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Two of the foremost poets and critics in America and Great Britain will speak on Hope's campui. Stephen Spender,1 British poet, —' who is coming on the invitation
of an old friend, Dr. Edward Savage of the English Department, will arrive on Sunday. He will be the guest of honor at — a- dinner — to — be — held Sunday —^ night in Phelps Conference room,
Approximately 15 of the campus poets will be hosts. Monday morning at 9:80 a.m. Spender will address English majors^and all Interested students oKuucuta in Graves Hall auditorium. He
will speak on "German Drama."
in the Chapel at 8:00 p m He will a l s o a t t e n d a d l n n e r in hi8 h o n o r
John Ciardi, the main speaker for the Fine Arts Festival, will arrive a m v c Friday, r nuay, one one week from irom today, for an all campus speech
and speak to small groups of interested poetry students, For r o r further xurtne information turn to page four.
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FoilT WilsOfl (jTdfltS Wotl Four Hopites were among 1,475 college students in the country to be awarded first year Woodrow Wilson Fellowships. The announcement was made by Dr. John Hollenbach, faculty representative for the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation and vice president of the college. In addition two Hope students received honorable mention. Recipients of the fellowships, which are designed to encourage future college teachers, are Paul Lucas of Holland, Mary Peelen of Kalamazoo, Jean Louret of Hingham, Wis., and Thomas Werge of North Bergen, N. J. Given honorable mention were Roger Kobes of Holland and Barbara Walvoord of Oradell, N. J. Each fellowship covers tuition and fees for the first year at the graduate school of the Fellow's choice, plus a stipend of $1500 and dependency allowances according to Sir Hugh Taylor, president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. "Committees of eminent college professors and deans picked this year's winners from among 9,767 candidates named by faculty members at 907 colleges in the United States and Canada,"
Sir Hugh noted. He added, "It is our hope that these newlyelected Woodrow Wilson Fellows will continue as decisively as possible toward the attainment of the Ph.D. Toward that end we have chosen candidates who can meet the foreign language requirements of their graduate schools." "All these winners — the largest number we have selected in any one year thus far — were chosen as 'good bets' for college teaching. We hope they will follow that career, yet we do not hold them to such a firm commitment. We ask only that they give college teaching serious consideration." Awards by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation are made possible through grants totalling $52 million from the Ford Foundation which since 1957 has supported the expanded Woodrow Wilson Fellowship program. In addition to awarding first year fellowships, the Wilson Foundation offers subventions to graduate schools for the support of graduate students beyond the first year and Dissertation Fel-
Lucas' Second Grant Awarded by Danforth
These Danforth Fellows were selected from 1,265 candidates nominated by more than 500 colleges on the basis of intellectual promise, personality congenial to the classroom, integrity, genuine
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Underway With Applications Applications are now available for this year's Hope College Summer Session, opening June
Controversial Lewis to Address Republicans Fulton Lewis III will be the guest speaker at an open meeting of Hope College Young Republicans, on the topic, "The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Modern Day Liberalism." The public is encouraged to attend. The meeting will take place Tuesday, March 19, at 4:00 in Graves Lecture Hall. This is one of 12 speeches Lewis is delivering in Michigan during the week of March 17-23. For the past two years, Lewis has done research and anlysis for the House Committeee on Un-American Activities. He is the narrator of the controversial
film "Operation Abolition." Serving as national director of Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative youth movement, and substituting for his father, Fulton Lewis, Jr., on the Mutual Broadcasting Company takes up the rest of his time. Allan Howell, new chairman of the Michigan Federation of College Republicans, has this to say about Lewis's appearance on Hope's campus: "This aids the college Republicans' desire to seek out the fallacy of modern day liberalism and helps the conservative to know his own side as well as the opposition."
24. Registration will be completed in the Dimnent Memorial Chapel at 8:00 a.m. Courses will be offered in all major fields and will last from six to eight weeks. Credits earned in summer school are readily accepted by all leading colleges and universities. A 30 minute chapel service each week is considered to be an important part of the program and all students are expected to attend. Applications for the summer session should be made to Dr. E. E. Brand, Director of the Summer Session. O n l y high school graduates or persons over 21 years of age may apply along with college students. Dormitory accommodations are available for both men and women. Reservations should be made by June 1 to the Director of the Summer Session. Housing for men will depend on demand.
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SCHOLARS — Winners of Woodrow Wilson Fellowships are (L to R) Jean Louret, Tom Werge, Dr. John Hollenbach, liason person for Wilson Fellowships, Paul Lucas and Mary Peelen. Lucas was also awarded a Danforth Fellowship this week. .
Paul Lucas, a physics major from Holland, has been awarded a Danforth Graduate Fellowship, one out of 104 such fellowships awarded throughout the country. Lucas was also awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship this week.
lowships to former Woodrow Wilson Fellows in the humanities and social sciences who give evidence they can complete r e quirements for the Ph.D. in four years or less.
