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Spring Break often conjures up images of students flocking south for a good time in the sun – and this year, a number of Conrad Grebel University College students did exactly that. Their idea of a good time, however, was less traditional: a group of 23 Grebel students along with the college chaplain, Ed Janzen, drove 20 hours south of the University of Waterloo to New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama to help with the ongoing reconstruction after Hurricane Katrina.

Conrad Grebel University College is pleased to announce the appointment of Jeremy M. Bergen as Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Theology.

Rhubarb: A Magazine of New Mennonite Art and Writing launches a special Ontario edition with a public reading and reception at Conrad Grebel University College on Saturday December 8th at 7:30pm in the college's Chapel. All members of the public are invited to attend.

Who is a Mennonite? Leading Mennonite historian Dr. Royden Loewen addressed this question in his Sawatsky Lecture at Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, Ontario, on November 8, 2007.

Loewen, who recalled that the first academic conference he ever attended was at Grebel, studies the connections between faith and ethnicity for Mennonites in Canada.

What a treat to have three evenings to spend with John Bell!

says Ed Janzen, Conrad Grebel University College Chaplain.

It is new territory for students enrolled in Conrad Grebel University College’s Master of Theological Studies program this fall. As the result of an agreement with the University of Waterloo, students in this Grebel program are registered for the first time as University of Waterloo graduate students.

Previously, the Graduate Theological Studies (GTS) program had no government funding, but a new focus on graduate level education has generated more interest and funding to a wide variety of graduate programs in Ontario.

When Jim Reimer speaks to Mennonites, he urges them to take the wider historical Christian tradition more seriously. And when he speaks to other Christians, he explains how Mennonites are a faithful part of that wider tradition.

Mennonites have lived in families and as sexual beings, throughout their history. Yet there has been minimal research on or conversation about the meaning, structure, and function of families in Mennonite history. Even less examined is the notion of sexuality as experienced and expressed by Mennonites in the past. Both are at the core of human identity. Conrad Grebel University College at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario is hosting a 2-day conference on “Family & Sexuality in Mennonite History: An Academic and Community Education Conference,” October 12-13, 2007.

"Giving back to the community seems to come naturally to Lynn, owner of Kitchener’s Music Plus,”

said Conrad Grebel Music Chair, Dr. Kenneth Hull, when announcing Lynn McRuer as this year’s winner of the Conrad Grebel University College Distinguished Alumni Service award.

In a groundbreaking constitutional amendment this March, Conrad Grebel University College students voted almost unanimously to increase their residence fees by ten dollars a term, in addition to regular fee increases. This levy will help to fund expenses to allow a refugee student to live at the college while studying at the University of Waterloo.

Currently, the University of Waterloo supports one refugee student. Next year it plans to support two, with hopes of increasing this number in the future.

Justus Zimmerly, Conrad Grebel Student Council President, thinks