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Calvin Moses: the statue, the myth, the legend

Asian Studies grant allowsreopening of adjunct position

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BY KATHRYN MAE POSTReligion Editor

Students from Hope, Calvin, GVSU and GRCC joined to-gether with members of a lo-cal Methodist Church and social workers from Bethany Christian Services to tour the West Michigan Hindu Temple last Sunday.

After removing their shoes at the door to demonstrate respect, this group of about 20-30 people was welcomed into the temple by Frank Stella, the Pracharak, or outreach minister, for the temple. Stella gave an introduc-tion to Hinduism, using familiar language to describe fundamental aspects of the religion.

Calvin first year Jamie Kuiper appreciated Stella’s open ap-proach to the tour: “I was pleas-antly surprised about how open our guide was. He mentioned that he had given many tours to non-Hindus and talked about how people didn’t have to leave all of their old faith behind at the door. Hinduism is not as all-or-nothing as Christianity is.”

Throughout the introduc-tion, Stella often compared

and contrasted Hinduism with Abrahamic faiths. For instance, Stella said that unlike Abrahamic traditions, Hindus conceive of God as Bhagavan, one imper-sonal, indescribable, non-gen-dered entity that is “more verb than noun.”

“Hinduism is extremely liberal in terms of how do you perceive God,” said Stella. “People who need that personal relationship can have that personal relation-ship, people who conceive divin-ity purely as consciousness, that’s fine for them too.”

Calv in sen ior Aubrey Laubenthal said she learned about many misconceptions surrounding Hinduism: “For instance, they believe in one God, but the other ‘little g’ gods that they have are actually not what we would think of as gods. They’re more like what we would consider angels, and come from mythology. We learned that the Hindus actually recognize the non-historical and fictional na-ture of the mythology, and from what I gathered they see the gods as symbols of deep life truths.”

SEE “TOUR,” PAGE 9

Students explore Hinduism on temple tour

History professor awarded Fulbright to study hockey

BY PURUN YEOSports Editor

Calvin College announced on Wednesday, April 4, that history professor Bruce Berglund will go on an off-campus semester to re-search the global history of ice hockey on a Fulbright scholarship for a total of five months. In a recent inter-view with Calvin News and Stories, Berglund dis-cussed the award. Much of the information below is from that story, which can be found at calvin.edu.

He will visit the Czech Republic, Canada and Korea for his research, delving into archival records in addition to oral history.

Students share views on planned Calvin renovations

Berglund secured this research opportunity when he found a previously undiscovered source in the archives of the University of Manitoba in 2016. This source was the diary of a young Canadian student who played hockey at Oxford University in the 1920s.

During this time, Canadian students who played hockey at British universities such as Oxford and Cambridge travelled together to mainland Europe to compete against hockey club teams in countries such as Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and Hungary.

As a Minnesota native, Berglund had always been fond of hockey

and loved history, but he was unable to integrate these two top-ics as a graduate student at the University of Kansas due to an atmosphere that did not support the study of sports history.

Now, however, the scholarly climate has changed. Historians have begun to see the significance of studying sports as a tool to comprehend cultural history and past societies. With this change in general climate towards sports history, Berglund will contribute to this growing interest of sports history. After his research is concluded, he will write a book that will be part of a series pub-

lished by the University of California Press.

SEE “BERGLUND,” PAGE 5

The proposed renovations to the Commons Annex will include an extension to the existing bridge that connects the two sides of campus.

BY JOSHUA POLANSKIOn-Call Writer

Calvin is currently in the process of implementing its “master plan.” The master plan appears in a booklet by the C a m p u s M a s t e r P l a n Steer ing Commit tee that presents Calvin Col lege’s renovation plans over the

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course of the next twen-ty years, according to the int roductor y le t ter f rom President Michael Le Roy. The 2015 master plan is modeled af ter the f i rs t Calvin College master plan, revealed in 1959. While the master plan provides de-tail for a variety of reno-vations, it sets apart three renovations as the most im-

med ia te need s: C a lv i n C r o s s i n g , c o m p r e h e n -sive classroom renovations and a renovation of Commons Dining Hall.

Amongst students, Calvin Crossing is one of the most talk-ed-about projects.

The Calvin Crossing proj-ect, according to the master plan, is going to “be a cam-pus crossroads strengthen-

ing the east-wing connection across East Beltline Avenue, integrating academics, faith and student life.” The site will provide a variety of func-tions that can be found in the master plan. It will connect Hiemenga Hall, the CFAC and the br idge to the DeVos Communication Center.

SEE “PLANS,” PAGE 2

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Lecture challenges Christians’ meat consumption

BY JULIA MCKEECampus Co-Editor

The Animals and the Kingdom of God lecture series focused on the relationship between humans and “non-human” animals, a term coined by Dr. David L. Clough, author of and professor at the University of Chester, the final speaker for the series.

This year’s event celebrated the 10th anniversary of the series, which was founded to promote scholarship and education on the treatment of animals as God’s creatures, and, as professor of philosophy Matthew Halteman stated, “to bring the invisible be-ings out into the light.”

Clough’s lecture, “Eating Pe a c e a b ly : C h r i s t i a n i t y and Veganism,” addressed the relat ionship between Christ ianity and creation and the fair treatment of non-human animals.

Clough stressed that the Genesis creation did not in-clude killing or harming ani-mals. God’s intended way of living, before sin entered the world, did not include eating or killing or eating animals, but rather living together in peace.

Clough noted the difference

between the command “you may not kill animals for food” and the command as permission “you may not kill animals for food.”

Christians have the choice as to whether they will choose to consume animals. Clough be-lieves there is “real joy in living out this great permission.”

A vegan diet does not mean a bland diet. Clough stated, “a veg-an diet is not to give up feasting, but to feast on different food.”

In addition, Clough advocated for veganism even if one is only concerned for the environment and human health.

If veganism seems like a big jump, Clough also encouraged starting small. He encouraged “flexible veganism.” Christians are sinners and humanity is bro-ken. There is no reason to expect Christian veganism to be perfect.

With “f lexible veganism” in mind, Clough encouraged in-dividuals looking to switch to a vegan diet to start small and plan a path. He preached that it is bet-ter to start on some plan rather than not to embark at all.

C l o u g h f o u n d e d CreatureKind, a program dedi-cated to educating Christians on what the Bible says about the treatment of animals. CreatureKind hopes to encour-

age Christians to think about peaceable living through videos, reading, and dialogue.

“I don’t think we can seriously claim to be respecting the lives of fellow creatures — or their cre-ator — if we consume the meat of animals raised in intensive condi-tions with no regard for the ways

that they flourish,” stated Clough in an interview with Evangelicals for Social Action.

Clough concluded by chal-lenging Calvin to be the f irst CreatureKind college in North America, and to begin to think deeply about ethical eating.

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PlansCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

Derek Vos, a biochemistry major on 1st VanderWerp, said concerning the crossing, “I don’t see the purpose of con-necting the buildings. It may seem cool, but I just don’t see the point. It doesn’t really have a purpose.” Vos understands the major project to be more about appearance than use or convenience.

Vos expressed that he would rather see the dorm basements renovated because they are more accessible and practical to his experience at Calvin. While Vos may not be at Calvin to see these changes, residence hall

modernization is one of Calvin’s long-term priorities, to be com-pleted within the next four to 18 years.

However, Andrew Gilbert, a film major and student employee at Commons Dining Hall, had a more positive opinion on the crossing. Andrew, who has had many classes in DeVos, thinks Calvin Crossing will make his long walks to DeVos in the winter more enjoyable. Kiley Elgersma, a junior who lives in KE apartments and has to walk to Spoelhof for class, agrees with Andrew that building Calvin Crossing will improve future KE residents’ experiences, since they will not have to be frigid during their morning routine.

While many students are

fond of the projects in the mas-ter plan, a few students voiced concern for Calvin’s debt situa-tion. Jay DeBoer, VanderWerp’s vice president, said, “I think it’s a great idea that Calvin wants to renovate and improve the aesthetics of campus to en-courage new students to come, however I think Calvin has a responsibility to take care of the current debt.”

