Eastern Mennonite University - Shenandoah Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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The 1966-67 lecture series, “Urbanization as a Way of Life,” stirred awareness of changing urban patterns. After a WSVA press conference in the Stu- dent Center, Max Lerner, author and columnist of world renown, delivered the first lecture, “From Village to Megalopolis: the Passing of Traditional Society.” Robert Lee, Professor of Christian and Social Ethics at San Francisco Theological Seminary, dis- cussed “The Urban Community: Human Values in the Metropolis,” November 11. The third lecture, “The Urban Muse: Profiles of Urban Art” by Dr. Max Kaplan, aired sociologi- cal implications of creativity. Dr. Ernest Weissman drew from his experi- ences as Director of the UN Center for his lecture entitled “Politics and Urban Renewal” on March 3. Climaxing this year’s provocative series, J. Lawrence Burkholder, professor at Harvard Di- vinity School, developed the topic, “God and Man in the City: the Role of the Church in Urban Society.” DR. MAX LERNER Professor of American Civilization and World Politics Brandeis University Public Occasions — Horizons to Urbanism DR. MAX KAPLAN Lecturer and Writer Hh 20

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f ' f EMC hosted Goshen, Hesston and Bluffton College delegations for the tenth annual Inter- collegiate Christian Council, November 17-19. Centered on the theme, “Post-Christendom Ethics and the Church as a Discerning Community,” the conference heard Dr. Paul Peachey on “The Chal- lenge of Post-Christendom Ethics’ and “Moral Dilemmas of Our Present World.” Dr. Don Jacobs lectured on “Our Desacralized World.” Spearheaded by EMC and planned by a tri- college committee, the first quiz bowl among EMC, Bridgewater and Madison College contest- ants took place February 10. Madison claimed the first honor symbol, an engraved silver bowl; EMC rated a close second. March 2-4, seventeen EMC students joined thirteen other institutions at the annual Inter- collegiate Peace Fellowship Conference to pursue the theme, “A View of Our World from a Non- Western Perspective.” Centered at the Unifed Nations, the weekend scheduled addresses by Mr. Noel Brown and Mr. Hashim Rifai, Political Affairs Officers of the UN, a panel of UN personnel and three films. Elections for a new IPF executive named EMCer Judi Livengood secretary. INTERCOLLEGIATE QUIZ BOWL experts Jim Bishop, Ron Guengerich and Milt Loyer pool intellectual strategy. ECONOMIC EDITOR for the UN Secretariat, panel member Mrs. Janet MacNeill explains UNESCO programs to IPF guests. IN THE AFTERMATH of ICC, Don Kraybill questions Harold Bauman, Goshen College Pastor of Students, about campus worship.

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DR. J. LAWRENCE BURKHOLDER Professor of Pastoral Theology Harvard Divinity School DR. ERNEST WEISSMAN Inter-regional Advisor to the UN Center for Housing DR. ROBERT LEE Professor of Christian and Social Ethics San Francisco Theological Seminary hO