The Index
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Retreats, Beats, and Hidden Eats
By Audrey Pegouske Venturing out of the safety of campus can be a daunting concept for most college students in terms of expectations and monetary constraints. Your friends may be traveling abroad, traveling back home, leaving you nothing to do with an itch for adventure. With its wisping skyscrapers, decadent desserts, and views reaching far…
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Kalamazoo’s Very Own: Celestial
By Jose Lopez Bernal It was only right for the newest local Kalamazoo band to premier their debut album “Velvet Moon” at Kalamazoo’s own Bell’s Brewery. Celestial, the band spearheaded by the group’s lead writer and vocalist, Brian Ritzer, brought psychedelic rock to Bell’s on January 26th to play their debut album. The band features…
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Michigan’s Can System: The Pros and Cans
My Two Cents on Michigan’s Ten Cents By Nicki Chance While visiting home for winter break, my mother asked me to help her collect the bottles and cans from our holiday party. As we returned the bottles to the local supermarket’s machine, she recalled her childhood memories of the beginning of the bottle deposit. In…
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Unhappy with Stacks? You Can Change That
By Laryn Kuchta Stacks. The Richardson Room. Generic Subway. Whatever you call the “restaurant” on the second floor of Hicks, you probably agree it’s not as functional as it could be. You might have placed a mobile order and walked all the way across campus only to find someone stole it off the shelf. You…
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Hidden Treasures; The Opulence of K’s Rare Book Room.
By Audrey Pegouske The A.M. Todd Rare Book Room, located on the 3rd floor of the Library at K, is brimming with opulent jewels of rarity, antiquity, and ingenuity. But it isn’t all just faded covers and complex latin. There is a wide array of genres and areas of expertise covered, everything from German to…
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Looking Back at 50 Years of Landsea
By Madeline Moss During a serene Land/Sea voyage in summer of 1973, an unexpected “SNAP!” shattered the tranquility of participant Tom Johnston ‘s ‘78 journey. In a twist of fate, a student’s routine boat maneuver cracked the sail’s boom; making it impossible to sail the 38-ton ship. Students feared they would be stuck in Lake…
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“Our Ice Cream Didn’t Crawl Out the Freezer Itself”: The Unsolved Mystery of the DeWaters Fridge Thief
By Laryn Kuchta The third floor of DeWaters residence hall is one of the least populated areas on campus – and for Kalamazoo College, that’s saying something. With only twenty residents, you’d think everyone would try to be mindful of their neighbors’ belongings. That is, until third floor DeWaters residents started finding their food missing.…
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K’s History with Intimate Partner Violence
By Karis Mulcahy Friday, October 20th, the attendees of the weekly community reflection hosted at Stetson Chapel gathered around the bench outside of the chapel that contains a plaque honoring Maggie Wardle. Together, the attendees had a moment of remembrance for Maggie Wardle and Neenef Odah, two former Kalamazoo College students. In October of 1999,…
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The music industry pushes artists into boxes, and this ‘Nu-pop’ group is here to break out of every single one.
New England’s hidden boy band “Cheem” comments on how they defy and define music genre limitations, as well as the passion behind their craft as they forge forward in authenticity, appreciating the direction over the speed of success. By Audrey Pegouske From the moment we saw them setting up in the basement of your average…
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Is the Use of ChatGPT in Schools Inevitable? These Academics Say Yes
By Laryn Kuchta Note: This article was written in May of 2023. “People will do anything not to do work,” said a Kalamazoo College senior. “College culture is so stressful, sometimes people need to resort to something they wouldn’t normally do.” She is referring to the use of ChatGPT – the AI software launched at…