Articles by Grace Ruiter

Grace Ruiter

Grace Ruiter is the Chimes campus news associate editor for the 2012-13 school year.

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Women’s Chorale performance has global impact

Having conducted choirs all over the world, Dr. Shangkuan, director of the Calvin College Women’s Chorale, speaks from...

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Community garden hopes to raise funds for relocation

After four years of successful gardening on a site behind the Knollcrest East (KE) apartments, Calvin senior Owen Selles...

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Student senate launches #WeAreCalvin campaign

Student senate is partnering with the planning and priorities committee on a campaign seeking student opinions on the Ca...

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James Bratt wins Presidential Award for Exemplary Teaching

When Professor James Bratt was home sick from school as a kid, he read history textbooks. “My dad taught history and b...

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Le Roy appoints Hubers to new human resources associate VP role

President Le Roy appointed Todd Hubers, formerly director of human resources, Calvin’s first associate vice president ...

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Calvin service-learning opportunities plentiful

As you’re poring over your syllabi and mapping out your spring semester accordingly, Jeff Bouman, director of the serv...

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Volunteering essential for college students

There are a lot of good reasons to wish you could go back to kindergarten. I mean, who doesn’t long for the days when ...

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Curiosity didn’t kill this cat

Rebecca Skloot’s journey toward writing “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” began in the same place my journey ...

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Martial arts club balances community and discipline

The Student Martial Arts Club (SMAC) helped draw sophomore Kathryn Knox to Calvin. “I had always wanted to have the ab...

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Heritage Hall gets makeover

“This semester we have as many users in our reading room daily as we used to have during an entire week,” sa...