Calvin administrators, howev-er, have clarified to Chimes that the debt crisis is under control.

“That chapter is closed,” said Provost Cheryl Brandsen. “We had a debt of 115 million dollars, and we got that down to 78 mil-lion, which was the goal.”

Since the renewed master plan has been announced, the

Commons renovation has been the only completed project out of the three most immediate needs. Andrew Gilbert, who works at the renovated build-ing, said that before the reno-vation Commons was very outdated and that “the seating options are my favorite part of the renovation.” Gilbert is fond of the seemingly new Commons.

The improvements under the master plan will also allot more space to STEM classes, entail a renovation for the Hekman Library and make improvements for pedestrian paths.

These projects can all be found in greater detail on Calvin’s website.

Projected 20-year plan imagines what the new renovation could look like. PHOTO COURTESY CALVIN COLLEGE

Dr. Clough, founder of CreatureKind.

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NOTABLE MENTIONS

Christian Perspec-tives in ScienceFriday, April 7, 3:30 p.m. @ Science Building Lecture Hall

Dance GuildFriday-Saturday, April 7-8, 8 p.m. @ CFAC

Just Citizenship: Welcome the Refugee: How Can We Help A Stranger In Need? Monday, April 10, 3:30 p.m. @ Chapel

Tara Oskam Memorial Service Monday, April 10, 4 p.m. @ Chapel

SAO: Banff Mountain Film FestivalMonday, April 10, 7 p.m. @ CFAC Anti-Racism 101Tuesday, April 11, 3:30 p.m. @ Meeter Center Lecture Hall

SAO ConcertKishi BashiTuesday, April 11, 8 p.m. @ CFAC

Art Department: Open StudioThursday, April 13, 6 p.m. @ Lower Gezon Lobby

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NEH grant pays for Japanese adjunctBY JULIANA LUDEMA

On-Call Writer

The Japanese program has in-vited the previously cut adjunct professor Yoshiko Tsuda to re-turn in the fall after the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) allowed an amendment to the Asian Studies endow-ment. The amendment permits program director Larry Herzberg to continue employing both an adjunct professor and a teaching intern for the Japanese program.

Last semester’s cut left the Asian Studies program with one full-time professor, caus-ing students and the depart-ment to fear for the program’s long-term sustainability.

“It made me feel like the Japanese program was getting the short end of a stick in a sense, like people weren’t really giving it any legitimacy,” said first-year Japanese major Zachary Nowak.

The NEH grant has allowed the program to host six guest

speakers a year, supply Asian books and films for students and cover interim trips and faculty travel. Now, the grant, instead of Calvin itself, will also fund both an adjunct and an intern.

Though Herzberg has in-vited Tsuda to return, she has applied for full-time po-sitions elsewhere because of Calvin’s “inability to of-fer her anything beyond one course per semester, rath-er than the two courses per semester she taught for us until recently,” he said.

If enrollment in the 300-lev-el courses, which Tsuda or a new adjunct will teach, rises above ten students — unlikely based on current trends — the college would pay the adjunct full pay. For a smaller class size, the grant will cover the adjunct’s prorated pay.

Although the adjunct will teach only one class a semester, this will return professor Schau’s course load to a normal number of credits.

Because of the amend-ment, the Asian Studies Advisory Committee, accord-ing to Herzberg, thinks the department will even have enough funds to hire a new full-time faculty member to teach Asian religion, philosophy and history.

However, the NEH amend-ment, as it stands, is only cer-tain for the next five years. “Our hope,” said Herzberg, “is that by then the enrollments in Japanese language courses will rise again to the levels they enjoyed some years ago, which will encourage the college to resume paying for them.” If this isn’t the case, they will ask for an extension.

Being able to keep not only an adjunct but the teaching in-tern is vital to students’ learn-ing, according to Herzberg. “It is invaluable to have na-tive speakers teaching at least the upper-level courses of a language, especially for languag-es as different from English as are Chinese and Japanese.”

A teaching assistant, close in age to students, Herzberg continued, “not only provides valuable linguistic practice,” he said, “but allows them to get real insight into the per-spective of young adults in the target culture.”

Nowak agreed. “Culturally speaking, I’ve learned a lot from Satsuki [Nagata],” the current Japanese intern, “a lot more from Satsuki than I have from class, even though I learn a lot of culture from class, too.”

If professor Tsuda decides to return, students will wel-come her back. “She was a lit t le strict,” said Nowak, “but honestly the way that she taught forced me to rise above what I knew before in terms of study habits. I think I’m way bet-ter as a Japanese student because of it.”

The Japanese program is hosting a cultural event May fourth, offering free sushi and cultural activities.

Opinion: Rape culture at CalvinBY EMILY COLE

Staff Writer

Does rape culture exist? A re-cent article in the Banner titled “Rape Culture and Christian Colleges” by Gayla Postma discussed the existence of rape culture at Christian colleges such as Calvin and Dordt and seemed to conclude that sexual violence and rape culture are not a part of the Christian college or individual’s experience.

This conclusion has conse-quences for the way we talk to and about survivors of sexual as-sault, the policies and programs that we support, and the respon-sibility we take to change the sta-tus quo of our community.

Rape culture is the environ-ment in which sexual assault is prevalent and sexual violence is normalized and perpetuated. When the phrase “rape culture” comes to mind, most visual-ize aggressive fraternity broth-ers and can conclude, “well, we don’t have anything like that at Calvin,” and are able to pat them-selves on the back. Rape culture manifests itself in often more subtle ways, however, including using phrases like “boys will be

boys” and teaching women how to avoid being raped rather than teaching men to not rape.

Concluding that rape culture is not evident at Calvin dis-misses that there are aspects of our college community that sup-port perpetrators of sexual vio-lence rather than survivors, and denies the existence of sexual violence within our community, which in itself can be a form of rape culture.

Statistics of sexual vio-lence among Calvin students are approximately the same as other colleges across the country, including state uni-versities. Ten percent of Calvin College students disclosed an un-wanted sexual experience in the past year in the Campus Climate Survey conducted by social work professor Rachel Venema in 2013. A second survey will be conducted among all current students this coming fall to col-lect data about the current cohort of students.

There are cultural aspects within Calvin, and Christian culture more generally that don’t hold perpetrators of sex-ual violence accountable, and often place blame on victims. Emphasizing forgiveness with-

out holding perpetrators account-able, turning a blind eye to acts done by people seen as “good Christians” or role models within the community, or extending less empathy and resources to survi-vors who do not fit a picture of the “ideal victim” due to their sexual orientation, personal his-tory, use of drugs or alcohol, or any other reason.

Statistics of sexual violence among Calvin students are approxi-mately the same as

other colleges across the country, including

state universities.

These are all ways that the rights and needs of survivors can be neglected, leading to a culture where only a fraction of survivors ever report the crime, and a third never tell anyone about the inci-dent for fear of not being believed among other reasons.

We are in the midst of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, a time in which we come to-

gether to specifically support survivors in our community and work towards the end of sexual violence. As Christians, we cannot stand in silence and allow victims to experience these things alone. Becoming aware of the prevalence of sexual assault and validating the stories of those who have experienced sexual vio-lence is a first step in becoming a

community that l istens, a community of people that don’t run from difficult conversations but address them head-on.

Calvin as an institution, in-dividuals and groups within Calvin are each taking steps to address these things through events that bring awareness, em-pathy, and action to the issue of sexual assault. If you are inter-ested in learning more about the experience of survivors of sexual violence, consider attending the Fear2Freedom event on April 19th at 7:30 pm in the Covenant Fine Arts Center.

If you have experienced an unwanted sexual expe-rience, or sexual assault, there are resources and support available to you through Calvin. To learn more, visit calvin.edu/go/saferspaces.

PHOTO COURTESY SEXUAL ASSAUL PREVENTION TEAM

An image from last year’s flag display on Commons Lawn. The Sexual Assault Prevention Team will host another flag display this year on April 19.

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BY CAROLYN MUYSKENSLocal Editor

The Michigan Senate and House have adjourned for two weeks, until April 18 and 19 respectively. In the mean-time, bills and resolutions are in various stages making their way through the process of introdu-cation, committee approval, and floor vote.

