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February 28,1975

Hope College, Holland, Michigan 49423

Hope for $200,000

Students begin fund raising

by Dave DeKok In hopes of raising $200,000 toward the construction of a new physical education building for Hope, a student committee has organized to solicit pledges and donations of money from fellow students, alumni and friends of the college.

DEBBIE MAXWELL chairs the committee, which calls itself, appropriately, Students For A New Phys. Ed. Building. Jim Donkersloot chairs the activities and publicity subcommittee. Bob Carlson will supervise the students contacting alumni and friends, while Deb Gray will oversee the students who contact fellow students.

President Gordon VanWylen, Vice President for Student Affairs Robert DeYoung, Director of Campus Life Dave VanderWel, and Director of College Relations Tom Renner serve as resource persons for the committee. Jim Bultman, associate professor of education, serves as faculty representative.

MAXWELL STATED that if each student were to pledge his $50 housing deposit that $100,000 could be raised. This tactic was used with some success to raise money for the Build Hope Fund in 1972, when this year's seniors were freshmen.

Students will be contacted for pledges and donations beginning April 9. The committee plans to approach the Kresge Foundation, which donated money towards the Peale Science Center, on March 5 in hopes of obtaining money from them.

THE H-CLUB, an association of ex-Hope varsity letter winners, has raised $475,000 for the building fund to date. Fifty thousand dollars has already been pledged

campus who participate in intramural sports, all of whom could benefit from new sports facilities.

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Donkersloot's activities and publicity subcommittee has several fundraising events planned for this semester, beginning with a cake sale at the Feb. 26 HopeCalvin game. The cake was baked in the shape of the new physical education building.

MAXWELL AND Donkersloot stressed that the proposed new building will be for all students, not just those who participate in team sports. They pointed out that there are 950 students on

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DEBORAH MAXWELL DeWitt Center and the Peale Building," Donkersloot said, "and now we should work together on this project."

MAXWELL SAID that the college doesn't want to begin construction of the building until all the money is raised. This decision stems from past experience; people aren't as willing to donate money after the building is completed.

"We don't want our fund raising to be a hardship for anyone," Maxwell said. "We are also looking for students to supply us with contacts-people who might want to donate."

AAB considers Chicago program A Chicago Metropolitan Center study program "and Student Instructional Reports were considered by the Academic Affairs Board on February 18.

IN MAY 1974 the AAB had decided that Hope would send students to the Chicago Metropolitan Center under the stipulation that at least one Hope faculty member serve on the governing policy-making committee.

The board, however, discovered that such a committee did not exist. The problem was solved as the board approved a newly constituted organizational structure.

THIS INCLUDED an evalua-

tion advisory committee which would include a faculty or adminstrative member.

It was also decided that all students wishing to participate in the Chicago Metropolitan Center program could transfer their credit hours and grades and still remain Hope students.

THE BOARD concluded that this would alleviate any problem that may be incurred regarding financial aid.

The next issue the board dealt with was student Instructional Reports. The S.I.R. is a tool by which the faculty member and his or her chairman can check for evidence of competence in the

evaluation process.

THE BOARD decided that all un-tenured faculty members will submit to their chairmen S.I.R. evaluations once a year and for three consecutive semesters prior to consideration of his tenure.

Also all tenured faculty members will submit S.I.R. evaluation to their chairmen once every two years.

The S.I.R. will go into effect in the spring semester of 1975. However, since the cost of appropriating and evaluating these reports promises to be astronomical, the board decided to table^this issue until more research could be done.

The system of tenure has been a tradition in many colleges and universities over the years and is becoming increasingly attacked because of its evident inadequacies.

IT IS a poignant reality that once a teacher becomes tenured he can subsequently relax because the college has essentially committed itself to keeping the teacher for the next 30 to 35 years.

Presently there is no system whereby a faculty member may be periodically reevaluated in terms of effectiveness, productivity, and self motivation, all essential characteristics for a teacher.

Two of the five colleges that make up Grand Valley State Colleges have never had a tenure system. William James College and College IV replaced the tenure system with a long term, periodically renewed structure.

IN THIS system each faculty member is reviewed every three years. If the review is positive the teachers contract is renewed, if negative, the teacher is given two years to find a new job.

Dean Tensley of Thomas Jefferson College, another of the Colleges at Grand Valley stated, "where there is a tenure system, we felt that there was a lot of security for the tenured teachers and none for the others."

WHILE THERE are arguments against the present system of tenure at Hope, there are also many positive qualities. In abolishing the tenure system one must face the implications of letting a 55 year old teacher go into a job market which is very tight, even though his perspective may be a very valuable one.

A job's two most beneficiary aspects are that of security and money. Hopes faculty members do not receive great monetary benefits, thus if tenure is removed, the teachers would essentially be provided with neither great economic endowment nor a security system.

THE TENURE system was initiated to protect the teachers. Dr. VanWylen stated that a system

was needed to allow the teacher, to freely speak out on issues without the threat of being fired.

Through the years however, the tightened job climate has caused a gradual diminishing interest in academic freedom and an increased interest in job security.

IT IS however a very difficult feat to evaluate a faculty member even though there are six years during which the evaluation is made.

"THERE WILL always be mistakes made in this type of evaluation," Dr. VanWylen stated. A teacher may be tenured who should have been let go while one may be let go that should have been kept.

Besides the benefit of security, tenure has proved to be an affirming factor in many teacher's careers.

THE FACT that they have been accepted by their institution allows them to concentrate more on their vocation than on their portrayed image. Thus, while tenure can instigate laxity, it can also be a motivating and encouraging factor.

This year Hope is practicing a new method for tenure evaluation. It involves new guidelines concerning the evaluation of faculty which includes more stress in insuring that student evaluations will also be taken into account.

WHEN THE suggestion that periodical evaluations might be a valuable way of eliminating some of the pitfalls of the present tenure system, Dr. VanWylen stated that, "the idea of periodic reevaluation is an excellent one."

If this were to be put into effect the faculty would have the security of the tenure system, but the administration would have a tool of assuring academic activity from every faculty member.

Under this system the teacher could be submitted for periodic reevaluation every five years. If the evaluation is returned negative the teacher could have future raises eliminated or reduced.

Dr. VanWylen pointed out that the new guidelines instituted this year may well evolve into a system like the one suggested above.

Indochina Project to be here Wed., Thurs.

The Indochina Mobile Education Project will be on campus Wednesday and Thursday. According to its sponsors the Project is designed to convey the beauty and resilience of the Indochinese people and the impact of the war on them.

THE PROJECT consists of a 40 panel exhibit of photographs, artwork, maps, graphics and poems which will be displayed in the Kletz. Artifacts, handmade items and written materials will also be displayed there.

In addition, the Project includes several films including the recent documentary The Year of the Tiger, which will be shown in Winants Auditorium, Wednesday at 7 p.m.

THE FILM was praised by the Los Angeles Times as "a positive insightful look at everyday life in North Vietnam and parts of South Vietnam that are controlled by the Provisional Revolutionary Government (Viet Cong)."

The Times continued, "It shows the Vietnamese not as helpless victims but determined human beings working hard to rebuild their country after seven years of devastating bombing."

STUDENTS will also hear Jean-Pierre Debris. While teaching French in South Vietnam, Debris was arrested in 1970 for distributing^peace literature.

In a Saigon prison he witnessed the torture and brutal treatment received by his fellow prisoners.

Eventually Debris became the focus of a campaign in France to free him, and he was released in 1972.

SINCE THEN, Debris has been^ traveling through France and the United States telling the story of the plight of political prisoners in South Vietnam.

JEAN-PIERRE DEBRIS Debris will speak after the film in Winants Wednesday. In addition he will speak in the Faculty Lounge of the Dewitt Cultural Center at 7 p.m. Thursday and in several classes both days. A Vietnamese dinner is also planned for Wednesday at 5 p.m. in the Phelps Conference Room.

The IMEP's visit is sponsored by the Chaplain's Office and the Student Congress.

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Food Co-op offers nutrition at reasonable prices •THE RECENT discovery of the co-op system in America, imposed at first by dire necessity, has come as an inspiring revelation to many, and is spreading like wildfire through every part of the c o u n t r y . . . . " So states the liner notes to the book Land of Plenty, Toward Prosperity With the American Plan for a National Coop. - .