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Interest in religion, and high potential for effective college teaching. This is the first Danforth Fellowship to be awarded to a Hope student since Richard Brockmeier received one in 1959, also in phyrics. Brockmeier is now studying for his Ph.D., at California Institute of Technology. Lucas has been accepted at Johns Hopkins University but has expressed interest in the University of Illinois.
Alpha Phi Omega is again sponsoring an Ugly Man On ^to raise funds r or P r e s t a t i e j k i f s ' work among mentally retarded children. APO has been informed that this financial assistance is particularly needed now, as the in-, stitution is currently short of funds. Last year $450 was contributed by the campus community. Knowing the difficulty of finding the Ugliest Man on Hope's Campus, the anchor has the following interviews to present to aid voting on March 18, 19 and 20, in Van Raalte Hall: Seth Pool the Emersonian This questionable Emersonian for the UMOC was bom in the mud and ooze of Black River and has lived a good clean life. His youth was filled with enriching experiences: grave robbing, torturing sweet little old lady school teachers, and similar grand and glorious deeds. With such a background he had no trouble being accepted at Hope, but, as fate would have it, he flunked out after a brilliant start on a Bible major (undoubtedly because he was an atheist).
After this traumatic experience, he joined the Pacifist Navy and saw the world from an oily engine room. He fought against fighting in such various theatres of anti-war as the Battle of J u liana Center, Smokers' Hill, and Dimnent Ditch. He Was cited for undistinguished service and received the Yellow Stripe for running the fastest in retreat. The Werewolf of The Pine Grove A Cosmopolitan The Werewolf of the Pine Grove emerged fully ugly from the mists of the moor near Wuthering Heights and spent an anxious childhood being chased by the hound of the Baskervillles. Finding American liberty and the pursuit of ugliness more to his liking and less trying on his physiognomy, he, in the past few years, has roamed the Pine Grove seeking the companionship of a coed. The campus women have never quite taken to him and his Quasimodo exterior, but down inside beats the heart of a fine old sewing machine. I t is said he will continue roaming forever, but understood that he can be induced to leave
Hope's campus by tossing him c sheepskin in June. Arcadian Wieren Wolf The Arcadian Wieren Wolf is plain, is a typical Hope College student. When asked how he liked UMOC, the Wolf replied, "Sunnyside up with a little blood imd gore" (evidently thinking of a Slater breakfast). We noted the huge Chi Phi Sigma on the Wolf's sweater and asked him if he were an Arkie. The Wolf straightened his hunched back a bit and replied of course^ he had been an Arkie for 3,000 years. Noting that we did not believe this, the Wolf explained that he was a direct descendant of Medaus, Bacchus and Snurd, the famous mythological heroes of ancient Arcadia. With a tear in his eye he related how he had so offended his mother with his dastardly deeds that she was forced to leave him with a wolf pack so that he might learn better table manners. A f ter eliminating over-population and relieving the suffering of the weak and aged by removing them, he left Arcadia and came to Hope College in search of a (Continued on page 2)
GOOD CAUSE — One of the five men below will be voted the ugliest man on campus through the monetary voting of the student body. All the proceeds will go to Prestatie Huis. The five fraternities represented (L to R) are Cosmo, Arkie, Emmie, Knick and Frater.
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Hope College Anchor
]miy Swieringa Represents Town As Ambassador
Spiritual life Speaker Scores Personal Realism by Paul Lucas "Let's be honest." These three words could be termed a summary of the ideas brought to Hope students by Dr. Karl A. Olsson, speaker for the Spiritual Life Series which ended Wednesday. Dr. Olsson emphasized a personal realisnft a basic honesty in facing ourselves as individuals and in confessing what we see to God and our fellow man. Instead, he said, "we like to scamper for the woodwork, like vermin in a dark and dirty room when the light is switched on. In practice, he continued, we try to escape the light and hide our own shabbiness by transferring the blame, e.g., to heredity or environment, or by labeling the light-bearer a "psychotic" or a "fool." This theme of "judgment," presented in Tuesday morning's chapel, was followed by that of "purgation" on Wednesday. "Repentance," he said, "is a daily journey along a difficult track." A person cannot be converted and then say all is well. A Christian is proud, envious, resentful, slothful, greedy, gluttonous, and lustful; he must confess these things and receive the purgation of God, he said. This daily purgation is, however, not a "polishing of a few rough spots in our personality,"
but rather "daily opening ourselves to the light and warmth of the Sun of Righteousness," a lifting up our lives to God and asking for his help. • This theme of personal realism came up again at the discussion group held in Kollen Tuesday night when Dr. Olsson, commenting on some kinds of "testimonials" he had heard, said . words like 'I was a miserable alcoholic back in Kokomo in 1937 but since then I've been just about the best person God has ever found* is evidence of a fake." For a Christian, "every moment is a turning point . . . We are nothing if we are not in God's hand at this moment." At this same meeting the question of dancing at Hope brought this response from Dr. Olsson: "Dancing is, I think, a kind of second best." Nevertheless, he said, all people, including committed Christians, do "dip down"
Judith Swieringa, Hope junior, has been chosen Holland Community Ambassador for the coming summer.
