Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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GC students respond to The Day After, a movie aired by ABC on Nov. 20 that depicted the possible event of a nuclear war: Are we so inflexible and uncaring that we would rather die than change or does the attitude that you can make everyone else change and be dogmatic about it come with the acquisition of power? Is it really true, 'fBetter dead than redm? I'm sorry, but I would much rather live with communism or socialism. Lori Ann Rusterholtz I also watched the panel discussion following the movie, and it was in that context that my hope was re- newed . . . Carl Sagan was the only voice in the group who said, Hey, nuclear weapons donit have to be a reality. We can do more than learn to live in a nuclear ageg we can move out of this age. He read a quote which said, in effect, that there may come a day in which the people of this earth want peace so badly, they will demand it of their leaders. For me, this movie helps to redefine what immorality really is. Sin isn't the young girl defying taboos by making love with her fiance two days before the wedding. Sin is even daring to contemplate the cre- ation of technological mosters with the capacity of total destruction. If Christians want to campaign against sin, I think our traditional approach needs to be redirected! Lois Shetler As part of the Frank and Betty .Io Yoder Public Affairs Lecture Series, Latin American news correspondent Penny Lernoux, fabove, rightj speaks on In Banks We Trust: American Pocketbooks and Human Rights in Latin America. Lernoux said in a convo address, People who want to become better informed about Latin America will learn more by seek- ing out alternative sources of information. Un- fortunately, most of what you will get in your local newspapers, on the six o'clock television news and in Time and Newsweek Qand I hap- pen to write for Newsweekj is either very gen- eral, simplistic or manipulated - I don't sup- pose consciously, but manipulated to fit the American cultural baggage. Another lecturer in the same series, Robert Kaiser trightj associate editor of The Washing- ton Post, discusses U.S.-Soviet relations with students John Bixler, Eric Wenger, Bill Stauffer and Nabil Oudeh. He stated in his Nov. 15 address, I don't think we're on the verge ofa catastrophe with the Russians, I just think we've let things get way out of hand.

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Student Life And Ideas xx N.