•y The conception of a co-op comes from the unification of a number of different people's hopes. The idealists challenge and point out the need, the administrators forge the structure and its governance, and the members work together to make it thrive.

THE HOLLAND Food Co-op was just such a product. A group of faculty and students from Hope, and friends from the community met with each other nearly a year ago. They wanted to eat nutritious (natural, organic) food and they wanted to obtain it cheaply.

The Co-op immediately took on two perspectives. The practical side looked for the best bargains.

Although much of the food purchased came originally from a warehouse called the Wherehouse in Ann Arbor, individuals began looking for other sources who could supply at competitive prices. Other people prepared consumer price comparisons, mdt with members of other co-ops and donated time to produce a workable structure.

PERHAPS THE most engaging Betty Crocker would be proud, but it will take more than cake part of the Co-op to myself is its dough to finance the new Physical Education Building. second perspective, the social experiment. Technically the Holland Food Co-op is a food buying club.

The difference between the two is that a co-op has a store Congressman John B. Ander- Republican leadership. front outlet with regular hours, a His post enables Anderson to food club makes food runs and son of Illinois will be on campus Thursday for Community hour at have regular contact with the distributes from churches or mem11:00 a.m. in Dimnent Memorial White House, and also to have bers houses once every month. certain influence on policy deciChapel.

AFTER A year's experience Anderson is the chairman of sions. He is considered a voice for now in our past we have develthe House of Representatives Re- moderation and common sense by oped a smoother system to dispublican Conference, the third- his supporters. tribute our work and communicaranking position in the House tion. We use a work credit system borrowed from Walden Two, in which all adult members accrue a minimum amount of credits in jobs to maintain membership.

Such jobs include: secretarial work, post office, P.R. work, typing, order blanks, runs to pick up

The following article Is written immediate solution to the food

by Richard Williams, chairman of crisis, short of a totalitarian Ukethe Holland Food Coop. over, and gives us a chance to "The cooperative idea brings us build the society dreamed of by the most simple, effective and ^ e Founders of this Republic.

GOP leader to lecture

Student Congress eyes executive power options

by John Scholten In a meeting Monday night, the Executive Council of Student Congress nearly reached a decision concerning executive power in the proposed revision of student government.

BASICALLY, there were five options open to the Executive Council. These proposals ranged from complete presidential appointment of all student members on the Campus Life Board, Academic Affairs Board, Administrative Affairs Board to congressional election of all the board members.

The proposal that the members of the Executive Council seemed to agree on was a plan in which the President would appoint one half the members of the boards, and the remainder would be elected by the Student Congress at large.

JIM BERAN, President of Student Congress, stated' that this proposal was advantageous because, "with this proposal, the president is more than a chairman of a committee. This way, by working with the people that he appoints, the president could effectively work with his men to effect the program of legislation that he ran on."

"If our system works as we ' have planned, then the reasons for

the president's election can be better fulfilled if he has a little more influence than his on6 vote on the committees that he serves on," he continued.

EXECUTIVE council members felt that with Congress overruling Board members, the students could better work towards a complete community governance system.

The members of this! committee also felt that it was important to include a removal clause.

Beran stated, "If a student board member votes against Congress's wishes he has to justify that to the Congress. If the members don't feel that the change was justified, they can reappoint that Board member to another committee by a two-thirds vote."

AFTER discussion of this proposal, several Executive Committee members expressed ai concern that Student Congress must also have the option of getting rid of the president.

Representative Mark V^nVoorst noted, "In order for the system to be truly representative, you have to give Congress the option of getting rid of him."

This motion, to give the new Congress the ability to shift Board members by a two-thirds vote and the ability to rid themselves of a cabinet member by a 75 percent vote followed by a general reelection^ was passed. •

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food, and distribution of food.

THE FOOD distribution can be tedious at first but one finds often what community spirit means when you're working with a group of people. To save money the Co-op buys in bulk. Members order ahead what they need by selecting from a rotating order blank which is included in our newsletter the Ko-op Kourier.

Everyone drops off jars and bags for packaging to the point of distribution. A pre-planned run is made to our suppliers and Saturday a group of members get together to divide up 40 pound blocks of cheddar cheese, cases of yogurt, one hundred bags of beans, flour, dried fruit, and pour out jars of honey, molasses, tamari, and fresh ground peanut butter.

The newsletter is a m^jor source of communication for the diverse membership. It includes our bylaws, news items, recipes and important community events in Holland related to our interest.

Nancy and Alan Bedell, Secretarial Services have pioneered much of the work with the Ko-op Kourier, along with credit manager Mark Cook's artistic talents.

They have also with Marilyn Tammi, our head accountant, along with Biz Ridl, worked out

an innovative telephone system to pass along information and find people to work for the Co-op.

The rest of our executive committee is comprised of Colin Braat, head of distribution, Tom Petredean, head of inventory, and Sarah Bertalan, head of the post office and Richard Williams, chaii^ man.

Mark Cook is our representative to the Michigan Federation of Cooperatives which has membership of some 60-70 co-ops in the Michigan area. The Michigan Federation helps to establish in spirit and economics, small new food co-ops and food buying clubs. The Federation also maintains the Wherehouse which is the major outlet for bulk foods.

With most of our major goals accomplished as a food buying club, a stability has begun to, with relief, settle upon our administrative side. We now have the chance to eye from a distance the possibility of a storefront here in Holland.

But there are many things to gauge, such as surveys of need, economics, and time. The storefront is a nice dream which would remove many limitations imposed on us now. Of qourse last year we were told that the Holland Food Co-op was a dream.

Publisher Bayly to talk on Christian viewpoints Author Joseph Bayly will visit Hope for three days next week, presenting a series of lectures uiider the Staley Distinguished Christian Scholar lecture program.

DR. BAYLY is vice president of product and marketing at David Cook Publishing Company of Elgin, 111. The firm is the largest and oldest independent publisher of church school materials in the world.

Bayly will deliver the sermon to the Sunday morning worship service on the topic, "Jesus Yes, Christianity No." The service, open to the public, will begin at 11 a.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.

BAYLY will present a public lecture Monday at 7 p.m. in Wichers auditorium in the Nykerk Hall of Music on the topic "Christianity and the Arts." Admission will be free. He will also address classes in the English and communication departments on Monday and Tuesday.

The Staley Distinguished Christian Scholar Lecture Program is a project of the Thomas Staley Foundation of New York and Florida.

THE LECTURESHIP was established in the fall of 1969 by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Staley of Delray Beach, Fla., in memory of their parents, Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Staley and Judge and Mrs. H. H. Haynes of Bristol, Tenn.

The Thomas Staley Foundation believes that the Christian gospel, when proclaimed in its historic fullness, is always contemporary, relevant and meaningful.

The Foundation encourages intellectual understanding, spiritual conviction and commitment to service in Christ's name.

To this end, the Foundation seeks to bring to college and university campuses of America distinguished Christian scholars who have comparable viewpoints and who can communicate clearly with the academic community.

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Mulder reports on Christian Action Commission The following article Is written

by Tim Mulder who attended the meeting of the Christian Action Commission . of the Reformed Church recently held In Chicago.

limit myself to sharing with you only some of the areas discussed.

Three months ago Howard Gaass announced to the CAC that he was leaving the Reformed Church to become the pastor of the Metropolitan Community The Christian Action Commission, a part of the governing body Church in Baltimore, Maryland.

THE CONGREGATION of the of the Reformed Church, is comBaltimore church is predomiposed of clergy and lay people of nately homosexual, and Gaass left the denomination.

ITS RESPONSIBILITY is to the RCA because that denominadiscuss issues of social concern to tion refuses to admit homosexuals the church and society as a whole, as members of the church without and to recommend to the General first renouncing their homosexualSynod actions that the church ity as sin and asking for forgiveshould take in response to them. ness.

He believes that the Bible Last week Jim Beran, Paul speaks of homosexual prostitution Timmer, Tom O'Brien and I atand perversions as sin, but does tended two days of the commisnot discriminate against the loving sion's meetings in Chicago. relationships and all that is inTHE COMMISSION debated volved in such relationships topics ranging from the rights of the handicapped to tax reform whether they be between a man and revenue sharing, but I will and a woman, or between two males, or two females.