DR. KARL A. OLSSON simply because they are people. Many forms of entertainment can be defended, he believed, if the sense of values and aims are not distorted by these things, and if the activities don't become a feeble attempt at findng a joy which should rather be found in a person's relationship to God. Although North Park College, of which Dr. Olsson is president,
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the individual student." "Stuart Clark proposed an alternate plan for student government: the Council would be composed of four officers of each class and one representative from each major campus organization." This system, Clark explained, would give Council an increased budget and improve communication between the majority of the campus organizations. "This system would add to the power and responsibility of Council by giving it the budgetary control over several of the campus organizations which would receive representation in exchange for control by Council. Not only would it increase communication b e t w e e n groups," continued Stu, "but it would provide an initiative system for students to campaign. That is, instead of being guaranteed a Council position, organizations and individuals would have to engage in some politicking to gain power." .
A social studies major, Judy is active in SNEA and IRC. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Gerrit Swieringa of Holland. Alternate for ambassadorship is freshmen Barbara Kouw, also of Holland. Bob Jaehnig, Hope senior, was ambassador last summer, visiting the African country of Nigeria.
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J (Continued from page 1) wife, heard how charming the Hope coeds were. At this point the Wolf began drooling and mentioned that he hadn't had a good swig of human blood in almost three years. We decided to terminate the interview and left via a second story window. Knick Quazimoto, Knickerbocker Knick Quazimoto, originally a resident of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, but forced to flee France when the De Gaulle regime officially reprimanded him for throwing molten lead on the crowd below the tower, smuggled himself aboard a steamship and sneaked into the land of opportunity. Shortly a f t e r arriving, he began to look for a high steeple in which to reside. It was only natural that he came to Hope College, since it is well known that the Reformed Church of Ameri-
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allows no dancing or smoking (by men or women) on its campus, Dr. Olsson emphasized that no rules can maintain Christianity or the individual Christian, and that a Christianity of only rules is worth throwing out. "The important thing in a Christian college," he maintained, "is that here young people may confront the living Christ."
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meetincr of the Student A meeting Council was held last Monday, March 11, whose "purpose was to reflect upon the past semester and offer suggestions for bettering student government in the future." Rick Brandsma proposed a plan (see full explanation, Feb. 8 anchor) which would place one representative on council per A&W ROOT BEER each unit of 50 men and one representative per each unit of 50 women in the dormitories; the Golden Fried __ representatives of the off-campus Vi CHICKEN 9 7 e faction would be elected at large. As Rick stated, "This plan should Served wWi Crfip Frendi Met Tonqy Ceje Shw . Dtnnef HoM 4 Honey bring the government close to
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ca has reached great heights in the field of religion. As a possible explanation for his currently sagging chapel attendance, it has been noted that he has been chopping ^ hunks of lead from the chapel spire. It is generally feared that if he can find some way to melt it, he will revert to his old ways. Fraternal Leper The Fraternal Leper was bom in a typical fashion in the sleepy village of Zutphen, Mich. His early life was quite normal until the riotous teens when he lashed 2,000 pairs of wooden shoes together and set out on a South Seas cruise. All went well until he contracted beri-beri compounded with the bubonic plague and leprosy while engaged in the profitable bartering enterprise of exchanging wooden shoes for pearls. No longer feeling up to par, he decided to sell all that he had and come to Hope. He joined Fraternal Society because he felt that he had so much to contribute to Hell Week. When asked for his pet peeve, he replied that he was still ticked off because no one invited him to "monster mash" during Dutch Treat Week. To repair this damaged ego, he wants very much to be chosen this year's UMOC—so much so, in fact, that he has promised a big kiss to all the girls on campus if he wins.
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The Hope College Chapter of Pi Kappa Delta will attend the Golden Anniversary Convention of Pi Kappa Delta March 19-23 on the Southern Illinois campus, in Carbondale, 111. Forensic chapters from 33 states will be represented at the convention in the debate discussion, oratory, and extemporaneous speaking divisions. Mary Ten Pas and Jane Van Tatenhove will represerc Hope in the women's division of debate; John Stapert and Herb Tillema will debate in the men's
division. Jane Van Tatenhove and John Stapert will be participating in oratory for Hope College, while in the extemporaneous speaking division, Mary Ten Pas and John Crozier will be performing. John Crozier will be going for Hope in the men's division of discussion. Accompanying t h e Hope speech team will be M. Harold Mikle, Hope's chairman of the convention, and Dr. William Schrier. Both will serve as judges.
