Calvin University's official student newspaper since 1907. These are exciting times for athletes on the Calvin’s women’s acrobatics and tumbling team.

1 day ago · In the mid-1990s, Calvin welcomed a Sunday evening worship service to campus in addition to daily chapels. The service was known as “Living Our Faith Together,” abbreviated as “LOFT.” According to Ron Rienstra, who was hired as worship assistant to help manage LOFT, the service quickly grew from just a few people into a staple...

1 day ago · Without corrective action, Calvin is headed for a $10 million budget deficit in the 2024-2025 fiscal year, according to information shared at a faculty town hall on Feb. 11 by Dirk Pruis, vice president for finance and chief financial officer. Pruis emphasized significant “headwinds” facing Calvin in the next few years, including what’s known in...

Feb 17, 2025 · In spring 2023, Professor Nate Glasper Jr., a campus worship associate, had an idea. He brought together five students and encouraged them to form a group for multicultural worship on Calvin’s Campus. By fall 2023, that group — Stephan Bovell, Grace Cheong, Pierre Kaldas, Yoseob Lim, and Nisya Salim — had become the 7:9 Project. ...

Feb 17, 2025 · “I’m the guy who has no answers for you,” Board of Trustees (BOT) member Perrin Rynders announced to the group of faculty and staff assembled in the chapel sanctuary. The group, which had come to hear an update on the January BOT meeting, chuckled briefly. Speakers at the town hall gave lengthy and detailed descriptions...

Feb 17, 2025 · On Friday, Feb. 14, the stage of the CFAC’s main auditorium was flooded with Women’s Chorale and Capella singers, flashing with vivid colors and dancing to pop songs for Calvin’s annual Late-Night concert. This special performance came after a year of assessing how to evoke a more inclusive, inviting atmosphere for students and faculty members...

Jan 27, 2025 · For the first time since the COVID pandemic, Calvin has welcomed students back to a campus without any major active construction projects. Recent successes Fall 2024 brought with it several newly updated spaces to campus, including a soccer stadium, a major renovation to the first three floors of Hekman Library and a new cadaver lab...

Nov 11, 2024 · Students arriving at Calvin this fall were greeted with a wealth of new facilities. Ranging from a renovated library to a new soccer stadium to a new cadaver lab for pre-health students, these spaces were all designed to benefit the student experience. Despite the diverse new spaces, students do not need to worry about funding being taken out of their pockets.

About. Chimes is Calvin University’s official and only student newspaper. In print since 1907, the paper started as a literary magazine. Beginning in the 1940s, Chimes became a weekly print newspaper. In 2014, Chimes went online, and has since established multiple social media presences and created a podcast. Throughout the years, Chimes has maintained a core commitment to accurate and ...

Sep 9, 2024 · Whether this is the first issue of Chimes you’ve ever picked up or one of many, congrats on making it past the front page! I’m Ethan Meyers, Chimes’ editor-in-chief for the 2024-25 school year. Chimes has been a part of campus since 1907, and has been published weekly since the 1940s. That makes Chimes one of the oldest student organizations at Calvin, and I’m proud to step into that ...