In the mid 2010s, college campuses across the country were reckoning with how to respond to sexual violence and improve Title IX systems. National movements like “Know Your IX” and the “It’s On Us” campaign were pushing institutions to create clearer reporting procedures, survivor support and education around consent. At Goshen College, those same conversations were taking root. A group of passionate students, supported by faculty and administrators, recognized a gap in prevention and response efforts on campus. Out of that moment, the Prevention Intervention Network, or PIN, was born. “At that time, there was a really active group of...

By Ana Alves Machado • November 13, 2025 • Features

  In Sara Method’s backyard stands her former residence, a portable tiny house that housed her, her husband and her two children for five years. Since it no longer serving as their home, it has now been repurposed.  The journey of the tiny home began with Method, assistant professor of art and department chair, and her husband needing to find a place to live quickly before she attended graduate school.  “We needed a home, we had looked at tiny homes for years and it became quickly apparent that we were not going to be able to pay rent where we...

By Kevin Liddell • April 3, 2025 • Features

Look! What’s that up in the sky? A bird? A plane? It could certainly be Superman, but a whole new flying man has been added to the usual list of suspects. Isaac Sensenig, a senior marketing major, recently conquered the skies by earning his A license for skydiving.  Though anyone can jump from extraordinary heights with supervision, this A license allows him to jump on his own, without a skydiving instructor guiding him, like someone fresh off the street would have to do.  Sensenig has been skydiving for three years after a close friend introduced him to the sport. As...

By Kenna Rohrer • April 3, 2025 • Features

One facet of college life that has become almost synonymous with U.S. higher education is that of “Greek life,” or fraternities and sororities. Goshen College has never been a part of this student organizational system, however, while they weren’t frats, GC did use its literary societies. These societies began in 1900 as a division of the, at the time too large, Ciceronian Debating club. The resulting societies were called the Aurora Society and the Coming Men of America Debating Club, which later changed its name to the Adelphian Society. These were the societies for men on campus. As for women,...

By Kate Bodiker • March 13, 2025 • Features

Goshen College’s fall play “She Kills Monsters” was performed the last two weekends by a cast determined to bring the story to life. The presence of American Sign Language interpreters on Sunday Nov. 10 was also a part of the efforts to ensure that deaf and hard of hearing individuals could enjoy the performance just as much as their hearing peers.  “Every play in GC had ASL interpreting which I think is very unique to GC, but it shouldn’t be. More actors should be able to work with interpreting,” said Fatima Zahara, senior theater and music major who played Agnes...

By Ana Alves Machado • November 24, 2024 • Features

The night begins as the big gates open in front of the bar. Then out come the IDs in the crowd of over 200 people, all dressed their finest and eager to have their hands stamped so the good times can begin.  Standing at the front of this line with stamp in hand, 5 feet 11 inches tall and dressed all in black, is Goshen College student, Aaron Yeakey, the wedding bouncer. Yeakey has a trained eye for spotting a fake ID. On this night he sends everyone through and then sits back to watch the festivities. He’s not hired...

By Josiah Miller • November 22, 2024 • Features

In a world where streaks are often tallied in Snapchat, Goshen College’s 27-year-old  head athletic trainer, Jaelyn Rufenacht, opted for a healthier sequence: running at least one mile every day for 1,000 consecutive days. In 2020, Rufenacht graduated from GC as a softball student-athlete with a degree in exercise science. The following year, she enrolled at the University of Indianapolis to pursue a master’s degree in athletic training. While in graduate school, she had to take a fitness test. So, on May 1, 2021, Rufenacht decided to run one mile a day for 30 days, enabling her to get in...

By Igor Sapucaia • October 31, 2024 • Features

Growing up in Santa Barbara, California, Richard Aguirre was no stranger to heavy political conversation. Bearing witness to many different local political movements and watching historically important figures on T.V., he was always aware and invested in the current affairs that came with the “turbulent” nature of the 1960s. Events such as the coverage and protests of Vietnam, listening to Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches, the civil rights protests, watching the women’s movement unfold and the environmental movement, which, according to Aguirre, started with the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969.  Because of this, Aguirre understood the importance of both...

By Charlie Aldrich • October 31, 2024 • Features

Since my late years in high school there has been a question that continues to leave me stumped: How do I create deeper relationships?  As someone who grew up with few words and little space to speak them, I found it hard to talk to new people or start conversations. It has been an ongoing journey learning to step out of my comfort zone and express myself easier. Whether it was with my family, on learning tours, during SST in Indonesia, or meeting new people, I struggled to ask my own questions and was fascinated with people who came up...

By Camila Pérez-Diener • October 10, 2024 • Features

Leadership skills can apply to many facets of life. Providing and improving those skills is the goal of the new United Leaders of Goshen College program, led by Gilberto Pérez Jr., vice president for student life and Hispanic serving initiatives. The group had several meetings during this past semester, in March, April and May, and is now looking to get started once again. Pérez spoke with enthusiasm about the mission of the group: “One primary goal is that our students who are in the leadership program have a better sense of direction for what they want to do at Goshen...

By Josiah Miller • September 19, 2024 • Features

As I enter senior year and put into perspective the memories I have made here, the word nostalgia comes to mind. Nostalgia allows us to put on rose-colored glasses as we re-experience events from our past, especially those that we associate with meaningful times and places in our lives.  In my work with marketing and design, I’ve realized that this wistful affection for the past encourages brands to reimagine designs from old releases. This new focus has been very prominent in sports marketing and can also be seen in the latest fashion trends. Brands doing this acknowledges our, the consumers’,...

By Isaac Sawatzky • September 19, 2024 • Features

I was at church last December when an older man asked me what I wanted to be someday. I said confidently, “I’m studying journalism at Goshen College.” He chuckled. “Are you going to write a book or what?” he asked me. I concealed my irritation and laughed. I didn’t bother to explain that I wasn’t drawn to reporting or even book writing, but loved the strategy and problem-solving of public relations and marketing and ultimately hoped to pursue that as a career path.  If you asked me right now what I wanted to do in the future, that’s what I...

By Sadie Brenneman • September 12, 2024 • Features