I was going to major in biology, go to medical school and do something in orthopedics. It wasn’t that I was passionate about science but that I wanted to help people, and the idea of being a doctor appealed to me. It wasn’t until I took chemistry II in high school that I realized what a bad idea that might be for me. I didn’t like chemistry at all, and I realized that I should probably go into something that I enjoyed, so I decided to switch midway through my...

By Tyson Miller • October 13, 2022 • Features

Like many college students, my main priority this summer was making money. To be specific — making money to fund my college tuition, to start saving for post-college life, and to cover the cost of the many overpriced lattes I will be drinking this semester.  So, I got a job serving at my aunt’s restaurant in my hometown of Harrisonburg, Virginia.  I thought it would be a fun, relaxing way to spend my summer. How hard could it be to carry out food on a tray and make sure I didn’t spill coffee on customers?  Over the next three months,...

By Augusta Nafziger • September 8, 2022 • Features

After a lot of thought and much discussion, the decision was made to shift the function of the editorials in The Record. The editorial this week presents an argument around the change in the convocation and chapel times and requirements. This editorial is not meant to critique the shift, the students, or the administration. It is there to bring to light another side of a story. Editorials are not meant to belittle opinions or others, but rather show a side of an argument and validate it. Although it is tradition that the editor writes an editorial each week, it has...

By Elizabeth Franks-North • September 4, 2014 • Features