With spring break quickly approaching, the Men’s Chorus is preparing for their six-day tour to New Orleans. On Saturday, February 21st, the men will board their bus and make a few short stops in Indianapolis and Mississippi before reaching Nola, New Orleans, where they will perform in various churches, schools and also in a rest home. The choir will arrive in New Orleans on Monday and head back to Goshen on Thursday. They will arrive on campus on Friday just in time for their concert on Sunday, March 1st at 7:30 p.m. Scott Hochstetler, associate professor of music and the...

By Chelsea Risser • February 5, 2015 • News

This Tuesday, February 10, the Sauder Concert Hall will welcome a very different group than its usual performing artists: The Peking Acrobats. The Peking Acrobats are a Chinese acrobatics group that began in 1986 and has travelled the world performing daring stunts and aerial maneuvers. They specialize in trick-cycling, contortion, tumbling and performing stunts upon large stacks of chairs. “The Performing Arts Series tends to be just music,” said Brian Mast, music center managing director and the arts presenter running point for this show, “but we like the idea of expanding it to be more diverse in the artists that...

By Kolton Nay • February 5, 2015 • Arts

The spring semester of 2015 started off with a bang this past Saturday night in Sauder Concert Hall as Goshen College students competed in Kick Off, a talent show held every semester and planned by Campus Activities Council. The night began with Not the Real Snarky Puppy, a large instrumental number, followed by a poem performed by freshman Annie Agutu. “I felt very empowered,” said Agutu. “I was nervous at first but loosened up once I felt the energy from the audience.” Agutu’s performance produced a standing ovation from the audience. “The standing ovation really hit me hard in a...

By Maddie Birky • January 29, 2015 • News

The Goshen Student Women’s Association’s (GSWA) annual Chocolate House took place on Sunday and was, once again, an enriching experience for men and women alike. Along with the talents of the women of the Goshen College community was a chocolate feast for all. Chocolate House is one of the many events hosted by GSWA throughout the school year, but what makes this event unique is that both males and females are invited. One of GSWA’s leaders this year, Eva Lapp, a senior, said that the talent show is “a time and place for women to share songs, poems, dance, stories...

By Katie Hurst • November 13, 2014 • Features

At 7 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 16 at College Mennonite Church, the Theory Expats, a band formed by three Goshen College students, will perform with Mutual Kumquat, a well-known Brethren band. The Theory Expats features Sadie Gustafson-Zook, a sophomore, on vocals, ukulele, guitar, kazoo and banjo; Andrew Pauls, a sophomore, on vocals, guitar and banjo; and Ethan Setiawan, an early enrollment program student, on mandolin. Gustafson-Zook has been performing with her family since 2000. Now, she’s double majoring in music and communications. Pauls is currently undecided, but is extremely active in the Goshen College music department. Setiawan has been playing...

By Maggie Weaver • November 13, 2014 • Features

The new and powerful All-Campus Band will have a joint concert with Lavender Jazz this Friday, Oct. 31, hoping to show off the talent and flair for band music that Goshen has left relatively untapped in recent years. “Over the last couple of years we have had an increasing number of wind and brass players coming to Goshen College,” Christopher Fashun, director of the All-Campus Band, said.  “The number of orchestra wind parts didn’t provide enough opportunities for these students and we needed to create a concert band to fulfill this need.” The band will be able to explore pieces...

By Hayley Mann • October 30, 2014 • Features

Saturday evening, over 100 students streamed into Umble Center for the first-annual talent show co-hosted by the Black Student Union and the Latino Student Union. Acts ranged from song and dance to rap and poetry. Angel Reyes, a senior, was one of the emcees for the evening and has been leader of LSU in the past. “I think it was great gauging the audience after each group to see that they were just as impressed as I was with the performers,” Reyes said. A few of the performers were returning to the stage with new material after excellent debuts at...

By Monica Miller • October 20, 2014 • Arts

An early enrollment program student earned the title of youngest national mandolin champion. Ethan Setiawan was named the national mandolin champion on Sept. 19 at the Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival, making him the youngest musician ever to win the championship. The competition took place in Winfield, Kan., where tens of thousands of bluegrass-lovers gather every September to perform, listen and compete in national competitions. Setiawan is currently a high school senior taking classes at Goshen College with the early enrollment program. Setiawan first started playing the mandolin when he was 13 years old. He had played the cello already for...

