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Students told officers from the Holland Police Department they felt as if Hope College parties are on the HPD hit list.

Students, the city prosecutor and police officers came together for at last Wednesday's Truth and Consequences talk to learn how the rules of "partying smart." Student Congress coordinated the event, and attendance was required of Greek organizations.

"I feel like we're just being targeted " said Lindy Chelf ('97). Others in the 75-member crowd at the front of Dimnent Chapel agreed, and asked officers Lisa Bancuk and Jack Dykstra, along with prosecutor Craig Bruce, why all of the sudden?

The answer is simple: the added funding of the Weed & Seed grant given last year by the federal government to clean up crime and install prevention programs allows for the police department to add officers in its target areas, stepping up police surveillance and increasing interaction. Hope College falls within a Weed & Seed zone. But if Hope College parties are feeling the heat, they aren't the only members of the community to feel the effects of increased policing.

"The Hope College area is a minute portion of what we do," said Officer Dykstra.

"It's entirely proportional, too," said Officer Drew Torres, who sat in the audience rather than on the panel. "The rest of the community also is getting it on increased levels."

Students questioned how parties as they now exist can continue with the upped police attention.

"We're not going to stop the parties," Bancuk said. "We just want them to be quiet, small and not selling alcohol."

Officers make many of the party busts after learning that alcohol is being sold from kegs inside the house. Whether a party attender is of legal drinking age when they buy alcohol from the keg is irrelevant. Some attenders questioned the fairness of coming down on college students for this activity. ' T h e Legislature hasn't adopted an exception for college students," prosecutor Bruce told the students.

"You wouldn't expect a college kid to pay for the beer for everyone they invite to their house," said Peter Payette ('96). "What is selling?"

The illegal sale of alcohol is a felony charge, and simply attending an event where beer is illegally sold is a misdemeanor.

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Pull leads t o serious i n j u r i e s Kidney, lung maladies plague event in 'freak9 year J O D I M C FAR L A N D campusbeat: e d i t o r

While 1995 was not a victory year for the Odd Year Pull Team, it certainly was an odd year for Pull-related injuries. Three Pullers and a Moraler made trips to the hospital emergency room during preparation for the event or following it.

"My biggest concern with you as college students is that you always feel as if nothing can happen to you," said Dean of Students Richard Frost. "All too often things do."

T h i n g s ' began happening to Pullers right off the bat, with two Pullers on che Odd Year side withdrawing within the first week of practice due to kidney problems.

Josh Neucks ('99) knew that the muscle pain he was experiencing wasn't par for the course when his urine became dark brown just two days into practice.

After a blood test showed abnormal levels of the toxic cpk enzyme in his blood sample, d o c t o r s d i a g n o s e d N e u c k s with a c u t e rhabdomyolysis, when the muscle membrane leaks a chemical into the blood called myoglo-

bin. This highly toxic chemical collects in the kidney in the form of a precipitate, causing serious damage.

"It's extremely uncommon," said his father Steven Neucks, a specialist in chronic pain work and arthritis. "There was so much of it in his blood that if we had not changed his fluid status, the kidney would have shut d o w n . " In many cases the kidney will eventually repair itself, but in the meantime dialysis would have been needed. Neucks spent five days in Community Hospital East in Indianapolis, Ind. The illness may have been the result of the combined factors of heat, intensive exercise and dehydration.

Russ Metcalf ('99) had similar kidney problems. After a week of practice, he woke up and could not move. He was taken by ambulance to Holland Hospital, where he spent the night getting his system cleaned with new fluids. Both Metcalf and Neucks do not feel that the Pull is to blame for their illnesses.

"It was my own fault," Metcalf said. "It didn't have anything to do with the Pull. It's just

The only people that understand Pull are the ones that did it.

—Ross Vrieze, Odd Year coach

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U p w a r d Bound program escapes rash of funding cuts Latest Greta CD brings grit to grunge.

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Hope's only coed fraternity gears up for pledging.

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After receiving serious funding threats from Congress last January, the Upward Bound program can breathe a sigh of relief — for now.

"The threat will always be odt there," said Hope Director of Upward Bound Liz Colbum.

"We're always going to have to worry about (losing funding). We all want to balance the budget, but not at the expense of programs that are working like ours."

Colburn got the final word last week that funding would not be cut at the annual San Diego conference of the National Council of Educational Opportunity Associations (NCEOA).

Upward Bound is a national Trio program receiving partial funding from host colleges and universities like Hope. Hope provides its Upward Bound with 38 percent of its funding, both in cash and kind. Upward Bound has been on Hope's campus for 27 years. It is an intensive mentoring program for area high school students in at-risk categories.

Budget balancing efforts led Congress to place the program on the proposed chopping block eight months ago. Other Trio programs lined up for elimination included student support services, the Veterans' Upward Bound and

Talent Search, a program that works with high school drop-outs struggling to return to high school and go on to college.

"Compared to some of the budgets they have ours is just a small piece, so they think they can get rid of us without understanding what we do and how effective we are," Colburn said.

