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Role of administration discussed by faculty

by Tim Mulder The purpose of Jast week's faculty meeting was to explain and discuss a new system of faculty evaluation, but inadvertantly another topic surfaced: What is the role of the administration of this college?

• THE QUESTION is not one which can be answered once and for all, but is an inquiry which must constantly be occurring. In the absence of absolute answers a number of view points are admissible.

This week selected faculty members were asked to give their impressions of what the role of the administration is, or should be. In the coming weeks students and members of the administration will be asked to answer the same question.

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S.C /ate at stake

Congress views three proposals

by Annetta Miller In two sessions this week the Executive Committee of Student Congress met to discuss plans for the Congress' proposed restructuring. President Jim Beran outlined several goals for the new Congress.

THESE included greater accountability on the part of a representative to his constituents, equal representation of both sexes, establishment of a smaller Congress, more efficiency in the election process, and continuity of representation through more frequent elections.

The Congress discussed proposals by Robert Luidens, Kathi Machle and Bill DeBlock and Frank D'Oro. Luidens proposed a central committee composed of one to three persons who would be elected every semester. "Hopefully this more frequent student selection process will encourage greater student involvement," Luidens said.

THE "CENTRAL Committee", according to Luidens, would serve as the one voice of students within the college structure. Each member of the committee would personally hand pick fellow students to serve as student representatives in the remaining board positions and on committees.

Luidens said, "The resulting collection of students would hopefully act in a unified fashion.

Division would be minimized."

According to Luidens, the central committee would be encouraged to hold frequent forums for student input when major issues are under consideration. . "I'VE REALLY come to feel that a more radical approach has become necessary with the Student Congress system for the arrival of one basic goal and that's simply getting things done," Luidens said.

Beran opposed Luidens plan stating that although a system of three persons representing the entire community might solve the problem of inefficiency, it would encourage the phenomenon of groupthink, i.e. committee members would tend to reinforce each other and "diverse opinion would be filtered out," Beran said.

A third plan recommended district representation, which would divide the campus into five arbitrarily assigned districts with four students from each district and an additional four elected at large.. The committee will continue discussion of the proposals in their meeting next week,

VICE PRESIDENT Tom O'Brien stated that such a system could be held in check by a constitution limiting the power of the central committee, In its second session the Congress discussed two proposals for selecting representatives for the new Congress.

A plan drafted by Congress Secretary Kathi Machle and Bill DeBlock proposed a method of selecting representatives from within their living units.

ACCORDING TO the plan one representative for approximately each 80 students would be elected. A controversy arose over the feasibility of dividing the campus into voting districts by living units. O'Brien expressed a concern that there would be no way to equalize representation and that voting procedures for such a plan would become too complicated.

Luidens also opposed the idea of representation by living units citing the impossibility of representing the diverse interests within a residence hall. "I don't think it's possible to represent students other than as a student body," Luidens stated.

ANOTHER proposal by Congress member Frank D'Oro suggested a method of representation based on class standing. Under the plan each class would be responsible for the election of seven Student Congress members who would be elected by members oftheir own class and accountable to them.

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Faculty artist Michel awarded at Kalamazoo Delbert Michel, associate professor of art and chairman of the art department, has recently been awarded a prize at the opening of the 1975 Kalamazoo Art Show.

HE RECEIVED the award for his pencil drawing, "Packaged Landscape." The show is being held at the Kalamzoo Institute of Arts.

Harry Greaver, director of the Institute, presented the awards at the opening last Sunday. Mr. Michel does work in painting and printing as well as drawing. THE WORK submitted to the art show was judged by Joseph

Ishikava, director of the Kresge Art Center at Michigan State University. The exhibition was open to all artists in southwestern Michigan.

THE SHOW currently on exhibition at the Art Institute is one of the largest they have had in recent years. The exhibit opened on February 2 and will continue to be shown until February 23.

The art show is composed of 62 works which were entered by 54 artists. These artists and their pieces were selected from 308 entries.

PROFESSOR of Philosophy Arthur Jentz said that it should be made clear that the role of the administration is to be in power at any given time.

He stated, "The Organizational Charter of the college outlines some of the primary duties and responsibilities of the administration."

"IT IS not left to the discretion of any special group of individuate to devise that for themselves."

He went on to say, "The prime guidelines for the direction and character of the college are the business of the Board of

Trustees."

"BUT SUCH decisions should be arrived at through close connections and equal consultation between the Board and students, faculty and the administration."

"That is why there are-faculty members who are also Board of Trustee member^, and student liasons to the Board."

"THE ADMINISTRATION has a leadership role to play," Jentz stated. "It must be the executive power between the Board and the on-campus factions of the college."

The administration is responsible for implementing Board decisions, and for dealing with the college's constituency.

JENTZ said, "The prime responsibility for what goes on in the classroom is up to the faculty."

"As a faculty member I don't consider it my prime responsibility to raise money, recruit students, or keep the constituency happy. That, I feel, is the responsibility of the administration."

Another faculty member equated the role of the administration to that of a mechanic, "It's their job to see that everything runs smoothly, to insure the highest possible quality performance in terms of the education and atmosphere offered, and to facilitate relationships between the various components which constitute the constituency and personality of the coUege."

Car sales increase in Holland

by John Scholten Has the news media played an important role in keeping car sales down? Many area salesmen think so.

TO BE SURE, many other factors play an important role in determining automobile sales.

Tight credit and unemployment is making car buying a pretty difficult affair for many people.

However, most area dealers also feel that the news media also gave needed attention to the rebate program, which has helped to perk up sales.

RECENTLY, a UPI news release stated that car sales were up 40 percent for the first ten days of January. For the Holland area l% dealers, was a" general1 in'4~~1 *there crease in sales, but it didn't amount to 40 percent.

Herm Medema, general sales manager for DeNooyer Chevrolet, said "Our sales are up. The sales are probably not as much as the statistics indicate, but they are up," Doug Wierda, sales manager at R. E. Barber Ford stated. "Our sales are also up."

DON HILLEBRANDS, President and General Manager of Ter Haar-Venhuizen . Cadillac Olds said, "The auto industry is always in a comparative day-to-day type situation. The first ten days of January of this year are being compared to the first ten days of January of last year. Maybe the first ten days of last year were really slow days. So it's not really accurate to say Tar sales are up.'"

"My Cadillac sales are fantastic," Hillebrands continued, "I find that most people are on a two to three year cycle. When they need a new car, they come in and buy one, if they have the job security. Certain cars are selling more, but as a whole, car sales really aren't up that much."

