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April 17, 2025
Posters, projects and presentations at Academic Symposium
April 9 marked the 26th annual Academic Symposium at Goshen College. Since no classes were scheduled for the day, students had the opportunity to attend sessions throughout the day which started at 8:30 a.m. and finished with the Graduating Leader Award ceremony at 3:30 p.m. However, this isn’t what the symposium always looked like. Years in the past, the event would take place on a weekend. Jody Saylor, director of development and academic innovation and chair of the academic symposium planning committee, said, “It was hard to get people to attend. Eventually, and I’m not sure who made the decision...
March 13, 2025
Workshop helps students navigate SNAP
This past Friday, Patty Hartshorn and Cristina Reyes, both of Health and Wellness, held a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program workshop in Westlawn, offering information and guidance on how to utilize the benefits available for low-income students. SNAP is a program focused on providing low-income students and families with opportunities to receive food assistance through an online application. To qualify for SNAP, individuals must be enrolled for at least six credits, and meet one of eight conditions, including working 20-plus hours a week, having a disability that prevents them from working, caring for a child dependent or in a work-study. Hartshorn,...
February 20, 2025
65th annual Concerto-Aria concert
Goshen College’s 65th annual Concerto-Aria concert took place this Saturday, Feb. 15 at Sauder Concert Hall, with memorable performances from GC’s Orchestra and soloists. The evening began with Symphony No.1 in E minor by Joseph Mounsithiraj, a senior art major. He said that the symphony is a testament to his perseverance in learning something new. Next, the group was joined by Julia Koch, a sophomore music major, on violin I and Lucca Kauffman, a sophomore social work major, on violin II. They performed Pablo de Sarasate’s Navarra for Two Violins and Orchestra, Op. 33. Koch said, “The piece is a...
February 20, 2025
Hermithood Skills 101
Avoiding people is not a practice I take lightly. It is an art. As a predestined hermit, I will come out of my shell just this once to share the wondrous possibilities of avoiding human interaction at all costs. The art of avoiding people is a life skill that can most effectively be utilized by introverts, but extroverts are also more than welcome to join the brigade. Humans by nature are social creatures, I admit, and on a campus focused on tightly knit communities it can be hard to go anywhere without interacting with at least one person who...
February 13, 2025
Dreaming in beats
Along with homework, exams and late night study sessions, Lars Razor, a senior communication major, and Matija Margetic, a junior film production major, find the time to express their creativity through the art of music. Both transform their feelings and experiences into tunes for listeners with similar journeys. Razor’s musical journey began at age 5 as he listened to his grandmother, Lillian Jones, a singer from a gospel music band, The Vocalaires. The gospel group performed across the country, from Michigan to Missouri to California. Although she stopped performing before Razor became a teenager, he vaguely remembers attending his grandmother’s...
January 16, 2025
Love and learning: married students at GC
At Goshen College, it’s safe to say that the majority of the student population is single. Sorry if I called you out. Following that group is a smaller portion of students who are in relationships. And even smaller than that, are the students who are married. Maria Petit Arias is a senior psychology major, and transferred to GC when she was engaged. She is Latin American, and she said her culture and upbringing were very different when compared to most people who grew up in the states. In her family, she was expected to stay home until she got married....
January 16, 2025
The reality and possibility of AI in classrooms
When Suzanne Ehst, associate academic dean, was writing her dissertation, she encountered documentation of some of the anxieties and implications of the pencil replacing the standard quill and ink: “There were certain writers who were so scared that [the pencil] was going to change the quality of writing,” Ehst said. “[It] was going to change the rhythms of writing — it was going to make our writing dumber when we didn’t have those natural pauses to dip our quill and ink.” As artificial intelligence becomes more prominent and accessible academics are wrestling with these new tools — determining what is...
October 31, 2024
73% of eligible students have already voted
In a campus wide poll, The Record received anonymous student reported statistics on intention to vote, intended candidate and voting method. 234 students responded, which represents 34% of the undergraduate body. 76.3% of respondents, 145 students, declared their intention to vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. 20.5% of respondents, 39 students, stated that they will be putting Donald Trump and JD Vance on their ballot. One student is unsure, but plans to vote for Jill Stein. This is a shift in demographics from the 2020 election at Goshen: at the time, The Record reported the results of a similar...
September 5, 2024
Students receive Global Citizenship Awards
The annual Global Citizenship Awards were presented once again to three students who, through a process of nominations and applications, were decided to best represent the college’s values. This year’s awardees were Fatima Zahara, Silas Immanuel and Arleth Martinez. The award, in addition to its prestige, gives the two runner-up students a $5,000 scholarship and the winner with $10,000. This year, Immanuel and Martinez were awarded runners-up and Zahara was awarded first place. The Global Citizenship scholarship was started in 2022 by a contribution from Goshen College alumni Shashi Buluswar. Buluswar is the founder and president of the Institute for...
February 15, 2024
‘Amazing musicians, incredibly resilient’
With Brian Mast taking over the Goshen College Symphony Orchestra just days before the Concerto-Aria concert, students in the GCSO are experiencing a wide range of emotions after Richard Brunson’s firing. The Record interviewed six orchestra students (and Mast) and asked them the following questions. These are their answers. What was your reaction when you first heard about Brunson’s actions? “Initially it was numbness and then I felt very sad, a lot of grief … I felt for the students that were close to him, I felt for the professors, our whole music department, I felt for the community as...
October 28, 2022
How GC students spent their fall break
Fall break — a time of rest and recovery for many students here on campus. Or is it? For Mia Yoder, sophomore environmental science major, fall break was a time of exploration. Yoder, a transfer student from Portland, Oregon, used her days off to discover the rural and urban ranges of the Midwest. She kicked off her break by taking the South Shoreline Train to Chicago alongside some of her close friends. “I’ve never taken a commuter train before; that was sort of an adventure in and of itself,” Yoder said. When she and her friends finally arrived in the...