The threat led to a lobbying effort by Trio program supporters and the NCEOA called "RoUing Thunder."

"Across the nation, people were lobbying for Trio programs " Colburn said. "We had a lot of faculty write letters to our senator, and we were able to gel Congressman Hoekstra to come to our program."

JgKBk Hoekstra visited Hope's Upward Bound and returned to Washington with a better understanding of its purpose, Colburn said.

For the next eight months. Upward Bound coordinators had to budget for the coming year without knowing for sure rf the money would be around.

"It's a real nebulous position to be in," Colburn said. "You've got the money and you need to spend it, but you know that it could be taken away later."

The Upward Bound program provides tutoring, internship opportunities, college visitations, two yearly required service projects and

special seminars to its 75 members each year.

The mentoring system assists students on the path toward college, a place many of them would not end up if not for Upward Bound's assistance.

High school seniors attend weekly seminars to get help filling out forms for financial aid and college preparation.

During the summer months, the program takes over Durfee Hall for an intensive six weeks of enrichment and learning.

Upward Bound's staff members are considered employees of the College. The program Cs about 20 students per semester to aid in itoring and up to 15 students to intern for classes like Exceptional Child and Educational PsychologyThe Upward Bound program at Hope has been given a clean bill of health according to a telephone research survey recently completed by the Education Department. Of the 117 program participants polled from the 1989-90 year, 65 percent reported that they were in some form of continued education. Forty-six percent of those said that they would not have attended college if not for the program.

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campus briefs Rash of break-ins hits campus lots A rash of car break-ins and stereo thefts in c a m p u s lots seems to be on the rise. In the past ten days an u n i d e n t i f i e d thief or t h i e v e s broke into eight vehicles, stealing stereos, speakers and radar detectors..

Half the cars broken into on Saturday, Sept. 23 were parked at 2 6 7 F a i r b a n k s A v e n u e by the Lugers Fieldhouse. Lighting there is limited to the south end of the building. Other lots hit include two break-ins in Lot X, a new addition to campus parking on 15th Street that had limited lighting.

"These cars are awful vulnerable out t h e r e , " said Director of Public S a f e t y Ray G u t k n e c h t .

Lighting w a s installed in Lot X after the first break-in last week.

For one car break-in at least the thief displayed uprecedented boldness, striking the car between 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 19.

"I don't remember ever a window being broken and radar detector being taken during broad daylight," said Duane Terpstra, assistant director of public safety. A car in Lot Y, also on 15th St., was broken into as well.

While Public Safety is doing all that they can to catch the thief or thieves, they are limited in manpower. By installing lights in the problem areas they hope to alleviate some of the problem, Gutknecht said. "(The thefts) will continue as long as there is a market for the radio equipment," he said. Gutknecht said that rashes like this do occur from time to time, and usually ease off when the crooks are caught or move on to other territory. The rash is not just particular to Hope College lots, he said. The four blocks surrounding c a m p u s have seen a similar rise in break-ins.

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SERVICE W I T H A SMILE: Volunteer Michelle Haiduc ('99) takes time out to donate blood at the Alpha Phi Omega Blood Drive last Wednesday in the Maas Center. A total of 102 donors combined to give 87 pints to the Red Cross.

Service club pledging begins JENN D O R N staff r e p o r t e r

It's that time of year again — rush week. Time for rushes to break out the pledge books and mark their calendars with rush events. That is, if t h e y a r e r u s h i n g A l p h a P h i Omega.

H o p e ' s only c o - e d , national fraternity. Alpha Phi Omega is holding its fall rush events until the end of this w e e k , with six w e e k s of p l e d g i n g s t a r t i n g j u s t a f t e r fall break. " T h e focus of rush week is to get the rushes familiar with us and what we do; and to help them decide if they want to join the fraternity and to help the actives get to know them as well," said Doreen Denniston, Alpha Phi Omega president.

Rush activities include bowling, a movie night, outings to S A C events, as well as informational sessions to familiarize the rushes with what the fraternity is all about: service.

Alpha Phi O m e g a is the sole service fraternity on campus. They f o c u s on p e r f o r m i n g s e r v i c e projects for the community. All active members are required to put in at least 15 service hours each semester. The fraternity hosts blood drives on campus twice each semes-

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ter and participates in community ternational by signing an agreement c l e a n - u p projects. T h i s fall they with the Philippines. A chapter is took a weekend retreat to a summer a l s o t r y i n g to get u n d e r w a y in camp where they helped clean it and Canada.

"It helps to be part of a national took the opportunity to get to know organization because we are a bit one another better. isolated here. We can go to "We are trying to be more pubnational conferlic about our services, so that e n c e s and see if other organizations S * what other around the c o m m u chapters are nity need our help •K*/ d o i n g a nd with something, how they they can come to are run. us," Denniston ^ ^ It's g r e a t said. to know that there It is possible to join is a whole nation another Greek organi• out t h e r e with zation on c a m p u s and common values. to being a member of A l t h o u g h we Alpha Phi Omega. The h a v e a d i v e r se reasoning behind this is g r o u p of p e o p l e in that Alpha Phi Omega is a terms of ideas and characservice fraternity and is not priteristics, we share a c o m m o n marily social.