“GOOD JOBS” PACKAGE >>Passed by the Senate, currently in House committee

A bipartisan package of bills called Good Jobs for Michigan (SB 242) hopes to attract busi-nesses to the state by offering tax incentives for businesses to create “good” Michigan jobs.

Under the legislation, up to 15 companies would be eli-gible each year to collect and keep between 50 and 100 percent of their employees’ withheld in-

come tax if they meet certain job-creating qualifications.

The qualifications include a high number of jobs creat-ed, and qualifying companies must pay their employees at a rate above the average wage for the region. This average wage could be be-tween $18.57 and $27.77 per hour depending on which area of Michigan the company is located in.

Good Jobs Michigan is the coalition backing the leg islat ion, arguing that the bill will make Michigan competitive and incentivize strong businesses to move to the state.

One opposition voice, Ron Bieber, president of the Michigan AFL-CIO, said of the bill, “The idea that a worker would pay their income taxes directly to their employer to subsidize their own salary is just nuts.” The Senate passed SB 242 last week, and the bill is

OPEN RECORDS AND TRANSPARENCY PACKAGE>>Passed by House, currently in Senate committee

In Michigan, the governor and the state legislature are not subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) open re-cords laws--and Michigan is just one of two states in the country where this exemption remains.

Lawmakers moved to change that in mid-March with a package of bills (HB 4148-4157) that would apply the Freedom of Information Act to the governor and leg islature broadly. The House voted unanimously to pass the bills, which are now up for Senate committee review.

Michigan consistently ranks among the lowest in the nation for transparency and govern-ment accountability; a 2015 corruptibility report card from the Center for Public Integrity, for example, ranked Michigan worst in the country in terms of Michigan’s transparency and ac-countability practices.

The state government’s lack of transparency law surfaced during the Flint water crisis, when, although Governor Rick Snyder released some of his emails, the difficulty of investi-

gating the internal workings of state government became appar-ent, and bipartisan transparency efforts grew.

Though the bi l ls had unanimous support in the House, they still face the obstacle of Senate majority leader Arlan Meekhof, who killed a similar transparency bill passed by the House last year.

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TAX DISCLOSURE>>In Senate committee

A bill introduced in March (SB 216) would require, as a pre-requisite for appearing on the Michigan ballot, that presidential candidates disclose the last five years of their tax returns.

Sen. Steve Bieda, D-Warren, primary sponsor of the bill, reasoned that “the citizens of Michigan and the American people deserve to know what potential conf licts of interest a presidential candidate and their running mate have … the Office of the President is not a private business, it is an office of public service.”

Ma r yla nd, Ca l i for n ia , New York, and several other states have introduced similar bills. The bill would require that presidential candidates give

SB 84: Homeless Bill of Rights SB 93: Require academic cred-

it for internships.

SB 98: Increase the number of authorities who can desig-nate promise zones. Promise zones are “local public-private partnerships that aim to make college free for every high school graduate to at least one institu-tion for at least two years” in impoverished areas of the state, according to the Campaign for Free College Tuition.

their income tax returns to the Secretary of State, who would then release the information to the public at least 30 days before election day.

Though the bill clearly hits a sore spot for Democrats in the wake of President Trump’s re-fusal to disclose his tax returns during his campaign (and after), Bieda hopes to appeal to the bi-partisan support for transparency that a set of House Freedom of Information Act bills received two weeks ago.

ELIMINATE SALES TAX FOR FEMININE HYGIENE PRODUCTS>>Passed committee, up for Senate vote

As it stands, tampons and pads are categorized as “luxury” items for tax purposes. A bill that has won committee approval in the Michigan Senate (SB 92) would change the tax cat-egorization of feminine hygiene products to make them exempt from sales tax and use tax, elimi-nating what has been called the “tampon tax.”

Senator David Knezek, D-Dearborn Heights, and Senator Rebekah Warren, D-Ann Arbor, introduced the legisla-tion, and Rep. Winnie Brinks,

D-Grand Rapids, is a sponsor of a sister bill in the House.

Currently, eight states have exempted feminine hygiene products from their sales tax, besides the f ive states that do not levy a sales tax at all.

Other bills introduced in the Senate:

SB 83: Make civil rights records part of Freedom of Information Act disclosure requirements.

currently in a House committee for review.

DEATH WITH DIGNITY ACT>>Introduced in the House

A “Death with Dignity Act” (HB 4461) legalizing physician-assisted suicide in the state of Michigan was in-troduced on March 30 in the State House.

Sponsored by state represen-tatives Tom Cochran and Pam Faris, the bill would put in place regulations “to require safe-guards for determining that the patient has a terminal disease, receives adequate counseling, and makes a voluntary request for medication.”

“Death with Dignity Acts” are in place in five states: Oregon, California, Colorado, Washington, and Vermont. Cochran and Rep. Sam Singh introduced a similar bill last summer.

VACCINATION WAIVER DEREGULATION

>>Introduced in House and Senate

Introduced March 28, HB 4425 would undo relatively new regulations that made it more difficult for parents to forgo vaccination for their children.

R e p. To m B a r r e t t , R-Potterville, the bill’s spon-sor, and Sen. Patrick Colbeck, R-Canton, sponsor of sister bills in the Senate, both argue that the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services overstepped their authority when they enacted more strict rules re-garding vaccine waivers.

The rules, implemented January 2015, required those seeking waivers to receive education about vaccines from a health professional and sign a state form acknowledging that they put other children in danger by opting not to vaccinate their children.

The bil ls introduced in the House and Senate would retract those additional re-quirements and prevent the department from prohibiting un-vaccinated children from groups or activities.

Other bills introduced in the

House: HB 4120 and 4124-4125:

Water sources for public schools must be tested for lead and other contaminants.

HB 4430: Protecting Michigan residents from the federal govern-ment collecting data without a warrant.

HB 4130: Businesses contract-ing with the state must verify that their employees are legal residents.

HB 4142: Teacher Shortage Prevention Act.

PHOTO COURTESY MLIVE

UP FOR DEBATE

Open-records laws among bills awaiting Senate approval

House considers job creation incentives, health, education bills

Sen. Steve Bieda introduced a bill that would require presidential candidates to make tax info public before they can appear on MI ballots.

PHOTO COURTESY MLIVE

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Knights of Calvin: Rachel Borden

BY RACHEL KIMStaff Writer

Name : Rachel BordenYear : SophomoreSport : SoftballMajor : Nursing

IntroductionBorden is a Calvin Knight

from Edwardsburg, Michigan. Softball has always been a major part of her life. When she was younger, he brother and father would play baseball with her in the backyard. And growing up, she and her best friend would both play softball together. In all, Borden has been playing softball for about 15 years.

What do you like about softball? “I like the fact that it’s a team

sport. You can’t really score runs or be successful in making a play without the other people on the field with you. [In addition,] it’s a sport that requires you to think a lot and make really quick de-cisions so I like the challenge of that aspect.”

What has softball taught you? “I believe sof tbal l has

really taught me to be men-tally tough and be able to function under pressure. There are times when it requires you to be fast-paced.

If you’re the one that’s mak-ing the play, it almost has to be instinct. The ball is coming to

you really fast and you can’t think through; it just has to hap-pen. But there are also moments in the field when the ball hasn’t been thrown to you in like 2 in-nings. So you always have to always be on your toes even if it isn’t likely to come to you. And this is a big part of build-ing mental stamina because you have to always be focused on the game.”

Borden also stressed the im-portance of learning how to work as a team and being able to rely on others. “[In] softball, there are a lot of times when you’re going to fail. And I think that knowing that there are 8 other girls on the field that are going to have your back and pick you up is very up-lifting.”

This has not only applied on the field but also off the field when balancing her tough nurs-ing track on top of her duties as an athlete.

“There are upperclass-men who have gone through the same things as I have and have had to balance being a student-athlete. And [just] knowing that they have lived through it and been success-ful gives me hope that I can do it as well.”

