Goshen College Student Life started placing purple boxes in prominent places around campus in late October 2024, with the hope to improve accessibility of the college’s food pantry. Dash’s Mobile Cache is an extension of Dash’s Cache, a food pantry and free store for students located in the Student Life suite on the first floor of Wyse Hall. There are nine mobile caches around the GC campus, including in Newcomer, Romero Apartments and the Connector, which are the most frequented according to Patty Hartshorn, director of health and wellness and Title IX coordinator. “We want to help normalize the fact...

By Mackenzie P. Miller • January 23, 2025 • News

The new composting bay, located behind the Physical Plant, should be operational by next week, according to Dan Barwick, Goshen College’s sustainability coordinator. GC recently hired Barwick, who will be leading the mission of creating a more environmentally-friendly campus, centered in large part around the practice of composting. There is currently no composting options from GC. Barwick said that “the desire has always been there, but currently we aren’t actually composting.”  He went on to describe the new concrete composting bay, and how it will be used to advance composting strategies at GC. “Our method uses a compost bay, a...

By Ben Koop • March 14, 2024 • News