"We do have a sense of broth- bond," Denniston said.

Alpha Phi Omega has existed erhood and we do social things, but we are not a purely social organi- since 1925 and has been at Hope s i n c e 1960. T h e f r a t e r n i t y w a s zation," Denniston said.

The Hope chapter of Alpha Phi started by a man who had been a O m e g a is run according to national m e m b e r of the Boy Scouts who guidelines, though they do have thought that an organization with values similar to the Boy Scouts their own bylaws.

E a c h o f t h e 6 0 0 c h a p t e r s was needed in college.

"Our sense for being is leaderaround the country is run a little differently, with variations in struc- ship, friendship, and service and we ture, service hour requirements, and try to develop that in our members," size. The fraternity recently went in- Denniston said.

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Some questioned why parties don't often receive warnings that they are breaking noise violations and are at risk of being broken up. " W e ' v e t r i e d t h a t and it doesn't work," Bancuk said.

Students used the opportunity to learn how the law works and applies to them, and many left with a deeper feeling of understanding.

S o m e needed to know that the talk's impact was felt by the panel, as well.

"We are all going to go back and tell our friends what was said," Davis said at the meeting's close.

"It would be reassuring to know that you are going to go back and talk to the o f f i c e r s not here a s well."

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w of alcohol charge includes selling from a keg to those who are over 21, as well, unless the provider is licensed to sell it.

While the officers on the panel didn't seem to have much in the way of good news for parties, they did offer helpful hints on how to keep out of trouble, including getting to know neighbors, keeping gatherings small and calling the police to have them clear the house before they get an official complaint from someone else. If a resident of the house calls and asks for assistance in g e t t i n g an o u t - o f - h a n d gathering to break up, attenders are not as likely to feel the long arm of the law. Caller confidentiality can be protected, as well, Bancuk said.

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"Unless we make them aware of what w e do and why it's important to keep us, we would be easy to eliminate," C o l b u m said.

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charged with a misdemeanor is a really big deal," said attender Sean Davis ('96).

The question of how to get alcohol for parties without breaking the law prompted a series of helpful suggestions by attenders, including charging one dollar at the door of the h o u s e to pay f o r " c a r p e t cleaning." Each case is considered by on its o w n m e r i t b y t h e prosecutor's office, Bruce said. He r e c o m m e n d s that party attenders bring their own alcoholic beverages to the event.

"If you use your common sense you're not g o i n g to get in trouble," Bruce said. "If y o u ' r e under 21, don't drink. If t h e y ' r e under 21, don't provide." But the illegal sale

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Dilapidated housing in need of Rx THREE F ' S FOR ENGLER Jim Riekse

I have to admit that I have not accurate and not unduly injure the looked upon Governor John Engler integrity of a district, thus causing fondly in the past. I have unleashed parents to opt for other districts. a flurry of angry words about his Next problem.

Last week Engler declared ideas and policies; cruel, spiteful words. Words you d o n ' t say in that he intended to introduce legfront of your mother or innocent, i s l a t i o n w h i c h w o u l d a l l o w impressionable children. I have re- schools to "break loose" from their examined these bitter statements districts, and become "smaller, and frankly, I was just too darn autonomous districts." nice.

The idea is to save money by The latest bungling deals with eliminating the costly bureaucracy the state of public education and from which many large districts his efforts to dismantle it. suffer. But all this accomplishes is Engler is a firm bethe creation of many new liever in schools of choice. mini-bureaucracies, the He commissioned a threesum total of which are year study of the state's larger than the original. schools in order to provide In fact, Michigan a "consumer's guide" to consolidated its districts parents, so they could shop in the '50's in order to s a v e m o n e y and imaround. First of all, I am not a fan of schools of prove education. Why choice. I don't want pub- G r a n d R a p i d s P r e s s would reverting to this lic money, in the form of vouch- f o r m e r c o n d i t i o n b e n e f i t the ers, going to religious schools. But schools? if you are going to compile a reIt's the whole Walmart conport card of the state's schools, cept. The more junk you put unJohnny, at least let it be remotely der one roof, the cheaper it becomes. When you have seven milaccurate.

T h e report is riddled with lion copies of the Lion King in the mistruths, causing school admin- store, you can sell them less existrators to give it an "F." An ex- pensively than can Freddy's Food ample of some of the mistakes are: and Stuff. an increase in the average Jenison Engler's greatest failing of paycheck by $14,000, Kentwood late actually doesn't come from the purging its ranks by 700 employ- educational arena, but a baseball ees and, most frightening to me, for stadium. two years, the Grand Rapids' pubHis decision to give the Tigers lic schools had no graduates, drop $55 million to build their new staouts or people moving in or out. dium verges on the ludicrous. In a If these numbers were true, recent Grand Rapids Press poll, Kentwood would be left with one 95% of area voters were against lunch lady and the hockey coach. the allocation of funds.