Sports in general can teach you a lot about working hard and both are outlets in which you can pursue your passions and glorify God.”

Berglund CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

Berglund has already had a headstart on his research with connections in all three coun-tries, and he has been to the Czech Republic on two different occasions to do research.

His f irst encounter with the Czech Republic was as a graduate student doing his dissertation research on a Fulbright Student Grant. In his stay from 1997 to 1998, Berglund witnessed the Czechs win the gold medal for hock-ey at the Nagano Winter Olympics in Japan.

His second experience came about eight years later, as a fac-ulty member of Calvin College, again on a Fulbright research grant. This time his research pro-duced a book on Czechoslovakian culture, titled “Castle and Cathedral in Modern Prague.”

In addition to his connections in Czechoslovakia, Berglund has connections with Jim Paek, the head of Korea’s national hockey organization. Paek played with the Pittsburgh Steelers and went on to win two Stanley Cups. After his retire-ment as a player, he worked nine years as the assistant coach of the Grand Rapids Griffins.

Berglund will stay in Korea during the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics, during which time Jim Paek has presented Berglund with an all-access pass to Korea’s first hockey team to compete in the Olympics. He has also allowed Berglund to interview everyone on the team, including Paek.

According to Calvin News and Stories, Berglund stated that “Paek has been very generous in supporting this project. He’s in-terested in seeing hockey contin-ue to develop in Korea and more broadly in East Asia. He sees

my project as important in help-ing people understand the ap-peal of hockey not only in North America, Europe and Russia, but also in these other countries where the sport has been growing in recent decades.”

Berglund has done much research already in Canada and the US about the history of hockey. Among some of the interviews he has conducted, he has notably in-terviewed Michael Eisner, the former CEO of the Walt Disney Company. In 1993, Eisner had led Disney into creating the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, a hock-ey team that currently competes in the NHL.

Berglund hopes that his re-search will not only aid him in

This is Berglund’s third Fulbright award.

Berglund will interview athletes at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

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writing his book, but also enable the cultural exchange between the US and respective coun-tries, which was one of the main goals of the US in developing the Fulbright program.

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Calvin hosts the eighth biannual Festival of Faith and MusicThroughout the past fifteen years, Calvin has continuously provided a welcome platform for artists to perform during their biennial Festival of Faith and Music. Having

hosted guests such as The Civil Wars, Sufjan Stevens and Lupe Fiasco in the past, the festival has created an environment where artists are invited to enter in and talk about the inspiration for their art and why music matters. As the 2017 festival once again drew to a close this past Saturday night, this year’s event proved to be no exception. Holding three separate concerts throughout the weekend — Jamila Woods with Vox Vidorra on Thursday night, Julien Baker with Vagabonds on Friday night and David Bazan closing on Saturday night — along with a variety of keynote speakers and presentations, the Calvin Festival of Faith and Music once again brought together artist, students and out-of-state visitors into a place of art, thoughtful reflection and jamming beats.

BY BRANDON SCHREURArts & Entertainment Editor

Jamila Woods may be best known for collaborating with Chance the Rapper on his latest project “Coloring Book”; how-ever, if there’s one thing that last Thursday night proved, it’s that Woods is more than capable of standing on stage by herself as a solo artist.

Being an African-American female from the Chicago area, much of Woods’ music ad-dresses issues of black femi-ninity and what modern day womanhood looks like, all of which were prevalent in Jamila’s performance. Keeping the stage to more of a simplistic level — consisting of only herself and a few band members — Woods was given ample space to create a thought-provoking and self-reflective show.

BY JACKSON VAN HAITSMAStaff Writer

Concerts are often an exercise in both audio and visual splen-dor, featuring flashing lights and throbbing bass that pump adrena-line into the systems of both per-formers and audience alike.

However, Julien Baker’s show — which she gave in the CFAC auditorium last Friday night — told a different sto-ry, one that is more personal and contemplative.

A musician of only 21 years old, Baker stood alone on the stage, holding her guitar and leaning into a microphone. The sole performer, every note heard was entirely her own, whether it came from chords vocal or stringed. Yet oddly, the show took on a communal feel — in part thanks to the soft singing heard among the crowd, which Baker noted several times as her favorite part of a live show.

Baker’s music isn’t afraid to be unique; it strays from the overt “verse, bridge, chorus” for-mula, instead favoring a flowing soundscape — a mesh of guitar

BY JORDAN PETERSENStaff Writer

David Bazan is no stranger to the work of Calvin College’s Student Activities Office;he has performed here on numerous oc-casions, including the very first Festival of Faith and Music in 2003. His work centers on his fractured yet insistent relation-ship with Christianity and has struck chords with both those who have been able to keep their faith and those who have not. Through song, Bazan creates an honest and open space for doubt and questioning.

This remained true in David Bazan’s performance on Saturday to close out the 2017 Festival of

In an interview for Spin.com regarding the release of her new album “HEAVN,” which Woods released online for free last year, Woods said, “Labels erase why we have issues in the first place, and how our government just re-ally doesn’t care about the people in those places. So it gets kind of hard to be like, ‘Chicago’s the best place ever, you know? It’s so beautiful,’ because there’s so much that is wrong here, and a lot of bad things that are happen-ing. That’s why I say ‘complicat-ed,’ because I want to celebrate the people and the places that I love here, but not without ac-knowledging what’s happening. There needs to be a different nar-rative than the one that’s being fed to us over and over again.”

Woods’ musical style ranges from hip-hop to R&B, with an occasional slower song thrown in there every now and again. Her soft yet melodic voice, along with

her talented background musi-cians, provide a perfect pairing to create meaningful and some-times hymn-like musical pieces.

Following the show was a conversation with Woods, led by music critic and NPR host Jewly Hight, in which Woods was asked about her inspiration for creating music and ties to certain issues.

While Woods’ concert may not have sold the most seats out of everyone who per-formed at the festival, her work is highly important nonethe-less. Woods is a passionate and talented musician who is capable of using her music as a means to discuss history, race and much more. As she sang in front of an enthusiastic crowd in the CFAC Auditorium, her words car-ried a lot of weight and left the audience something to ponder — something that the festival highly encourages.

strings and vocals that pierce both thought and soul. It’s mu-sic that encourages emotion, and Baker’s vocals shine through their expressiveness.

Yet the magic of the show was not purely the music, but the wis-dom and insight Baker shared throughout. “Even the parts of us that are ugly can exhibit something beautiful,” she noted, before strumming headfirst into a song, leaving the audience to con-template the significance of her words. As part of the Festival of Faith and Music, Baker was also not afraid to veer into the spiri-tual, sitting by the piano as she explained questions from her past: “Why is this wrong with me? Why am I this way?” she would ask, before coming to the realization that she “was made like that on purpose.”

Playing an entire concert alone is certainly an exercise in vulner-ability, as Baker opened her soul to the auditorium through her music. Yet she craved this level of expression; “being transparent is part of beginning the healing process,” she said genuinely, be-fore living out those words in an-other poignant piece. “Art is a by-

product of your healing. It’s what you need to do to make sense of this world.”

The concert itself was evi-dence of the truth in her phrase. Beyond her beloved “dad jokes” and meditative thoughts, Baker made the concert a place of heal-ing through her vulnerability, encouraging an environment of emotional honesty.

Following the concert, Baker remained on-stage to answer questions from the audience. Perhaps most telling was the an-swer she gave when asked about how she looks at her success — an answer that spoke to the sig-nificance of community.

“It’s easy to achieve success when you define it as having meaningful relationships with people,” she articulated, mere moments after having accom-plished just that with a full audi-torium; her words were not emp-ty promises, but clarifications of her actions and their meaning. In a performance devoid of ar-rogance or artifice, Julien Baker made her art a relationship, one through which she loves — the ultimate intersection of music and faith.

Faith and Music. Shown in con-junction with a partial version of the upcoming documentary Strange Negotiations about the work of Bazan by filmmaker Brandon Vedder, Bazan’s perfor-mance was disarming in its hon-esty and vulnerability.

