Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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rxry-one percent of GC's women students perceive sexism as a campus problem. Forty-one percent of the male students agree. The issue of sex- ism is a nebulous one, burdened with labels. As one female student com- mented, One must either be a radical feminist whose stance is somewhere between raised-consciousness and male-hatred, or a staunch upholder of conservative traditionalism and the Happy Homemaker's philosophy. Forty-five percent of the women sur- veyed indicated they felt the effects of sexism. Even if there is no real or intended sexism, declared a female faculty member, When people are hurting, something should be done about it. Another colleague ex- plained, This is not just a women's problem but a men's problem too. Comparatively speaking, what distin- guishes GC from secular institutions is a genuine willingness on the part of most people to resolve past hurts and diffi- culties in a real peacemaking spirit. That is what gives me hope. Marilyn Holderreaa Janet Reimer. Lisa Yoder, Lisa Wiebe, Ruth Weldy K- Q-9 -455 . LQ...- x r If ' -p-.-...., 'v X - ff?- 39 ' -894 J'

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T xii 'ne MR? in ,X , 'ss-I vig,-- ', k, si' I , iq . . . 1,-. .A,, I WG ENT5 'Sato be Q A UQ'Q'QSSU?53' .X N ,T QISMZ x v-aff his stotement dppeored on The opinion bodrd in mid-win- ter: l chollenge Goshen Col- lege students to begin d no- tionwide college compus movement for d freeze on the testing, production ond deployment of nucleor wedpons. Remember the power of college stu- dents in the Vietnom era! Though the Vietnom erd is long post ond most Goshen students ore more concerned with finding the money to get through school thdn with politicdl octivism, they dt lost found on issue to dgree on. Nedrly fifty percent of the student body feel nucleor energy should not be used for either militdry or domestic purposes, Another 413.5 per- cent feel nucleor energy is dccept- dble in the domestic sector dlone. Only 6.8 percent indicdtd thot nucleor energy is okoy in either reolm. Given the strong pedce trodition of the Mennonites, it is not surprising thot students become involved in the grdssroots disormdment movement. ln April, neorly 800 members of the GC community signed d stotement cdlling for on end to the drms roce. A copy of The stotement wds sent to President Redgon. ln June, o von lodd of stu- dents journeyed to New York to por- ticipdte in on dntinucledr rolly which coincided with the United Ndtion's ses- sion on disdrmoment.

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-Q -vi! .91 .I r -4:5 36 .Q A , f . l . V r Jimmy Kamau. Sally Ondiek, Mwangi Gachanja, Jean Kidula. Willson Makori. Sogga. lbrahim Omonai , - l .Pr- Lillian l l +- 0 .ly 'f fl x y! 151- .-3 g , r F 1 : a - r 'E . - V .YE s racism a problem at GC? Forty- three percent of the surveyed student body believe it is. Fifteen percent specified that racism dl- rectly affects them. Fifty-seven per- cent did not perceive a problem. There is not a cross-burning, name- calling type of racism here, stated one white student. Rather it is an ac- cumulation of small, subtle incidents. and lack of understanding which causes students of different racial and ethnic backgrounds to feel alienated at GC. Racism does exist at GC, confirmed a black member of the community. Next year there will only be three mi- norities on the faculty. Black student enrollment has dropped tremendously. In terms of numbers, the problem is overt. lt also shows itself in the statistic of how many people don't even per- ceive the problem. lt is pervasive.