Women’s soccer season has slippery start

Homecoming weekend proved to be a terrible atmosphere for soccer.
Fortunately, the Eagles were able to walk away with quite a win ending the game with a 3-0 victory over Indiana Tech.
But it rained and it poured through and through.
The weather was so uncooperative that the game had to be moved to a turf [...]

High school students take sports writing

Everyone has seen the high school students around campus. They have always visited CU classes and now, a few are attending classes regularly.
This year, Cornerstone has given five high school students the opportunity to become college students for a couple of hours every Wednesday.
 Students from the Potter’s House and Belding High School are [...]

Get ready for some Midnight craziness

Midnight Madness kicks off the basketball season at Cornerstone University on Thursday, Oct. 2. Doors to the gym open at 11:15 p.m.
“It’s going to be the best one ever,” said Kara Overbeek, who is this year’s Midnight Madness general manager. “It’s a chance to get the community together and have fun and celebrate the [...]

The tempo of the game

Going to college is not an easy thing. Moving away from home, meeting new people and adjusting to rigorous academic life can be a demand on any freshman. Throw in college-level athletics and going to college just got a whole lot harder.
Such is the reality for four members of the CU volleyball team. Not [...]

Singing takes musician across country and back

To the untrained eye, Reagan Boomershine may look like a typical college student, but inside her voice and heart lies something just waiting to sing out.
“[Reagan] would definitely be like South Dakota,” sophomore Rebekah McNay said.  “Because you’re like, ‘Who would go there?’ and then you find out, ‘Oh, what a beautiful place!’”
When Boomershine, sophomore, [...]

Exploring the powerful tools of Google

A search engine so popular it even got its name into the dictionary.
Ten years ago Google was just like any other internet start-up fad, beginning with two uber smart college students out of a prestigious university.
Now it is one of the world’s most recognizable brands worth around $150 billion. The 10th anniversary of Google [...]

Get Out!: Discount Shopping

Abby Stoner, Rob Young, Nick Cramer, Christina Woolard, and I piled into my car and headed for the expected blue shopping carts, parking extremely far away, a huge building, day old donuts on sale, seeing someone from Cornerstone,  self-checkouts and a penny ride on Sandy (the horse), but we were surprisingly wrong in our expectations.
Shopping [...]

Examining the impact of a departed friend

Laura Walburg first encountered the love of Jesus Christ in a car wash.
 
“All my life, my mom was always telling me, remember whose child you are,” she said. “I never really thought about it though, until I was about 4 years old.”
 
Walburg remembers riding through a car wash at an Amoco station in [...]

Encountering life and culture in Spain

It all began on Jan. 18. This fine winter day, Alaina Beckner left American soil for a semester abroad in Spain. 
 
Beckner, 20, a senior at Cornerstone University, is one of approximately 10 students who have seized this opportunity over the five years Semester in Spain has been available here at Cornerstone University. It is [...]

Volleyball team ready for action

It’s time for blocks, digs and spikes.  It’s time for referees on ladders and overhand serves. It’s time for volleyball.
The Lady Golden Eagles are looking to build on an impressive season in which they went 38-6 and finished only two matches shy of advancing to the NAIA National Tournament.
Surprisingly, the team this year has [...]

Brendsel plans to go overseas next spring

From green soccer fields to vast blue oceans, Breana Brendsel wants to traverse it all…and she plans to do it next spring.
As a junior at Cornerstone University, Brendsel’s decision to go overseas is no small matter. She will be missing the off-season conditioning for the final soccer season of her college career. When it [...]

Excellence is not an option; it’s expected

Excellence is not an option, it’s an expectation.”
This quote is emblazoned on the front of the student-athlete handbook and sets the tone for what CU requires of its athletes. A little intimidating right? You bet it is. But the fact remains that as athletes, we are held to a higher standard.
Academically speaking, athletes have [...]

CU women get racquetball league

Adrenaline and sweat mixed with perfume is one of the signals for the beginning of a women’s division for the racquetball league at CU.
 
Since the league’s creation in 2003, it has always been co-ed, with Division A for advanced players and Division B for intermediates. Stephen Popp, league coordinator, said that female players approached him [...]

Helping to make an impact on lives

A few days after Thanksgiving last year, Lauren Honigford, a freshman at Cornerstone University, received a phone call from a high school friend about a rumor being spread: One of her good friends had died in a car accident.
 
Honigford prayed that the rumor was not true, but she also prayed for Lash’s family just in [...]

Student discovers the power of prayer and panhandling

It is not often that we associate panhandling with prayer.
               
However, for sophomore Steven Paseshnik, prayer and panhandling are the two main reasons he continues to study at Cornerstone University this semester.
               
Paseshnik’s story began on Aug. 22 when a phone call left him questioning whether he would attend school this fall. The call, [...]

Henning’s heart for missions

Here am I Lord send me, resonates and calls, Henning answers.
Junior Bethany Henning is a resident assistant, as well as president of Socially Aware Students (SAS), and she balances all of it as a social work major.  Henning’s destiny has brought her to Michigan and Cornerstone, but her story started overseas. Henning was born [...]

Get Out!: Breakfast that tastes like home

Michigan paraphernalia hung from every corner of this little restaurant. It made this State fan not want to mention anything relating to anything green and white or dare to say Sparty. However, when looking closely, one will find green and white napkins, green seats and white walls, so really State colors are hidden in this [...]

