SGA Rolls with Punches Cafeteria Carnival Aids First Step Graduates

Harrisonburg, Virginia CUexrbeR V ^ n c Eastern Mennonite College Volume XXIV Number 10 Friday, March 14, 1984 Hartline, Ressler recede SGA rolls with punches by Steve Shenk Hartline. Her main con The movement to li cerns are student and quidate the Student senator involvement. Ac Government Association cording to Hartline the re has been defeated with 307 cent vote indicates student students voting against li ambivalence. m quidation as opposed to 297 She went on to describe 'V'N students voting in favor of some of her reasons for liquidation. The movement resigning. “ I prefer to see favoring liquidation voluntary things happen - i i tSV carried only 49 percent of such as the Nestles Ik ■yVrf' <$■* * „> i r. ... the required 67 percent boycott.” Hartline suspects majority. Beverly Stutzman found the hilltop an ideal place to pursue her studies as temperatures soared to the 70’s last “lurking near and dear to week. In response to these our hearts is the fear of results President Wendell blank resume sheets for Ressler felt “the vote said graduate school or nothing. The students are employment.” Cafeteria carnival aids First Step divided which really isn’t Amid all this turmoil any news.” Ressler has SGA has survived and shall offered to resign from his continue. According to by Linnie Good women. According to ly lead to divorce, rather it position citing additional chairman of the election The joviality of a town Yoder, “ First Step was is a time out for a woman responsibilities in student committee Rick Hostetter fair midway is coming to started with a United to think about her life and teaching this term as the the need for change is ob the EMC cafeteria March Way grant, but the money make choices. The reason. vious. ‘‘We are attempting 22 as the YPCA sponsors a has run out and it is ex phenomenon of abuse is This offer was un to get a much better Fun Fair to raise funds for isting on private gaining attention as more animously refused by representation of the stu First Step, a temporary donations.” The shelter is women refuse to be beaten Senate, which proposed dent body. In the coming shelter for battered women currently in need of funds into submission. that while remaining as election we intend to and their children. and another location with a According to a recent president most of Ressler’s downplay the idea of YPCA President Darrel more adequate rent survey administered to 410 responsibilities would be petitions and instead Yoder says, “the fair will arrangement. Yoder says men and women in the reassigned to senators provide more interaction include family entertain he “became involved when Harrisonburg area by JMU Jerry Holsopple and Polly between candidates and ment such as games with a student from a social social work instructor Stetter. Ressler’s associa the student body.” prizes, a dunking booth, work class brought the Gary Smith, 158 women tion with SGA has been Senator Polly Stetter and a bake sale run by need to a YPCA meeting.” said that they had suffered reduced to that of a said, “ If the liquidation EMC and JMU students.” In the past year, First abuse and 169 women had figurehead. Ressler stated, movement has done Yoder hopes the carnival Step has helped ap not been abused. Of the “As much as time allows I anything it has brought will raise money for First proximately 40 women and men, 14 had been abused will support SGA but awareness of SGA and will Step as well as raising 50 children. Yoder says, and 58 had not been abused. without any official respon possibly encourage more community awareness of “Women are referred to Yoder is asking students sibilities.” candidates to run.” Senator the organization and its First Step through the to help by getting a group The latest resignation Holsopple added, “ SGA needs. Woman to Woman hotline together to run a booth at from the Executive Com can’t get any worse but it is First Step serves the or the Community Services the fair. The deadline for mittee came from Vice- up to the students to make area surrounding Harrison Council.” A stay at the submitting suggestions for President Marilyn it work.” burg as a home for abused shelter does not necessari a booth is March 18. Graduates score on the job market A recent survey con secure right now. We have had job offers that weren’t ducted by career and actually had a number of exactly what they wanted placement office director facilities recruit our and decided to wait for a Peggy Landis revealed students which I consider a more desirable job. that 77 percent of last compliment.” Another major claiming year’s graduates expected The education depart an impressive record is the to be involved in fields ment reported that 90 per pre-med program. related to their un cent of the elementary Although only nine dergraduate majors. education grads and 84 per graduates applied to Students in EMC’s cent of the secondary grads medical school, eight were largest majors — nursing, located job openings. accepted. Pre-med advisor education and social work Fifty-five percent of Daniel Suter says that appear to be faring well on social work and sociology since 1948, 89 percent of the job market. graduates reported they grads applying to medical In the nursing depart were working in areas of school have been accepted. ment 47 of last years 49 their choice. “ EMC grads Ms. Landis commented graduates had nursing who choose to stay in the that the findings of this jobs. The other two chose area have a hard time fin survey as well as past sur Chester K. Lehman died on Sunday. March 2 at the age of 84. He was not to enter the field this ding jobs due to competi veys revealing similar formerly dean at Eastern Mennonite College and professor at EMC year. According to nursing tion from other local results will be helpful in and Seminary. His personal and professional influence have been felt by many. On Wednesday, March 5th, a memorial service in his honor department chairman Vida colleges,” said department predicting what students’ was held in the EMC auditorium. Huber, “Jobs for nurses head Erwin Mast. Mast job prospects will be after are relatively easy to added that many students college. 2 Weather Vane March 14, 1980 ProflificI Leaky margins If there is anything that Margaret Mead and David Supportive decision-making Augsburger have in common, it’s leaky margins. The by Nancy Yoder seem like the lesser of term “ leaky margins” was attributed to Mead to con several undesirable op note her rich base of sensitivity and compassion which Having just seen Kramer tions. enabled her to empathize with members of diverse and versus Kramer, I am Who can judge if the primitive cultures. struggling to complete the right decision is made? We In a setting where answers to questions often story and am again struck don’t have the fortunate religious in nature are vigorously sought after and with the challenges and un experience of our parents dogmatically prized, Augsburger’s thoughts on becom certainties involved in and grandparents in the ing whole persons offer a refreshing, distinctively decision-making. At the day when one easily made human contrast. For one week we have allowed end of the film three op the proper decisions con ourselves to ponder how our attitudes about self can tions seem possible con sidering the consequences become more healthy and gracious. sidering the information as unavoidable realities to Becoming whole in mind and body is an invitation to available to the viewer. Nancy A. Yoder live with. My mother didn’t develop our “ leaky margins.” Margaret Mead em Despite the fact that the gredients in the film which have to decide whether or pathized with persons radically different from herself. mother has won custody of I perceive as pertinent for not she should have This week we have been encouraged to empathize with the child after a traumatic the Christian are a sense of children, work outside the ourselves, in hopes of building a better community. court battle, her “ mother God’s presence and the home, or stay with my Unfortunately the rhetoric of psychotherapy and ly instincts” tell her that support of a group, father when the going got community ideology gets deep at times and often dries her child is better off in his whether that be family or rough, but she did have to on our shoes before we can clean it off. This past own home. significant others. live with the frustrations of week’s input, however, helped fill a gap in our ex The father has the option Taking commitment these circumstances. perience which doctrinal and academic emphases of appealing the case to seriously automatically Today we have many often leave open; awareness of pain and emotion in gain custody of his son, but eliminates some alter decisions and many options ourselves and others merits our concern as much as realizes that the trauma natives but may force one and if we make the right those answers which we consider ultimate. for the boy of appearing in to choose those very dif choices, living with them By putting ourselves into our own shoes first, we court is a serious conse ficult to cope with. For ex should be relatively easy. realize that we are truly human and feelings do matter quence to be avoided. ample, due to my Christian Unfortunately, much of the contrary to a claim made during a previous spiritual How does a Christian commitment I personally evaluation of the effects of week.

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