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    If people call you a liberal scaredy-cat because you won’t fight for your country, how do you respond?  CNN reporter Rick Sanchez posed this question for the students involved in the student roundtable taped Tuesday night.  
    “I’d ask the same question,” responded first-year Adriel Santiago.  “You’re looking into another person’s eyes.  What are you afraid of?” Global citizenship, immigration, and the presidential elections are just some of the issues addressed in the roundtable discussion.
    Seated on the stairs in a darkened College Church Chapel and surrounded by equipment and lighting, seven students took the time to share with reporters some viewpoints which might be taken for granted on campus but may challenge the idea that only the political right is religious.
    How does a Mennonite think? “Global citizenship,” said junior Sheldon Good.  “I think we consider ourselves not unpatriotic but more patriotic.” Junior Elizabeth Beachy said, “I think being patriotic is also being a neighbor.”

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Best-selling Christian author Brain McLaren will be bringing his “Everything Must Change” conference tour to Goshen from May 9-10.  
This eleven-city tour began in February and focuses on current issues that include planet, poverty, and peacemaking. “[The tour] will be a highly interactive, multi-media, participating experience of teaching, visual art, prayer, music, conversation, reflection and more,” explained McLaren. 

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    The green trolley that passes by Goshen College on its way to Elkhart may usually only warrant a passing glance from students—but that can change.
    The Transportation Task Force, recently formed out of the Immigration Task Force, is working to increase availability of the Trolley to lower income neighborhoods and communities that need it the most.
    The TTF was formed in light of the recent license withdrawal for many Latinos, and is made up of Goshen and Elkhart community members. Initial action to help transportation issues was taken through organizing carpools, and the focus has now expanded to better utilizing the Trolley that already runs back and forth from Elkhart and Goshen.
    The Trolley’s current route includes stops along US 33, beginning at the Wal-Mart in Goshen and ending up at a Wal-Mart in downtown Elkhart.

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On April 27 students and their families, teachers and friends will fill the gym of the Recreation Fitness Center for commencement.  Their short journey across the stage is the ceremonial completion of years of hard work and dedication.
A degree is something you sweat to obtain.  Most people would refuse to stay up all night, drink black tea and coffee by the mug full, or sit inside on a sunny day to earn a piece of paper, but students at Goshen repeatedly push through the trials and difficulties of academics to earn a degree.  
Graduation symbolizes more than mere academic achievement.  It symbolizes growth or change in character and hopefully a readiness to interact with people outside the college bubble. 

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    As the semester comes to an end, the Communication department is already planning ahead by naming student leaders for the 2008-2009 school year.
    The editor of the yearbook will be Emily Shantz. Abri Houser will be the student station manager of the Globe.  
    The managing editors for GC Journal will be Luke Nofsinger in the fall and Dustin Diller in the spring semester.
    In charge of The Record in the fall will be Emily Dougherty. The spring semester edition of the newspaper will be Sheldon Good.
    Much appreciation goes to all of this year’s student editors and managers.

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    Tuesday, April 22 is Earth day.  It is also the first day of exams.  Barring rain, biodiesel masterminds Sae Chan Lee, Neil Detweiler, Mitch Yoder and Nate Herr will lead short tours from Schrock Plaza to the biodiesel project in the heating plant from 2:30-4 p.m.
What goes better with exams than a study break—complete with free food?  In addition to tours, the Ecological Stewardship Awareness Committee will provide fresh french fries.
More information on environmental issues, including biodiesel, will be available. Seniors can stop by to sign a graduation commitment to considering social and ecological impact of their future jobs. Also, all students will be able to sign a petition to extend the current trolley route so that more people can have access to work without a car.