FROSH MIXER—Two frosh relished the distinct pleasure of being the first to pot.
BARGAIN—Frosh could not restrain themselves from buying their status symbols.
TOGETHERNESS — Games gave the new-comers the chance to become better acquainted.
OPE COLLEGE
anc or OLLAND, MICHIGAN Hope College, Holland Michigan
76Ui Year—1
School's Leaders Convene To Re-Evaluate Approaches by Chuck Menning New and proposed changes, reevaluations, and emphases were the centers of discussion by the members of the administration and faculty and student leaders who met last Friday in an allday m^school conference. The opening devotions were led by Dr. D. Ivan Dykstra, chairman et~the philosophy^department. Basing his remarks on a passage from Ephesians, Dykstra urged the audience to try to rediscover themselves by rediscovering the focus of their business. "We are Christians and our business is education," Dykstra stated. Why then are we here, and what is the relationship between Christianity and education? According to Dykstra, the idea that we are here to defend the viewpoint of tradition simply leads to relativism. He believes that the point of college is to protect and present one kind of Christianity rather than another. For example, such early schools as Yale and Harvard were established to make a cultured Christianity rather than an uncultured Christianity, thus rejecting the idea of piety-in-a-pocket, as a substitute for culture or as unrelated to culture. The founders of such early schools considered piety in close association with all areas of enterprise. Nowhere but in liberal arts contexts is a meeting between God and culture likely to occur, Dykstra said. In such contexts we are led to see the fulness of life. "It is the full man who at his fullness discovers his emptiness that is ready to know God. He comes to no alternative but God, other than futility and despair." President Vander Werf was introduced to speak on "Chapel in the Objectives of the College." The President began by stating "I regard the President of the college as a servant. My goal, working with you as a servant, is to try always to provide a climate that will permit mature self-fulfillment for the faculty and stedeiits." —^ander Werf^then noted the * liberal arts college institutions, which now comprise only one quarter of the 2100 colleges in America, and many of which are ". . . only third or fourth rate colleges. If there is a future for the liberal arts college, we must make up in quality what we lack in quantity." Because the new emphasis on learning has brought a wave of paganism which equates intellectual knowledge with God, VanderWerf feels that at Hope
. . education becomes a divine quest for self-fulfillment through commitment." "Therefore,'' the President stated, "I will go to Chapel out of a personal need—a need to be (Continued on Page 6)
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Freshman Orientation Initiates New Hopeites Last Saturday morning Hope College's new freshman class "" approximately 550 strong - began arriving on Hope's campus. They were directed around campus by APO members, who worked from their new blue information booth. After three days of an extensive orientation program, members of the class of 1957 registered for their first semester of college classes. Sunday afternoon a special Vesper Service was held in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. The Rev. Allen B. Cook, college pastor, gave the meditation, "Consider God's Elective." A banquet for new students was held in Phelps Hall on Sunday evening. At the dinner David Mouw introduced the college's administration and faculty to the freshmen. College president. Dr. Calvin Vander Werf, spoke briefly, stressing the necessity for "maximum self-fulfillment" of everyone on the Hope Campus. Monday the freshmen took placement tests and had group meetings with faculty advisors. Student Senate sponsored a picnic at Kollen Park, a "New Student" mixer at the Holland Civic Center, Monday evening and Pete Paulsen, senior class
president, who planned the mixer and acted as master of ceremonies, distributed traditional green beanies to new students. The usual personality inventory tests, with the usual intermittent chuckles, were taken on Tuesday, when freshmen were also given tours through Van Zoeren library and the language lab in Graves Hall. In the evening a formal faculty reception was held for all new students at President Vander Werfs home. Final selection of classes and f o r m a l registration occured Wednesday. Under the direction of Dean of Students James Harvey, the freshman orientation program was planned with the help of spring Dave Mouw, Student Senate president, appointed Bruce Neckers as orientation chairman to assist Dean Harvey. Also appointed was James Hawkins, who had the responsibility of securing the assistance of 73 student orientation advisors. As a climax to informal orientation, upperclassmen will hold several student assistants. Last Kangaroo Court on Tuesday at 4:45 p.m. in the Pine Grove. At this time, wayward freshmen will meet their nemesis.
September 13, 1963
Chapel System Demands 40 Per Cent Attendance The unveiling of the 1963-64 chapel attendance regulations disclosed a "new" system which is essentially a hybrid of methods used in recent attempts to establish a workable set of regulations. The new regulations presented last Friday by Vice President John Hollenbach were the product of several meetings of the members of the Religious Life and Administrative Committees with President Calvin Vander Werf, plus the work of sub-committees and individuals. Under the new system chapel will continue to be held at 8:00 a.m. each weekday, with the Friday service designed to be more liturgical than the other four services. However, the required number of attendances has in essence been lowered from the previous minimum of 70% of all services to a new 40% minimum. Students will be required to attend either a Monday-Wednesday or Tuesday-Thursday sequence. They may choose the sequence they prefer with the exception that a maximum of 800 students are allowed to sign up for either sequence. Registration for the sequences will take place on a firstcome, first-served basis during class registration time. Students, on the day of their sequence, will be seated in the main auditorium of the chapel. They will fill out chapel slips, handed to them by chapel ushers as they enter the chapel, and returned by the students at the close of the service. Students are invited to attend chapel on days other than their required sequence, and the Friday services will be completely
Upperclassmen! '63 Yearbooks Here Today Yearbooks for the 1962-63 school year will be made available to the upperclassmen today, in Van Raalte, according to Milestone editors Jan Blom and Ruth Van Witzenberg. Final preparations were made by the American Yearbook Company during the summer, following several unforseen delays. Although the yearbooks will be arriving later this year than they have in past years, they will nonetheless contain the record of events of the entire school year, including such areas as spring sports and other spring activities which often must be omitted in order to meet early deadlines.
voluntary. The methods for counseling and discipline for those students who have unexcused absences have also been set. According to the Administrative Committee report, "Like all requirements, the intent of this requirement can be defeated by an individual who refuses to open his mind to the possibility of being helped, through this king of group activity, to grow in his faith and religious perspective. In view of the importance that this college places on this kind of growth, the approach of requiring attendance is admittedly a very rudimentary step, considered necessary in view of "man as he is," and can be helpful only if followed up by chapel exercises of quality and by personal counseling with those who are rejecting this opportunity." After three unexcused absences the student will receive a notice asking him to discuss the matter with his faculty advisor. After four unexcused absences the student will be called before the Chapel Board, which will include one administrator, one faculty member, and two students. Originally the two student members of the board were to be selected by the Administrative Committee. However, at the suggestion of Mr. Cecil, professor of m u s i c and Arlene Arends, A.W.S. president, with the support of President Vander Werf and David Mouw, Student Senate President, it was decided that the two student members will be selected by the Student Senate and the Student Christian Association. According to the Administrative Committee, the role of the Chapel Board will be "both counseling and discipline. The terms of disciplinary action will be decided after conference. At this point, action would be short of dismissal, but could involve make up of some kind. All actions warning that violation of the conditions set up makes the student liable for dismissal. Parents are informed of the conditions established." Students who violate the con- • ditions established for them by the Board are to be referred to the Office of the Dean of Students and are liable to dismissal. Reactions to the new system have been varied. While those who have been advocating completely voluntary chapel are still expressing the perennial dissatisfactions with required attendance, an apparently large number of people feel that this is a step in the right direction.