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Ruby Sales, a civil rights activist and scholar, will discuss faith and activism during her visit to Goshen College March 12-14.
As an African American growing up in the South, Sales experienced firsthand the tumult of the civil rights movement when, during the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march, she was threatened by an armed man, Tom Coleman.  Fellow marcher and seminarian Jonathan Daniels was killed when he pushed Sales out of the line of the bullet that Coleman had intended for her.  Despite death threats, Sales testified against Coleman in an Alabama courtroom, where jury of 12 white men ultimately acquitted Coleman.
The injustice of this event shaped Ruby Sales and instilled in her a passion for justice and desire for peace.  She remains a passionate advocate for issues related to race, class, and gender.

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    Employees of the American Red Cross were on campus last Friday with their hearts - and needles - set on collecting 85 pints of blood. One hundred and five students later, they had exceeded their goal by three pints.
    Goshen College hosts a voluntary blood drive twice a year, and students seem to jump at the chance to donate their blood. “I give every chance I get, but I can’t for a while since I’ve been in a country with malaria for at least three months,” said junior David Magbee.
Magbee, like many others, went to the Dominican Republic for SST, and will be ineligible to donate for three years.
Fifteen people were turned away for various reasons; the biggest one was having traveled to a country with the risk of malaria for at least three months. Having a low iron count or having tattoos also frequently result in the ineligibility to donate blood.

GC recently switched cable services from Comcast to Quality Cablevision.
Comcast agreed to provide free cable television to schools for educational purposes, but that understanding has expired; GC has since entered contractual conversations with several cable companies. This is no budget cut; the savings from the conversion will allow GC not to increase tuition for 08 and 09 students.  The contract has allowed GC to nail down a five-year understanding. The conversion is also an upgrade because the new fiber optic cables will provide better signal strength.

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    Last Friday President Jim Brenneman, his wife and 16 Goshen College board members returned to campus after a two week, self-funded visit to the Middle East. The trip’s theme was “Goshen to Goshen” as the group traveled from Goshen, Ind. to the biblical land of Goshen entering in discussion of new possible exchanges of education.
    From Feb. 19 to March 5, the group met with a variety of religious, political, education and business leaders that could potentially foster new exchanges that could take place between Goshen College and various organizations in Egypt. Brennemen said the exchanges would involve areas such as peace studies, religion, art, “green economics,” Third World development and more.
    “In this day and age when some have tried to articulate a ‘war between civilizations’ as it pertains to Christian and Muslim belief systems, it’s an opportune time for Goshen College to begin to take small steps into open doors,” Brenneman said. “These may lead to major opportunities and blessing for our students and others all under the larger rubric of a ‘World House of Leaning’—a vision for Goshen College becoming a truly global education village.”

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whitneylpgoshen.edu

    “If you want to be cynical, go ahead.  But are you satisfied?”
    This is how Nathan Graber addressed chapel-goers Friday, March 7, at a chapel titled “Into New Life.”  The week’s Lenten theme was based on John 11:1-45, the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from death.
    Christians may find themselves in the positions of Mary and Martha.  It is “hard for us to be completely fulfilled,” said Graber, with the pressures of college life: the job search, anxieties that accompany our responsibilities and relationships, and sometimes depression.
    Graber explained that Like Mary and Martha, Christians say, “your friend is sick!”  He clarified, “sick of not having enough.”

Former U.S. Ambassador to visit campus
    In his book, Jeffrey Davidow, made the statement, “No nation in the world has a greater impact on the daily lives of average Americans than Mexico.”
    Davidow, the former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and author of the book, “The U.S. and Mexico: The Bear and the Porcupine,” will be speaking at Goshen College on March 18.
    In his lecture he will be talking more about the current relationships between the U.S. and Mexico as well as the often misunderstandings.
    This lecture is free and open to the public in the Music Center’s Reith Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.

Columbia University art critic taking on GC
    Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. in the Reith Recital Hall Carol Becker will be speaking on “Educating Creative Practitioners for the 21st Century.”
    According to Becker, an art critic and dean of faculty at Columbia University, her lecture will touch “the way in which art and design have been and will continue to be forces for social change, leading the conversation about the urgencies of the planet and our relationships to these concerns for the future.”
    Becker is the author of “Surpassing the Spectacle: Global Transformation and the Changing Politics of Art,” and several other books and articles.

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