CAC asb U.S. to end aid to Southeast Asia The following statement was issued by the Christian Action Committee of the Reformed Church WHEREAS: the United States continues to send large amounts of funds to South Vietnam and Cambodia for military expenditures.

WHEREAS: the United States continues to provide arms and other weaponry to South Vietnam and Cambodia.

WHEREAS: the United States continues to send advisors on military affairs under civilian status

which serves the purpose of sustaining the South Vietnamese government which issues a continuance of the war.

WHEREAS: The 1973 General Synod of the Reformed Church in America called for a withdrawal from participation in the hostilities in Southeast Asia.

THEREFORE: We, as members of the Christian Action Commission of the R.C.A. encourage all persons to call for an immediate cessation of these acts of militaristic support which continue the war, death and destruction in Southeast Asia.

. HE SAYS that homosexual churches will be a necessity until the rest of the Christian church is willing to accept homosexuals into their fellowship as equal members of the family of God. Gaass believes that homosexuals have needs like everyone else, and that the homosexual Christian's desire to take part in Christian fellowship should not be denied.

SINCE ASSUMING his new position the Metropolitan Community Church has tripled the size of its congregation.

In a few weeks Gaass will be on Hope's campus to speak at one of the dinner discussion groups which is soon to be initiated by the Ministry of Christ's People.

IN RESPONSE to Gaass' report Dr. Earle Ellis of New Brunswick Theological Seminary refuted the statement that homosexuality is not a sin by citing passages in both the Old and New Testaments.

He stated that the Bible spoke against homosexuality not only on a cultural basis, but transculturally and for all times. He went so far as to say that to have sex with another member of the same sex is no less sinful than "copulating with one's own dog."

ANOTHER TOPIC which was discussed was the Gemency Program issued by President Ford on September 16, 1974.

The program was not an unconditional amnesty, but an "earned re-entry" program which mandated a "reaffirmation of allegiance" and a term of "alternate service" for those who wish to be granted clemency.

GLEN PONTIER, a Hope graduate who was imprisoned for refusing to cooperate with the draft,

said, "Personally, I don't want to be granted clemency or amnesty.

Amnesty is an act of forgiving and forgetting."

I will not forget what the war did to thousands of people, and I do not feel the need to be forgiven for acts which I believe were right and consistant with my Christian conwitment."

"IF ANYONE is to ask for forgiveness, it should be the government."

Tomorrow Pontier and other Selective Service violators will be in Washington to return their invitations to "subservient" clemency to President Ford.

PAUL TIMMER reported to the commission the situation.of minority student enrollment at Hope, stating that since 1971 the number of blacks on campus has dropped from 60 to 34 while the number of Chicanos has increased from 7 to 20.

He believes that, "A racially homogeneous campus community is unacceptable for at least three m^jor reasons: segregation is incompatible with Hope's Christian commitments, racial homogeniety does not reflect the socio-cultural realities of contemporary society, and a racially segregated community is ultimately self-destructive.

TIMMER POINTED out that two m^jor problems which afflict the coUege in its attempts to recruit minority students are the prohibitive cost and the fact that Hope has no special programs* which meet either the interests or the needs of many minority students. r As one Hope administrator put it, "Unless they feel like they're at home, they'll go elsewhere."

the money it would take to establish viable^ healthy minority communities on campus."

While Timmer recognizes the fact that the colleges should take the primary responsibility for boosting minority enrollment, he did ask the CAC to urge the General Synod tp make a longterm financial commitment to RCA-related educational institutions. He also asked that the church use any influence that it has to encourage the colleges and seminaries to make a more active commitment to enrolling minority students.

HE CONCLUDED by saying, "It is a disgrace that secular institutions have taken the lead in enrolling minority students."

"It is unfortunate and ironic that Hope has been a follower, rather than a leader in breaking down the barriers of racism."

ONE OFTEN hears people accuse the church of not being in touch with or taking an active role in the social concerns of the world outside of its own building's walls, and I have often been asked what good it does for our denomination to have a commission which merely discusses and recommends things to a governing body with the full knowledge that many of those things will never go any farther than the paper on which they are printed?

After seeing and being involved in some of the doings of CAC I am convinced that the commission in and of itself is important because it is a part of the church, and as such it is vitally involved in the cares, concerns, and needs of the world which it neither can nor should disassociate itself.."

IT IS always available to anyTIMMER ADDED, "I don't one who desires to make use of it. blame a minority student for not Secondly, the commission is wanting to come to Hope when not an entity unto itself, but is there are so few other minority composed of individuals from students here." every part of the nation who are "Too small a number of minor- actively involved with the people ity students doesn't make a and issues that confront us every healthy community for anyone." day.

HE VIEWS the problem as one They bring to the commission of commitment. "It would seem a diversity of experience and opinthat an institution that recently ion which allows the commission completed a multi-million dollar to function freely in an open, student center and is planning to caring and critical manner which construct a new physical educa- . is consistent with the Christian tion. complex can afford to allot faith.

Program to be offered to Prospective RAs

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According to Elaine VanLiere, Director of Student Residences, there will be an orientation session for all students who wish to be considered for a Resident Assistant position in the residence halls.

IN VIEW of the fact that a different type of staffing is being considered for cottages, selection of the cottage liaison person with the Office of the Dean of Students will be considered at a later date.

This session will be for residence hall R.A. candidates only and will be held on Wednesday night at 7. p.m., March 5, in Durfee Dining Hall.

THE PROGRAM Will consist of an outside speaker. Dr. Donald

VanOsterberg from Human Resources Associates of Grand Rapi(Js. He will address the group on "The Caring Personality."

VanLiere will speak briefly to the group on the specifics of how this fits into the philosophy of student personnel at Hope.

ANN COLYER who has had two years experience as an R.A. will discuss some of her experiences, and Associate Dean of Students, Michael Gerrie, will speak briefly on the topic, 4*When all else fails."

After a short break, Gary Demarest and Sarah Schendel of the Counseling Center have arranged a simulation game designed to help prospective candidates sort out* their goals and priorities.

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Byzantium Editorials normally deal with controversial issues that usually affect a majority of the intended readers. Obviously, editors are hoping for a dramatic issue to occur so that an editorial may be written that arouses the readers' reactions.

However, this editorial, if it may be called such, is not dealing with an issue but the daily routine of an older man often seen on this campus.

Many of us, no doubt, have seen a well-dressed elderly man walk into our cafeteria. Most likely anywhere other than a college campus his existence would not be so noticeable. Here is both a contrast to the chatter of the students and a foreshadowing of all our futures.

He is a reminder that even while we are protected within the confines of the college, time still makes its presence known. Many of you are already well aware of this fact.

The point of this editorial, however, is to examine the way in which we as the young relate to a man many times our senior. Often this elderly man stands alone in line, sits alone to eat, remains alone and then picks up his tray and leaves.

W. B. Yeats wrote a poem entitled "Sailing to Byzantium." In it, Yeats tells us that this world is for the young and that the old must find another world. It would be nice if our elderly friend could discover a

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Byzantium. However, he has not, and instead found our campus.

In place of another world that Yeats dreamed of for the pld, our friend found Yeat's world of the young. A world that ignores his existence and most likely feels uncomfortable with his presence.

There are a few, very few, who attempt to communicate on any level to this out-of-place character.

More often than not, there is ho attempt to discover within him the humanity that is within us all.

It would take so little effort for all of us to make this man feel as if he did belong to our community. But then again, it is easier to talk about the gross atrocities of our world sitting back and knowing we need not put any effort behind our hollow words.

We all like to consider ourselves good, decent people, yet so few will take five minutes, or even one minute, to greet our elderly guest.

We have often read in newspapers of the loneliness of our senior citizens. We feel, for a second, grief, and then we continue reading on.

The purpose of this editorial is not to swamp you with new facts since the facts are not new. We simply ask that we all reflect and seriously attempt to put forth an effort of communication to this man.

It is not he that needs to be pitied, for his age, but us, who cannot accept another individual. There will be those who question the place of an old man in an editorial and out point is that he appears not to have a place.

Letters

Right side requested This letter is in reference to the Hope College Speaker's Series we have been exposed to this year.

