Thief breaks into multiple cars in KE lots
Sometimes hanging out in the smoker’s pit around 2:30 a.m. can come in handy, as it did for a Calvin sophomore who witnessed a car theft first-hand. After a thief broke into six to seven cars early in the morning of Thursday, Oct. 16, the Campus Safety and the Grand Rapids Police came to the scene to investigate. Ryan Kirk, a resident of the Knollcrest East Apartments, was in a smoking pit with a friend when the crime took place in the parking lot by the Omega Residence Hall in the Seminary Apartments. “I heard the loudest muffler I’ve ever heard in my entire life,” he said. He heard the sound of a car, later identified as the thief’s, and thought that it was a white, ’85 or ’86 Oldsmobile Cutlass with red spots all over the car body and dark windows.
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PHOTO BY MELISSA KEELEY
The mighty Les Jacques de Chimes poses for a victory picture after its glorious 14-7 victory.
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Les Jacques triumphs over faculty again
The mighty Les Jacques de Chimes took to the football field last Friday to face down their academic opponents, the Faculty Fumblers team. Despite a valiant effort and “rule-bending” on the part of the Fumblers, Les Jacques took home the annual trophy with a 14-7 win. The game is an annual competition at Calvin College that dates back more than 30 years, and is the college’s only official football game. Each year, the youthful and spry Chimes staff heads to the field to face an assorted batch of faculty members, who vary from year to year and many of whom only play for a short time before having to be carted away in an ambulance due to injury or strain.
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Karaoke contest invades Cave
The Cave was jam-packed full of people last Friday night. In fact, the crowd overflowed well into Johnny’s, all to listen to the first karaoke competition. “This was the most people that I have ever seen in the Fish House,” Josh Armstrong, an organizer and judge for the event, said. “There were between three and four hundred people here.” The people in Johnny’s had to make do by standing on tables and chairs in order to see the performers. The karaoke was judged by five different faculty members chosen, according to Armstrong, “because they were favorites among the students and because they had a background in music.”
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Math exemptions invalid after 2004
As part of the core curriculum overhaul completed in 2000, the college will stop giving mathematics core exemptions in 2004. This information is given on page 35 of the 2002-2003 college catalog. The short blurb may leave students wondering why the change is being made, why it is happening in 2004 and what effect it will have on students. As the policy currently stands, students who take four years of college preparatory high school mathematics, typically ending with pre-calculus, are exempt from the mathematics core requirement. This policy will end in the summer of 2004.
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