Based on this Engler—sanctioned With all the recent sentiment r e p o r t , I w o u l d not i n c l u d e against the millionaire players and Kentwood as one of my schools of billionaire owners, Michigan resichoice. dents would rather provide masAn even less appetizing statis- sage therapists to convicted felons tic than no staff would be Grand than give a dollar to baseball.

Rapids' complete lack of graduE n g l e r can not be totally ates. This is particularly disturbing blamed for all his inane ideas. He to me since I am from Grand Rap- has three little babies, who unids and if this be truth, then I never doubtedly have cut into his sleepgraduated, and college is s o m e ing time, and a man can't be exelaborate, wacky dream. pected to be totally rational under If Engler is going to compare such conditions. Take a nap, John districts, then he should at least be boy, and then rethink your ideas.

JIM RIEKSE & P E T E R EMERY infocus e d i t o r & staff r e p o r t e r

It was every mother's worst nightmare. Tara Stollenmaier ('96) was distraught to find her one-yearold daughter, Isabella, sitting in the m i d d l e of her Centennial Park Apartment living room floor about to swallow a "big, hard, black bug."

Stollenmaier's "bug incident" is one of the many problems she is experiencing with her college housing, several of which she sees as a danger to her b a b y ' health.

"The water is often rusty, and sometimes I find little pieces of metal floating in it," Stollenmaier said. "The school's only advice is to not use the water that day, so I can't bathe Isabella on the days that the pipes are acting up."

Stollenmaier is also troubled by a broken window that leaves her apartment freezing at night and uncovered outlets which will become more accessible to her child when she begins walking. " I ' v e c o m p l a i n e d to Derek (Emerson), and I've seen him make calls," Stollenmaier said. "The fault is with the maintenance staff. They have already said they were coming to fix the outlets and never showed up."

Stollenmaier is not alone in her exasperation with Hope's maintenance.

The recently moved Kappa Delta Chi house is experiencing its share of difficulties. Cracks from the move from lOth to 13th St. can be seen throughout the house. The windows were also stuck open for the first week of school, posing a safety hazard.

Due to the condition of the house, Mona Nasir ('97) had a less than spectacular first week.

"I was really scared because no lights were functioning, there was no phone, the windows were open, bees were swarming in and I was terrified," Nasir said. These problems were only worsened by the smell of f r e s h m a n u r e w a f t i n g through the ajar windows.

The Kappa Chi's greatest ag- more harm than good, according to gravation, however, is not manure Coates. or scarred plaster, but the dilapi"Impatient people only cause dated condition of the basement. more confusion when they file mulT h e old basement was fur- tiple complaints," Coates said. "Innished and the sight of the sorority's stead, they should call and check on meetings; the new basement, ac- the status of their complaint." cording to Nicole Clements ('97), One of the largest sources of is barren cinder blocks with the physical plant's trauma are the wires hanging down from Centennial Park Apartments, which the ceiling. were built in 1927. Stollenmaier's T h e c o l l e g e complaints are only the tip of the plans no further im- iceberg. p r o v e m e n t s to the Sue Pozzanghera ('97) has to basement, leaving the rely on the kindness of friends if she K a p p a C h i ' s in wants to take a shower. charge of its res"We haven't had any hot watoration. ter for weeks," Pozzanghera said.

A c c o r d i n g to "We called maintenance and they Nicole, their Greek advisor wanted came and banged on some pipes and them to "beg" their alumni for the told us that they will fix it over Fall needed funds.

Break. So I take showers in other "We feel really screwed over," houses and apartments. You just Amy Wright ('96) said. "We lost can't get up in a cold apartment and our lawn, a b a s e m e n t , and our take a cold shower," she said. driveway."

Rob Harrison ('96) had water; Fred Coates, the director of the problem was that it was comphysical plant operations, realizes ing through his ceiling. that stuA c dents are c o r d i n g to frustrated Harrison, with houshe was ing c o n d i awakened t i o n s , but by mainted u e to the n a n c e surging enknocking rollment on the door and acquia 3 : 3 0 in s i t i o n of the m o r n new cottages and apartment build- ing. He found water on the floor and ings, the Physical Plant is buried in dripping from the light fixtures, apwork orders. Between August 17 parently from a broken pipe on the and September 22, the Physical fourth floor. Maintenance punched Plant received 1,334 work orders, a hole in the ceiling to find the 269 of which are still incomplete. faulty pipe, resulting in a cascade "We acquired more cottages of water crashing down. Not findthat require more work," Coates ing the problem, another hole s a i d . " A n i n f l u x of m o r e was made, this time catching the culprit. p e o p l e is also c r e a t i n g more problems."

"It was definitely • an i n c o n v e n i e n c e , " An increase in the Harrison said. maintenance staff would be the simplest * ^ *Jt*1' ^wo similar solution to the overload, v p l u m b i n g b r e a k s occurred over the summer, but it currently isn't an • according to Centennial Park option. resident director Anissa Mihalek.