There is a complete f luidity to a David Bazan performance, which, as the documentary showed, primarily takes place in houses these days. David Bazan the artist and David Bazan the person are presented as one; when in song, his boom-ing baritone and intense focus make him feel otherworldly, but there is always something — a cell phone ring that reminds him of his grandparents’ house, a question shouted by an audience

member — that brings him back to earth.

On Saturday, Bazan’s can-dor led to both grief and praise. He grieved for the nation, mourning for marginalized people unsure of their place in America today. “Everything I was taught growing up was betrayed by the people who taught it to me,” he stated, am-plifying the dissonance and despair of his songs. But with this grief he took comfort that places like the Festival of Faith and Music exist. “Every time I come to this festival, I get filled up with healthy things and can be freer with myself … It’s one of the safest places I know,” he said, providing a fitting closure to this year’s festival.

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If you were to ask today’s av-erage Calvin student who Moses is, they would likely tell you about the Biblical character who parted the Red Sea and wrote the Ten Commandants. However, if you were on Calvin’s campus 60 or 70 years ago and asked a student the same question, you might receive a different answer. They might instead tell you of the golden statue that made ap-pearances across campus for de-cades as students fought over it. They would be telling you about the biggest tradition to ever ex-ist at Calvin, the tradition of the Moses statue.

The Moses TraditionThe Moses statue created an

iconic tradition that captured the attention of generations of Calvin students. The premise of the tradition is relatively simple: students were constantly com-peting to see who could get their hands on Calvin’s three-foot-tall, gold plaster statue of Moses. It became a point of pride for stu-dents as they tried to gain posses-sion of Moses.

“In the early days of Calvin, it was a big deal. Every school has a tradition, and Moses was the fun thing that was Calvin’s,” says Michael Van Denend, di-rector of alumni, parent and community relations.

Moses has been affectionate-ly known by the early student body ever since it first arrived on campus in the 1920s. The statue was frequently shown at Calvin events, running through the mid-dle of a concert or appearing at athletic events. Students were al-ways wondering who had Moses, when he would show up next and, most importantly, could they take him for themselves?

Former chaplain Dale Cooper recalls the passion with which students would try to get Moses: “When he’d come on campus, you’d have people flying toward that thing. He had a lively history around here.”

Moses was expected to make regular public appearances by whoever had him, and students never failed to find creative ways to show the statue. Once, in the 1950s, students disassembled a Model-T Ford truck, reassembled it inside the administration build-ing and placed Moses in the driv-er’s seat. In the 70s, Moses was once lowered through the ceiling

of the gym onto the court during halftime of a basketball game, causing students to f lock the court to try to get him.

The Beginning of a TraditionMoses first arrived at Calvin

when the class of 1925 gifted the statue to the college as a gift. Class officers from the 1925 graduating class wanted to gift Calvin with a piece of Italian art that reflected a religious theme. They chose to purchase a copy of Michelangelo’s statue of Moses.

At this time, Calvin was lo-cated at the Franklin Street cam-pus, and the statue was placed in the front hall of the administra-tion building, next to the main entrance to the chapel. Since chapel was mandatory at the time, every student would pass by Moses daily.

The class of 1925 knew about the origins of the Moses statue, but the rest of the Calvin student body were left puzzled. The stat-ue showed up in the administra-tion building without any expla-nation to students, and they were surprised to suddenly be greeted by a golden statue on their way to chapel. Students were not only curious about Moses, but also amused when the statue was found wearing a hat one morn-ing, or when a lost scarf was found wrapped around his neck another time.

Before long, the Moses statue disappeared from its usual home: it had apparently been taken hos-tage by a student. No one knew what had happened to Moses until he appeared at a basketball game surrounded by a group of students. Following this incident, Moses quickly became sought after by the entire student body, and a tradition was born.

A Near-Death Experience for Moses

The quest for the Moses stat-ue could get ugly sometimes, as fights would break out between students over him. Moses was a constant problem for the faculty discipline committee, who were unsuccessful in managing the Moses issue. The committee was chaired by dean of students Dr. Hoekstra, for whom Moses was the “thorn in his flesh,” accord-ing to Van Denend.

In 1954, Hoekstra was retir-ing from Calvin, and he was

honored at a banquet for retiring faculty. As a joke, the statue of Moses was brought out on a plat-ter and placed directly in front of Hoekstra. Although the statue was brought out simply to joke with Hoekstra, he was furious. Hoekstra picked up a knife and beheaded the statue.

The student body was morti-fied that their beloved Moses had been destroyed. A few stu-dents took it upon themselves to gather the pieces of the statue and put them back together, although Moses didn’t ever look the same after this incident.

The Fierce Fight for MosesCalvin moved to today’s loca-

tion at the Knollcrest campus in 1957, and the Moses tradition fol-lowed along. While the tradition was always meant to be good-natured fun, there were some instances where Moses was the cause of conflict.

In 1968, a group of students planned to bring Moses through the Knollcrest coffee shop (where Johnny’s is today), but word got about Moses’ anticipated appear-ance. Once Moses was inside the coffee shop, other students blocked the all exits. Moses was stuck, and a fight broke out among students.

A Chimes editorial published in September 1968 following the Knollcrest coffee shop incident recalled, “Moses led meaning-less Knollcrustaceans out of their dorms to the promised cof-fee shop. There they screamed and shoved to touch the source of their motivation.” The fighting became so intense that the Grand Rapids police were called to stop the fight.

Moses was the cause of an-other fight in 1979 when Rooks-Van Dellen included him in their celebration of Red Foley day. Red Foley was a former country mu-sic star who the Van Dellen men would pay tribute to by going to

the dining hall dressed in suits with cigars in hand. They decided to bring Moses with them in 1979, but Schultze-Eldersveld learned of Van Dellen’s plan. A fight broke out in the dining hall over Moses, and Grand Rapids police were called yet again. Because of this incident, Moses was banned from campus.

Eventually Moses made his way back into life at Calvin, but the tradition was on the decline. Students no longer seemed as interested in getting Moses. “All the attempts after the 80s with Moses were half-hearted and never really stuck anymore,” says Van Denend.

The Moses AwardIn the same spirit of the Moses

tradition, now-retired profes-sor Randy Bytwerk wanted to find a way to encourage cre-ative pranking within Calvin. In 1993, he set up The Moses Award, which was Calvin’s award for practical joking. The award honored outstanding pranks performed by members of the Calvin community.

Bytwerk believes that good pranks allow the opportu-nity for creativity and good-natured fun to exist in an aca-demic environment. He says, “The good pranks are an intel-lectual challenge, ones that are creative and interesting.”

Pranking and practical jokes have existed in various forms at Calvin, from the spoof editions of Chimes to the relocation of signs across campus. Once in the late 80s, an inf latable Godzilla toy was placed on top of the Chapel steeple. Throughout the 90s, the cheese sculpture made random appearances throughout campus, being placed on top of the Science Building and hung from the in-side ceiling of the Chapel.

The Moses Award gives out an annual cash prize of $1.80 to honor noteworthy pranking, al-

though the last time the award was given out was 2009.

Today’s LegacyIn recent years, the Moses tra-

dition has all but died out. Moses has appeared at Chaos Day a few times, usually paraded by on top of a car. Moses was last seen on campus in 2015 — that year he joined in an Airband perfor-mance, cheered on runners at the 5K Spring Classic and stopped by the Spring Arts Festival. No one knows the current whereabouts of Moses, but it’s believed that an alumnus likely keeps Moses somewhere off campus.

Some believe the tradition hasn’t lasted because of lack of support from the administration, as Moses-related incidents could cause problems for the student life division. Bytwerk, on the other hand, believes the tradition no longer exists because people “tried to hold on for too long.”

Regardless of why Moses no longer appears on campus, the story of the Moses statue reveals an important piece of Calvin’s history. “It’s a great part of Calvin’s story,” Cooper says. “We’re richer in the present by re-membering our story ... Tradition is a good thing for us all.”

Today the biggest tradition that Calvin has is the Sem Pond Jump, but no tradition has quite lived up to the legacy of Moses. Norm Zylstra, who used to work in the alumni office, says, “Small traditions can be a special part if a student’s time at Calvin and make important connections be-tween alumni … At Calvin we need to celebrate and support the few traditions we have and make an effort to bring back some of those lost traditions.”