FORD'S DOUG Wierda pointed out, "Our car sales are up; but there is also a drastic shortage of the rebate cars. We've ordered a lot of them, but now we have to cope with the huge amount of people that are coming into the

Showroom traffic is up as are automobile sales in Holland car dealerships. News media attention on the rebates plan is attributed to the cause for increased interest according to Holland dealers. showroom."

All the dealers agree that showroom traffic is up tremendously.

Hillebrands stated, "We've had more people looking in the last ten days than we've had in the last three months."

WIERDA NOTED, "We're up 150 percent." Ken Elhart, President of Elhart Pontiac and AMC, said, "Floor traffic has more than doubled. People are really looking.

Most dealers also felt that people were choosier today than they have been in the past. Hillebrands said, "People are really cautious, they are really looking closely. It seems like people are spending their money more carefully."

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the news media has played and will continue to play in the car sales, we can really feel some of the national attitudes when people come in to look for a car.

Right after President Ford came on TV and told the American people to save their money, car sales dropped. People almost feel it is unpatriotic to go out and buy a car. Now the rebate program is giving them an excuse to go out and look at cars."

People also like the small cars that the rebates are available on.

Ken Elhart stated, "We note that the small size is more popular.

People want to do something about conserving fuel. They really want to help. More people are taking voluntary action by taking a Sunday afternoon walk instead of a ride."

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Individuals at Hope can combat world food problem The following is the conclusion to a series of articles written by Dennis TeBeest on the world food crisis.

"Sure, I accept the stark facts of world hunger. The world food situation is very unfortunate. But what can I do about it? Nothing.

It is impossible for one person at Hope to accomplish anything that will help millions of starving people."

THAT statement is valid, as far as it goes. The food crisis is. a large-scale problem and as such, large-scale actions are required to confront it.

Concerted national and international efforts are needed to supply the major resources which we, as individuals, cannot make available to masses of starving people. But individual awareness and action still serves a vital role in any concerted effort to cope with the complexities of the food crisis.

THE GOVERNMENT and organizational aspects of famine relief are numerous and diverse.

The governments of the developed countries and relief organizations must continue to exert pressure on the underdeveloped countries, urging them to enact and enforce population control programs.

If skyrocketing population growth is not halted, or at least slowed down, in the immediate future, all other attempts to deal with hunger will be increasingly futile.

SCIENTIFIC research must continue and intensify its attempts to create new, more nutritious foods. Technology must be satisfied with the historical successes of the Green Revolution.

Renewal attempts must be made to seek even better yields out of the land. New farmlands must be cleared where the land is arable, but currently unused.

INTERNATIONAL cooperation is an increasingly necessary

condition for successful confrontation of the food crisis. Relieving the world's hunger pains will require a great deal of money and will involve complex economic difficulties and dangerous political implications.

Ip order to deal with these problems, the countries of the worid must be made aware of their interdependence. They must be willing to act in a mood of cooperation.

IN AN attempt to foster such cooperation, the United Nations organized the November World Food Conference.

It was hoped that, through that conference, the worid grain reserve could be established and the developed nations could be convinced to increase their aid to crisis centers. That conference was disappointingly unsuccessful, largely because of the uncooperative mood of the U.S. delegation.

AT THIS point, part of the role that we, as students at Hope College, have in coping with the food crisis becomes visible. The attitude of the U.S. delegation to the World Food Conference was a reflection of government opinion.

Government opinion is ultimately determined by the attitude of the country's individual citizens. Changes in governmental action will then occur as a result of reformative attitude . changes among individuals.

THE RACIAL equality and peace demonstrations of the 1960s have proven that colleges and universities can be effective initiators of such reformative social action.

We, the students of Hope College, have an even stronger duty to initiate changes in the attitude of affluent, well-fed America

toward the food crisis.

A BASIC Christian commitment is the foundation on which the college is built and is also the major motivational force in the lives of many of the college's students. If our Christianity is to be consistent it must demand justice for all people.

Christian ethical action is centered around the concept of love.

That love should know no boundaries. We are called to have compassion on all human beings who are in need, sharing God's blessings with them. A responsible Christian commitment makes it impossible to ignore our personal role in the world food situation.

IT IS then necessary for us to train ourselves to become sensitive to the food crisis and to supply personal motivation to act. It is hard for us to personally grasp the problem of starvation because it is not in the immediate context of our daily lives.

Richard A. Hoehn, in The Christian Century, January '22, 1975, suggests a hunger exercise.

It is intended to "bring home at the first person level a small part of what it means to be, if not starving, at least deprived." This valuable, eye-opening exercise is based on a structural voluntary hunger experience and poverty budget.

THIS PERSONAL attitude change, whether affected by Hoehn's method or any other means, is basic to any plan of personal action. The idealistic, justice oriented college student has the personal freedom to challenge the national hedonistic ethic. The Christian student has the added motivation of Christian responsibility.

It is essential that we advo-

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Liz Bromley, ACTION Peace Corps-Vista recruiter, will be on campus Monday and Tuesday, February 10 and 11.

Prospective applicants and all interested persons can interview from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Placement Office in Van Raalte Hall.

Peace Corps and Vista have openings for graduates with majors in business, liberal arts, science, education, home economics, medical fields and library science.

Volunteers are needed for 3,000 domestic Vista projects and 4,000 Peace Corps projects in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Respiratory infections spread fast on campus Usually three factors are concomitant with the infection, including a cough, an elevated temperature and a sore throat.

If a student so infected would remain in bed, get plenty of sleep and drink fluids, the infection would be arrested in a much shorter time than usual, Blake said.

She said that, "If people infected would confine themselves to their own quarters, they would terminate the permeability of the contagion."

According to the Health Clinic, there has been a recent upsurge in respiratory infections on campus.

183 students came into the clinic with such an infection this January, which doubles the figure from this past December.

But, "there is no way of telling whether all the students infected actually came in to the clinic, thus the number of infections could very well double that reported," Nurse Marian Blake, clinic director, reported.

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cate individual attitude of benevolence involving some sacrifice.

We must develop a willingness to give up something in order that others in need might have that need fulfilled. Once this attitude of true benevolence is achieved a limitless number of personal actions are opened to us.

THE FOLLOWING are three means of action. First, we can concentrate on our personal diet, eating no more than is necessary to maintain our health. It is possible to cut down on meat consumption, thus reducing a wasteful use of the basic grain resource.

