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The EMU campus is pregnant with expectation for two groups of EMU students who are currently overseas. The 22-person Guatemala and US/Mexico Border cross-cultural group, scheduled to return Friday, April 18 at around 10 p.m., is currently finishing up their exit reviews in Honduras with their leaders Deanna Durham and Byron Peachey as they begin to reflect on their overall semester long experience in Latin America. Their reflections include how foreign experiences have shaped them, how they have grown in their Christian walk, and how their personal views have changed. Heidi Muller, a sophomore currently in Honduras, said, “Coming to this culture has definitely opened my eyes to the vast disparities in wealth and living standards in the world. We’ve seen such poverty and yet lived with such a happy people that it has definitely made me feel as if I could be a whole person without as much material wealth.” Sophomore Michelle Yoder reflected on her experience over the past three and a half months, saying, “I have come to value stories and how much they mean and how much they can help people. The history of violence here is amazing and so many of the people still carry fear because they have not told their stories.” Continue Reading...

With the small exception of tree vandalism, this year has lacked any major pranking on campus. No event has grabbed the attention of the campus, unlike many years in the past. A recent event involving feces and a Crock Pot, however, shows that the prank culture that Student Life refers to is still alive and well. The first clue that sometime was amiss came when Jake Goertz walked into the second floor kitchen at around 2 a.m. “It smelled like roadkill that had been left outside for a while,” he said. “That’s what I thought it was, at first…. I thought that someone had put roadkill over by the refrigerator.” Goertz looked all through the area affected—about half of the lounge and several feet into the near hallway—failed to find anything, and went to bed. Continue Reading...