Van Denend believes current Calvin students should “find something new to do.” Traditions like Moses are great at unifying the student body and creating something unique to Calvin.

Similarly, Cooper chal-lenges today’s Calvin students: “Create your own traditions and make those traditions worthy of your heirs.”

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For anyone who has ever had food poisoning, the word “s a l mo ne l l a” b r i n g s b a c k bad memor ies. Mos t of u s associate salmonella with the gastrointestinal torment accom-panying undercooked chicken, pink pork or raw cookie dough.

However, a horrified mind-set towards salmonella may be changing, with recent research indicating that an engineered version of this microorganism has the potential to treat cancer.

By engineer ing a par t icu-lar s t ra in of sa lmonel la (S. typhimurium) to overexpress another bacterial protein called f lagellin-B (FlaB), researchers

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Zheng et al. found that tumors could be eradicated completely through the activation of antitu-mor cell signaling pathways in the immune system.

Tumors, as oxygen-deplete environments, are a great breed-ing ground for anaerobic bacteria like salmonella, and because this information has been around for some time, the idea of using bacteria to deliver biological therapeutics — such as antibod-ies — is not new. Though using bacteria as therapeutic delivery vehicles has found some success, the requirement for multiple treatments and the recurrence of tumors posed problems for previous attempts to use this technology (Linnebacher et al.). In contrast, this study describes a bacteria-based treatment that aims to eliminate tumors by en-listing the immune system, rather than using the bacteria to simply deliver a therapeutic agent. The authors hypothesized that this

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Salmonella, commonly found in raw and undercooked meat and dairy and known for causing food poisoning, might be redeemed by becoming a bioengineered cancer treatment.

approach would overcome the need for multiple treatments and recurrence of tumors.

To go about conducting their study, the researchers cloned the FlaB gene from Vibrio vulnificus a bacteria related to cholera) into the salmonella genome to create a genetically modified version of salmonella. Because FlaB is known to stimulate the human immune system, the authors hypothesized that growth of this genetically engineered salmo-nella in tumors would alert the host immune system to presence of abnormal cells.

This study describes a bacteria-based treatment

that aims to eliminate tumors by enlisting the immune system...the authors hypothesized

that this approach would overcome the need for

multiple treatments and recurrence of tumors.

When introduced intravenous-ly into mice bearing colon cancer tumors, the bacteria colonized the tumor and produced high levels of FlaB protein. Importantly, the FlaB protein was not detected by tumor cells themselves, but was instead detected by a type of im-mune cell called a macrophage. As such the authors concluded that changes in tumor size in the presence of the hybrid salmonella was due to an immune response rather than a direct effect on tumors. This approach to cancer treatment is known as “immu-notherapy.” While this means of treatment is not novel, the use of

a typically dangerous bacterium to do so is pioneering.

Armed with these observa-tions, the researchers then fo-cused on observing the effects of the genetically modified salmo-nella on tumor growth in their mouse model of colon cancer. The researchers found that tu-mors regressed when exposed to normal bacteria without the FlaB gene, but these tumors eventually regrew and killed their host. In contrast, mice that had been inoculated with the modi-fied salmonella expressing FlaB lived nearly three times longer, and demonstrated permanent tumor regression 55% of the time. Similar results could be achieved by injecting purified FlaB pro-tein into bacterially colonized tumors, though this was more labor intensive and less effec-tive than using the genetically modified salmonella.

Because the end goal of this study was to discover treatment for human cancer, the research-ers also applied the genetically modified salmonella to a more human-like model of colon can-cer. This was achieved by grow-ing human colon cancer cells in mice, and then inoculating these animals with either nor-mal or modif ied salmonella. Although the researchers found only a modest decrease in pri-mary tumor size when bacteria were present, they also observed a dramatic reduction in the abil-ity of the tumor cells to metasta-size, or spread, to other organs. Presence of the FlaB-expressing salmonella reduced the number of metastatic tumors in the mice from an average of 91 lesions to just 4 through the activation of white blood cells. Using a variety of genetically modified mice, the researchers were able to pinpoint the means by which white blood cells from the mice were being

activated, which allowed them to understand better how FlaB boosts the magnitude and effi-cacy of the immune response to tumor cells.

Although the research-ers found only a modest

decrease in primary tumor size when bacteria were

present, they also ob-served a dramatic reduc-

tion in the ability of the tu-mor cells to metastasize,

or spread, to other organs.

In summary, Zheng et al. have introduced an innovative way in which salmonella engi-neered to overexpress a foreign protein could completely elimi-nate tumors by activating the immune system. Colonization of tumors by these bacter ia appears to cause white blood cells to infiltrate tumors, leading to tu-mor cell death. Remarkably, this effect seems to have been achieved with minimal deleterious effects on the hosts, which is promising for the future of this method. Who knew that the same bacteria infa-mous for upset stomachs and late nights had the potential for such hope-giving work?

Works CitedJ. H. Zheng et al. “Two-step en-

hanced cancer immunotherapy with engineered Salmonella typhimurium secreting heterologous flagellin.” Sci. Transl. Med. 9, eaak9537 (2017).

Linnebacher, Michael e t al . “ B a c t e r i a l I m m u n o t h e r a p y o f Ga s t ro in te s t ina l Tumor s .” Langenbeck’s Archives of Surgery 397.4 (2012): 557–568. PMC. Web. 3 Apr. 2017.

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In Nigeria, religious faith is a strong legacy passed down from one generation to the next. Calvin senior Chinelo Ezenwelu grew up in Lagos State, Nigeria. According to her, “Irrespective of our dif-ferent faiths, you almost never find a Nigerian who does not believe in the existence of a su-pernatural being.”

In addition to being highly religious, Nigeria is a religious-ly diverse state, with many Muslims, Christians and some Traditionalists (Christians who emphasise rituals, sym-bols and sacrifice). The com-bination of religious fervor and diversity can sometimes lead to hostility between those of different faiths.

The town of Wukari, Taraba state, Nigeria, is home to the headquarters of the Christian Reformed Church of Nigeria. Wukari has seen much vio-lence in recent years, especially between Christians, Muslims, Traditionalists and other religious and ethnic groups. According to the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRCNA) web-site, in 2014 “a dispute over a phone recharge card” left “100 people dead and hun-dreds of buildings destroyed in

the town of Wukari, Nigeria.” This has contributed to what Nigerian professors Kingsley Nnorom of Kwararafa University Wukari and Jude Odigbo of University of Nigeria call “one of the worst security challenges in Taraba State.”

In response to the violence, the CRC’s Office of Social Justice (OSJ) has supported the peace-seeking efforts, as well as other CRC-backed agencies such as Christian Reformed World Missions. Since 2015, these organizat ions have worked together to plan the beginning of the Wukari Peace Process between Muslim and Christian leaders.

Dr. Hizkias Assefa lives in Nairobi, Kenya and travels the world leading efforts at recon-ciliation. Although his 2015 visit to Wukari was cancelled due to safety concerns, he was able to facilitate a four-day consultation in Wukari in January 2017. He patterned the consultation after a previous conference he led in Takum, a Nigerian village merely 80 ki-lometers from Wukari. Local leaders across ethnic and reli-gious lines gathered to begin the Wukari Peace Process.

Despite the religious diver-sity, the peace-keeping efforts have been focused on the commonalities of religious belief. One of the results of the consultation in January was the

BY KATHRYN MAE POSTReligion Editor

Christ Church is an inclusive, intergenerational body of believers belonging to the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) that is committed to welcoming the 30 or more students from Calvin, Cornerstone, GVSU and GRCC who attend each week. While most students at-tend the 11:15 service, there is also an 8:30 service offered Sunday mornings.

“One thing that is pretty unique [about Christ Church] is the age distribution,” said senior Sasha Tyan. “Christ Church has a pretty even spread across all age ranges. I think this is healthy and find it unfortunate not more churches are like that.”

