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...three-part series looks into every field. One of the photographic teams visits another scientist, Dr. Ralph Nelson of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, who is trying to learn the secrets of hibernation in bears. Unlike humans, who simply waste away when they go without food for long periods, hibernating bears exist for months on only excess...
...country and internationally, coordinating the efforts of campus groups and mission boards. The International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, a worldwide operation, oversees such groups as the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF), which in turn is an umbrella organization for student-run college groups such as the 160-member HRCF. Urbana is Inter-Varsity's showpiece, an event that has become so popular that it will be held every two years beginning in December 1981, instead of every three, as it has been since the first small-scale gatherings in the early '40s. David Walker '83, another HRCF member who trekked...
While they are certainly big, and at times, loud and frantic, student missionary conferences are not for dilletantes. Beginning at 6:15 a.m., with half an hour of individual meditation--"quiet time" in Urbana lingo the participant hustles through several days of intensive bible study, speeches, workshops, slide shows and prayer groups, all centered on the basics of missionary work. Billy Graham, the well-known television evangelist, headlined the speakers line-up at Urbana. Famous missionaries from Argentina to Kenya joined Graham on the pulpit, exhorting the participants to consider church work as a career. "The whole thing can really...
...organizers of Urbana under the direction of John W. Alexander, Ph.D. president of IVCF, do not disguise the rigors of the conference or the life of the missionary in their glossy publications and audio-visual presentations. They do, however, add a political bite to many of their messages. A slide show that followed Lum's speech at the Lutheran church last Friday included the ususal scenes of sweaty but cheerful youths working with the underpriviledged. The show then identified "revolutionary Marxism," Islam and Eastern "cults" as the enemies of the church's evangelistic efforts. Pamphlets and paperback books which further...
...grossly oversimplified view of the religious and political situation of every established country in the world. In a section titled, "Points for Prayer", Johnstone says of Saudi Arabia, "The vast oil wealth is now being used to propogate Islam all over the world." A pamphlet available at Urbana Onward also rails against Islam, calling the Muslim world "perhaps the largest stronghold of Satan to refuse the Savior...