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Cindy Sonneveldt Chosen May Queen
QUEEN CINDY SONNEVELDT
Junior Cindy Sonneveldt w a s crowned May Day Queen in ceremonies held in the Pine Grove this afternoon.
stra Hall, was named an h o n o r a r y member of the court. She was runner-up to Miss Sonneveldt in the balloting.
Also announced in the ceremonies were the six members of Queen Cindy's court, the new members of Mortar Board and the winners of the fraternity and sorority scholastic trophies for last semester.
Queen Cindy is an elementary education m a j o r and is a member of the Delta Phi sorority. She and her court were chosen in all-campus voting Monday a n d Tuesday. All junior women with a cumulative grade-point a v e r a g e of 2.0 or over were eligible. THE Q U E E N received the crown from senior Mary Rynbrandt, retiring May Day Queen. N a m e d to Mortar Board this afternoon were Peggy Adams,
T H E C O U R T includes juniors .Jan De Boer, J o a n Granzow, Ellie Heath, Jill Nyboer, B a r b a r a Ryzenga and Sharon Staats. Mrs. Helena Post, housemother in Dyk-
Judi Cooper, Marcia Herrema, Carol Koterski, Jill Risser, B a r b Skidmore, Jean T a y l o r and M a r y Zuidema. Mortar Board is the national h o n o r sorority on campus. Its members are chosen for outstanding scholarship, leadership, service and citizenship. All junior women with grade-points of 3.0 or higher were considered. THE WINNER of the sorority scholastic trophy was K a p p a Chi, with an a v e r a g e grade-point of 3.007. Trailing them was Alpha Phi, with a 2.950. The Emersonian fraternity won the fraternity scholastic trophy with a 2.662 m a r k . This bested the 2.657 a v e r a g e of the Praters.
Fourteen faculty members will leave Hope at the end of this year. Dr. Kenneth Weller, c h a i r m a n of the economics and business administration department, h a s been named President of Central College.
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CLB Will Decide
Blacks Ask Special Housing By George Arwady a n c h o r Editor A g r o u p of black coeds have requested permission to live together next year in college housing. Dean of Students Robert De Young h a s refrained from m a k i n g a final decision on the request and passed the matter on to the C a m p u s Life Board. (Miss Jackie Barker discusses this question in the "Black and Beautiful" column on page 7.) "THEY W A N T E D all-black h o u s i n g ," the Dean said. " T h e y wanted to live together because
Students Favor Parietal Hours Ovenvhel mingly Results of polls taken in the last two weeks show that students overwhelmingly favor both the present proposal and the principle of inter-room visitation and that the members of the faculty are four to three against both. The student poll taken as part of student elections last week asked if students f a v o r the present proposal for their particular dormit o r y . A total of 6 2 6 responded that they did; 2 4 7 said they did not. Eight hundred students felt that if a m a j o r i t y of the students in a particular d o r m oppose intervisitation then that d o r m should not have the right, while only 87 felt that the d o r m should retain the right. Students were in favor of the principal of inter-visitation by a vote of 797 to 86. The faculty voted 41 to 2 8 against the present proposal in a partial poll a n d 3 5 to 2 8 against the principal of inter-dorm visitation. Five faculty members did not respond to the second question. The student poll was conducted by the Student Senate and the faculty poll b y Dr. Richard Vandervelde, c h a i r m a n of the Student Conduct Committee.
they enjoyed each other's company." "Personally, I could buy this," the Dean said. "But 1 question whether the law would permit this and whether this is the direction Hope College wishes to go." DEAN DE YOUNG said he thus thought it would " b e good if it was aired" in the C a m p u s Life Board. " I explained that we could not deny white students the right to live in college-owned housing," the Dean said. " L e g a l l y there would be no problem if they wanted to live together with a few white students in there." T H E D E A N SAID that the black coeds' request might also conflict with a new system of priorities in housing which the Dean of Students office is putting into effect. This would give first choice in housing to seniors, second choice to juniors, etc. The Dean said this problem might be possibly averted, however. The Black Coalition column, which was distributed to faculty members Tuesday, will be presented to the C a m p u s Life Board as an appeal for the coeds'request to be granted. T H E C O L U M N emphasizes that the "request for special housing was put before Hope by a g r o u p of interested individuals" who a r e seeking an atmosphere in which they can function better as students. The column notes that foreign l a n g u a g e and fraternity students are housed together and says such facilities offer them a m e a n s whereby they can further their Selfhood. MISS B A R K E R notes the "tension and anxiety" whichcan m a r k the life of an isolated black student and claims that both subtle and blatant racism exist at Hope. "Blacks came to Hope to get an 'education,' " she writes, to function as students, and I would hope that the Hope College community would feel that they are worth the trouble of h a v i n g their needs attended." The legality of an all-black studies p r o g r a m and all-black dormitories on college campuses
The finals of the women's softball competition began the afternoon. Game time was 12:30 p.m. Following this, at 1:30 p.m. the men competed in the a n n u a l May Day track meet at Van Raalte field. The coronation ceremonies began in the Pine Grove at 4 : 3 0 p.m. Queen Cindy and her court will reign over a special h o n o r a r y dinner in Phelps Hall after the coronation. The climax of the d a y will be the May Day dance in Phelps Hall dining room f r o m 9 p.m. to midnight. The theme will be " S p r i n g P'ever."