Harvard Nutritionist Jean Mayer estimates that if Americans cut their meat consumption by 10 percent, enough grain would be freed to feed 60 million people. * SECONDLY, we can give gifts.

We can put money to use in the food crisis. Reduction of personal diet is no more than a symbolic act if the money saved is not made available to relief organizations. These organizations will then be able to supply starving people with food a^id improved agricultural methods. And finally, letters and concerted pressure can effect government - policy.

Through these means we can actively work for change in governmental foreign aid policy.

Our personal efforts cannot singularly overcome the food crisis. But they are a vital component in a battery of individual, organizational, governmental, and international actions which will reduce starvation.

We must realize that we are a part of the problem. Confronted by that realization we must contribute to the solution of the problem.

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Sock hop featured

Winter Carnival goes to '62 "WHERE WERE YOU IN 62? ,, is the theme for this year's winter carnival. The mood that Student Activities Committee is setting is the era of the 1960s, with straight leg pants, bobby socks, guy's short hair and girl's pony tails. But for many students, 1962 means that they were in the first, second, or fifth grade.

BROOMBALL teams will be playing games throughout the week. Single elimination will take place each day to determine the winner for men's and women's ,

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to play Bach Nancy Thompson and Dan Smith have been selected to play in the Bach Young Artists' Concerts in Kalamazoo March 1.

The finals of the competition were held recently at Kalamazoo College.

Thompson is a pupil of Charles Aschbrenner, associate professor of music, and Smith is a pupil of Dr. Anthony Kooiker, professor of music.

divisions. Broomball is similar to shown in the DeWitt Main Theatre ice hockey with brooms, balls and Friday at 7:00, 10:15 and 12:30 snow replacing sticks, pucks and and again on Saturday at 7:00 and 9:30. Admission is one dollar. . ice.

Wednesday night in Phelps CafFriday evening the annual eteria at 10:00 p.m. the pizza Volkswagon race will be held on eating contest will be held. Con- Twelfth Street from the Chapel to testants will have fifteen minutes the DWCC. The winner is deterto down as much pizza as they mined by the number of students can with the hope of being the jammed in the VW and the time it campus champion. FoUowing the takes them to complete the contest free pizza will be provided course. This year's event will infor all the spectators. clude a "Chinese Fire Drill," reTHURSDAY (if the weather quiring all the members to stop co-operates) will see judging of half way down the course, pile snow sculpture. The theme is once out of the VW, circle the automoagain, "WHERE WERE YOU IN bile once, pile back in and con'62?" Rules for sculptures can be tinue on their way. picked up in the Campus Life AT 10:00 P.M. the traditional Office, and faculty will judge. carnival will be held in DWCC. Thursday night will also see an Students dressed appropriately to "ORGY IN THE PASSION PIT" the theme will be admitted free of of DeWitt Student Center. The charge. Admission is one dollar, "ORGY" is a collection of televi- otherwise. sion shows and commercials from WTAS will sponsor a sock hop the 1960s Saturday mornings. in the ballroom with a disc jockey Starting at 9:00 p.m. and running playing the songs from the sixties. continuously through midnight, it Other displays include a pie will include the Three Stooges, throwing booth, a kissing and •/& the Long Ranger, cartoons, and hugging booth, a hamburger stand com flakes commercials. Admis- with 1960 prices. The "ORGY" sion is free.

Presently there is a black and white photography show being will also be shown throughout the THE SAC film for the weekend night. A breakfast at 2:00 a.m. exhibited in Van Zoeren Library. Photographs are done by last semester is American Graffiti." It will be will close the evening. students of Bruce McCombs. They will be shown until February 25.

Unemployment up

Kafka film to be shown The Orson Welles film production of Franz Kafka's literary masterpiece, The Trial, will be shown on Tuesday, February 11 at 7 and 9 p.m. in Wichers Auditorium.

Welles' movie surrealistically depicts the bizarre arrest of a. thirtv-vear-old banker Josenh K ininy year oia oanxer, josepn k . ( pkyed by ^Anthony _ Perkins) who finds himself one morning charged with a crime but is unable to learn of what he is accused.

Alienated from a world governed

by Orwellian bureaucratic automatons who assume no responsibility for helping him out of his predicament, and frustrated after numerous attempts to learn the nature of his crime, Joseph K. ultimately begins to feel guilty without knowing why.

Economic recession hits Holland hard

by Randy Braaksma and William Strader Although it is of little surprise that economy, uxe like mat that maxt l i Holland's nouana s economy e entire nation, is depressed, o i c t u r e becomes much clearer ^ S n with an examination of certain statistics.

A REPORT IN the January 20, 1975, issue of based on Ohio Bureau- of Employment statistics states that Michigan is second only to Alaska in percent of persons unemployed (8.9 percent and 9.4 percent respectively).

Although much of Michigan's plight can be traced to the slump in car sales, Holland, which is an

economically . diversified community, is in much the same straits. The Michigan Employment Securities Commission has confirmed that the number of unemto their Ottawa rrenortine nm P lc yx9 411(1 K e n t®PO g to tneir uuawa County offices has increased from 2,915 per week last , VT T in_r November to a January. 1975, figure of 7,728.

FIRST TWO weeks of The January alone accounted for an increase of more than 1,000 per7 728). This has s o n s (5 073 necessitated the acquisition of ten additional personnel, a lengthenQf service hours and the openi^g of another MESC office.

To obtain a more precise outline of the local situation, ten of

Greater Holland's 188 industries were contacted. These ten represent approximately 35 percent of the workforce in Holland according to the Holland Chamber of Commerce's industrial employment figures.

GENERAL ELECTRIC, the largest employer in the survey, was also hardest hit. An October layoff of 135, a November layoff of 300 and a January layoff of 115 sent employment roles plummeting from 1,110 to 550. A two week partial shutdown occurred in December.

Lear Siegler fared almost as badly. Their January employment figure of 530 is a decrease of more than 200 workers from their Au-

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DONNELLY Mirrors laid off 170 workers during the period between November, 1974, and January, 1975. Their workforce now numbers 500.

At the end of December, Baker Furniture at 390 personnel had retained most of its employees.

But while only 18 have been permanently released and 15 laid off, all hourly employees are now on a four-day work week.

SLICK-CRAFT has laid off 60 workers, but five or six have already been called back. A company spokesman said the period between December and February is generally slow and business was expected to pick up sometime in March or April.

Surprisingly enough, there are some striking exceptions to the dismal story of layoffs and unemployment lines. For example.