REAL AWARENESS — A growing interest in international affairs has floorished this year through foreign students themselves. Besides IRC, the People to People Club was formed last week to foster better relations. Also International Night (above) was held at which over 400 people viewed foreign student's native dress and their talent. Academically they are well represented, e.g. Gibson Dallah (second from right), a freshman from Nigeria, recently was awarded the newly established $750 Geneva Scholarship. Above (L to R) are Lamuel Patule, Nancy Nykerk, Dave Nykerk, Jacob Ngwa, Gilbert Ogonji, Alfayo Moturi, Bennet Ametifi, Gibson Dallah and Parvis Meraj.
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REPLAY: Those of you who were unable to attend the sing may hear the sing broadcast over WHTC on Monday night, March 18, at 7:85. ENTERTAINMENT: H o p e ' s first on campus dance will be tomorrow night in Phelps Hall. Tickets are still on sale in the lobby of Van Raalte. - Garry Scheider will do a parody on Vaughn Meader's parody of the parody himself — J.F.K. NEW CLUB: Hope College Sailing club had its first meeting last Monday night. There seemed to be quite a bit of interest in forming a sailing club. All they need is some boats — they have enough anchors. LECTURE: Rev. Justin Vander Kolk, Ph.D., president of New B r u n s w i c k Theological Seminary will give a series of lectures in the chapel of Western Theological Seminary on March 19, 20, 21 and 22. His general theme will be "John Calvin: Servant of the Word of God." He will speak a t 9:45 a.m. on each of these days. The public is invited. The Hope College band under the direction of Mr. Robert Cecil took a weekend excursion to the Detroit area where they played two concerts. The band was well received and enjoyed their accommodations immensely. BARBERSHOP: Don't forget "Highlights in Harmony" presented by the Arcadian Fraternity to benefit their adopted Greek orphan. T h e program starts at the Women's Literary Club tonight at 8:30. Some tickets will be available a t the door.
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MEETING: Two of Hope College's members of the Young Republicans Club will attend a Con-Con meeting and an executive board meeting of the Michigan Federation of College Young Republicans at the U. of M. this Saturday. Representing the Hope College Club will be Sandy Bell and Gerry Wolf along with Gretchen Steffens who is the YR recording secretary. SOUTH: If anyone has any financial transaction with the school, now is the time to do it. Rein Visscher is in Florida enjoying the southern sun. SMOKE: Those in the smoking lounge might do well to look at the floor in there sometime. It's rather disgusting that the janitor has to literally shovel out the room every morning. Use the ash trays. This was an unsolicited testimonial. AN HONOR: Dean James Harvey was elected Tuesday to a two year term on the board of directors of the Michigan Association of Higher Education at annual convention at Ferris Institute.
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Greek Week Revisited by Carole Timkovich ALPHA GAMMA PHI Alpha Phi's "mystery meeting" Friday evening was a revealing session with Arlene Zwyghuizen disclosing some of the life adventures of the illustrious sing director, Marti Workman. Several voices and visitors from her past spiced the surprise presentation of "This Is Your Life." Officers for the spring term are: Marilyn Laninga, president; Marti Workman, vice-president; Mary Ellen Bridger, secretary; and Sandy Van Dam, parliamentarian. Best wishes to Judy Hoffman on her engagement to John Ganeff (Simpson College, Iowa), and to Ellen Kuiper on her engagement to Hank DeJong. PHI KAPPA ALPHA At their literary meeting Friday night the Cosmos were entertained by Dave Heusinkveld, who showed slides taken in Arabia, India, Disneyland and the Seattle World's Fair. Cosmos express their thanks for a very interesting, informative and enjoyable program. KAPPA BETA PHI New officers elected at Friday's Dorian meeting were Mary Beth Ziesenitz, president; Ann Collins, vice-president; and Nancy Slagter, secretary. Penny Stoner continues as treasurer. Final plans were made for the annual Dorian Ice Cream Social. Rush chairman Nancy Wessels announced the theme for spring rush, "Par Avion." Barbie Hoskins and Linda Davis were elected Penny Carnival chairmen. Following "the c business meeting, a
president's report was given by retiring president Linda Kloosterhouse. KAPPA ETA NU Congratulations from Kappa Eta Nu to the winning fraternity and sorority at the All-College Sing. A difficult task well done! Last Friday the Knick brothers held a joint literary meeting with their Sibylline sisters. Humor papers were given by Ruth Wozney and Bob Wait and serious papers by Sharon Dykema and John Pangburn. Master of ceremonies was Dave Von Ins. Following the literary meeting the rug was rolled up and the Knicks treated their sisters to a real Knickerbocker party. Tuesday evening Dean Vander Lugt, honorary Knickerbocker, was a guest at the weekly business meeting. Congratulations are extended to Tom Schick, pinned to Carol Diephouse (Sorosis), DELTA PHI Delphi sisters and their dates partook of "Black Magic" last Friday night at their formal in Grand Rapids' Morton House. While the men broke in their pipes, Linda Walvoord acted as mistress of ceremonies for the evening's entertainment. A humorous paper was given on several medieval magic processes (including "To Cause a Girl to Seek You Out, However Prudent She May Be") by Susan Spring, The new Barberette group, composed of Bev Bosch, Moogie Iperlaan, Mary Klein and Loma Ver Meer, sang.