Please note the political balance, or rather imbalance, of those who have addressed us: Ralph Nader» who has told us what is good for us; Philip Berrigan, who told us that the United States is a police state; and now the Student Congress confronts us with a Frenchman, Jean-Pierre Debris, whose main claim to fame is his one-time imprisonment in a South Vietnamese jail.

same promotion given the others.

I simply call for fairness. Let us have the opportunity to hear those who stress economic and personal freedom, tradition, respect for authority and an alternative to liberalism.

If I am not provided this view, then refund my money-I will spend it somewhere where I can. Why should I finance someone else's ideology, while mine is ignored? . Rudy Broekhuis

Student finds closed doors

* * ' 'i Winter B r e a k . . . A chance to catch up on my work and at the same time, get some relaxation. 1 had planned to go home • for the weekend, but I was persuaded that this would be a good time to do some research and to enjoy being on campus without the usual pressures. It sounded good, so here I am.

I figure I'll get a good start on the work; so, after supper,. I go to the library. All closed up for the day. Well, what's a library for anyway? No sweat, there's still relaxation. This is going to be great.

I can play pool for two hours without feeling guilty for not preparing for tomorrow's classes! So, I'm off to the Game Room and what do I find? You guessed it, not a cue or rack in sight.

What to do now? Can't go to the Kletz.

Saw that was closed on the way by. I can - always go back to the dorm and watch the T.V. They don't close up for Winter Break, Due to the length and number of letters do they?

Maybe 111 write my folks and explain received, the anchor has adopted a new how I stayed here to research a paper policy on letters to the editor for forthinstead of visiting with them. Then I'll go coming Issues. Letters*should be limited to to bed and hope the library is open for a one and one-half pages typed double- little while tomorrow. spaced. Thank you for your letters and Good night. Sure wish I were at home. cooperation.

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He was jailed for distributing peace literature while fulfilling his military requirements (teaching French) and at a time when South Vietnam was (as it still is) fighting for its life.

He will, no doubt, label South Vietnam as a fascist state second only to the United States. (No one, of course, mentions internal interference unless one is speaking of the CIA.) Basically, then, that is what has been given to us.

I raise my voice in opposition to this N Left leaning trend. I call on the Student Activities Committee either to refund the part of my activity fee that goes in support of the Speaker's Series or to present at least two well-known speakers from the Right this semester-and to give them the

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It's very .hard at a party to get any attention. Nothing shocks people any more and you really have to be on your toes to get somebody to listen to you.

I REALIZED this the other night when I was at dinner and someone turned to Don Cook and said, ''Where are you going after you leave Washington?"

"Los Angeles," he replied. This landed like a dull thud until he added, "by train." " Everybody 'dropped their knives' and forks, and suddenly Cook was the man of the hour.

IT GOT ME to thinking about party stoppers; things you can say which will make people sit up and take notice. Here are a few for starters.

"I still think Nixon is innocent."

'THE ELECTRIC company just notified me that it was lowering my rates."

"Nelson Rockefeller has asked me to write a book."

"I SOLD Wilbur Mills my car."

"If Henry Kissinger calls, tell him I'm not here." " I played Softball with Robert Vesco last week." •

"EARL BUTZ told me a funny story the other day."

"I get 45 miles to the gallon."

"Arnold Palmer borrowed my putter."

"B1LLIE JEAN KING always has trouble with my second serve."

"1 just hired Spiro Agnew to work for me. t* "Gen. Brown spoke at our synagogue last night."

"MY SON has never smoked pot."

"My husband has never looked at another woman."

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WOODWARD and Bernstein dropped by the house the other morning to ask me some questions." .

"I talked to a man who read J. Edgar Hoover's diary;" "I'M GOING TO have a vasectomy.'»»

"I shared a taxi the other day with Howard Hughes."

"I GAVE Gerry Ford a piece of chewing gum once, when he was House minority kader." ' "Bobby Fischer hates my opening move." / "My daughter works in a massage parlor." "THE SHAH of Iran owes me $10."

"Gloria Steinem irons my shirts."

"I went duck hunting with Lt. Calley last weekend."

"My brother drives a school bus in Boston."

"MASTERS AND JOHNSON asked me to volunteer for an interesting experiment."

"Ann Landers just called me up and she was crying." \ THE CIA rented my house." (*1 'John Dean used to be my lawyer."

"My cousin is Linda Lovelace's dentist."

"I FLEW in from Chicago with Erica Jong."

"Billy Graham is in my Bible class."

MY SISTER and her fiance are going to be married by Judge Sirica."

"Jane Fonda joined our American Legion Women's Auxiliary."

"THE SECRET SERVICE wants a list of my guests in advance."

"Ronald Reagan gave me a subscription to Rolling Stone."

"Patty Hearst is getting awfully fat."

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Wilderness course offered During May Term, an outdoor course will be offered. It will be instructed by Garry Demarest, director of Center for Counseling, Career Planning and Placement, and Cindi Bean, assistant professor of physical education, and will be called Advanced Wilderness Seminar.

THE ADVANCED Wilderness Seminar will be an 18 day trip to Northern Michigan consisting of 40 percent bicycling, 40 percent backpacking and 20 percent river running.

The students will bicycle up to the Pigeon River Country, where they will rendezvous with their gear, and then set off on a wilderness trek.

MOCP news The Lenten Service has been changed to Saturday night. The time of the service will be 11:30 p.m. Chaplain Hillegonds will be speaking tomorrow night for the first Lenten Service, while other church services will be held on March 8, IS and 22. All services will be held in the Dimnent Memorial Chapel.

Hope College, Hope Reformed Church and The Third Reformed Church are sponsoring Avery & Marsh for a community worship experience, which will be taking place at the Hope Reformed Church.

Agenda: 1:00-3:00 p.m. workshops, 6:30 p.m. community worship service, 8:30 p.m. student rap session. / ^; All activities will tik#- place on March 19, 1975. If interested, sign up in the MOCP office on the bulletin board.

RETREAT: For all Hope students. The Retreat will take place on March 14 and 15. The subject of the Retreat will be "Personal Worship". If interested, contact Kristi Droppers for information.

Prof, receives prize for art David Smith-Greenwood, assistant professor of art has been awarded the Hackley Art Gallery award for his bronze sculpture entitled "Woman Singing."

The exhibition at the Muskegon gallery was judged by Joseph Ishikawa, director of the Kresge Art Center of Michigan State University. The show will continue through March 16.

The sculpture, a life-size reclining female figure, weighs 150 lbs. and is the largest casting to be done at the Hope College art department facilities to date.

Smith-Greenwood began his training in bronze casting techniques while in graduate school at the University of Kahsas in 1967.

He was a member of the bronze casting panel at the 7 th National Sculpture Conference and completed the bronze casting installation for the Hope art department in 1970.

Each student of sculpture at the college has an opportunity to create a sculpture in bronze using the lost-wax technique.

AFTER TREKKING for several days through the wilderness, the class will come to the Pigeon River where they will build their' own rafts and maneuver down the river.

After the river trip is completed, the rafts will be burned and each student will have a twoday isolated growth experience on his own in the wild.

THE COURSE costs S150 plus tuition, and will be three credit hours. There is a prerequisite for the course. A student must have bike-hiked 60 miles in one day

'Boulevard' on exhibition Bruce McCombs, assistant professor of art, recently had an etching entitled "Boulevard" selected for inclusion in the 24th national exhibition of prints sponsored by the Library of Congress and the National Collection of Find Arts, Smithsonian Institution.

Originated in 1943, the exhibition is one of the most prestigious competitive print shows in this country attracting over 10,000 entries annually.

Following the Washington showing, the exhibition will circulate for two years to museums in this country and Europe.

Nine artists to show work The Art Department is sponsoring an Invitational Exhibition of American Graphics March 3 through 28. Nine American artists including Carolyn Autry, Peter Eloian, David Becker, Harvey Breverman, Harold Altman, Linda Plotkin, Roy Drasites, â&#x20AC;&#x17E; James Fagan, and Tashika Takahara will % be exhibiting 27'^prmts in a variety of print media, including etching, lithography, woodcut, silkscreen and photo reproduction.

Several purchase awards will be given.