"We are trying to do with the least amount of mainte"It seems every time a pipe nance staff in order to keep costs breaks, they come and replace a section," Mihalek said. "What they down," Coates said.

Frustrated students need to re- really need to do is replace all the alize that submitting multiple work plumbing." orders for the same problem causes more HOUSING on 8

The water is often rusty, and sometimes I find little pieces of metal...

—Tara Stollenmaier, Centennial Park resident

Campus Pulse This year's topic for the Critical Issues Symposium is liberal arts education. When asked if this was a topic in which they were interested, Hope students said...

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"I already thought about the benefits of a liberal arts education four years ago, when I decided to come to Hope. If they decide that a liberal arts education is bad at the symposium, I still won't regret the decision to come here."

—Karen Oosterhouse ('96)

"I'm interested in whether or not a liberal arts school is going to prepare me for the real world and what the world thinks about liberal arts schools."

—Mary McGinn ('97)

"I don't find it an interesting topic. Something about poverty and service would be better. The liberal arts thing sounds like a pat on the back."

—Mark LaChonce ('98)

"I think the topic is good since we are all attending a liberal arts college and it affects all of us."

—Stacey Vlietstra ('95)

"I find the topic quite comp e l l i n g , s i n c e I am p a y i n g $17,000 a year to go here. Of course I want to know if this education is valuable."

—Tricia Gammons ('96)

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Painful rites of passage N o p a i n , n o g a i n . S u c k it u p . D o it f o r t h e F a m i l y . . .

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T h e y w e r e warriors, forever b o n d e d through the celebration of tradition, team w o r k , f r i e n d s h i p and family.

U n f o r t u n a t e l y f o r several athletes, there will be m o r e than fond m e m o r i e s tied to their time on the r o p e . S o m e will feel the physical ramifications long after the pits are filled.

Pull h a s e v o l v e d f r o m an e x t r a c u r r i c u l a r activity into a d e m a n d i n g sport. Unlike traditional athletes. Pullers h a v e n o pre-season conditioning. T h e y l a u n c h into an intensive

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engaged in an event that is rich in tradition, marked by the inventiveness of students over the years and which was conducted so positively in virtually every respect.

T h e i n t e g r i t y of P u l l e r s , Moralers, coaches and representatives marked this year's Pull as worthy of great respect. Sure, the rules are few and requirements for each person participating and attending are clear, but the fact that this three hour event progressed with such a positive quality throughout made it possible for everyone to remember it with satisfaction.

Of course, even for those most

D e a r Editor, I simply want to say "Thank You" and Congratulations to the organizers, planners, and participants and supporters of the year's Pull. It was a great event on a beautiful afternoon with an outcome so close that all the participants can rightfully claim victory.

It has been several years since I last attended the Pull so it was with some reservation that I accepted Scott VanderBeek's invitation to be a judge. The real benefit came to me as 1 had the opportunity to observe a large portion of the campus

A n d , while coaches encourage those not feeling well t o b a g p r a c t i c e , t h e y a r e in a c o m p r o m i s i n g p o s i t i o n .

Pull, a f t e r all, is a s p o r t of m i n d o v e r matter. T h e key to w i n n i n g is k e e p i n g t h e s p i r i t a l i v e d e s p i t e a t o r t u r e d b o d y .

T h e team with the highest pain threshold wins.

So w h e r e d o e s the b a l a n c e lie?

Treat Pullers like any other student athletes. Let the coaches worry about strategy and Pullers about taking t h e l a s t i n c h o f r o p e . If e v e r y o t h e r H o p e t e a m i s a s s i g n e d student trainers w o u l d n ' t the s a m e logic apply to an event as rigorous as the Pull?

W h i l e the p r e s e n c e of trainers c a n n o t g u a r a n t e e that injuries w o n ' t occur, they c a n tend to the m i n o r a c h e s and p a i n s that c a n lead to s o m e of the m o r e s e r i o u s p r o b l e m s experienced this year. Student trainers serve o n the f r o n t lines of an e s t a b l i s h e d s y s t e m of r e f e r r a l s that w o u l d c o n n e c t P u l l e r s with the p r o p e r health care professionals.

G i v e the w a r r i o r s s u p p o r t they need to b r i n g h o m e the rope.

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noted, such a policy will appear "unattractive" to prospective students. In addition, the rule would simply be unfair. Ok then, maybe we should just install yet another oh-so-attractive asphalt slab for our convenience. While I'll be the first to admit that cruising around Siberia looking for an open space at 3 a.m. is a huge pain, I don't think that adding parking space is the answer. My c o n c e r n i s — w h e r e would we put them? Should Hope build a parking garage with several stories?—one in the shape of a windmill would be cool. Or maybe we could contribute to the increasing overcrowding problem in Holland. We'll just have people in the immediate community move so we can level off their property and cover it with tar and rocks. I'm sure that would go over WELL! The solution I propose has n o t h i n g to do with the c o l l e g e policy, but with students voluntarily acting responsible. While I admit that some circumstances such as unexpected emergencies and internships would make having sole access to a car convenient, do so many people really need one of their own? Somehow, I and hundreds of others have managed to service without one. How? — By

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I am taking strong exception to several things presented in your coverage of the Core Curriculum Committee's proposal to add "An Introduction to Christian Learning" and "Faith and Learning."