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March 15, 1968
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Who is Stephen Spender? Once a temperamental student who dropped out of Oxford, he is now a well-respected poet, translator, critic, dramatist and lecturer who coedits the British magazine Encounter. A tall white-haired Britisher, he now appears in perfectly respectable tweeds, though he was once a twentieth-century picture of a curly-headed Shelley. He is the author of such books as The Still Centre, Ruins and Visions, The Destructive Element, Burning Cactus, and Engaged in Writing. In a recent article for the Chicago Daily News, Spender explains a personal sense of vocation, and calls the vocation of a poet "the most unnecessary necessity in the world . . . to be in a few inches of space what one really is." Competently and colorfully he describes this vocation: "Vocation is simply the conviction that one can do something, and that if one does not do it no one else will, leaving a vacuum, however small, in the universe. In fact the sense of vocation is the instinct of nature to fill the vacuum. Knowing one can do a thing is the certainty that, however clumsy and incompetent, one can ultimately master the detail, and pass on the finished object to others whose business it is to decide whether it is good or bad (whether YOU are good or bad)." His own encounters with the "unnecessary necessity" took shape in his eighteenth year when he set up and printed a paper-bound pamphlet of verse. Nine Experiments. This was followed by Twenty Poems (1930) and Poems (1933) a mature collection which shocked some by its unconcealed communism (since renounced) and delighted more with its lyricism . . . a lyricism which climbed above the old traditional images of roses and nightingales and invited into the poetic realm some which had formerly been totally alien ("Come let us praise the gasworks"). The subjects of Spender's poems range from an enraptured treatment of an express train to an original and highly provacative view of Judas Iscariot; he is also the translator of numerous German writers — Schiller, Rilke, Ernst Toller, Wedekind and Buchner. Curently a visiting professor at Northwestern University, the British poet was invited to Holland by his friend Dr. Edward Savage of the Hope English department, who guided him around Cairo when Spender toured Egypt, a country which appeals to his preference for the exotic ("The Woolworth Tower has made you blind to Egypt and the pyramids.")
Poet, critic, teacher, translator: a key figure in the American literary field is John Ciardi. Few men, state his critics, have matched the multiple achievements of this prospective campus guest. Ciardi's presence at Hope for the Fine Arts Festival March 22-24 will offer varied opportunities for student contact with the noted author and poetry editor for the Saturday Review. For the public, Mr. Ciardi will lecture on Friday evening at 8:00 p.m. in the chapel. (Student admission is free, with special ticket.) Ciardi will also conduct a small seminar on Friday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. in Durfee Lounge with students (by invitation only.) Both afternoon and evening receptions will be held for Ciardi and for all students; the afternoon period at 3:30 in Phelps conference room, and in the evening at 9:30 in Phelps Lounge. Ciardi The Poet
STEPHEN SPENDER Says Louis Untermeyer: "It is not Spender's choice of opinions which makes his work exciting; it is the integrity of his aim accompanied by charged and highly suggestive phrases, the thrust of his vision. The old images have gone down with the bombed buildings, as he tells us in "New Palaces"; they are part of 'beauty's filtered dust" . . # there is always the desperate sincerity, the tense voice of something dearly held and deeply felt. It is the voice that speaks up for 'the palpable and obvious love of man'". , . . Copies of Spender's European Witness (1946), a journal of impressions of post-war France and Germany, and his mystically lyrical translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's Das Marienleben (The Life of the Virgin Mary) can be found in Van Zoeren library, as well as Spender poetry in several anthologies, (especially the Mid-Century edition of Modern British Poetry, edited by Louis Untermeyer). Recent magazine articles include "What Modern Writers Forget" (Saturday Review, Jan. 20, 1959); "Is a new literature possible?" (Saturday Review, Sept. 22, 1962) and "Words for the Wind" (New Republic, Aug. 13, 1959).
