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Cheers and jeers — The year in review
Hope grad runs customer-centered Christian music store — Page 4
It's the final countdown! Senior's anticipate graduation. — Page 3
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TAKING A BREAK FROM LIFE... Wes White and Pamela Shippy spend a few quiet moments away from the final hectic days of classes at the Holland State Park this past weekend. With exam week just around the corner Hope students spent the weekend celebrating Easter and finishing up those last minute papers and projects. Photo by Rich Blair
Neo-Nazi propaganda infiltrates Hope's campus by Beth Paterick staff writer
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White supremacistcartwns and literature have been appearing on Hope's campus on bulletin boards and car windows since spring break. President of Hope College John Jacobson said in a public statement, "It is the work of people from outside our campus who have no right to deface our campus by posting these offensive materials." It is believed that they use Van Wylen library to photocopy their literature. Amy Giles ('94) a student worker at the library says she has seen them a few times. They photocopy their materials in the basement copier then place the literature on each copy machine bulletin board and the main bulletin board. She says, "The group looks like high schoolers. They wear all black and combat boots, almost like a uniform. Their hair is cut really short and shaved/' She said they didn't think much of it at first, but it has become more serious. She says now the student library workers are to report them directly to the head librarians. Kelly Jacobsma, head librarian. says they will call public safety
President Jacobson reacts to racial clash at Olivet
between about 40 white students and 25 black students who came to the aid of the two black students. Two students were treated for immediately if they see them pho- the group. Approximately 70 black and minor injuries, the sheriff's departtocopy again. "We will also make Public Safety is also trying to sure the individuals are aware of our investigate attempting to identify white students at Olivet College ment said. Property damage was bulletin board policy." the group. Dean Frost says he has clashed on April 2 in a racial con- limited to a broken window inside All postings on bulletin boards asked students and faculty to "re- frontation that resulted from a lack Shipherd Hall. Olivet, with 8% of their apon campus must be authorized first. move the material, date it and turn it of communication. On Hope's campus. President proximately 700 students being So all unauthorized materials are into Public Safety so they have a taken down. John Jacobson voiced his sympathy black, was one of the first colleges compilation." The first attack of white He also urges anyone who sees to the situation saying, " I am very in the state to admit minorities. supremacist literature on campus the group to report them to Public sympathetic with students, admin- "We've had a long history of racial istration, and faculty at Olivet. This harmony on campus, so this comes was the last weekend of Spring Safety right away. Break. The literature was put on He says, "We are a private has caused a lot of pain for many as a shock to us," said Olivet Presimost bulletin boards on campus, community, not public and we people." dent Donald Morris. including Lubbers Hall. "In order to prevent such things The disturbance of that harmony should be able to exercise our rights." According to Bobby Fong, Dean Fong, says he sent the from occurring there needs to be continued on the night following the Dean of Arts and Humanities, the first batch of material to the Postal communication within a commu- conflict when a trash can was set on reaction of students and faculty at Inspector. He also wrote to the group nity," he said. "It is difficult to have fire at each end of a hallway occuseeing the material was one of "anger at their Holland P.O. Box number to open communication within the pied by black students. and disgust." Their immediate re- indicate they were trespassing and community with the media present Several students said the camaction was to take the cartoons and would be prosecuted. in force as it has been in Olivet." pus had been tense as a rumor had literature on the bulletin board by The confrontation resulted from been circulating that a white female Some students have become Dean Fong's office with a petition panicked, but Dean Fong says, "You a conflict between two while stu- had been mugged by four black underneath. can't allow your lives to be changed dents in which one of the students males. Thursday after the conflict a The petition read, "We, the by this or it will be their victory." He locked herself into her room in student assembly was held in hopes undersigned, categorically reject the says it takes courage, but you have Shipherd Hall, refusing to allow her of allowing students to discuss their racist and white supremacist alti- to insist on your right to an educa- boyfriend to enter. feelings about the racial tension and tudes expressed in the cartoons and tion and not let them control your Her boyfriend, joined by two to dispel any further rumors. statements that were placed in our lives. He says he speaks both as "a black friends, proceeded to pound Olivet students made suggesbuilding over the weekend of April minority and representative of the on her door in hopes of getting her to tions to administration to require 4-5 1992." Underneath was the college." open it. The woman became fright- classes that discuss ethnic diversity. signatures of 62 students. Tom Renner, Director of Pub- ened and called the Phi Alpha Pi Students also suggested that the adThe administration is concen- lic Relations at Hope College says fraternity house requesting help. ministration hire full-time profestrating on the legal aspects of the to his knowledge there have been no Ten white fraternity members sors who can support the ethnically postings. Richard Frost, Dean of postings since the weekend of April responded by going to Shipherd Hall diverse campus. Students, has contacted lawyers to 12th. The investigation will still where a crowd had already gathSee OLIVET page 11 find laws and statutes to prosecute continue. ered. I he confrontation then ensued by (ireg Brown staff writer