Beechnut, which employs 396 workers, is running at full capacity after suffering only a partial layoff due to sugar rationing.

BROOKS PRODUCTS reported no layoffs and ironically its 100 employees were enjoying an unusually busy sales period, especially for sugarless drinks.

Chris Craft Corporation reported ten persons laid off temporarily. Again, however, an increase in production was expected due to the seasonal nature of their product. .

EMPLOYMENT figures from Excello Corporation-Aerospace Division were not available but a company spokesman did say business was in excellent shape. Excello serves the commercial and militaiy aircraft industpes and both are reportedly maintaining orders.

American Aerosols, after enduring a short layoff, has all 154 employees back on full time. The addition of a new warehouse facility and the expansion of existing office space would indicate that American Aerosals is one of few local industries still doing well.

Some Holland industries are at full capacity and a few even expanding production. But one company spokesman, who declined to be quoted, said he privately felt that the unemployment figure for Holland could be as high as 12 pejreent. Likewise, one MESC official stated that the employment situation would get worse before it could get better.

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Beggars and looters Please read the letter to the editor

by John Yeutter. Read each line carefully and witness the pompous and pragmatic American. While you read of the "beggars and looters" of the world, notice the concrete understanding and answer to the world food crisis he offers. Let them die.

We do not deny the complexity of the situation, or that any answers will not cost something. True, the, problem is self-perpetuating, but who is to decide what men, women and children shall die in our slaughter of the beggars and looters?

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This is an emotional approach, according to Yeutter. We will not deny that it is. We could present a rational refutation to Yeutter and he in return a rebuttal. This could go on indefinitely. , ;

He tells us the starving are a burden to the "productive citizens of the world." Who are these productive citizens of the world? Those that attend classes till their early twenties. Does productivity have to do with the merit or social class into which one is born?

Obviously it is based on birth and not merit. And this being the case, productivity is not a correct term.

Yeutter uses this word as a mask to justify his own existence. Many use Yeutter's concept of birth as their measure of productivity.

What we desire is that Americans forget the rationality and the philosophical theorizing of college students, politicians and big business and respond on a more emotional, human level. We grant that America will lose money, that there will be more starving children born, and t h j t there is a strong possibility the crisis will never be totally be solved.

However, we cannot condone any policy or action that would allow present human beings to suffer and in all probability die if no aid is given. We are professing that we do not know if this is the way that the crisis will be totally cured, but that man can and must attempt to alleviate the immediate pain of any living human.

Yeutter also uses the philosophical argument that man would prefer death ,over being a slave. This is totally a game of thought of a "safe" college student. Let him starve and Not to make this attempt would words of the human spirit. How are not only be to deny the worth of we to tell how a starving child other individuals, but also to deny thinks? the worth of one's very self.

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Students enjoyed Europe carbon copy of the United States? We found that it was wonderful to step into new cultures, live in them and benefit from them. In doing so, we were better able to objectively criticize or commend our own culture.

As language majors, we were surprised In fact, we adjusted to the European that so many Europeans spoke English and culture quite quickly. The difficulty was in dismayed with the number of Americans who do not take the time to learn a foreign coming back to the States and trying to fit language. Many times we were told how it in here. It took us most of last semester to was so appreciated when an American tried adjust and finally feel, if not at home, then to communicate in a foreign language at least at ease in the United States. Were rather than expect all Europeans to speak we glad to be back? No! So many times, in fact, we have often wondered why we did only. English with them. come back.

We do not wish to minimize or degrade the opinions of the students who spent only six months abroad. We merely feel that another side should be presented. In a year abroad, you naturally have more time to become accustomed to new cultures and learn to appreciate them. One year, rather As to the reaction of Europeans toward than six months, makes a complete differAmericans, we admit we were at first upset; ence in viewpoint. it hurts to be rebuffed when you have done nothing to deserve it. However, we came to Nancy Fuller understand the European viewpoint. AmerBarbel Thoens icans, and we qualify that by saying rich Joanna Gierveld tourists, come and expect all of Europe to Nancy Holton bow at their feet.

Karen Johnson Kathy Korver Naturally, Europeans would react negaDeb Bian tively. We found that if we tried to communicate in their language, it often helped. In fact, most of our most pleasant remembrances are friendly conversations, shared meals, hitchhiking with total strangers who went out of their way to be helpful.

We would like to thank all those conWe would say it is not the European cerned over, last week's tragedy. We have who is rude, but in most cases the overbeen deeply moved by the many kindbearing American tourist who has angered nesses shown us these past few days. We Europeans and thus created this hostile are strengthened by your prayers and atmosphere. cheered by the expression of warmth and Were our experiences realized? Yes, a affection coming.'to us from the Hope thousand times pver. Of course, the cul- community. tures are different. Must every country be a The Thomas White Family

After living in Europe for a year, we eagerly read the article about other Hope students who had studied abroad. The whole article gives an unfortunately onesided view of Europe.

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n Ziegler's follies First of all I have to admit that 1 have a conflict of interest writing about Ron Ziegler's lecture problems. Through no fault of mine we are booked by the same lecture bureau, though I profit no way by the fees Ziegler is asking.

THAT MUCH said, I believe Boston University made a serious mistake in disinviting Ziegler to be their speaker on Feb. 26. Prodded by an outraged faculty, the students decided that Ziegler should not be paid for talking to them about the Nixon Administration.

The next day I walked by Georgetown University and a student showed me a petition he was circulating to keep John Dean from speaking there.

THE TWO incidents took me back to the Forties and Fifties when colleges and universities tried to keep liberal and leftwing speakers off campus. The political climate was different, but the thinking was the same.

Anyone the university didn't agree with was a dangerous person who could poison the minds of naive students.

It would be nice to believe that the faculty and students' objection to having Ziegler on campus was strictly monetary.

BUT MOST of the statements I read indicated that they objected to being lied to by a member of the Nixon Administration. This came as a surprise to me because if credibility was the criterion for college speakers, no one in Washington would get a booking.Besides going way out on a limb concerning free speech, I also think Boston University made another mistake in canceling Ziegler. I believe he might have turned out to be one of the most interesting speakers of the year.

THOSE OF US who have attended his

press briefings can attest to the fact that Ziegler, even when he doesn't intend to, can be very funny.

We have spent many hours roaring with laughter at Ziegler's responses to our questions, and there wasn't a member of the press in Washington who didn't look forward, every morning and afternoon, to what Nixon's press secretary would have to say.