Notes From The Underground
A Look at Hope Orchestra by Jim Michmerhuizen I gave up reviewing the recitals and concerts at Hope College about three years ago, a f t e r discovering that I knew rather less about the music I heard than 1 had thought 1 did, but last Thursday's concert by the college orchestra brought back some memories of the concerts of year's past, and with the memories, some comparisons. The orchestra, in short, is much improved. This in itself is a curious phenomenon, for college orchestras are evanescent things, condemned to a complete turnover of personnel every four years. Almost complete that is: Al Kruiswyk has been beating the kettledrums in the back row f o r longer than either he or I care to remember. First up on Thursday's program was a Handel Concerto Grosso. Two things were evident from the beginning; improved intonation and vastly improved balance, the latter owing to the presence, for the first time in my memory, of a full complement of bass viols. When I was a freshman there never seemed to be more than one string bass, played by a tall and lonely girl; it was never audible. Perhaps that was why she was lonely. As for the intonation, it was, as I said, far better than I used to hear. And what lapses there were — there are always lapses — were matters, this time, of corporate responsibility; in former years the most excruciat-
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ing discords seemed always to come from the cello section, when the cello section was audible. But then — to round out the comments on balance — the cello section of past years was not often audible. So much for the strings. A f t e r the Handel Concerto a few of the male violinists carted the harpsichord (another welcome addition, though since its been here almost two years now I'm a little late with my appreciation) off to a corner and arranged a chair for the cellist Leslie Parnas. Then Mr. P a m a s played and Morrette Rider directed, the Saint-Saens A Minor Cello Concerto. Mr. Parnas played very well— so well that I would be foolish if I tried to describe the way in which the music played him. What we heard was Saint-Saens playing his cello concerto on Parnas. This, as anyone may well imagine, does not happen often.
After the intermission there was an orchestral overture by Kabalevsky — noisy and lots of f u n — and then Prokofieff's "Lieutenant Kijie," a suite of five movements concerning the life of a nonexistent military man. "By typographical error," said the program note, "a military report to Czar Nicholas I created a 'Lieutenant Kijie,' whose existence had to be documented to avoid untold complications. Prokofieff composed the suite for a film of the tale in 1933." The work was the orchestral showpiece of the evening, involving a great number of solos for various instruments, especially the trumpet, which, after one nervous moment in the opening measures, did itself and its player proud. Of the whole evening one can remember some moments of real excitement — real music. I remember many more such moments than I am accustomed to remembering."
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About the poetry of Ciardi, critic David Daiches has written: "He seeks a middle ground, in his poetry and in his theory of poetry, between what he calls "baroque poetry' ('that sort of writing that addresses itself inward to other writing, rather than outward to the lives of men') and mere 'poesy'—that trite, the sentimental, the commonplace." How Does A Poem Mean? Ciardi titles one of his works. A poem should not be "paraphraseable," he claims, seeming to echo the definition of one of his contemporaries, Archibald MacLeish, that a "poem should not mean, but be." Ciardi has published, in addition to such volumes of poetry as As If (1955), I Marry You (1958), a sheaf of love poems, and several delightful collections of children's poetry, among them. The Man Who Sang the Sillies, The Penny Fiddle, The Wind and the Rain. Ciardi's seminar and lecture on Friday will follow afternoon panel discussion on the complementary theme. "What the Artist Does and its Relevance to Man's Contemporary Situation." Presented at the General Convocation of the Festival, the panel will feature from Hope's faculty. Dr. Edward Savage, Dr. Anthony Kooiker, Dr. Joan Mueller, Dr. Arthur Jentz and guest. Dr. Michael Waskowski, professor of art at Kalamazoo College. Ciardi as Critic, Teacher Ciardi's teaching background includes a term (1940-42) as instructor in English at Kansas City University, a position at Harvard as Briggs Copeland Instructor in English, 1946-47, and one year (1950-51) as lecturer at the Balzburg Seminar in American studies. In 1952, Ciardi studied under a grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education, concentrating on methods of teaching poetry in relation to other arts. In 1953 he joined Rutgers University as lecturer in creative writing, while he has served as staff lecturer at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference since 1947. , Various critical articles by Ciardi appear frequently in the Saturday Review. Among his most recent and intriguing are the following: "Poetry as Knowledge," (July 22, 1961); "Jim Crow Is Treason," (Feb. 4, 1961); "How To Read Dante," (June 3, 1961); "Environment and Poetry," (Sept. 19, 1959). Several others include "Epitaph for the Dead Beats" (Feb, 6, 1960); "In Loving Memory of
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Myself," (July 25, 1959); and "University: Patron of Poets?" (June 20, 1959.) Asked to name his favorite poets, Ciardi cites Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Yeats, Spender and MacLeish Ciardi As Translator Perhaps the greatest single factor in Ciardi's reputation has been his modern translations of Dante. With the publication of the newly-translated "Inferno" in 1954, Dudley Fitts commented in the New York Times: "Dante for the first time translated into virile, tense American verse; a work of enormous erudition which (like its original) never forgets to be poetry; a shining event in a bad age." More recently, the "Purgatorio" has appeared. The translations are noted for their rhymed variation of Dante's terza rima, and achievement of the "common speech of the original." Students wising to fiind selections of Ciardi may do so at the Blue Key Book Store, library stacks, or in his regular column in the Saturday Review, "Manner of Speaking."