The Exhibition will be shown in the DeWitt Cultural Center Art Gallery daily and is open free of charge to the public.

Piano recital to be given Pianist Joan Conway, assistant professor of music, will present a recital Sunday, March 2, at 3 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.

Conway has been a member of the Hope faculty for six years.

Since coming to Hope she has played three solo recitals, numerous chamber music concerts and appeared as soloist with both the orchestra and the Symphonette.

Previously she spent thirteen years in New York City earning a Master of Music degree in performance from the- Manhattan School of Music and later performing and teaching in New York.

She recently played a recital with Arturo Delmoni, violinist, at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids.

Conway's program will include compositions by Bach, Mozart, Debussey, Schumann and Chopin.

and backpacked 15 miles in an identical period.

A paper will be required on one aspect of the coune dealing with wilderness. It may be on almost anything the student has developed an expertise in or has desire to study further.

Demarest stated, "Hopefully, we will get a diverse group. In this way we can all learn some new skills from each other."

r FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28 y Movie: "King of Hearts", Winants, 7:00 & 9t30, 50 cents Dance: "Northern Star", DWC Ballroom, 9:00-1:30, 50 cents Theatre: "Godspell", DWC Main Theatre, 8:00, $1.50

SATURDAY, MARCH I Movie: "King of Hearts", Winants, 7:00 & 9:30, 50 cents Theatre: "Godspell", DWC Main Theatre, 8:00, $1.50 SUNDAY, MARCH 2 Faculty Recital, Dimnent, 3:00

SAC revives College Sing

MONDAY, MARCH 3 History Lecture: Dr. Randall Miller, Lubbers 109, 4:00 NY Coffee House Circuit: Hull & Roche, Kletz, 9:00 & 10:15

Because of interest expressed by many members of Hope*s community, the Social Activities Committee is reviving the "All College Sing."

This formerly traditional event has* not taken place since the mid-sixties. Until.that time the "All College Sing" had been a uniting of residence halls, sororities, fraternities and campus organizations in song.

The "All CoUege Sing" is scheduled for Saturday, March 22.

Competition will be held in Dimnent Chapel at 8:00 p.m. with professional judges.

General rules include a minimum of twelve vocalists (no maximum). Two songs will be judged per group and any type of accompaniment is allowed as long as it doesn't dominate the group.

Any group is allowed to enter.

Those wishing more information should call the Campus Activities Office at 2228. Interested groups should express their interest as soon as possible so definite plans can be finalized.

Two seniors to perform Soprano Sheila Norris Daniels and pianist Mary Jane Myers will present their senior recitals Friday,. Feb. 28, at 8:15 p.m. in Wichers Auditorium of the Nykerk Hall of Music.

Daniels is a vocal education major who studies with Associate Professor of Music Joyce Morrison. She will perform selections

by Handel, Schumann, Carpenter, Fraser-Simson and Strauss.

Myers is a piano m^jor in instrumental education. She will perform selections by Beethoven, Chopin and Norman Dello Joio.

TUESDAY, MARCH 4 Senior Recital, Dimnent, 8:15 NY Coffee House Circuit: Hull & Roche, Kletz, 9:00 & 10:15 WEDNESDAY, MARCH S Theatre: "Godspell", DWC Main Theatre, 8:00, NY Coffee House Circuit: Hull & Roche, Kletz, 9:00 & 10: 15 THURSDAY, MARCH 6 Theatre: "Godspell", DWC Main Theatre, 8:00, $1.50 Lecture: Congressman John Anderson, Dimnent, 11:00 a.m.

FRIDAY, MARCH 7 Talent Show: "That's Entertainment!", Kletz, 8:00 Festival of Arts and Communication, DeWitt Theatre: "Godspell", DWC Main Theatre, 8:00, $1.50 Recital, Wichers, 8:00 Movie: "Topaz", Winants, 7:00 & 9:30, 50 cents SATURDAY, MARCH 8 Freshman Formal, Carousel Mt. Senior Recital, Wichers Aud., 8:15 Movie: "Topaz", Winants, 7:00 & 9:30, 50 cents

That's Entertainment to be held second time Due to popular support from last semester's talent show, "That's Entertainment!", the Social Activities Committee will hold a second such event. "That's Entertainment!, Part 11" is scheduled for next Friday, March 7, 1975.

Any individual student, faculty or administrator, as well as any campus organization, is eligible to

take out an application for this talent search. Applications can be picked up in the Campus Activities Office in the basement of Van Raalte.

This talent show will be held in the Kletz beginning at 8 p.m.

Admission is free. Each performer will be limited to fifteen minutes of show time. Deadline for applying is Wednesday, March 5, 1975, at 12:00 noon.

$20,000 fund available, established by Van Ess

Theater dept adds matinee

A $20,000 endowed scholarship fund has been established at Hope by Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Van Ess of Shebovgan. Wise., according to President Gordon VanA matinee performance of Wylen.

The fund, to be known as the Godspell will be presented by the theater department March 8 at 2 Van Ess Christian Education Enp.m. in response to heavy ad- dowment Fund, has been designed vanced ticket sales. ^Season to promote excellence in the mincoupon holders are urged to make istry and ^work of the Christian reservations as soon as possible by church through the awarding of scholarships to superior students calling the box office. > Godspell opens in the DeWitt contemplating church vocations.

The fund will be administered Cultural Center Feb. 27 and will, by the religion department and be presented eight times through the selected students will be March 8. All evening perforknown on campus as Van Ess mances begin at 8 p.m. All seats Scholars. reserved.

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"This has been a venture of faith on the part of Mr. and Mrs. Van Ess and the fruits of the venture will be seen in the life and witness of quality young men and women entering the Christian ministry and the witness of the church," said Dr. Henry Voogd, professor of religion and chairman of the department.

"The uniqueness of the venture is that it is an investment in persons rather than things and as Mr. and Mrs. Van Ess follow the life ministries of the recipients they will have the knowledge that they had a part in the encouragement and deepening of their calling.

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Godspelh more than laughing, singing, dancing Godspell opened last night as the third production of the theater Department's major season. Godspell was conceived and originally directed by John Michael Tebeiak with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. G.M. Thompson reviews the dress rehearsal held Wednesday night.

Writing a review of a dress rehearsal is a t o u g h j o b . T h e review being on Godspell m a k e s it even worse. And Godspell being at Hope College m a k e s it nearly impossible.

BUT GODSPELL has i n d e e d c o m e to H o p e College in a prod u c t i o n t h a t is b o t h glorious and flawed ( m u c h like H o p e itself).

Yet, in s p i t e of its flaws, it s t a n d s up a d m i r a b l y well in the f a c e of a string of previous p r o d u c t i o n s t h a t span t h e globe, the m e d i a s and f o u r years.

But it is t h e spirit of t h e play that has m a d e it a success, a spirit

if he could really care less but t h o u g h t he w o u l d d r o p a word of warning since t h e s u b j e c t had c o m e up. T h e r e is no anger and this is w h e r e t h e r e n e e d s to be some.

S T R O N G N O T I C E and applause must be given t o J e f f Wiggins and Lynn Berry. T h e y are, w i t h o u t d o u b t , t h e brightest spots in the c o m p a n y . Wiggins is immediately impressive as B u c k m i n s t e r Fuller in the beginning and does not fail t o hold o u r a t t e n t i o n t h r o u g h o u t t h e play.

Lynn Berry is the only girl consistently at ease with her c o m i c roles but a d a p t s effectively w h e n t h e m o o d of t h e play shifts.

Both use their excellent voices and b o d y and facial m o v e m e n t s t o their u t m o s t and t h e play is a greater e x p e r i e n c e for it.