First of all, I would like to propose a counter-situation to the one that Jim Riekse brought out. What if there is a straight A student who shows great potential in the natural sciences, but decides against Hope College after noticing that Hope College seems to be almost hypocritical in its faith. The person sees the wonderful chapel services and

Sincerely, J u d i t h Miller ('96)

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everyone has an ecumenical sense of what prison is or is not, and, ecumenically speaking; no on WANTS to be here.

This letter, in present form and future—hopefully—purpose, in no way seeks a direct remedy for nor assistance in diminishing, or eliminating my social-circumstantial cross. I am not, nor will I, solicit legalistic, socio-political, criminalistic, and/or fiscal assistance. I am simply seeking a friend or two. I am prayerful there are persons "out there" willing, if not able,

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carpooling, using campus transportation, riding bikes, roller blading, walking, skipping etc. The possibilities are endless, cheaper safer for the environment and, frankly, more enjoyable. Need to go to Meijer's?

Don't go alone! What fun is that?

Need a ride home for Thanksgiving? Make a sign saying you'll help pay for gas or give up your left lung for a ride and stick it on the transportation board at Phelps. Do you have room in your car? Offer someone a ride, charge too much for gas and s p e n d the extra m o n e y on Christmas presents for your family.

If you're the adventure seeking type looking for true excitement, ride the Greyhound home. Trust me, you'll have stories to tell your grandkids.

I think the parking problem would be resolved if students from all classes will consider whether they really need a car, come to the realization that they don't and then volunteer to leave it at home.

I for one would hate to see the College be forced to make a restrictive policy c o n c e r n i n g p a r k i n g privilege. I certainly wouldn't want to pay for tar.

v e r y d i f f e r e n t m i s s i o n s , thus accomodating the pool of prospective college students. Hope College has one very distinct mission in my v i e w , w h i l e K a l a m a z o o and Grinnell (IA) Colleges have quite another. I'm not implying that those students who are from another faith that have chosen Hope should pack up and leave. I am saying, however, that if you come to Hope College, I hope that you meet an institution that is not only proud of its rustic Christian tradition, but also a dynamic, loving campus that is filled with the Holy Spirit.

Sincerely, Joel P l a n t i n g a ('96)

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everyone singing and clapping, but sees an intentional effort in the curriculum to "hide" the Christian faith because it didn't want to rock the boat of political correctness in the name of diversity. Instead, the person goes to Wheaton College because they are unconvinced of our sincerity to Christianity.

Many tears probably wouldn't be lost by Mr. Riekse or anyone else opposed to the core curriculum changes if this situation would occur. But then wouldn't we be guilty of the same closed-mindedness label that Christianity has somehow incurred? The point I'm trying to make is that different colleges have

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It seems that the only solutions being considered to remedy Hope's so-called parking crisis are 1) deny freshmen they privilege of registering a car with Public Safety or 2) install more lots. In my 3+ years at Hope I ' v e learned that their are rarely only two solutions to a problem I'd like to offer a third proposal after discussing the ones already mentioned.

In last week'si4/ic/ior, five students responded to the proposal to relinquish the parking privileges of first-year students. Four of the five opposed this role and (big surprise) all four were freshmen. One student assumed (probably accurately) that upperclassmen wouldn't give a rip whether or not freshmen could use Hope lots. To be hones, that was my initial reaction. Another student expressed concern that such a proposal would create inequality within the student body. At first I disregarded the statement, but this student made a valid point. Why should we all pay the same amount of money to attend Hope and not receive equal b e n e f i t s ? Should freshmen be denied the right to bring a car to Hope? Absolutely not!

For starters, as the College has

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deeply invested in this event, a career at Hope College is not encapsulated by the Pull. None-the-less, when the event is as well conducted as my experience suggested it was this year, it is clearly a worthy tradition which adds to the uniqueness and vigor of life at Hope College.

T h a n k s to everyone who worked constructively to make this such a positive, fun and worthwhile tradition.

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three w e e k haul w h i c h continually intensifies allowing little t i m e f o r r e c o v e r y f r o m e v e n m i n o r m u s c l e strains.

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Environmental (social-circumstantial) monotony, and a big dose of spiritual melancholoy brings me to you with a prayerful request; a request both unique and urgent.

