Shorts

SGA focuses on paper waste

In response to concerns about the amount of paper that students and faculty are using, SGA wrote a proposal asking faculty members to agree to policies such as allowing students to use recycled paper that already has print on one side, and allowing students to turn in papers printed on both front and back. According to SGA Co-President Joel Lehman, roughly 30 professors have already agreed to include this as a clause in their future syllabi.

Profs read Christmas stories

English professors J.B. Landis, Andrew Harvey, Hugh Pettis, Chad Schrock and Marti Eads will read short stories or excerpts from their favorite Christmas works beginning at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 13, in Common Grounds. Eads explained that when she was an undergraduate student, a favorite English professor read "A Child's Christmas in Wales" by Dilan Thomas during exam week as a study break. She remembered it fondly and asked Professor of English J.B. Landis if he would do something similar at EMU. Landis agreed on the condition that others would also read.

Peacekeepers documentary debut

Press Release: The Americans for Informed Democracy chapter at Eastern Mennonite University is hosting a public screening of "The Peacekeepers," a powerful new documentary about the United Nations Peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The documentary, not yet released to the public, documents the struggle to save "a failed state," taking the viewer back and forth between the United Nations headquarters in New York and events on the ground in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from summer 2002 until spring 2004. After the documentary screening, there will be a public discussion about the future of the United Nations and the U.S. role in the international body.

The screening will take place at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 11, in SC 106.