O T H E R M E M B E R S of t h e cast have their m o m e n t s , and fine m o m e n t s t h e y are, b u t t h e y are only m o m e n t s . Bev Kerlikowske as t h e teller of t h e p a r a b l e of the s o w e r , Paul S h o u n as t h e prodigal son, G e n e S u t t o n as his father, K a t h y K e m p as t h e rich man c o n d e m e n d t o hell, T o d d Engle as t h e son sent t o t h e vineyard to w o r k ; these are all o u t s t a n d i n g m o m e n t s by these p e o p l e and t h e y all have o t h e r o n e line gags t h a t are good t o o (a s a l u t e must be given here t o Dixie Fair, t h e

with as m a n y sides as Jesus Himself, a spirit t h a t makes us laugh and cry, sing and m o u r n , d a n c e and be still. This is the greatest flaw of H o p e ' s p r o d u c t i o n . It has a spirit, but not the spirit of Godspell THE PLAY opens with a ' T o w e r of B a b b l e " w h e r e the players, s p o r t i n g s w e a t s h i r t s t h a t bear the n a m e s of f a m o u s t h i n k e r s such as M a r t i n L u t h e r , S o c a r t e s , Fuller, Da Vinci and o t h e r s , begin to s p o u t t h e i r p h i l o s o p h i e s of God and man.

T h e insistance of each that he is right brings t h e m to p u s h i n g and shoving and eventually t o fighting. T h e r u m b l e is s t o p p e d by the s o u n d i n g of a h o r n . J o h n t h e Baptist has arrived. The t r u e road is revealed. T h e way is p r e p a r e d . " P r e p a r e Ye T h e Way Of T h e L o r d " is i n t r o d u c e d by a i m p r e s sive arch of flung water h u r l e d f r o m the s p o n g e of J o h n ( T o d d Engle). A f t e r t h e b a p t i s m ends, t h e players exit t h r o u g h t h e audience. Jesus a p p e a r s , is b a p t i s e d , dressed, and t h e n j o i n e d b y t h e n o w brightly c o s t u m e d c o m p a n y .

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M O S T O F the first h a l f l a c k s a sense of tight g r o u p u n i t y and p e r f o r m a n c e . T h e skits and gags d o n ' t seem to flow, there is no reason to go f r o m o n e bit t o t h e n e x t o t h e r t h a n " t h i s bit f o l l o w s that b i t " . What t r a n s i t i o n s are m a d e give o n e t h e feeling t h e players are saying " O . K . , y o u d i d n ' t like t h a t , let's try t h i s . " R e a c t i o n s of t h e players to w h a t t h e y ' r e doing and to each o t h e r is not c o n s i s t e n t . At p o i n t s it a p p e a r s that s o m e of t h e m h a v e n ' t g o t t e n t h e j o k e or else just q u e e n of t h e i n t e r j e c t e d line), but w e r e n ' t listening. K a t h y K e m p ' s the timing and energy are not r e n d i t i o n of " D a y By D a y " falls a l w a y s there and t h e y need t o be. prey to this, as it c o m e s o f f as the More o f t e n t h a n not t h e y are next thing on the script r a t h e r t r y i n g t o o hard to have a good t h a n a song of t h a n k f u l d e v o t i o n time. This is best e x e m p l i f i e d by to her Lord.

Kim Z i m m e r ' s r e n d i t i o n of " T u r n BUT T H E pitfalls of t h e first Back O M a n " . She tries so hard t o act are o v e r s h a d o w e d by t h e be t h e v a m p that t h e t o u r c h song many and delightfully bright t o n e of " T u r n B a c k " calls for, m o m e n t s to be f o u n d t h e r e i n . T h e that she ends u p screeching her s t o r y of L a z a r u s and A b r a h a m , lines and s o u n d i n g like a little girl Rich H o e h l e r ' s (Jesus) delivering r a t h e r t h a n a lady of t h e evening. t h e line a b o u t "If s o m e o n e slaps At m a n y p o i n t s , t h e group y o u o n t h e right cheek . . . " , t h e seems m o r e like c h i l d r e n 'than parable of t h e s o w e r , Jeff Wiggin's players and t h e gags take on an excellent p e r f o r m a n c e of 44A11 almost silly t o n e , which r o b s t h e m G o o d G i f t s " , and t h e p a r a b l e of of their h u m o r . t h e prodigal son are all b e a u t i f u l l y T H E R E IS also a lack of sinexecuted. cerity, especially in H o e h l e r ' s T h e s e c o n d act really pulls o p e n i n g s p e e c h and in Engle's t o g e t h e r and p r e s e n t s t h e g r o u p as lines a f t e r " P r e p a r e Y e " . Engle a real i n t e r a c t i n g g r o u p . T h e act is also allows his very p r o p h e t i c line highlighted by t h e p a r a b l e of t h e "Blessed are ye w h e n m e n shall talents and t h e final c r u c i f i x i o n of revile y o u . . . " t o go b y almost J esus u n n o t i c e d e x c e p t f o r t h e flashing R I C H H O E H L E R excells as s w i t c h t o pure red light. The Jesus. T h e m a n y f a c e t s of his p o w e r of t h e line, and it is a p e r s o n a l i t y and t a l e n t s are used p o w e r f u l line in t h a t it is t h e first well here. T h e r e is a sincerity in h i n t of t h e u p c o m i n g tragedy, his c h a r a c t e r t h a t is missing o n l y s h o u l d be in t h e delivery, n o t in o n c e d u r i n g t h e play. t h e lighting tricks ( t h e only fault He p r e s e n t s " A l a s F o r Y o u " as in Mike G r i n d s t a f f s simple and

excellent lighting).

GodspelTs d i r e c t i o n by J o h n T a m m i tries t o sustain t h e j o y side of t h e play's spirit as long as possible, even at t i m e s w h e n it should m a k e way f o r t h e serious, tragic side of Jesus and His s t o r y .

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T h e n e x t t h i n g we k n o w , we are s w e p t u p i n t o " L o n g Live G o d " and it's back to t h e j o y and we never really get t o feel t h e pain.

Which is t o o b a d .

T h e m o v e m e n t o n stage is a j o y t o w a t c h . C h o r e o g r a p h e r Rich R a h n has c r e a t e d s o m e b e a u t i f u l m o v e s f o r t h e c o m p a n y . R a h n and

T a m m i m u s t share t h e praise f o r the g r a c e f u l flow of physical a c t i o n , so i m p o r t a n t t o this play.

T H E B A N D m a d e u p of D o n Coat s o n bass and T o m G a r t e r o n d r u m s w i t h o u t s t a n d i n g w o r k by Paul J o h n s o n o n k e y b o a r d s and Bill Seiberling o n b o t h a c o u s t i c and electric guitars, p r o v i d e s solid musical b a c k u p t o t h e p e r f o r m e r s .

Occasionally losing the beat marred t h e i r p e r f o r m a n c e , but not e n o u g h t o ruin a n y n u m b e r s .

T h e greatest villian of t h e play is a cordless m i c r o p h o n e t h a t is used at p o i n t s to a m p l i f y individuals over t h e b a n d a n d assisting c o m p a n y . It r u i n s t h e t o n e of t h e vocals, p u t t i n g a raspy s o u n d on t h e voices and s e p a r a t i n g t h e m like sore t h u m b s f r o m t h e rest of t h e music.

B U T IN t h e face of t h e m a n y , m a n y bright m o m e n t s of t h e play and Dick S m i t h ' s c o s t u m e s , w h i c h surpass a n y Godspell c o s t u m e s I have seen for c o l o r and imagination, these faults become minor and H o p e ' s Godspell a very impressive p r o d u c t i o n , no m a t t e r what versions y o u have seen.

But t h i n k a b o u t Godspell w h e n y o u see it. F o r , as well as l a u g h i n g and singing and d a n c i n g , t h e r e is pain and tears and d e a t h in Godspell. If y o u did not n o t i c e it, t h e n y o u ' d b e t t e r l o o k again. If it was not said, t h e s t o r y has n o t b e e n told.

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Student debt-dodging: the government gets the bill The following article by Clayton Jones is reprinted by permission

of The Christian Science Monitor.

Too many college graduates are trying to sidestep their school debts, U.S. officials say-and leaving the federal government with a bill of more than a quarter billion dollars.

Fedak takes AMTA award Organist Alfred Fedak, a senior music m^jor, was the winnet in the regional contest of the American Music Teachers Association held February 9 at the University of Illinois, Champaign.

Fedak competed against college and university students from Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana. Each entrant presented an entire recital program.

As regional winner Fedak qualifies for the national contest to be held in Denver, Colo, in April.

Fedak is a student of Roger Davis, associate professor of music. His recital includes selections by Bach, Couperin, Franck, Jongen and Near.