My return address has, doubtlessly, conveyed to you the foundational nature of the "environmental monotony" though which I — via this letter — am moved; but I will refrain from first person and indepth anecdotes of prison life, I wish not to offenc you...afterall.

to aid me in bearing the spiritual aspect of my cross, being a friend in the name of universal charity... not in the social shout of "Free Kevin Now!" Sincerely, Kevin A. Miles ADC #98955 A Z St. Prison Complex Florence Unit CB-6 Florence, A Z 85232

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"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." — A n n e Frank

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related events: # Sunday, O c t . 1 D e W i t t T h e a t r e 4 p.m. Concentrat i o n camp s u r v i v o r J a c k P o l a c k w i l l speak about his experiences. # Saturday, Oct. 7 Herrick Public Library, 1 p.m. T e r e s e E d e l t e i n , a t r a n s l a t o r of Holocaust l i t e r a t u r e from Dutch i n t o E n g l i s h , w i l l share s t o r i e s about c h i l d r e n duri n g Word War I I . # Monday, Oct. 16 Knickerbocker Theatre 7 p.m."From Concentrat i o n Camp t o C o n c e r t H a l l " a musical p e r f o r mance by v i o l i n i s t Shony A l e x B r a u n , who i s a c o n c e n t r a t i o n camp s u r v i v o r . # Saturday Oct. 28 Knickerbocker Theatre 8 p . m . A m u s i c a l drama e n t i t l e d "An Evening w i t h M a d a m F , " p r e s e n t e d by p i a n i s t Claudia Stevens.

The drama i s based on t h e t r u e s t o r y o f a woman who survived internment i n a c o n c e n t r a t i o n camp by p l a y i n g p i a n o f o r her c a p tors. # A l l programs above a r e free to students. # Oct. 16-28 K n i c k e r bocker f i l m : " T h e D i a r y o f Anne F r a n k " # Oct. 23-28 K n i c k e r bocker f i l m : " G o o d E v e n i n g Mr. Wallenberg" S3.50 a d m i s s i o n f o r students

In 1942, at the age of 13 when most American teens were anxiously p r e p a r i n g to enter high school, Anne Frank was preparing to go into hiding from Nazi powers. With the help of trusted friends, the Franks and four others moved into the annex of the Amsterdam building where Anne's father's business was located. The eight lived in cramped quarters until August 1944, when they were betrayed by an informer and taken to concentration camps by the Nazis.

Just before her sixteenth birthday and one month before liberation, Anne died of typhus in BergenBelsen, one of the worst German concentration camps.

If you Had lived next to Anne Frank could she have counted on you? This is just one of the many questions explored at the forthcoming internationally acclaimed exhibit "Anne Frank In the World: 1929-1945." Opening this Friday at the Holland Museum, the exhibit exposes the crude intolerance of a historically unprecedented holocaust, presented through the powerful story of a single Jewish girl with a heart to survive and sanctify the evils of her environment.

For many, Anne Frank's journal is the first and possibly only exposure to the Holocaust. The ex-

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THE MANY FACES OF INNOCENCE: The very image of Anne}s bright smile has become a universal symbol of courage and hope.

Over 10 million copies of her diary have been sold in over 52 languages hibition literally recreates the world of Anne Frank and her diary. Over 600 photographs and documents in the exhibit challenge us to explore our own experiences with discrimination and aid us in building racial, ethnic, and religious understandings between all classes and groups of people.

Two large panels greet and immediately introduce museum guests to the life and history of Anne Frank. In addition, pages of Anne's diary and a model of the

secret annex where the Frank family hid for two years can be found in a smaller room.

The exhibit is not a gruesome one but a history lesson through photographs. Family pictures of the Frank family are similar to the type found in the average person's home.

Pictures of weddings, babies, parties and family portraits tell of a family just like any other family.

Short, explanative paragraphs support pictures, graphs, and various other illustrations in a manner that

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CHAINS OF TERROR: ZeelandHigh School student Dennis Nagelkirk portrays an attitude of discrimination in his untitled painting of stark faces confined by formidable chains. Other area students will have works of similar subjects exhibited at the DePreeArt Gallery this month.

many will see and understand.

The desire to bring the Anne Frank exhibition to Holland began six years ago when Hope professor of art Jack Wilson considered the possibility of h o u s i n g it in the DePree Art Gallery. The project was immediately moved to the Holland Museum when Wilson found the college gallery to be too small.

Since then, both the collage and the museum have become joint partners in presenting many facets of the Anne Franlfexperience.

Eltine DeYoung-Peterse, Director of Education at The Holland Museum, encourages people of all ages to visit the museum. "There is a very diverse population in Holland," she said. "It is important to remember that Nazi Germany grew on an economical crisis and it could always happen today. Nazi concentration camps were set up not only for Jews, but for anyone who was different: political opponents, homosexuals, and gypsies."

Part of the advantage of this exhibit is that "Different people will come out with different messages," DeYoung-Peterse said. "Intolerance occurs at every level." Having an exhibit of this sort p r o v i d e s a chance to explore personal convictions, she said.

T h a n k s to f u n d i n g by t h e Michigan Humanities Council, The Louis and Helen Padnos Foundation and a gift from an anonymous donor, 3,000 to 4,000 area school children will be able to see the exhibit. " A n n e Frank In The World: 1 9 2 9 - 1 9 4 5 " has begun bringing people together even before the exhibition opens. Within days of placing advertisements in local newsmore FRANK on 8

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JUST ONE OF THE GUYS: Keri "Femme" Law broke tradition this year as the first woman in Pull history to throw heaves on the rope during competition.

