Goshen College

GOSHEN — Goshen College will play the national anthem before two sporting events Tuesday, then hold a public dialogue on the issue Wednesday. Goshen College President Jim Brenneman announced early this year that the school’s athletic department will start playing an instrumental version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" prior to some sporting events. The change will take effect for a home baseball game at 1 p.m. Tuesday and a home softball game at 3 p.m. Tuesday. All games are free and open to the public.

GOSHEN - Officials are Goshen College are keeping their fingers crossed that the worst is over. The flu bug, recently hit the campus...affecting students and staff alike. All there are being asked to take precautions, to keep the spread of it, at bay. Goshen College Senior Hannah Roth had a close encounter with the flu virus. Several of her housemates came down with the bug. “I live in an on-campus house and five girls so far have gotten the flu in my house, and they just have been like getting really sick,” said Roth.

On July 4, crews will have just 24 hours to install a pedestrian tunnel under the railroad crossing on campus to give people a safer way to cross the tracks. As WSBT's Ed Ernstes tells us in the video attached above, considerable work is already under way for the project. And you can watch a live feed of the construction here .

GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) — Goshen College, which began playing "The Star-Spangled Banner" for the first time at sporting events last year, plans to review next month whether to continue the practice. The college's board of directors is set to meet in early June to evaluate the practice an playing an instrumental version of the national anthem, followed by a peace prayer, before games and other events. The Elkhart Truth reports that an announcement is expected soon after a decision is made.

GOSHEN - Goshen College students need more sunny days this year because they are hoping to heat the water at the campus REC center by using sunshine. This has been in the works for the past three years now. Students helped design and build most of the project themselves. Right now, solar energy is only going to be used to heat the showers at the REC center but students and teachers say they want this to catch on throughout campus and around the world. “The aim of this is to replace the use of natural gas, which would normally be used in a boiler to heat the water,” said John Buschert, a physics professor at Goshen College.

Some incidents on campus have led to a change at Goshen College, as there is now a campus security director. The college recently hired Al Mackowiak to be the college's first ever campus security director. College leaders wouldn't tell us if any specific crime led to this decision, but they did say they were planning this before professor Jim Miller was murdered in his home last October. Mackowiak is retiring from the Goshen Police Department next week after 35 years on the job. He has been on campus several months preparing to work directly with students and staff.

The Elkhart County prosecutor announced Monday that the accuser in an alleged January 18 rape had lied. Jessica DeLa Vega, 19, of Elkhart reported to Goshen Police that she was walking to her car on Goshen College campus around 1:00 a.m. when a man walked up to her and forced her into the vehicle. She said she was told to drive to another location where the suspect sexually assaulted her. At a Monday press conference, Elkhart County Prosecutor Curtis T. Hill Jr. said investigators discovered DeLa Vega was actually at party in a neighboring county during the time the rape supposedly happened.

Students at Goshen College kicked off a unique project this week to raise awareness about the wall that has separated Palestine and Israel for years. Watch this report by WSBT's Ed Ernstes.

It has been years in the making, but this summer work will finally begin on a pedestrian railroad underpass on the Goshen College campus. The rail line that runs through campus has caused delays and raised safety concerns, too. In the video attached above, WSBT's Ed Ernstes shows us what the project will look like and why it is giving a lot of people a lot of peace of mind.

Something different happened before a baseball game at Goshen College Tuesday. While it may be a tradition at most schools, it was the first time the national anthem was played at Goshen College in more than 100 years. The Goshen College baseball game started out normal enough, but the more than a dozen news cameras and jam-packed bleachers hinted to the fact that something big was about to happen. "I don't think it is a big deal. I think they are putting too much attention on something that is not supposed to be this big," says Goshen College junior Yaneth Springer.

New details about a woman Goshen police say was gunned downed by her former fiance. Friends and family paid their respects Friday to Millicent Morros of Goshen. The 48-year old was killed Monday morning on her way to work by her ex-lover, 51-year-old John Eric Haitsma. WSBT's talked with Millicent's sister, Shelby Engelberg. She shared some thoughts about what happened to Millicent. Engelberg said Millicent enjoyed taking care of her garden and loved her cats - cats Engelberg is now caring for. Police say Haitsma approached Morros when she got out of her car. They talked briefly, then Haitsma, a former Goshen police officer, pulled out a gun and shot her before killing himself.

A Goshen woman is dead. Police say her ex-boyfriend, a former Goshen cop, shot and killed her Monday morning and then himself. The bodies of 51-year-old John Eric Haitsma and 48-year-old Millicent Morros were found just before 8 a.m. in a parking lot in the 100 block of North 5th Street in Goshen. Police are continuing their investigation and are not commenting on a motive at this time. But Facebook postings by Morros indicate she started dating someone else in February.

GOSHEN - One year ago Tuesday, a popular Goshen College professor was brutally killed. Professor Jim Miller lost his life during a home invasion that left his wife Linda with serious injuries. Linda has recovered from that day, but police continue to follow up leads in the case. His family is holding onto memories and prayers. “Life has been hard,” said Linda. “There's no doubt life has been hard this year.” In a year's time, she and her children remember October 9, 2011 everyday and what Jim meant to them.

GOSHEN - Crews have just a few hours to build a new underpass for students beneath railroad tracks on the campus of Goshen College. The work is happening right now on the 4th of July.     You can get a live look at the construction site through a Goshen College camera feed.  CLICK HERE Late Tuesday night, the last train rolled through, and crews are dismantling more than 100 feet of rails and ties....

On July 4, crews will have just 24 hours to install a pedestrian tunnel under the railroad crossing on campus to give people a safer way to cross the tracks. As WSBT's Ed Ernstes tells us in the video attached above, considerable work is already under way for the project. And you can watch a live feed of the construction here .

It has been years in the making, but this summer work will finally begin on a pedestrian railroad underpass on the Goshen College campus. The rail line that runs through campus has caused delays and raised safety concerns, too. In the video attached above, WSBT's Ed Ernstes shows us what the project will look like and why it is giving a lot of people a lot of peace of mind.

Some incidents on campus have led to a change at Goshen College, as there is now a campus security director. The college recently hired Al Mackowiak to be the college's first ever campus security director. College leaders wouldn't tell us if any specific crime led to this decision, but they did say they were planning this before professor Jim Miller was murdered in his home last October. Mackowiak is retiring from the Goshen Police Department next week after 35 years on the job. He has been on campus several months preparing to work directly with students and staff.

GOSHEN - Goshen College students need more sunny days this year because they are hoping to heat the water at the campus REC center by using sunshine. This has been in the works for the past three years now. Students helped design and build most of the project themselves. Right now, solar energy is only going to be used to heat the showers at the REC center but students and teachers say they want this to catch on throughout campus and around the world. “The aim of this is to replace the use of natural gas, which would normally be used in a boiler to heat the water,” said John Buschert, a physics professor at Goshen College.

GOSHEN - On Sunday night WSBT received information from the Goshen Fraternal Order of Police, lodge 81 that they plan to announce Monday a reward fund has been established for information leading to the arrest of the person responsible for killing James Miller, a Goshen College professor three weeks ago. Miller was killed outside his home near the Goshen College campus and his wife was also seriously injured by the attacker, who still...

We're expecting to learn more this afternoon about the ongoing investigation into the murder of Goshen College professor James Miller. For the first time, police will speak publicly about the case.  We do not know what information police are going to release about the investigation during the 3 p.m. news conference. But since Professor James Miller was killed in a home invasion early Sunday morning and his wife Linda seriously hurt, Goshen Police have only communicated with us through e-mail.