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Semester overseas: Patience in Paris

By Marissa Muljat · Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023

This semester, senior Patience Sakeuh has traded the cornfields of Indiana for French pastries, museum tours and flea markets. That’s right. Sakeuh, a global studies major, has been studying abroad in Paris, France!

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The face behind the business: Goodness Grace Design

By Kendall Beck · Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic was a trying time for small businesses across the globe.However, for freshman Grace Gillmar, it proved to be an unexpectedly fruitful season. This was when she experienced the birth and launch of her brand, Goodness Grace Design (GGD).

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Otto experiences truth, training, two-week internship

By Kate Delaney · Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023

Conrad Otto, a senior majoring in multimedia journalism, found himself in the Great Plains at Sioux Center, Iowa, just a day and a half after his junior year ended. He was here to test his skills in journalism at Dordt University with a two-week internship at the World Journalism Institute.

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Freshman Nathan 'Burns' the competition

By Alex Boothby · Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023

Nathan Burns is an exciting addition to the Taylor University men’s cross-country team, as he has exploded into stride taking the number one position on the team and breaking course records. As a talented runner who has dominated throughout high school, what led him to Taylor? 

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Watts releases fourth full-length album

By Kendall Beck · Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023

It is not typical of the average college student to end a long day of classes with long hours in the recording studio, but for junior music composition major Ethan Watts, this is second nature.

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ROTC: discipline, friendship, service

By Samuel Jones · Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023

When freshman Ezra Holt entered ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps) at Taylor University, he expected to find a strict and impersonal program. Instead, he found his expectations to be drastically incorrect.

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Weikel points local youth to Christ

By Henry Donahue · Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023

Senior Jake Weikel, a Christian ministries major from Westfield, Indiana, is working with Eastbrook High School’s chapter of Decision Point (formerly known as National School Project). This organization focuses on equipping high school students for evangelism.

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Tammy Nunley: A mother to many

By Samuel Jones · Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023

Tammy Nunley always wanted more than one child. Now, she feels as if God gave her 3,000 more. As students pick their food and swipe their cards at the Student Center or in Euler, there is a good chance they will step into a line where warm words will be waiting for them at the end.

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Creating room for authentic worship

By Kendall Beck · Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023

There’s always room to worship the Lord, no matter the current posture of our hearts. Knowing this, student chapel band leaders Josiah Gonzales and Tristina Tucker, have grown to see chapel leadership as a way of honoring whatever season the student body finds themselves in.

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Neel steps into hall director position

By Marco Aguirre · Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023

Samuel Morris Hall — a hall whose third iteration was established in 1998 and that is home to an estimated quantity of 280 students — welcomed David Neel (’15) as its new hall director this fall.

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Nieshalla, Eicher share campaign goals

By Samuel Jones · Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023

“If we are not practicing that now, why would we think that we’re going to start once we graduate?” Student Body President Elisabeth Nieshalla said.Since before Nieshalla began her role as student body president, she has been thinking about her responsibility as a follower of Christ while studying here at Taylor University. She envisions a year where students are putting into practice the love, truth and grace of Christ to serve both Taylor’s community and the surrounding community of Upland.

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Gregory Dyson expands on vision for chapel services

By Emma Goossen · Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023

Though students have only been back on campus for a month, Reverend Greg Dyson, Taylor’s newly appointed campus pastor, has been working hard through the summer to make sure this year’s chapel services are “Greater than” ever.

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Meeting God in the Tetons

By Kendall Beck · Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023

This summer, sophomores — and best friends — Anna Runion and Lauren Dykes found themselves drawn to a three-month adventure serving the Lord in the Tetons.

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Senior graphic design major builds on Taylor experience, growth

By Contessa Hussong · Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Looking through pictures of the graphic design majors’ senior show, it’s hard to guess that just a few years ago, not all of these artists were confident in their abilities. Yet for Kaelen Rodgers, a senior majoring in graphic design, it wasn’t just a lack of confidence that weighed on her heart coming to Taylor.