ZIEGLER'S deadpan answers to questions on Watergate were the greatest comedy relief this town has ever seen. His inventive language ("misspoke," "inoperative") amused us no end, and this country may never see another press secretary like him again.

For $3,000 Boston U. was getting a bargain. Not only would they be able to hear someone defend President Nixon but Ziegler was going to open his lecture to questions. I assure them the question period would have been better than a Mohammed Ali-George Foreman fight.

SO YOU blew it, Boston U. You not only struck a blow against free speech but you cheated yourself out of a great evening in the theater.

The sad part of it is that the students let the faculty influence their decision on whom they would or would not hear on their campus. It would have never happened a few years ago.

I HOPE that other colleges and universities don't follow the Boston U. precedent.

There is a dearth of humorous speakers on the lecture circuit, and I assure you Ziegler is worth every dollar you can pay him.

Just ask him why Watergate was nothing more than a third-rate burglary, and sit back and relax in your seat and you will have one of the best times of your life.

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by Jim Lampert Within the realm of musical writers/performers on top, Leo Sayer's name does not appear. He has never sold a single under his vocal talents, and does not have the distinction of having an Elton John to exclusively belt out his songs. He has had to turn elsewhere for his musical fame. His first album,. "Silverbird," was an accumulation of songs performed by other artists, much in the way Carole King started out.

THE NAME of the game these days in music is style. Everywhere a person can turn, there are new artists coming out with a style of their own. From Alice Cooper's snakes to Deep Purple's ruined guitars, the old adage, "You gotta have a gimmick," applies more than ever.

Leo Sayer cannot identify with a particular style. He seems to take on every style available. On "In Concert" last year he came out in a Marcel Marceau outfit, complete with white face and clown suit. He then turned around and came back on stage in a suit and tie, a la Joel Gray.

VOCALLY he can assume most any voice he wishes. Broadway or rock, Sayer belts out his lyrics behind the musical genius of David Courtney. If style is a way of gaining distinction in the music industry, Leo Sayer is on his way to garnering a lot.

The album together is a transitional masterpiece. It flows together with the flair of a seasoned master. The first tune on the album is a haunting, mysterious manner. "Telepath" is the story of the mind and its workings.

Reminiscent of David Bowie's "Space Oddity," "Telepath" transcends the normal power of a musician by its soft and loud variances.

COURTNEY'S piano lends to the mood by his ability to control the listener and get him involved in the music.

Moving from the brain to the senses, the second tune is a typical train song, electrified. Entitled very simply "Train," it immediately makes one think of Bob Dylan's country songs. Courtney once again draws the audience into the music with the slow-fast movement of the rhythm.

IT IS LEO that puts the final touches on the song with his vocal ability. He assumes the cduntry attitude with his high sliding voice, working his way into your memory. Possibly a hint that Sayer and Courtney can be as dynamic as the Elton-Bemie match-up, "The Bells of St. Marys" follows "Train."

This breaks the mood set before by relaxing the listener and allowing him to sit back, not having to bother with any deep lyrics or fast music. It retains a simple sound that Sayer does so well, and gives Leo the chance to show off his style for the mellow.

THE NEXT tune, "Just A One Man Band" is the song which may well sell the album. It was done on "In Concert" last year, and is a bouncy, country travelling tune.

It trips along, almost forcing you to tap your foot and sing along. It

tells a story which could double as a title for the album itself.

Through Sayer's vocal ability the song travels on showing off Sayer's nasal sound which he first unleashed on "The Show Must Go On," done on "In Concert." Sayer is a virtual one man band on this

the rest of the album. , IN THE next four songs Sayer makes up for his bad beginning.

"Long Tall Glasses" might make a person look twice for Bob Dylan's name on the cover. But Sayer has written the song in the style of the country ballad with a flair for

from. Courtney excells on piano, and Sayer pieces the entire song together with his rendition of the country beat. A fine piece altogether.

Running in from "Long Tall Glasses," the next song is a 180 degree turn from country. It is a soft pop song of a travelling performer that must leave his girl behind. Very appropriately titled "Another Time," it moves on just as the man in the story must. Its softness blends with the crying voice of Sayer to put the song in a sad mood. The words which make the listener tune in tight are, "I'm lost." This says everything.

IN THE remembrance of the Beatles, Sayer moves into the next song entitled "Solo" with a bouncy pop tune a la Paul Mc Cartney. Sgt. Pepper's band couldn't have done more justice to a song like this. It moves from slow to fast in a beautiful way.

Words just cannot describe the masterpiece which evolves through the music.

The last song, "Giving It All Away" is the "title" song. Sayer brings out the boyish quality of the song with his control of the vocals, while Courtney plays solo piano in an Elton John way. The strings and horns finish off the song that puts the final touch on

m song, called "In My Life." It relates the story of a young man who has never had a good day in his life.

THE SONG builds and falls in an off-beat way, not at all up to the quality which Sayer is «p to.

There are background singers somewhere in the song, but they cannot be heard, and do nothing to salvage an otherwise well put together side.

As a break in the action occurs, a production note might fit in well here. The album was produced by Courtney and Adam Faith, a well known soloist in his own right. Sayer has his own studio in England, but frequent visits to Roger Daltry's studio down the street are not unusual.

DALTRY (remember the Who?) helped produce Sayer's first album, partially in Daltry's studio, and has lent a hand in promoting Sayer's songs. For all the Who fans out there, look on the back of Daltry's solo effort, "Daltry."

If all the songs on the album seem to be by Leo Sayer and David Courtney, do not be surprised. Daltry got a hold of a few songs done by Sayer-Courtney, and liked them well enough to make an entire record of them.

But Roger Daltry isn't the only one to recognize talent when he sees it.

THREE DOG Night did a song last year which garnered them a top hit, namely, "The Show Must Go On." Yes, Sayer wrote that one also. Leo Sayer may not be the biggest name dropper in the business, but he has a few of his own names to start a formidable list with.

The second side of the album starts off with a thud. "When I Came Home This Morning" is not the best song of the album, but no one can expect every song to be great. It shows no real vocal ability on Sayer's part, and Courtney does not develop his music as on

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the album.

THE ALBUM as a whole blends together perfectly. Each of the songs has a rise and fall that sways the audience into submission, making it easy for listening pleasure. Sayer does much for this rise and fall in the songs, forcing his vocal, talent in a way that would make any artist proud to have.