Hope Loses 14 Faculty Members at Year's End
I COLLEGE
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T H E MAY DAY festivities beg a n at 3 p.m. yesterday with a Kite Flying Contest. Classes were dismissed today at 12:20 p.m. so that students could attend the afternoon events.
is now being examined by the federal courts. GLCA MEMBER Antioch College has been told by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare that it will lose federal funds if it continues to operate a segregated black studies program. Antioch has also been told it cannot operate an all N e g r o dormitory. Its Afro-American Studies Institute, one of the first in the nation, is open to 120 N e g r o students. The courses are held in a dormitory reserved for Negroes. A N T I O C H HAS appealed the policy of the federal government in the courts. The final outcome of the appeal has not yet been determined. If Antioch does not desegregate its p r o g r a m by the s u m m e r semester as ordered by HEW, it stands to lose more than one million dollars in federal funds.
K E I T H A C H E P O H L , assistant professor of art for the last two years, will be a faculty member of Pacific Luther University in T a c o m a , Wash. Dr. Philip Crook, professor of biology since 1955, has been m a d e c h a i r m a n of the biology department at Colgate University. William lYatt, assistant professor of history, will join thefaculty at the University of N e b r a s k a in Omaha. DR, ROGER S T E E N L A N D , as sistant professor of psychology and clinical psychologist of the Counseling Center for three years.
is leaving to start a clinic iaSouth Carolina. Miss Florence Wagg, instructor in Spanish, is leaving to return to g r a d u a t e school. Arthur Hielkema, head of lib r a r y technical service and instructor since 1966, has been m a d e head librarian at Northwestern College. REV. WILLIAM Hilmert, professor of religious education since 1952, Dr. William Schrier, professor of speech since 1939, Dr. J a m e s Van I^tten, professor of political science since 1952, and Dr. Eva Van Shaack, professor of biology since 1956, will retire at the end of this year. J a m e s Bultman, assistant professor of education, Alan Carter, instructor of political science, a n d Mrs. Beulah K a m p e n Maris, assistant professor of French, will go on leave at the end of this year.
Open House Proposal Gets Negative Response By Lynn Jones Asst. News Editor The Student Conduct Committee h a s sent the intervisitation proposal on to the C a m p u s Life Board after a straw vote in the committee registered d i s a p p r o v a l of the principle of inter-room visitation within our present d o r m system. T H E C O M M I T T E E voted 4 3 against this principle, with all student committee members voting in favor of it and all faculty and administrative members voting against it. The committee, however, did agree u n a n i m o u s l y in another straw vote that students need a greater degree of privacy on fcampus.
A decision on the actual interr o o m visitation proposal and a final decision on the advisability of any form of parietal h o u r s were left in the h a n d s of the Campus Life Board. All research done by the committee will be given to the CLB. DEAN OF S T U D E N T S Robert De Young noted that no guidelines have yet been established in regard to the amount of responsibility the College has for the governing of student lives. Thus, a l o n g with being requested torule on the intervisitation proposal itself, the Dean would like to see the C a m p u s Life B o a r d " a s k e d to undertake a t h o r o u g h study of what the role of Hope College should be in terms of c a m p u s living."
Second Speech Thursday
Boiling Speaks on Mid-East President L a n d r u m Boiling of E a r l h a m College will speak on " T h e Role of the U.S. in the Middle East Crisis" at an All-College Assembly at 8:15 p.m. M o n d a y in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. ON T H U R S D A Y Dr. Leon Levine, Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies, will speak in Winant's Auditorium at 8 : 1 5 p.m. on " I s r a e l ' s Future in the Middle East." President Boiling, a political scientist and former war correspondent, has recently been active in the Middle East crisis on behalf of the American Quakers. He met with cabinet leaders in J o r d a n , the United A r a b Republic and Israel last s p r i n g on a special mission for the Friends. TWO M O N T H S AGO he spent considerable time in Washington
and at the United Nations for the purpose of interviewing White House advisors. State Department officials and United Nations amb a s s a d o r s f r o m the Great Powers and the Middle Eastern countries concerning plans for the fourpower discussions that are now underway. Dr. Levine is a n assistant professor of history at Indiana University and has written extensively on the Middle Eastern situation. He received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University. Dr. Levine h a s published a number of articles on the Middle East, including "Arab Unity and N a s s e r " a n d " I s l a m and A r a b Nationalism, A Dichotomy?" Both speakers are sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Committee of H o p e College.
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