Also, vocalist Susan Hermance ahd pianist Dan Smith participated in the regional competition.

The students were accompanied

by Carroll Lehman, assistant professor of music.

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- VAS A RESULT, the government's $1 billion-a-year guaranteed student loin program-the largest single source of financial aid for the nation's college students-now is becoming one of the nation's most aggressive collection agencies.

A newly trained corps of 135. federal collectors is looking f o r and finding-graduates who are defaulting on loans and forcing them to pay up.

FOR MANY graduates who have been unable.to find wellpaying jobs-or any job at allrepaying a multi-thousand dollar loan is too burdensome. Deep in debt, they use the legal escape hatch of declaring bankruptcyand wipe out all obligations.

Dodging a debt this way means the fresh graduate loses little except his credit rating. But for the government which was banking on the intangible asset of the student's future earning power for repayment, there is little chance for recovery.

WHILE STUDENT bankruptcy is increasing, more than 90 percent of the loan evasions are straight defaults by ex-students who cannot or will not pay.

The government has pumped more than $7 billion into student loans since 1968. And more than $2 billion of those loans are now reaching maturity at the same time the economy is squeezing the pocketbooks of recent graduates.

"IF WE don't ask for the money, I don't think we are going to get it," said Kenneth A. Kohl, associate commissioner for guaranteed loans at the U.£>. Office of Education.

So the new federal collectors are "asking." In the last six months of 1974, when vigorous collection began, twice the amount of owed money was rounded up as during the first six months..

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loans was lack of a job. Others where in the past year. All school cited marital difficulties or dis- records of the defaulting student satisfaction with the education are closed and readmitsion to the school is barred until the loatrls received.

U.S. Office of Education col- repaid. It has been 100 percent lectors step in when a school or successful, said Mr. Wagner.

SUCH COLLECTING techbank cannot collect on a loan niques have been hotly discussed after 120 days of default because the government insures both the at a series of conferences for college loan officers sponsored by loan and the interest.

"BY AND LARGE, if you can the National Association of Collocate the student, and you bill lege and University Business Offlhim and ask for the money, he cem CONGRESS THIS year is to will pay," said Jack Wagner, director of fund accounting at the renew the 1965 Higher Education University of Southern California Act, the original legislation estab(USC). lishing educational loans.

Already moves are afoot to USC also has devised a technique to discourage students from prevent student bankruptcy by declahng bankruptcy, a practice placing a five-year delay between which has doubled there and else- the date the first payment on an

education loan falls due and the date bankruptcy can be used to wipe out the obligation. Altering the bankrtiptcy laws, however, just for such an exception would be difficult, some say.

Rather, the U.S. Office of Education is 'willing to accept the small losses from student bankruptcy and attack a nuyor source of student loan defaults^-those profitmakihg vocational and careet schools which often promise more than they can teach and give students U.S. loans without proper explanation.

Hope grad to lecture, meet with students

Dr. V. Blving Anderson, professor of genetics and assistant director of the.Dight Institute at the University of Minnesota will present a lecture on Genetic Control and Human Values Tuesday evening.

The lecture is part of a series of lectures of Man and the New Genetics, sponsored by the S & H Foundation Lectureship Program.

It will be held at eight p.m. in the main theater of the Dewitt Cultural Center.

Anderson's talk will center on the social, psychological and ethical implications of genetic control.

Two open lectures will also be presented by Anderson Tuesday.

"Genes and Human Behavior" will be held at 10:30 a.m. in room 50 of the Peale Science Center.

"Ethical Issues in Human Genetics" will be presented at 3:30 p.m. also in Peale 50.

Anderson has recommended two books as reading material to prepare for the lectures. The New Genetics and the Future of Man, edited by M. Hamilton, and The Scientist and Ethical Decision, edited by Charles Hatfield, are available at the Hope-Geneva Bookstore.

Dr. Randal Miller, assistant professor of history at Saint Joseph College in Philadelphia, will be Hope Alumni Lecturer in Residence during the first week of March.

MILLER, who graduated from Hope in 1967, earned his master of arts and doctor of philosophy degrees from Ohio State University in the field of early American history.

Miller has written numerous articles dealing with various aspects of colonial history, the economy of the South and the slavery question. In a recent article published in the Maryland Historian, Miller examines the role of John Adams in the appointment of George Washington as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.

DURING HIS visit Miller will meet with history students during regular class sessions, in informal discussions.

Miller will speak at two meet-

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The first lecture, intended as the opening event of Hope's Bi-Centennial program, will be held at 4:00 p.m. on Monday, March 3rd in Room 109 in Lubbers Hall. Miller will speak on "The Common Man in the American Revolution." .

ON WEDNESDAY, at 3:30 Miller and Dr. William Cohen, assistant professor of history, will join in a panel discussion on the subject of "Slavery in American History." The meeting will also be held in Lubbers Hall Room 109 and will again 1)e open to the public.

Miller's other activities during his visit include an informal reception sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta, History honorary fraternity, for all students interested in history. It will be held Wednesday evening in the home of Dr. Earl Curry, associate professor of history and chairman of the department.

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Entering into by lS#h As I've been walking through and around our institution recently, more and more of the sounds being emitted from the oral Qavities of people seem awfully chatterish. The feeling was so intense the other day in the Kletz, that for a moment I thought I was in the middle of a cornflake box being shook U P. " , • ' AFTER -A couple days of pondering my own sanity, I decided perhaps there is a basic flaw in the system of education, which is perhaps in some way responsible for this problem.

I thought of my days in Introduction to Liberal Studies and someone telling me that I had come to Hope College, not to learn a specific trade but > rather to become a human being. If I am correct, his exact words' were "I am a human being, help me become one."

NOW AS I look among students, I see the absurdity of seeking truth through the books and teachings of a liberal arts college. A college like ours cannot teach truth, for truth is gained through experience with life, not through memorizing and spitting back concepts.

Second-hand information of this kind can aid in reinforcement and analysis of one's own experience, but only a fool can derive the meaning of man from a course in philosophy, or for that matter a mqjor in philosophy.

THE PROBLEM is complicated even further if one realizes that nearly ^everyone comes from a middle class, somewhat elitist background. The rule, rather than the exception, is that a student's life prior to arriving at Hope has been one of limited experience and sheltered existence.

The lack of exposure to experiences in life further adds to the absurdity of being programmed with aloof concepts that can only be memorized but never actualized.

EVEN TEACHING one how to think better can lead a person further from true experience. Thinking suggests analyzing objectively from outside the situation. Too much thinking can only aid in keeping one away from actual experience.

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' I say this with a prejudice^ for I believe that to experience one must enter into that which he is experiencing.

REMAINING backed off or disengaged from an event, one can observe but i^ever experience, and without experience growth i^ impossible. An observer can never grasp an essence or transcend his small circle of ideas.

He is always analyzing his observations from the same small circle of concepts, and constantly fitting observed events into his previously held catagories.

Growth for such a person is impossible unless the decision is made to live life.^ IT IS not hard to see the effects of too much thinking about both concepts you're being programmed with, and observations you're making.

One tends to be uncertain and uneasy, caught between the world of the detached analytical observer and the world of experience, which can never be grasped by observation or analysis.

It is wise to remember that this programming has been happening to each of us since birth. It may get more pronounced at Hope, but essentially it is a continuation process. | IT CAN be countered,1 challenged and transcended by experience, but it can only be reinforced by observation and fact collection.

I am not advocating any change in the educational system, for it serves a useful purpose in society by programming necessary skills for given occupations.

HOWEVER, it is the same function as a trade school. The only change should be a realization that it is not capable of expanding awareness toward existence. At best it can reinforce experience, but this is rare due to the narrow background of the students.

The best advice one can receive if he is looking for answers to ontological questions is to get out of school, or realize that school in itself cannot be of aid and quite possibly can be a hindrance from such an endeavor.

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The final season

by Craig Vandermolen The 1974-75 Hope basketball season comes to an end this week, marking the final performance in a Dutch uniform for seniors Brian Vriesman, Jerry Root and Willie Cunningham.

VR1ES LOOKS back on his basketball career with mixed emotions. His three-year stint as a regular on the Hope College varsity has been marked by high personal accomplishments, but the team h^s not eixjoyed the same success.