He ranges from a low soft sound to a high nasal screech and all within the realm, clothes reflect his songs to get the audience in the mood. The different suits he wears can be seen on the back of the album cover of "Just A Boy".

IT IS difficult to sum up everything that Leo Sayer has done. His works are in bits and pieces, much like the variety that he offers on his albums. His songs are becoming something to look for on artists' albums, like Daltry and his album, and he is coming into his own as a performer and writer.

Leo Sayer is a veritable "everything performer" in concert, and a stage personality that will continue in his off-beat ways. There is not much history to add to his credit, for he appeared out of nowhere; he can only go forward into the future.

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Yeutter rebuts essay In the last two issues of the anchor, we have seen Dennis Te Beest's version of "Hunger and Starvation," the continuing saga of the present food crisis, full of statistics, pious platitudes, and an emotional appeal for "an appropriate plan of action in the food crisis."

MR. TEBEEST does not specify exactly what kind of plan he expects, but from the tone of his articles I would suspect that he would like the U.S. to begin some sort of free food give-away program. He would claim that since, with six percent of the world's population, we "consume" 30 percent of the world's resources, we should be \/illing to share some of our wealth with the more unfortunate peoples of the world.

In making this sort of claim, not only are several important statistics ignored, two basic laws of thermodynamics and economics are forgotten. First, matter and energy can be neither created nor destroyed. The U.S. does not "consume" 30 percent of the resources, it only changes their form, producing 48 percent of the world's output. Using 1/10 of 1 percent of the world's population on its farms, the U.S. feeds 25 percent of the world's population. That's three foreigners for every one American. .THE SECOND law which is forgotten by purveyors of the free food farce is economic, with the Dutch title of Tanstaafl. Simply put, this law states that you can't get something for nothing. Viola-

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Yet Mr. TeBeest, it appears, wishes us to violate this. When we sell wheat to the Russians, we get something in return. This he deplores. He would rather have us give our wheat, with no expectation of anything in return, to the Sahel.

HOW WILL this proposed giveaway help these people living on the edge of the Sahara Desert?

They cannot keep themselves alive. If we keep them alive for this year, we will have to feed them, and all of the babies that these starving people somehow find the energy to produce, next year, and all the years after until they die. We will be keeping them alive artificially.

The only solution to the world hunger crisis is to somehow rid ourselves of those people who cannot support themselves. I am not making the same "Modest Proposal" that Jonathan Swift made to solve the hunger and population crisis of his time, but I think that a program to cut the present population in the distressed areas is the only way.

IT SEEMS ridiculous to keep people alive when they have no means of support, other than begging and looting from the rest of the productive citizens of the world.

My ideas may sound very heartless and perhaps unchristian to you, but it seems much more heartless and unchristian to allow

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people to be bom knowing that they will owe their entire existence, . from the cradle to the grave, not to themselves, thru their own effort, but rather to a paternalistic government, who allows them to live.

A free man, who lives thru his own struggle and toil, can never be conquered, only killed. A man who owes his life to the grace of another man is only a slave, and is at the mercy of his benefactors.

This is a fate worse than death.

John P. Yeutter

Coed decries profs smoking Currently there is a bill before the Michigan Senate to ban smoking in any public place. Hope's classrooms are already "no smoking" areas.

However, professors on our campus openly puff pipes under "no smoking" signs without thinking of whether their exhaust bothers their students. This morning a classmate took the initiative of joining the prof in a smoke.

Smoking is annoying not only to my nose and eyes but to my attention as well. I protest the total lack of observing the existing "no smoking" regulations on this campus, especially those pertaining to the classroom. A little administrative pressure should be applied.

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by Peter Brown As spring broke last year in Holland, a new life energy welled up inside my being. Undoubtedly the impulse is akin to the revival in nature of new life after a cold, confined winter. I still distinctly remember sitting on my apartment roof in Holland, contemplating the past, pondering the future. I thought of my years in Holland, of how experience had changed me, not just once, but through each successive one of my four years. , BUT AS traumatic as many of my days in Holland were, I understood clearly that it was indeed the strange, bizarre, mind-blowing events in life that contribute to growth. Even last spring I believed that an individual can only expand his world view by having experiences which do not fit his previous notions of reality, and consequently demand an alteration. But while I was content with life last spring, something deep inside was restless, and I felt a yeaming-for whatever I was, I wasn't complete.

Whatever one decides to call this need, this thirst, it is a universal human phenomena, and while many for reasons such as security one may shun this calling, I'm sure everyone reading this can understand, and has experienced just such a calling. At any rate, while in the midst of thought, an intuition came, some flash into a future direction. Two days later, by no small miracle I was enrolled in the G.L.C.A. India program. India-that mysterious land-perhaps the oldest civilization in the world.

AS GUESTS of Air India, we stayed in the Taj Hotel, which is easily one of the most exclusive in the world. Soon the clichi word for the group became "intense", which was quite fitting for the situation we found ourselves in.

IT'S BEEN nearly eight months now since the giant 747 eased onto Indian soil.

The Indian saga began for us in Bombay, but for the native inhabitants nothing really begins or ends. Each day of existence is as same as the previous day. Life just goes on. Most know not where their next meal is coming from, but because that is the way it is, and the way it's always been, it's not a problem, but rather a reality, the only one they know.

Inside the hotel, the womb, any desire or fantasy was at the end of your fingertips, while right outside the gate thousands, literally tens of thousands were half-starved, thousands begging. Many of us experienced pangs of schizophrenia.

AN AMERICAN city, given a similar situation, would have long ago had a civil war; but not so in Bombay. The city was less dangerous for

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the individual-no need to fear walking at night on the streets, a very strange calmness prevailed in the city, for the masses, although starving, have resigned themselves to accept the existing social structure, and don't really see or care about the incredible situation of great affluence existing beside literal starvation.

Not caring is a little strong, for they know not how to change, but they have resigned themselves to their miserable existence.

EACH HOUR outside the protective artificial environment of the hotel, was simultaneously coupled with two or more hours of postexposure, inside the hotel analysis. This was apparently necessary to try to fit different experiences into a coherent picture of the significance of the situation outside the walls. Already we were forced by circumstance to begin personal world view re-evaluation.

Eventually the typhoon lifted and Air India resumed its flight. Once again the jet lifted off and rushed us to South India. Soon we were on a bus and then we found ourselves in the beautiful mountains of South India.

WE STAYED in a village town called Kodaikanal, which was a little piece of heaven right here on earth. The only words I can find in my English repertoire to describe this place are tranquil, beautiful and simple. The land was rich, the people were well fed and all seemed bliss in what was a Utopia, reasonably unstained.by modernity.

