Three students from the Writing for Media class have had their essays selected to be on air on 88.1 WVPE. Brett Bridges, a junior,  Chase Snyder, a senior, and Kelsey Shue, a junior, each articulated a conviction of their own through an essay entitled "This I Believe," which will be aired later in November. Every year,  Duane Stoltzfus, professor of communications,  assigns students in his Writing for Media class the essay fashioned after a National Public Radio (NPR) program entitled, “This I Believe." He then sends these essays to WVPE, the NPR affiliate station for the Michiana area. Lee Burdorf,...

By Katelyn Yoder • October 28, 2009 • News

Using words, photos, drawings and cartoons, students presented bits of themselves to the public in two recently released Pinchpenny Press publications. The book “Goshen Adventure Comics,” was released at Better World Books downtown on Friday. The comic book was edited by Jessica Baldanzi, assistant professor of English; Jacob Schlabach, a sophomore; and Emily Taylor, a junior. “Red Cents,” Goshen’s creative arts journal, was released on Tuesday at Goshen College. The arts journal was edited by Whitney Philipps, a senior, and Chase Snyder, a junior, who also designed the cover. “Goshen Adventure Comics” is an anthology of a handful of final...

By Alysha Landis • April 8, 2009 • Arts

Although e-mail and cell phones have long since replaced handwritten letters to parents of college students in faraway places, Peter Miller, a senior, uses the concept as inspiration for his new collection of poetry to explore his changing relationship to home while at Goshen College. Miller, an English and music double major, will release his collection “Writing Home,” on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in the Koinonia Room in the Church-Chapel. “The title of the collection … is a play on words,” Miller said. “Apart from the obvious meaning of communicating over a distance, it also means something like ‘contemplating home’...

By Ben Noll • March 4, 2009 • Arts