One way the church en-courages students to attend is by offering rides to and from

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campus each week. In addi-tion, Christ Church has a group of college-age students called Hot Topics that meets Sundays at 10 to discuss important, rel-evant issues.

Students can become involved in the Christ Church commu-nity through various minis-tries. There are weekly Sunday School classes, a new members class, small groups, sermon dis-cussion groups and men’s and women’s ministries.

Music is also an integral aspect of life at Christ Church; the com-munity has an adult choir, a chil-dren’s choir and a band for special occasions. On the first Saturday of the month, a group gathers to practice the early American tradi-tion of shape note singing. This group is open to everyone, and involves singing songs in acapel-la, four-part harmony from the Sacred Harp hymnal.

Tyan has had a positive ex-perience participating in some of the programs Christ Church

offers: “My favorite part of the Christ Church is their theologi-cal self-awareness. At one of their introductory classes for new members, I was impressed by how systematic and clear they are in regards to where they stand in relation to the Bible, as well as to other theological cur-rents and other churches. They are able to identify clearly what is essential to them, like the di-vinity of Christ and the Gospel, for example, but also things that are important, but not as central, like stances on abortion and homeschooling.”

One way Christ Church devel-ops its vision is through weekly worship. Services are distinctly liturgical; the congregation is led through the first part of the liturgy by a deacon, and then a pastor or teaching elder delivers a scripture-based sermon during the second part of the service.

Tyan has been attending since September and appreci-ates the diversity of worship

styles: “Sometimes they have the strings and choir, sometimes there’s organ, and sometimes it’s guitars and drums.” The wide range of musical worship styles is a notable characteristic of Christ Church.

According to the church web-site, “This diversity in worship is truly one of Christ Church’s most treasured distinctives and a means by which each mem-ber submits their own prefer-

ences for the sake of a full-orbed expression of worship to God and an act of love for another.”

Christ Church hopes that its diverse worship styles will be ref lected in the diversity of its congregation. Looking ahead, Christ Church antici-pates planting a church on the west side of Grand Rapids to attract and increasingly ethni-cally diverse congregation.

formation of an Inter Religious Implementation Committee.

According to the report recorded in The Banner, the of-ficial magazine of Christian Reformed Church, “The con-sultation process enjoyed a high degree of trust from all the par-ticipants, but the trust from the Muslim participants was par-ticularly remarkable” as none of them had participated in the ear-lier efforts to build peace in other Nigerian villages.

Growing up in Lagos State, Nigeria, Chinelo Ezenwelu did not experience religious hostility firsthand, “mostly be-cause I lived in a predominantly Christian community.” She add-ed, “My family and relatives are predominantly Catholic.”

While she admitted that family heavily shapes religious beliefs, “It also depends on what part of country you reside in. The dominant religion in the Northern part of Nigeria is Islam, that in the South, East and West is Christianity and in some rural parts of the country, Traditionalism prevails.”

When describing her experi-ence of Christianity in Nigeria and in the United States, Ezenwelu focused on the simi-larities: “In general, Christianity in Calvin is not that different from that in Nigeria,” she said. “The same truth is generally preached and there are similar [worship] practices.”

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Stella also described that, unlike Christianity, Hindus do not engage in evangelism: “The reason we don’t seek out converts is because we don’t believe that religion, how you label yourself, or what com-munity you belong to has any-thing to do, really, with your spiritual advancement. Every person can advance whether they have a religion or not, whether they are a Hindu or not. It’s simply a matter of developing a consciousness of pure com-passion and of attaining this understanding of what we call self-realization.”

Another topic Stella ad-dressed in the introduction was reincarnation. He said that just as Christians see themselves on a spiritual journey on which they grow in their ability to see Christ in others, Hindus see re-incarnation as a part of their spiritual journey from satisfying personal cravings to seeing God in other people.

“The next lifetime is a re-sult of the accumulation of deeds, actions and conscious-ness that inspires those actions,” said Stella. He also emphasized that the goal of reincarnation is to reach a state of “ever-existing, ever conscious, ever bliss” where the soul exists as pure consciousness.

Following the introduction, the group entered the part of the temple that housed the stat-ues and icons. Stella led the group from one altar to the next, explaining the myths be-

hind the deities and describing religious rituals.

“The temple itself where the main statues are housed was the most surprising to me,” said Laubenthal. “Beautiful music played in the background and a particular aroma filled the air. The statues were almost life size; I thought they’d all be smaller. I was also surprised to hear that the temple has many people coming in to pray every day.”

“The reason we don’t seek out converts is because we don’t

believe that religion, how you label your-

self, or what commu-nity you belong to has anything to do, really,

with your spiritual advancement.”

Many of the students who attended this event expressed appreciation for the opportunity to learn more about Calvin’s Hindu neighbors.

Calvin Interfaith intern and senior Maaike Mudde said, “inter-religious literacy is an essential part of cross-cultural literacy and competence, even though we don’t always make that connection.”

Two upcoming interfaith events are a Tenebrae Service at St. Andrew’s Cathedral on April 14, and the play “Disgraced” at the Actor’s Theatre on April 21.

CRC promotes peace in Nigeria

PHOTO BY KATHRYN POST

Group members discuss ways to promote peace and healing.

The congregation gathers in the church sanctuary.

Frank Stella introduces the basics of Hinduism.

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The campus safety department took a report of a larceny of an unlocked bicycle from the Rooks-VanDellen residence hall bike rack. The larceny occurred sometime between Nov. 1 and Dec. 20, 2016. The bike had not been registered with the campus safety department.

Reported 3/27/2017

The campus safety department took a report of a larceny from a motor vehicle that was parked by the Gainey softball fields. The victim said their backpack was stolen from their unlocked car while they were at softball practice. Included in the backpack were textbooks along with a silver 13-inch MacBook Pro in a black case. The victim did not know who the suspect was.

Reported 3/29/2017

Campus Safety Report

from the pages of

VisitationCaitlin (2016)

When Solitude steals in the door,she forgets to knock.She has never bothered with hellos.She does not stomp her boots on the welcome mat.

She is empress of the ocean bottom,queen of shy glens and craggy summitsbut today she sits on my ottoman.

She perches at my feet. Not waiting,exactly—keeping vigilover the silence.

She strokes my tear-tracked cheekand tells me my name.

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CARTOON BY SOFIA DE JONG

THE CHAOTIC GOOD: A CARTOON SERIES

BY CARMELA SLEVAGuest Writer

I spent the four most formative years of my life, high school, at an all- girls Catholic school. My high school’s motto was simple: “educating women who make a difference.” I can’t really attest to whether or not that actually hap-pens for each student, but the ob-vious focus on instilling in girls the lifelong drive to pursue aca-demic or careers ambitions heav-ily influenced who I am now, and essentially all of my former high school friends.

Coming to Calvin was a bit of a change, and the academic en-vironment served to be a shock. Partly because of where I went to high school, partly because of not being exposed to Calvin’s community very much before coming here, I wasn’t expecting a community that encouraged finding lifelong marital partners as heavily as it did pursuing aca-demic fulfillment — dispropor-tionately so for women.

I can conclude this: women certainly have a

different academic experience here.

Then I began witnessing situ-ations in which women could potentially be negatively affect-ed: women not being as vocal in classes or sometimes being discouraged immediately after speaking, micro -aggressive com-ments made to myself or friends that questioned our seriousness in our academic pursuits and interactions that overall seemed to allude to the fact that women may not be taken as seriously in some disciplines here. So it led me to ask, are women facing an academic disadvantage here? Or, rather, have we fostered a com-munity that values women for be-ing mothers and wives over being academics and professionals?

First off, it seems that wom-en who are pursuing tradition-ally “f lexible” career paths are praised for electing to study

something such as nursing or speech pathology because it will allow them to have the opportu-nity to be a stay-at-home mother, if they so choose.

“I get praise for seeking a f lexible career choice all the time”, said a junior speech pathology major. It also seems that women are hearing this rhetoric constantly.

“The number of times I’ve had professors or staff tell me that my decision to pursue nursing is a wise one because it will allow me to stay home with my children and still return to work when they’re older is astounding,” said Rebecca Janke, a pre- nursing student. She went on to say that “personally, I am excited about having a family someday, and I do love the flexibility of my field, but no one ever took the time to ask me before they just assumed.”