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The week in Kodaikanal passed quickly and peacefully. Soon it was time to get to our "home" in Madurai. After arriving in Madurai the first signs of cultural shock began to become manifested in certain individual and group actions.

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THE PACE of life in South India is very slow and for Americans which Descartes observed as "I move therefore I am" one can become quite restless. For three entire months there was much hostility and trite complaining among many of the group members.

India is also very traditional in its standards of morality-sinful is he that even gazes at a woman, with the visa versa unthinkable. So the lack of constant sense bombardment which previously characterized oui existence, along with at least some sexual frustration, coupled with just the usual personal difficulty of uprooting your being thousands of miles from your own nest, resulted in quite an array of outward projected difficulties.

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BUT AS people began to find a niche from which to work, and after the ones with the most difficult time adjusting rationalized returning to the states, and subsequently did, there was certainly as assimilation between American students and Indian life style.

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Somewhat revealing perhaps of our society is reflected in a particular niche too many of the students found in order to cope with the environment. For many a daily ritual entails inhaling the intoxicating marajuana weed into their lungs. It's very cheap in India, and provides a powerful escape. However, others entered and passed through this stage.

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SOMETIME IN the fall, I was remarking how I realized that deep in my essence was an emptiness that sought the fulfillment of a woman.

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plaining the sea by calling it blue. Anyhow as I finished my remarks, my counselor Rengaswami told me that if I wanted a woman, it could be arranged.

Arranged, it was an interesting word, and apparently the way things are done in India for the overwhelming majority. To rebel against this practice for an Indian would mean being ostracized from family, caste and what have you. Rengaswami then told me that being white, I could just pick out a girll thought beautiful, and it could most likely be arranged. I asked him if there were many that were beautiful, educated and spoke English fluently. I was assured that many fit this description.

BUT WHAT of love? What of looking into the eyes of a woman, deep into each others being, and to simply know. What of love, Rengiswami? No, it just doesn't happen that way in India. And I've never really been able to get an Indian to grasp it.

It is sneered by many, who are quick to point to the divorce rate in America as a problem due to the fragility of this "love." This all is not to degrade parent arranged marriages, quite the contrary, they seem to work at least as well, probably better than "love marriages." Indian women devote themselves completely in marriage, and would be the delight of any man, well except one, that is.

MUCH OF what's been going on in India took place inside each of our heads. It was early in August when several of us began discussing that period of existence known as sleep. The conversation focused on dreams, and the possibilities of gaining greater understanding of both one's own subconscience, and perhaps a separate realm in general.

I developed my own personal technique for dream recall. Previously 1 remembered only one dream every few weeks, but after one week of adhering to my technique, I remembered up to four of five separate dreams each night. Each night before sleep, I repeated this procedure which entailed candle concentration, meditation and suggestion.

FIRST, 1 would stare at a candle for a few minutes, then I'd close my eyes and try to maintain the image. Secondly, I did breathing meditation with the intent to clear my mind. Thirdly, as I was about to sleep, I repeated to myself, "I would really like to remember my dreams."

After one week, each night I was recalling dreams. After three weeks, I no longer had to perform my nightly rituals, for I not only recalled but was conscious in and of myself while dreaming. Time and space don't allow for personal observations, but I want to state that a whole incredible realm of existence is there for anyone so inclined. I've come to understand my own sub-conscience much better, and each morning new insights are added to what is becoming a cosmology, with implications involving all aspects of existence.

And then came November.

ANOTHER strange calling sprang from my inner being. One day I found myself gathering a change of clothes, my walking staff, my guitar and my Bible, and walking off. For three days I walked, caught rides with ox carts and trucks. On the fourth day I came upon a river village in the heat of the afternoon and decided to bathe.

Events happened in such a way that day, and for more than four weeks I found myself residing in this tiny village. I was treated by the villagers as if I was a gift from one of their gods. Their hospitality is remarkable. I was given a small grass hut to live in and each day at least one family invited me to eat in their house. The diet consisted of rice, rice, rice; but as bad as my diet was, at least I got three meals per days.

THE FACES of many of the children revealed a different situation for their diets, for many ate two meager meals per day. It was a drought year for rain-such years are devastating, for food is scarce even in rainy years. Still though, the children were energenic and happy-much like children anywhere. .

If life is slow in India in general, it crawls in the village. Once I found myself just sitting quietly, doing nothing for over four hours. All the people in the village would automatically qualify for advanced degrees

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HOWEVER; for Americans who have been saturated with sensory bullshit, it's no wonder they need T.M. to quiet some of the meaningless chatter. And it seems funny that some Americans look at T.M. as something spiritual. Quieting the mental chaos is obviously psychological; T.M. is only a bandaid, needed only by individuals in societies where peace of mind cannot be actualized.

Either this is true or everyone in the village had obtained cosmic conscienceness. That, I can assure you, is not true. The people in this small village in Southern India were simply adapting to environmental circumstances, the same way New Yorkers adapt to their special atmosphere.

SO MUCH could I benefit from these simple people, so much could they benefit from my society. Yet in so many ways this village is the dark ignorant past, but the payment for progress has never been so apparent.

Winter this year temporarily brought the dark shadow of death on my worldly existence.

Death is something few young people have the privilege of encountering. I say privilege because no single event like encountering death can stimulate such far-reaching revelation. So clear did existence become, so obviously was it that the only act of will for man is whether or not to take up his cross.

STRANGE HOW Christianity would reveal itself to me in India.

Highly symbolic as experiences were-none the less the contrast between certain Hindu's and one Christian doctor will long be imprinted in my mind. During my stay we met a few people, Hindus, who were truly blissed out; gone; at a point of development where they were neither here nor there, but rather dwelling in some separate reality.

Although language wasn't a barrier and their discoursing was intriguing, it was difficult for them to intellectualize to us where they were or how to get there. Somehow all seemed a dance to them, to participate in it to the extent possible when not in or of the world. Something was just missing. One day it came when I saw my American friend withering to death on his bed, and I knew that the program'doctor was not giving him proper treatment.

BY THIS time he had dropped over 30 pounds, and it turned out later that he was being given penicillin to treat hepatitus. The doctor, refused to touch patients, otherwise he might have felt one very swollen liver. I became insatiably determined to find a competent doctor, and before long I was sent to this Christian doctor's clinic, who was also an Indian. I walked in and sat down, and actually I was just going to ask him if there was an American doctor in the town.