By Kolton Nay • October 1, 2014 • Features

The musical worship ensemble will perform songs and dramas about love this year. Parables, Goshen College’s traveling worship ensemble, is kicking off its performance series for the year. The small ensemble, made up of current Goshen College students, performs primarily during Sunday morning church services in the Northern Indiana area. Parables has been rehearsing weekly for these performances since mid-August. Each performance includes music, drama and personal faith stories – all related to this year’s theme: love God with all your heart, soul, mind, strength, and love your neighbor as yourself. Parables has chosen to highlight the self-love portion of...

By Maggie Weaver • September 24, 2014 • Features

Students, in cocktail frocks, ironed down shirts and Academy Award winning outfits, abandoned their school work to attend one of the most anticipated events at Goshen College: Sauderday Night Live Kick-Off. Donning “Dad” jeans and showing off their dance moves, seniors Taylor Ermoian, Caleb Longenecker and Rachel Smucker emceed the event. This year, Kick Off displayed an array of performances: poetry, burlesque style singing, original songs and comedy skits. Ammon Allen-Doucot, a junior, and Seth Yoder, a senior, placed first with “Compulsive Masculinity,” a passionate poetry jam. MP and Company, made up of Martin Flowers, a junior; Prashansa Dickson, a...

By Dona Park • September 24, 2014 • Arts

Michelle Milne has returned this semester from travelling, performing, and teaching around the country to, once again, act as an assistant professor of theater at Goshen College. Between 2005-10, Milne was at GC and she taught classes such as Playwriting, Voice for the Actor, and Movement for the Stage as well as directed plays such as “Much Ado About Nothing” and “Big Love.” Since her departure from Goshen College in 2010, Milne has engaged in a variety of different projects and events in the fields of theater, choreography, writing and many others. “Doing a variety of projects is always exciting,”...

By Kolton Nay • September 17, 2014 • Features

"I am an empowered woman, empowering women." These were the last words of Goshen Monologues, spoken by 35 women in a room filled to capacity Tuesday evening. The Monologues, a series of personal stories written and performed by Goshen College students, faculty and staff women, premiered in a two-hour show in Umble Center. The audience of 446 in Umble and an overflow of 19 in the Yost room, who watched a live stream, ended on their feet. Stories were told as individual, partner or group monologues, and divided into five sections, including imparity, body, assault, relationship and identity. Each dealt...

By Kate Stoltzfus • April 10, 2014 • News

Every woman has a story. On Tuesday, Goshen Monologues will seek to share those stories, written by women, told by them, and for them. Goshen Monologues, a script of stories submitted and performed by Goshen College faculty, staff and student women, will make its debut at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Umble Center. Whether by group performance or a monologue, the project seeks to address the stages of womanhood, such as the experiences of gender awakening or confusion, as well as physical and mental abuse. The Monologues not only address the darker realities that society imposes upon the female gender, but...

By Dona Park • April 2, 2014 • Arts Kate Stoltzfus • April 2, 2014 • Arts

On Saturday, March 15th Michiana Monologues presented “City of Women.” The group performed in Reith Recital Hall in the music center at 7:30pm. Michiana Monologues was the experimental project of a group of women from Indiana University South Bend that decided to try a new variation on Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues.” The idea was to collect anonymous stories about what it meant to be a woman in the Michiana area. Michiana Monologues has been holding annual productions since 2008. The purpose of the productions is to provide a voice to the experiences of women in the area and to...

By Angie Troyer • March 19, 2014 • Arts

Last year while Lauren Treiber, a senior, was in Cambodia for a Study-Service Term, she became very, very irate. Her anger began, said Treiber, when she and other female friends in her group began to experience forms of sexual harassment while in the country. “It was really hard to deal with,” she said. “I slowly started to realize that I cannot be angry about this happening in Cambodia because it happens at home and I’ve never ever said anything. It never crossed my mind for some reason that the same structures are here.” When she returned to Goshen in May...

By Liz Core • March 5, 2014 • News