What’s ultimately concern-ing about this is certainly not the fact that women studying at Calvin may want to be stay-at --home moms, for that is rightly their prerogative to do if they so choose. What’s concerning is that it creates an academic environment that dispropor-tionately praises women who seem to be making academic decisions with family and chil-dren in mind while discourag-ing women from solely pursuing a career or academic discipline, thus reinforcing the idea that women’s ultimate success comes from raising children.

Another issue seems to be that women have a more difficult time pursuing disciplines that are tra-ditionally male -dominated, such as in STEM. A pre -med student who wishes to remain anony-mous said, “being a [woman] STEM, medicine-pursuing stu-dent at Calvin College, it seems that is already considered abnor-mal in some way and that is the beginning of the problem.” She expressed feeling more discour-aged as a woman in STEM than most of her white, male counter-parts often seem to be, and some stereotypes regarding what wom-en are best at have been hard to face. “I have found more discour-agement for pursuing pre- med and becoming a pediatrician and more encouragement to consider

a ‘lighter career’ like nursing than most of most of my male peers have received,” she says. She also finds issue with the fact that there is so little diversity within the STEM department, the major-ity of faculty members not only being overwhelmingly male, but also overwhelmingly white.

Another student, Lauren Ebels, a computer science major, voiced similar concerns about the lack of representation in her discipline. “We literally had a single female prof in the CS de-partment and then she left, and now it seems we can’t replace her,” she says. Overall, it seems that women would benefit much more from seeing themselves bet-ter represented in some of the dis-ciplines at Calvin, and everyone would benefit from seeing more racial diversity.

“It’s hard to feel like one’s goals are attainable when you can’t see anyone around you that looks like you that has gotten there,” says the first student.

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I don’t think I can conclude that women are academically dis-advantaged at Calvin, but I can conclude this: women certainly have a different academic expe-rience here, and it’s one that not only prioritizes their ability to be mothers over being students, but also discourages them from pur-suing challenging and rigorous academic disciplines and fields that men would not be ques-tioned for pursuing.

This is a serious problem. Why? Because allowing this kind of rhetoric to go unchal-lenged creates a community that not only isn’t academically egalitarian, but reinforces the traditionally misogynistic ideas about women that hold that their only true purpose is to serve as child bearers and caregivers, and deem them incapable of any “se-rious,” traditionally masculine pursuits. This is not something that we’re seeing to be as big of an issue at most highly com-petitive universities, and frankly,

is a problem that should not exist at a university.

There is no need to have the conversation over whether wom-en are as capable academically in all disciplines because the answer is simple: yes, they are. And we should all care, because if women are not receiving the encourage-ment they need in college, some of the most formative years of anyone’s professional life, we’re not going to solve anything in terms of serious gender gaps in the workforce. For anyone that’s concerned about how they may be treating students, I would say that implicit bias exists, and even if you are not explicitly telling women that they are better suited to get married and have children, you still need to be aware of how you treat students differently, be-cause both types of aggressions can be discouraging. It’s hard to change ingrained cultural atti-tudes about others, but checking ourselves on how we treat others is a good place to start.

Are women treated differently at Calvin?

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First Heyns in BHT and First Kalsbeek and Huizenga in KHvR will

no longer be traditional first-year and sophomore housing floors

starting next fall.

Jay Wise, director of housing, explained that the size of the incom-

ing first-year class was the main reason for the change.

“This year’s freshman class was smaller than we … predicted,” Wise

said. “Next year’s incoming class may be a little smaller as well.

That presents a lot of empty beds scattered throughout the halls. At

the same time, we have seen a lot of interest in Timmer upperclass-

man [housing] … [and] students asking for single rooms.”

The question for housing, Wise said, was how to meet a different

need with the resources available.

“It’s hard to do much with scattered beds,” he noted. “We have been

tasked with what we can do to consolidate and reconfigure.”

Dedicatedly hosting screenings for recent and popular

films is something that the Calvin Student Activities Of-

fice (SAO) has been doing since before 2006 — includ-

ing showings that date back to “The Incredibles.” Prior to

2010 all of these screenings had been free to students, and

up until 2013 they only cost one dollar. In the past couple

of years, students had seen the price rise to two dollars.

However, as of this past December, the SAO films have

once again become free — and will stay that way for the

foreseeable future.

The decision to make the screenings free came from Ken

Heffner, Director of Student Activities, who said: “On av-

erage, we’re seeing a significant increase in attendance.

If there are 250–400 students a night watching a movie,

we’re happy. We were seeing it drop down to 50, 60 or

75 people when we were charging money. At that point

the ticket revenue isn’t helping us anymore, and we’re left

asking, what’s the point? If the ticket price is the reason

we’re seeing low attendance, then we decided to get rid of

“We influenced each other’s listening hab-

its a lot,” Li said. “We got obsessed with the

same bands at the same time — Nirvana, The

National and Neutral Milk Hotel, and man-

aged to see many of them live (not Nirvana

though). There’s a song about our friendship

that I wrote which culminates at a Neutral

Milk Hotel show. It’s named “Mt. Vernon

OH,” after Johnson’s home the music com-

munity at Calvin during the early stages of

their bands. Working for SAO during con-

certs and running the Cave Cafe provided

space and an audience for the bands to per-

form and try out new songs. It was during Li

and Cochran’s junior year that they began to

Students, faculty and staff members filled the Chapel

Undercroft last Tuesday to write letters of solidarity

in response to hate crimes against minority religious

communities. Sharing a meal catered by a local, fami-

ly-owned Mediterranean grill, members of the Calvin

community crafted letters to religious communities

including the Islamic Cultural Center Behar, Bosnian

Cultural Center, Temple Emanuel and Sikh Society of

West Michigan.

The history department, student senate, office of off-

campus programs, Middle East Club and service-

learning center came together to sponsor this event.

The evening emphasized the importance of commu-

nity, diversity and human rights. To frame the events

of the evening, Matthew Lundberg of the religion

department shared two perspectives on what interfaith

means at Calvin.

“One school of thought on interfaith and what it

means to show interfaith support is that Christians

ought to be purely guided by their sense that Christ

as the unique way to salvation,” said Lundberg. “The

other school of thought says, in dire times when peo-

ple’s lives are being upended. … Christians shouldn’t

worry nearly as much about theological niceties. It’s a

time to err on the side of solidarity and acceptance.”

Hope Hospital were recently awarded the

first African Missions Healthcare Foun-

dation (AMHF)’s Gerson L’Chiam Prize

for Outstanding Christian Medical Mis-

sionary Work. The $500,000 award will

provide 48 new beds in a new ward to re-

lieve overcrowding in the hospital.

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Bruin explained that each year Ran-

geela costs around $5,000–$6,000 and

brings in about twice that amount. Any

additional revenue beyond covering

costs goes into Calvin’s general budget

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First Heyns in BHT and First Kalsbeek and Huizenga

in KHvR will no longer be traditional first-year and

sophomore housing floors starting next fall.

Jay Wise, director of housing, explained that the size

of the incoming first-year class was the main reason

for the change.

“This year’s freshman class was smaller than we …

predicted,” Wise said. “Next year’s incoming class

may be a little smaller as well. That presents a lot

of empty beds scattered throughout the halls. At the

same time, we have seen a lot of interest in Timmer

upperclassman [housing] … [and] students asking for

single rooms.”

The question for housing, Wise said, was how to meet

a different need with the resources available.

“It’s hard to do much with scattered beds,” he noted.

“We have been tasked with what we can do to con-

solidate and reconfigure.”

The floors will serve several different purposes. “Sin-

gle rooms are available for the first time in the new

[housing] brochure,” said Wise. These new single

rooms, depending on demand, will be available on all

three floors for an additional cost.

21 years ago as a student organization. Five

years ago, when Esther Kwak came to the

ISDO as programmer, the office “put [its]

administrative support behind the student

org, so now it was no longer a student org

but an administratively run program,” ex-

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