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H o p e C o l l e g e a H o l l a n d , M i c h i g a n a A n i n d e p e n d e n t n o n p r o f i t p u b l i c a t i o n s S e r v i n g t h e H o p e C o l l e g e C o m m u n i t y f o r I 10 y e a r s
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Congress to hold final Ollle vote tonight STACY B O G A R D & M. H E R W A L D X campusbeat editor & intermission editor
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Student learns t o live wheelchairbound. Spotlight, page 6.
C o n g r e s s will re-vote tonight about b r i n g i n g O l i v e r North to campus. The debate over whether or not to bring North to Hope as a paid lecturer has created a hotbed of discussion. Several issues h a v e surfaced. One such issue questions whether due process was served in the 14day decision made by the Student Congress executive board to bring North to campus, without a student poll or the consent of full Congress. Another key question repeatedly posed to Student Congress by concerned students and faculty asks whether funding North's visit will use student funds. Internal problems within Congress were publicly displayed in last Wednesday's meeting. Dana Marolt ('99), a student representative, made a motion to let the en-
W e can d e b a t e this w h e n I arrive at H o p e College, because I can assure you t h a t I a m c o m i n g o n e way o r t h e other. — O l i v e r N o r t h o n his r a d i o s h o w T h u r s d a y tire meeting be conducted through "Speaking Frankly," which allows those not in Student Congress the right to speak. Marolt and her supporters on Congress were largely outvoted and "Speaking Frankly" was re-opened in the latter half of the meeting. Marolt chaired the committee that on Congress President Ryan C o o k ' s ( ' 9 7 ) request spent t w o m o n t h s r e s e a r c h i n g a proper candidate for their speaker series. C o o k ' s decision, according to Marolt, undermined the work that the H.A.N.D. Task Force committee had already done. "A major concern of mine is that
we had done all this work to bring James Malinchak here," she said. "And then all of a sudden the information was released in an emergency meeting that Oliver North was coming and James Malinchak was not. This was after Malinchak and I had a verbal agreement." C o o k r e f u t e d this s t a t e m e n t . "Dana, you were for Ollie North c o m i n g , " he said. "You w e r e n ' t happy about it, but you were for it." As Marolt shook her head, faculty advisor Sue Frost restated the prior view of the situation. "I want to make this clear, Ryan. The exec board made the decision without S t u d e n t C o n g r e s s t o not b r i n g
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Students pray into the early m o r n ing. Religion, page 3.
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SAY YES: Lemorie ('98) used a marriage proposal to Lori Madaus ('98) as the finale of the first percussion recital in Hope's history. The recital on Friday, Feb. 28, featured Lemorie on timpani, marimba, and other percussion instruments. Clad in a cloak, black hat, and "Phantom" mask, Lemorie concluded the concert by singing "Music of the Night" by Andrew Lloyd Webber. During a piano passage near the end of the song, Lemorie jumped off the stage to grab Madaus out of the audience and finished the song on one knee. He offered the ring at the end of the song. Madaus tearfullly accepted.
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J a m e s M a l i n c h a k and to b r i n g Ollie." T h e s e and o t h e r i s s u e s h a v e cropped up in several debates over the past week and a half. Aside from last week's Student Congress meeting, students, alumni and faculty voiced their opinions during M o n d a y ' s open forum in the Kletz, and on Oliver North's nationally syndicated radio show last Thursday. North devoted a full forty-five minutes of his show to discussing Hope's faculty resolution, prompted by local Holland newspaper articles faxed to him by the Grand Rapids Press. Last Wednesday's weekly Student C o n g r e s s meeting was anything but routine. B e f o r e all 27 members of Student Congress, philosophy professor Carol Simon invited questions concerning the faculty resolution. T h i s resolution, signed by the majority of Hope faculty, voiced the opinion that bringing North to campus was not in the
STACY B O G A R D campusbeat editor
To protect their belongings and privacy, p r o f e s s o r s and staff in three campus buildings must make sure that their doors are locked each time they leave their office area, even for five to ten minutes. Reports of numerous petty larcenies and malicious destruction of p r o p e r t y in L u b b e r s H a l l , VanZoeren Hall and t h e ' N y k e r k M u s i c B u i l d i n g w i t h i n the last month have brought the issue of after hours building safety to Public Safety's forefront. "A lot of times these thefts have happened because doors have been left unlocked. Complete information was distributed through a security alert with e m p h a s i s on people contacting Public Safety if anything looks unusual or if people look like they don't belong," said Tom Renner, director of public relations.
Professors in Lubbers will met with Terpstra early today to discuss what further precautions should be taken to ensure the building safety. The suspects, two area girls between the ages of eight and thirteen have not been taken into custody since Public Safety has been unable to prove their connection to the crimes. It has been assumed that the suspects entered the buildings either on the weekends or at night after the majority of the staff had left, found keys to filing cabinets, offices and desk drawers, and took petty cash, keys and candy. T h e most recent occurrence was last Thursday, Feb. 27, in the Dean of S o c i a l S c i e n c e s o f f i c e in VanZoeren between 4:30 and 6 p.m. Each of the pencil drawers in the locked o f f i c e s w e r e r u m m a g e d through. Master key access was obtained from desks in the main office entrance areas. The juveniles took what change and cash they
could find along with some candy that was in the office. The locks and a c c e s s p a d s to t h e o f f i c e w e r e r e k e y e d the next day w h e n t h e break-in was discovered. Other departments affected irvclude the political science and Eiv glish d e p a r t m e n t s . T h e English Department has been hit on three separate incidences since an unrelated incident in December. In two subsequent weekends, department office staffer Myra Kosehl's file cabinet was broken into and more petty cash was taken, along with money from the coffee tin. Cash was taken again the following weekend with a set of keys found in a desk drawer. ' T h e janitor found the keys behind a trash bin on another floor," Kosehl said. Public Safety encourages reports of any suspicious activity immed i a t e l y . " T h e r e a r e a lot m o r e people around with the improving weather," Renner said.
Public Safety arrested two male non-Hope students in Kollen Hall Friday night, Feb. 28, on charges ranging from minor in possession of alcohol to assault. The incident began when the two 20-year-olds tore down an R.A. Office sign across the hall from the o p e n a p a r t m e n t d o o r of Kollen Resident Director Ellen Awad and her husband, Habeeb. Habeeb and Assistant Resident Director Ntsiki Sisulu ( ' 9 7 ) left the apartment and f o l l o w e d the two males into the women's wing on the first floor. "Habeeb spoke to the gentlemen asking for the sign back," Sisulu said. " H a b e e b then a s k e d the g e n t l e m a n h o l d i n g the sign his name, while I asked the other gentleman what his name was," she said. A c c o r d i n g to S i s u l u , the t w o males continued walking down the h a l l w a y , rudely c o m m e n t i n g to Awad and Sisulu. E l l e n Awad used a r e s i d e n t ' s phone to contact Public Safety. Habeeb Awad and Sisulu told the pair to remain in the building so they could give their names to Public Safely. O n e of the two males charged Habeeb Awad to get out of the door, but Awad caught the male's coat sleeve. He punched Awad in the arm in an attempt to escape. "I bearhugged him from behind to hold h i m until Public S a f e t y came," Habeeb Awad said. The man charged the door a second lime, hilling his face on it. but making it into the stairwell dragging Awad with him. Sisulu made a phone call to 911, reporting "it had gotten physical." The incident ended in the Hall basement with the arrival of Public Safety. The male was escorted out of the building and handcuffed. The other male was found outside and taken into custody. Charges filed included providing false identification to police, malicious destruction of property and an assault charge against one of the males.