I was sitting there with about fifty other people when someone walked down the stairs and everybody rose to their feet, myself in• eluded. I just did this and looked at this man who humbly commanded such an incredible aurora of compassion. That moment and my many other dealings with him will always be treasured deep inside my being. I always left him with a feeling of warmth that lasted for days. It is clear to me, then as now, that I had actually met a true saint, who was down on the earth helping the meek and the poor.

TIME JUST seemed to pass along in South India, and before winter (South Indian winters are warmer than Michigan summers) passed, I just seemed to awaken on a 747 jumbo jet that was carrying me back to America. The whole time appears cloudy to me now.

But the deep compassion, the brotherhood and friendship, that is so obvious amohg the Indians, will always be with me. Although the wealthy are aloof in many ways from their society, the common man in India is very open and free with his thoughts and emotions.

The ugliness of extreme poverty, and the beauty of open warm people; this is the extreme paradox spinning in my head. India, the land of every extreme under the sun, still as much a mystery to me as it was before I left last year.

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Dutchmen give Coach Russ DeVette his 300th win

by Craig Vandermolen The Flying Dutchmen finally shook off their losing ways to give Coach Russ DeVette his 300th victory at Hope.

AFTER DROPPING games to Bethel at home, Olivet and Albion on the road, the Dutch traveled to Adrian to get back into the win column with the 83-65 victory.

The triumph was long overdue.

Hope handed Olivet it's first league victory and they were leading by 16 points over Albion with 13 minutes to go before falling apart and succumbing 68-67.

THE BIG GUN in that game was Jim Holwerda who netted 22 points on 10 field goals and a couple of charity tosses. Brian Vriesman with 14 and Ed Ryan with 11 were the only other Hope players to hit double figures.

Dwayne Boyce proved to be a

terror on the boards, grabbing 19 caroms. He received little help from his teammates, however, as Vriesman was the closest to him with 6 rebounds.

BOTH TEAMS hit on 28 shots from the floor, but it was at the free throw stripe that the game was lost. The Dutch went to the line 22 times but sank only 11 of those. Albion wasn't much better hitting 12 of 22, but it was all they needed.

It was a completely different story at Adrian, though. The game started out close, but then Hope, sporting a 14-11 lead scored 10 unanswered points and were never in serious trouble thereafter.

UP BY 20 points with 1:30 left in the first half the Dutch got a little sloppy and Adrian's full court man-to-man defense pulled them to within 37-23 at the halfway mark.

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Balanced scoring and excellent defense characterized Hope's first half as Vriesman netted ten points and Jerry Root, Holwerda, and Chris Peterson had seven apiece.

THE BULLDOGS came out fired-up for the second half and quickly cut the lead to 11 with good pressure all over the floor.

Hope settled down then and built the margin back up to 19. x Peterson, although picking up three fouls in the first half was the big plus for the Dutch. He came off the bench to score 22 big points, tying Vriesman for game high honors.

HOLWERDA was the only other Hope player in double figures with 11. Boyce, Ryan, and Root chipped in 9, 8, and 7 respectively. Willie Cunningham tossed in 4 and Chris VanSingel hit a pair of free throws to finish out the scoring.

The biggest turn of all came at the 15-foot stripe where the Dutch hit on an amazing 25 of 31 shots.

THAT AND defense were the big keys to the victory and both

elements are going to have to be present in tomorrow's game against Calvin. The win leaves Hope 8-7 overall and 5-3 in the MIAA. To stop Calvin you have to stop Mark Veenstra.

Hope couldn't do it the first time around this year and the big man destroyed them, leading his team to a 20 point victory.

THE BRUNT of that responsibility will probably fall on Boyce's shoulders, but considering the way he's been ripping boards lately and the overall aggressiveness of Hope's defense Wednesday, the task might not be all that impossible.

More offense will have to be generated by the Dutch this time as Holwerda and Dan Van Pemis were the only consistent scorers at Calvin.

HOPE STILL had problems with full court pressure at Adrian and that would appear to be the weak point at the present time.

For Hope to come away from the game on top it will take a team effort; don't look for any

one player to carry the load because it can't be done.

IT'S BEEN quite a while since Hope bumped Calvin in hoops, but this year's team has the talent to do it if they can put it all together. A victory is essential to get back into contention for the league crown.

With the backing of the home crowd and an inspired performance, the Dutch just might pull it off.

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by Jon Soderstrom All year long, the sports page has been dedicated to those participants in athletic events, either on the intercollegiate or intramural level.

IT IS time now to pay tribute to those nonparticipants on both the intercollegiate and intramural level, the spectator. What is sporting competition without a horde of screaming fans? (Ask anyone involved in Saturday morning intramurals, they should be able to give you some sort of an answer.)

Every youngster playing in a neighborhood football or basketball game dreams of one day being able to perform before a packed house of wildly enthusiastic fans. Next to personal pride comes the feeling of competing before a cheering crowd as the essence of competition.

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FANS CAN exert a tremendous influence on the tempo and nature of any contest. When a packed arena is charged with the emotional energy of an important and traditional battle, this "electricity" is easily transmitted to the participants who in turn start the adrenalin flowing.

All in all, it can lead to an exciting contest.

However, with feelings running so high, the players may begin to lose self-control, sometimes resulting in fights involving fans. Depending on the sport, such displays can ruin an otherwise entertaining athletic event.

IN THIS regard, the fan should guard against becoming overly involved in these contests, so that he or she can facilitate the maintenance of order.

Yet, the power of the fan need not be limited to individual contests; it extends even to the fundamental structure of a sport. Although this pertains more to professional sports where monetary concerns are much more influential, the effects have filtered down to the college and high school levels.

EXAMPLES of this effect are numerous. An obvious one is the "hot dogging" on a basketball court. Dribbling between the legs, passing behind the back, have no real strategical significance, rather they are just another chance to impress the fans.

The Harlem Globetrotters have exploited this notion for years. It has now been handed down to the scholastic levels, where it is used to draw even larger and more excited crowds to play before.

THE INFLUENCE of the spectator, thus, can be seen to be a very positive force in making games and sports in general more exciting. (A prime example, hopefully, will be this Saturday's gam^with Calvin at the Civic Center.)

Yet, in the name of sportsmanship, it should not be allowed to be carried too far. No one wants to see a kid's dream suspended as the result of an unnecessary brawl. Thus, to you the fan, we pay tribute. For without you, there would be no "spectator" in "spectator sports."

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