Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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-Q Y age History Seminar students discuss the problem of how to write unbiased history. Historians, it is agreed, must admit their prejudices, bias, and the limitations of their source material in interpreting men and events, Additional courses extended the social science Spectrum. At the same time the ex- pansion afforded greater opportunity for stu- dents to specialize in one of the concentration areas of history, sociology and commerce. Characteristic of the new courses were Fi- nancial Management and Business Lawg both strengthened the Commerce department. Politi- cal Science expanded a three hour political theory course to six hours in political phi- losophy. Periodical current affairs lectures supple- mented regular class lectures and outside read- ing. Professors and guest experts probed for social and political implications of contem- porary coup d'etats, border disputes and social deviencies resulting in violent assassinations in Viet Nam, Israel and the United States. Stu- dents also analyzed the problems of test ban treaties and population explosion. Non-social science majors profited from the extra lectures and recognized valuable electives in this division as they sought a broad under- standing of social, economic and political fac- tors in human society. Through lectures and movies Dr. Oyer prepares a valuable stage on which ancient and medieval peoples present their roles in the drama that is the History of Western Civilization. 20

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Selfhood in Creati e E pression 1 The Fine Arts program ranged from an Alumni Art Exhibit in the Union during December, to senior voice recitals in As- sembly Hall, to sketching of still lifes in the art rooms in the Kulp Hall basement. James Miller, Associate Professor of Music, retumed from graduate study on a Danforth Scholarship at the University of Michigan, and presented lectures to Fine Arts students on forms in music and media in art. Students in the four sections of Fine Arts spent hours in the listening rooms with recordings of works by Dvorak, Beethoven and Britten. Projects for individuals included soap carvings and recorders. Students in Designs and Crafts applied principles of design and color as they shaped their ideas into tangible forms. Edna Shantz, after a year's graduate study at the University of Minnesota, taught the fundamentals of plain and pat- tem weaving. Upperclassmen surveyed art from prehistoric times to the present in History of Art. Senior music majors presented voice or instrumental recitals, while underclass- men drilled rhythmic, melodic and har- monic dictation in Music Theory. Original Christmas cards are one proiect of design and crafts class. Beverly Simmons and Leanne Swartz silk screen the design producing a vivid Noel Practice rooms resound with the musicians private efforts to master a sixteenth note run or a seemingly impossible cord. The word is determination.

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Family and Communiiy students show various reaciions io Dr. Guy F. Hersh- berger's sfafemenf concerning patriarchal, mafriarchal, and equalitarian family paherns. Man Meets Man: uet or Duel? Speed with accuracy are fhe fwin goals of Connie Miller and Jane? Weaver. Whefher working ai a complex adding machine or af the familiar Yypewriter unbroken cancenirafion is required. 21