"Not being a regular in high school, I've been kind of surprised at my individual success. 1 would have liked to win more as a team. In high school at Kalamazoo Central all I knew was winning," Vriesman said.

VRIES WAS the sixth man on the K Central team which advanced to the semi-finals of state class A tournament before bowing out. Because of his reserve status in high school, Vriesman didn't have big thoughts of great personal accomplishments as a basketball player at Hope. However, he became a regular on the freshman team and continued in that role when he moved up to the varsity.

• As a sophomore Vries led the Dutch in rebounding and was a second team All-MIAA selection. Hie six foot six senior improved his own statistics last season as he averaged 19.7 points a game, again led the team in rebounding with 274 retrieves and led the squad in free throw accuracy with a 73 percent mark (60-82).

HE WAS a first team All-MIAA pick in the 1973-74 season and seems headed in that direction again. In 20 regular season games this year Vriesman has scored 289 points for a 14.4 average and grabbed 179 rebounds, second best on the team.

His career point total now stands at 1,054, making him the 10th Hope player in history to achieve the 1,000 point barrier. Vries, who has captained the Dutch for the past two years, ranks in the top ten in the MI A A in both scoring and rebounding.

THE GAME that Brian remembers best is last year's game against Calvin which the Knights won at the buzzer, leaving Vries and the rest of the team with a feeling of emptiness they did not soon forget.

Beating Calvin and winning more games were two goals which Vriesman never saw accomplished and they rank as his biggest disappointments at Hope.

JERRY ROOT attended Jenison High School where he played ball for four years. He was the team's Most Valuable Player and captain his junior year.

As a senior. Root again captained the team, led them in rebounds, averaging 15 a game, and led Jenison to a league title their first year in the league.

He averaged 15 points a game and v was voted Outstanding Senior Athlete.

ROOT ATTENDED Grand Rapids Junior College for two years prior to attending Hope. He was voted honorary captain, averaged 12 points and shot at a 55 percent clip playing in over 33 games a year.

Last year Jerry started all but three games for the Dutch, averaging nine points and six rebounds. This year he has switched from forward to guard but the change has not dulled his effectiveness.

HE AVERAGED 10.4 points for a 209 total, third best on the squad. In two years at Hope Jerry scored just under 400 points.

His most memorable game was the first HopeCalvin confrontation he played in. "The rivalry was so intense between the two schools, I just couldn't believe it. I hadn't seen anything like it since high school," Root said. Experiencing .500 seasons was Jerry's biggest disappointment playing for the Dutch.

WILLIE Cunningham hails from Washington, D.C. In his senior year of high school, illness kept Willie out of action for over half the season. His team won their league championship that year along with numerous tournaments to classify them as one of the top teams in the Washington area.

As a Hope freshman, Willie started on the J.V. squad and averaged 12 points a game, scoring a personal high of 24 in one outing. He sat out his sophomore season but then came back to earn his letter in his junior year.

HE SPENT that season rotating between starting center and playing the invaluable role of sixth man.

This year Willie's quickness has enabled him to swing between forward and center increasing his worth to the team^ven more.

Willie scored 128 points, scoring at a 6.7 average and upping his career total to 257. Strength and quickness are his best assets. And it is because of them that he is the team's best at driving to the bucket and working underneath.

LOOKING BACK over his Hope career, Willie says he would have liked to have seen more playing time and better team performances.

Brian Vriesman, Jerry Root and Willie Cunningham deserve both our praise and our pride for their performances on the court and for the sacrifices which any sport demands. % It was a fitting tribute to these three seniors that in their last home game as Hope Flying Dutchmen they were all in the starting line-up. It was woefully ironic that as the game came to a close, all three were sitting on the sidelines watching next year's team futilely battling Calvin, a team they had never beaten.

Happenings in Intramurals

by Randy Kleiman , Recently many events in intra„ mural athletics have been held for both men and women of Hope College. The results of those contests already completed go as follows: In the Winter Carnival broomball contests, the final winners were the Arkies and the Kollen second floor girls.

IN SWIMMING, held on Feb. 15, the Sigma Sigma women took the first spot while the MIAA - All-Stars won the men's division.

Boxing and girls' volleyball have also been completed but the statistics were unavailable.

Among the events still taking place are men's and women's basketball, men's handball and men's floor hockey. Following this week's conclusion of regular play, playoffs are scheduled to

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IN FLOOR hockey, the top four fraternity teams will go to the playoffs representing the Fraternity League. The Arkies, Emmies and Fraters all have sure playoff slots and the last slot will be^ decided in this week's game between the Arkies II and Mandeville.

In the Kollen League, the first place teams from both divisions will get spots and the teams with the most points following them will fill the final two positions.

Kollen Third Floor has a position sewn up with Kollen lb and Zwemer leading many other probables.

IN BASKETBALL the first place winners in each division of each league and possessors of sure

playoff spots include: Caven's Indies from the Frat A League, Rhem's from Division I of the Independent League with Durfee A from the second division of that league, and the Faculty from Division I of the Frat B League with the Arkies II rounding out the slate.

Finally in handball, Kollen lb is in first place in the Kollen League while Durfee A takes the honors in the Fraternity League.

Note: Both field hockey and basketball team members should watch the bulletin board in Carnegie Gym for developments concerning the playoffs.

Handball captains from the Kollen League will be meeting with Tom Page this weekend for development in the area of rules and regulations. \

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February 28,1975

The Flying Dutchmen have ended their 1974-75 home season in a predictable fashion-losing to the Knights of Calvin.

DEFYING ALL odds, a talented Dutch squad has found yet another way t o lose in this once classic rivalry. In a previous battle at the Civic Center, Hope sped out to an early lead and led the whole game before bowing in the final minutes.

This time they spotted Calvin a 10 point lead and then played them virtually head up until the last part of the final quarter when the Knights kicked up their heels and won by a score of 85-67.

THE DUTCH game plan called for a slow-down patterned offense which gave the hoopsters all the close-in shots they could ask for.

The one flaw with this idea was the total inability of anyone to put the ball through the bucket, a necessary ingredient for any offense to be successful.

Boyce, who always plays his best against Calvin, scored 13 points in the first half, hitting six of eight attempts. He won his personal confrontation with Mark Veenstra, outscoring the biggest Knight 17-15.

DOWN 37-28 at the half, the

Dutch tried to open things u p ' a little in the third quarter. However, Hope persisted in their errant shooting and could not close the gap.

They did get a spark from Dan VanPemis and Chris Peterson who scored 13 and 11 respectively in reserve roles. But it* was not enough to make up for the overall dismal performance of the Hope squad who made only 28 of 84 attempts for 33 percent.

CALVIN, on the other hand, could do little wrong, especially in the second half. Senior guard Mark Hoogewind, who many feel has an excellent shot at MIAA MVP, led the attack hitting eight of ten after halftime and closing with 20 points.

As a team, Calvin shot an absolutely phenominal 73 percent in the second half-sinking 22 of 30.

Three Hope freshmen and a sophomore saw considerable action in the game, leading one to believe there are better things ahead for Hope. However, with the J.V.'s losing their third straight one-point game to the Knights, Hope fans may continue to see the perpetuation of the Calvin jinx.

Women's b-ball squad defeats Spring Arbor Hope's women's basketball team notched their fourth victory in a row with a narrow 55-52 win over Spring Arbor.

DOWN 25-22 at the half, Hope began to find the range as their tenacious defense effectively checked their opponent's sharpshooting offense.

In order to do so, however, the Dutch had to eliminate a problem in their passing, which resulted in a great number of first half turnovers. Once their passing game was sharp, there was opportunity to utilize their board strength to turn the game around.

HOPE LED 16-10 midway through the first period before Spring Arbor ran off ten straight

points. The Dutch reawakened just before the half to come within one before their opposition hit on the last shot.

Second half was an exciting, see-saw battle with the lead constantly changing hands. Hope had appeared to put the game on ice with an eight point lead with five minutes left, but Spring Arbor was not ready to quit.

IT TOOK two free throws with 45 seconds left, making it 54-50, before the game was finally out of reach.

Pat Musykens led the winners with "12 points. Hope's women won the WMIAA, division B, tournament with victories over Albion and Kalamazoo last week.

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