However, I have noted a developing tendency I believe unfortunate at a liberal arts college. If our discourse is to be civil, discussants must allow for other opinions. I ask that over-confident conservatives consider lowering the decibel level in their views on issues like equality of participation in churches and gender orientation. If we are to live with, and learn from, each other we should sometimes refrain from playing our interpretive trump card so quickly and confidently. Intellectual honesty is a virtue in an academic community, and it requires that we recognize we are wrong sometimes, and at best that our positions are partially correct.
Christian community requires no less.
Criticism itself is fine, but the way the articles about the food service violations, OSHA, and rape at Calvin were written, they came off as neo-'70s crusading against the establishment. That article made Chimes appear foolish. Even when the dire violations were explained, they didn't merit widespread panic. This kind of spazz-out, inaccurate writing is not journalism, it is sensationalism, and there should be no place for it in the Chimes. I thoroughly enjoyed the last issue of Chimes.