Film Review: “Get Smart” provides a good laugh

Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway pair up in this hilarious comedy. Carell plays a newly recruited detective undergoing an investigation of a threat from a group known as KAOS. He must work together with experienced detective “Agent 99” (Hathaway). Hilarious chaos ensues. This film shows that even the little guy can save the world if [...]

“Tropic Thunder” shows aggressive comedy

Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr. star in the edgy comedy about actors who think they are in a war movie but are actually soldiers in an enemy’s land. Through over-the-top acting and ridiculous events, a platoon of problem-stricken actors must fight to escape a military group, the Dragons. “Tropic Thunder” is an entertaining ride [...]

Marketing Web site helping the church matter

“I kissed a girl and I liked it…and then I went to hell.” Just one of the many hotly debated and blogged about topics on a Web site www.ChurchMarketingSucks.com.
Frustrate. Educate. Motivate. That is the mission of Church Marketing Sucks, a non-profit organization that is dedicated to helping the church matter. As a part of [...]

Teaching peace in Israel

Some college students spend their summers as camp counselors.  However, few travel as far as Israel to work with youth.
After having gone to Israel two times previously, Kristopher Rolls, sophomore, felt led to live in the Israeli culture for just over two months.  Initially, he was attracted to Israel because of passion for history and [...]

Student finds community overseas

For most college students, the first day of classes is always one of the most daunting. Imagine though, having to endure such an experience in a completely new country. This challenge was met by freshman Stephanie Hino, a native of Japan.
 
Hino is from a small Tokyo suburb known as Higashi Kurume, just 45 minutes [...]

GRTS enrollment is booming with six percent increase

The enrollment in the Grand Rapids Theological Seminary has gone up significantly. Currently, the head count at the seminary is 285 students. A data freeze (a final documentation of enrollment) occurs in two weeks so the official number of students at the seminary will be release then. This is up 20 students from [...]

Peterson takes charge of Learning Center

Since 1973, Gene Peterson devoted his time to the betterment and development of students. He began his career working at the high school level, where he worked in special education departments and other programs. Eventually, he moved on to work as a high school principle, where he continued his work helping students grow and learn.

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Campus Safety director provides tips for freshman

As new students flood Cornerstone University’s campus, Campus Safety gets ready for another semester and Richard Honholt, Campus Safety Director is no exception.

Even before the scheduled safety meeting for new students, Honholt gave some tips for staying safe on campus this year. He talked about four different priorities regarding the safety of the students for [...]

Rudin moves from enrollment to new tasks

GRAND RAPIDS- For the first time in 14 1/2 years, Brent Rudin is not working in enrollment at Cornerstone University.

On Sept. 1, Rudin officially started in his new role as the assistant vice president for university communications.

This new role on campus was created as a part of President Joe Stowell’s “first 100 days.”

In Stowell’s [...]

Vinson’s band takes the lead

Amidst worthy competitors, Zach Vincent came out on top as the winner of this year’s Battle of the Bands.

As the bands prepared for their various performances on the night of Sept. 11, CU students filled the Corum Student Union nearly half an hour before start time, enjoying coffee while anxiously awaiting the competition.

Finally, at 8:00 [...]

Gala dinner draws 2,000

GRAND RAPIDS — Joe Stowell was there, Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of Billy Graham, was there, and so it seemed…was everyone else in Michigan.
Approximately 2,000 guests from all over the state attended the Sept. 12 “West Michigan Welcomes Joe & Martie Stowell” gala dinner, making it an event drawing bigger crowds than both Bono and [...]

Stowell is sworn in, charged to continue example

It’s official. Joe Stowell is CU’s 11th president.

After 7 months on the job, Stowell was inaugurated in a traditional ceremony surrounded by students, faculty, staff, family and friends. His two older sisters came, as well as his 90-year-old mother from Chicago, to witness another collegiate induction.

Anne Graham Lotz, founder of AnGel ministries and a [...]

Is dual citizenship un-American?

This summer, there was a controversy surrounding German Olympic basketball player Chris Kaman. What was the problem? He was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., and has been an American citizen all of his life. He was awarded German citizenship based on the fact that his great-grandparents were German. Until that time, he had never been [...]

Get Out!: Shelves of fun

Want some place where you can check out free books, movies and CDs? Looking for a quiet, air-conditioned building that smells like new books? Need a new spot to study and work on the Internet?
Check out the local library. Kent District Libraries have more resources than Miller Library. One library card gives you access to [...]

Students walk on ancient Path

Some people go to camp in the summer; I walked the ruins of Greece.
In June 2008, I journeyed to Greece from my home town of Lowell, Mich., to photograph and experience the unforgettable along with 13 other students from Cornerstone University.
Our trip first took us to Athens, which has the population the size of Chicago. [...]

Stowell hires worship arts director for chapel

The man whose desire is to make your chapel experience a greater encounter with God is a man you may never see. Matthew Westerholm has been hired as Director of Worship Arts.He will work with Spiritual Formation on improving our chapels through working with the worship leaders and praise bands.
Westerholm majored in music performance and [...]

Pasquale creates CU Oxford English program

The Cornerstone Oxford English Program has been created by Michael Pasquale, associate professor of linguistics, to give students an opportunity to study at the prestigious school located in Oxfordshire, Southeast England.
“June 2008 was the first time it was introduced, and it included four weeks of three Cornerstone University (CU) English as Second Language (ESL) students [...]

Former of U of M coach speaks to athletes

“I don’t think football develops character, it defines it,” said Lloyd Carr, former University of Michigan head football coach, to the OK League high school football players and coaches during the Champion of Characters event at CU.
The event is a national program for student athletes that strive to restore the morality that has been lost [...]