Word: mahan
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...believe the church I loved and served for 40 years can condone what God condemns.' RICHARD MAHAN, a reverend in West Virginia, after the U.S. Evangelical Lutheran Church lifted a ban prohibiting sexually active, monogamous gays and lesbians from serving as clergy...
...drawn below which sacrifice is unacceptable, but some are more valid than others. For one student it might be at giving up health insurance, and for another it might be merely at the prospect of moving to Queens, or out of New York City altogether. Matthew W. Mahan ’05, in his second year in the Teach for America program in California, specifies: “To talk about college grads, looking for a first job out of school, I don’t think there should be an excuse for passing over teaching as an option...
...Mahan knows something about battling intractable powers-that-be, as former Undergraduate Council president. His first step toward autonomy came when he stopped studying for the LSATs the summer after his junior year. “My feeling at the time was that everything in my life had been external goals that were just a path to being a well-paid professional,” he recalls. “It just seemed like they were these steps that weren’t something I’d chosen out of my interests.” He changed his thesis...
...people who get really excited about it and try to talk about it. They have a lingo, and everything. I don’t know where their enthusiasm comes from, because what they’re doing doesn’t seem to be particularly meaningful.” Mahan says, “I personally do feel called to serve, and I want that service to be productive. I want to do that work in a partnership. I don’t want to simply make a lot of money and have some organization spend it well...
...original legislation advocating for the site. This year has not been the first time that the UC has turned its sights toward the improvement of mental health services on campus. The issue was a subject of UC discussion during the 2004-2005 academic year, when Matthew W. Mahan ’05 was president. Mahan, who included mental health as a priority when he was inaugurated in 2004, wrote yesterday in an e-mail that he believed the UC’s new Web site would be helpful to students. “[The site] is useful...