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In answer to Mr. David Kleis* commentary on Norman Cousins' commentary on a University of California a t Los Angeles student's commentary on Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, may I comment: To the assumption that FeUini is a nihilist, one need only consider the totality of his output (and there is no such thing as a "Fellini-type film") to dismiss this charge as idle nonsense. For example, in La Strada, humanity cries out in agony for mutual love. In The Nights of Cabiria (the film, by t h e way, which originally started all the hue and cry, pro and con, about Fellini on this campus) essential human dignity and the will to live and love is powerfully reasserted in the face o{ the grimmest odds. In La Dolce Vita (which in Fellini's irony means not "the sweet life" but "the bitter") characters who, I insist, represent US get so bogged down in FUN and BUSYNESS that they lose the perception to see the angelic vision across the pond and continue to stare in stupifaction at the huge, bloated dead fish of conventional joys. (Some of the more violent critics of La Dolce Vita refused to sit through the orgiastic party near the end of the film and hence missed this last significant symbolism in the film; this sort of critic is comparable to the squeamish viewer of Grunewald's Colmar Crucifixion who finds the torn and mutilated feet so disturbing to his delicate sensibility that he turns away before raising his eyes to the Savior's suffering but noble face). To the complaint that La Dolce Vita "does not give one a portrait of life," I retort that the purpose of great art has never been to give a literal rendering of life. (If pure realism were to become the sole aim of art, literature would all disintegrate into journalese.) When such fascinating figures as Fellini and Bergman first invaded our campus, they were defended on the supposition that they broadened our horizons of experience. This they have done, but not as The Na-
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Education Department Departments of education have struggled for recognition as legitimate departments in a higher education curriculum since their initial appearances on the campuses of liberal arts colleges and universities. Science professors have jeered; history departments have laughed. What place have education courses in an academic curriculum? This has been their cry. On many campuses education departments have proved their worth. They have shown high standards of scholarship, have developed and used extensive materials, have adopted scientific methods of research and study, and have generally made an honest place for themselves in the college curriculum. One can only doubt that Hope's education department has successfully won a respectable position among the disciplines. Many cutting examples of this fact are available. Compare an A-grade in the two-hour introduction to education course with an A-grade in the twohour thermodynamics course. Or eight hours of "A" or "B" for student teaching to any combination of other courses equaling eight hours. The question then is, is this unbalanced situation necessary, unavoidable? Are education courses absolutely worthless ? Somewhere along the line the typical education student gets a faint glimpse of the immensity of the tasks of a teacher, tasks which lie before him and come closer every day. If this glimpse hasn't made much dent before he begins his student teaching, it will no doubt hit him hard a t that time. There is no longer any question in his mind that an immense amount of knowledge and skill is suddenly required of him. But where has all this knowledge been hidden? He has attended his education courses faithfully and underlined textbooks diligently. Who then has been hiding the facts from him? What about those watered-down textbooks which say poorly in 20 pages what might have been said forcefully and well in one page? What about major problems of education and
tional Geographic does, Alas! we must grant, I suppose, that often we deal with, as Robert Graves says of the Romans, "A dull, literal-minded lot." Admittedly, Fellini draws his images from life, but the final concoction is f a r from realism as we perceive it. Rather, he objectively reveals a spiritual state and symbolically warns us against falling into the same pit of despair. Finally, I am sick and tired of the insistence that every work of art thump resolutely the club of MEANING or wave frenetically the flag of PURPOSE. I cannot, for example, understand how Mr. Cousins can attribute meaning to a world which he sees as "the Human Arena." On the other hand, I for one do not see life solely as a stadium full of human monsters screaming ecstatically at the spectacle of martyrs being torn apart by wild beasts. Rather, I can appreciate with Wordsworth "the violet by the mossy bank," or be moved by the pathos of a broken Lear
