Over the past four weeks faculty and staff from Calvin have been mentioned in articles in periodicals from the New York Times to the Grand Rapids Press. Calvin faculty and staff reach the media in a variety of ways according to Phil de Haan, Director of Media Relations for Calvin. De Haans office releases stories to different publications, depending on the relevance of the story to the periodical. What my office exists to do is tell people about Calvin, he said. For example, on the front page of the February 8 New York Times, Calvin Provost Joel Carpenter is quoted in a story about evangelicals and fasting called In Hope of Spiritual Revival, a Call to Fast.
Carpenter speaks about seeing the worst of times possibly becoming the best of times.
The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism. Think Tank uses Calvin Classics Professor Mark Gustafson as an example of unusual specialities amongst professors. Gustafson received recognition for his studies of tattooing as punishment during the third through ninth centuries. He tells that criminals used to be tattooed with a description of their crime and punishment and sent to work in mines. Many people were tattooed for the crime of being Christian, but the tattoo soon became a symbol of power.