of the teacher, which were touched on briefly in four different courses but never fully and deeply explored? Suddenly he wonders, how do you prepare a lesson? By reading a chapter in a book? How do you learn to lead a group discussion? By having it suggested as one of several possible methods? This writer disagrees emphatically with those who contend that education is not sophisticated enough to be a college discipline, and with those who say there is not enough material to take up 20 hours or 30 hours. Besides, state requirements are state requirements! Let's put some meat into these courses. First, let's throw out those textbooks! How can anyone write an adequate text to be used as a Bible in a changing, growing, controversial field like education? Perhaps they weren't meant to be used as Bibles. Reorganize the curriculum around what a teacher really needs to know—there is so much that he needs to know! Why not have a two-hour intro course worth two hours ? A stimulating, inspiring, effective course organized around some other principle besides the motto, "Teaching is the greatest of all possible professions in the best of all possible worlds." You don't "learn" people that! Why not have a methods course which teaches methods ? The speech department offers an excellent course in group discussion. What could be more valuable for the midtwentieth century teacher? There is certainly enough material to fill the state requirements. It's not necessary to repeat the same material in four courses. Other colleges have education departments of high reputation. There is no good reason why Hope can't have such an education department. Faculty of the department of education, consider yourself challenged to make education the meaningful, important discipline it should and can be. K.E.B,
humbly asking a servant to undo his collar button, or with Fellini be thankful for Man's ability to lighten his load of misery with humor. The most "meaningful" and "purposeful" man of the twentieth century was Adolf Hitler. With the PURPOSE of purifying the human race, he was able, without the least twinge of conscience, to exterminate 6,000,000 Jews, Fortunately, Mr, Fellini will be defended much more effectively than I have been able to defend him next Monday, March 18, at 7:00 and 9:00 p.m., by a return to the Park Theatre of his The Nights of Cabiria. Those of you who have already seen this masterpiece of cinematic art will go again. My plea for attendance, however, is directed to those critics who judge Fellini's a r t by preconceived notions, hearsay or without ever having seen his films at all. Sincerely, Edward B. Savage
FRIDAY, MARCH 15 "Highlights in Harmony," Women's Literary Club, 8:30 p.m. SATURDAY, MARCH 16 "Winter's Encore," All-College Formal, Phelps Hall, 8:30 p.m. MONDAY, MARCH 18 Ugly Man on Campus Contest Stephen Spender, Graves Hall, 9:30 a.m. TUESDAY, MARCH 19 Fulton Lewis III, Graves Hall, 4:00 p.m. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20 IRC, "Capitalism and Communism in Southern E u r o p e , " Phelps Conference Room, 4:15 p.m. FRIDAY, MARCH 22 Classes dismissed, 12:00 noon. FRIDAY, MARCH 22 — SUNDAY, MARCH 24 Fine Arts Festival.
Weekend Weather U. S. Weather Bureau, Grand Rapids — Temperatures are expected to average near, normal over the weekend. .Normal high is 40-46; normal low is 20-27, Warmer weather is predicted beginning t o d a y and lasting' through Sunday, turning colder Monday. One-half to threequarters inch of precipitation as rain or snow is forecast for the weekend.
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Miss Pyle, Phys Ed Teacher, Is Experienced and Active by Joy
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Why t e a c h a t Hope Coll e g e ? Especially when your past experience as an element a r y teacher is your background. After all, your new job will be to teach women's physical activities comparable to the men's, and they're handled by f o u r instructors.
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This is the question I asked Miss Joan Pyle. Upon being offered this position, Miss Pyle bases her acceptance of it on the fact that, most of all, it was a challenge. Since her graduation f r o m Hope College in 1955, Miss Pyle has t a u g h t at Spring Lake and Orchard View E l e m e n t a r y ft Schools and has completed a , f > ; a s t e r ' s degree in guidance a t '.&>*& yy-y;m<* Wmmw^mww^ Western Michigan University. She became the women's physical education instructor here a t N E W SEASON — This week sees the s t a r t of the spring sport season. The baseball, tennis and H o p e in the fall of 1960. track teams a r e readying f o r seasons which begin during and a f t e r spring vacation. Above the Besides teaching the women's track team works out in Carnegie gym by performing isometric contractions. Coach Brewer is diphysical e d u c a t i o n activity recting the exercises. courses, you will find Miss Pyle, •
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depending u p o n the season, coaching girls in field hockey, volleyball, basketball, a r c h e r y r.nd tennis f o r interschool com.petition. Also included on her teaching schedule are those accredited courses which are r e quired for elemcniary curriculum preparation and for those minoring in physical education. In addition co he;- many teaching responsibilit es. Miss Pyle is also an advisor to W.A.A. and Mortarboard and can also be found r e p r e s e n t i n g Hope College at the many regional conferences in women's physical education. When asked w h a t differences she has noticed since h e r g r a d u ation f r o m Hope her comment was t h a t the increasing size is lessening the personal relationships that used to be prevalent and causing it to be simply a m a t t e r of numbers. H e r e and there, she does manage to find some time f o r those things which a r e exceptionally enjoyable to her such as cooking — especially spaghetti — knitting, camping, traveling ( " F l o r ida here we come" — s p r i n g v a cation), bowling and canoeing among others. Of course, with her m a s t e r s in guidance, she loves psychology and in working with students here a t Hope remains f o r e v e r understanding. It can surely be said t h a t Miss Joan Pyle is an example of a person who will t r y anything once and who truly "loves living." As for f u t u r e plans, we'll look to Kalamazoo f o r those.
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