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In a test of wi i, si well-matched E \ l ^ battled for rope fth before judges d( W victorious Saturcr "I think it kinÂŤ f the Pull should Tom Poole ('96) matched teams, the other. T h e y ' Even Year tool 10 inches. Boths and neck compc tier seven feet, seven ich men pulling in f lit A false start djic the event's start llo in not just thero is from under the r poised in their pi.I iously as judges tal point over the rrt^ At about 3:10 an

STAND BY ME: Janeen "Slammer" Gipson holds up Dave "Hammer" Schrier.Too weak to walk after the competition, Schrier was carried back to the bus by fellow Pullers.

MIND OVER MATTER: Steve "Assassin" Kraseman zeros in on his target. Odd Year tradition holds that Pullers paint their faces white and black for a monochromatic mercenary look.

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strength and desire, the and Odd Year Pull teams the full three hour limit red the Even Year team F embodies what I think ' said Even year Coach hey were two physically hout one overpowering e equally matched." e Pull by a slim two feet, s gained rope in the neck on, with Even taking in :hes, and Odd Year freshfeet, nine inches, to miscommunication at owed Even Year to reel s slack, but also rope out 2S of the Odd Year Team Both teams waited anxiligned the rope's center cy Black River. n. the Pull began in ear-

nest, with Pullers and Moralers on both sides riding a wave of adrenaline as they locked down and began the give and take that would characterize the next three hours.

Amid cries of "Psycho Sickness" on the Even's south bank and "Break 'QS" from Odd Year fans, the Pullers on both sides of the river struggled with multiple heaves and weak lock-ins in an attempt to gain the most slack. Lock-in difficulties would haunt both teams throughout the event.

Odd Year Pullers heaved with recently shaven heads thrown back and veins bulging in their black and silver tribal-painted faces. Their counterparts on the opposite bank seemed all-American in red tees and blue denim.

As the exhilaration of the start gave way to fatigue and bleeding, members of the teams used strategies to distract from their physical pain.

"Sing us a song, you're the piano man," began Jonathan "Gator" Chamin, who was joined by Pullers and Moralers in neighboring pits. The chorus was cut short by the next heave, however, as the team's straining and shaking muscles were called back to busi-

Odd Year coaches called their team to "break through the wall" and "get greedy" as the minutes ticked by. Fatigue wore on Pullers as coaches tried to lead them to the other side where awareness of pain is lost.

"You gotta explode," barked Odd Year coach Ross Vrieze ('97). "If you throw up, it doesn't matter."

As the last half of the competition closed in, the mental and physical strain of both teams sometimes gaining rope, at other times fearing valuable inches were lost, took its toll.

On the Odd side, team enthusiasm hit a low, prompting coaches to tell Pull alumni at the front of the line to spread out by their old pits to encourage and energize the Pullers. And it worked.

Even Year anchor David Schrier ('98) lost balance on his shaking legs, falling at a few points as the competition neared its end.

Thronging fans squeezed against the barrier w e r e instantly there for moral s u p p o r t , screaming "Come on, Dave!" as his Moraler, Janeen Gipson ('98), hauled him back to his numbed feet.

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WE AIN'T DONE YET: Matt "Kama" DeJong holds onto his team's lifeline as Erin "Kazi" Barrone and Coach Kim Eckert watch for calls.

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A PUNK ROCK, JACKED UP JOCK OF GRIT ANO GALL CALLED GRETA SUFJAN STEVEMS Intermission editor

At first glance, the cover of Greta's newest album yells with a self-absorbed message: " T h i s is Great!" Your manipulated subconscious registers the information, sends signals to your hand, which involuntarily reaches for the wallet, and before you know it, you're back at your pad dancing naked in front of the mirror to the grinding grudge-rock of Greta.

Only after the second track do you discover that the cover message really reads: "This is Greta!" Sure, a simple oversight on your part; but before you go scrambling through the trash for the receipt, give the disc another listen and let your rational conscious evaluate for itself.

W h i l e you may not be entrapped by Greta's subliminal tactics, the CD may still take some subliminal scrutiny in order to full experience its tantalizing tuneage.

At the first spin, Greta's sound seems sorely saturated with passive grudge-hypnotism, laughing guitar licks and a m e s m e r i z i n g " M r .

Clean" sound (too tight, that is—if you are of the loose-fitting school of pop music).

The instrumentation is rather conventional as well: guitar, bass, more guitar, drums, uh, more guitar (you get the idea); this leaves little room for playful experimentation of sound (their amp settings seemed to have been feverishly ignored). On the brighter side, their

massive over-layering of guitars creates a strangely sensual sound, dampening the coarseness of their rockety-rollin' tendencies; their style mixes the technique of positive eighties pop and rotting nineties grudge, but with an element of evocative lyrical transcendence.

Track 9, " R o c k i n c C h a i r " pervades with Alice in Chains lung-chortling, while "About You" presents a gem-like sweetness reminiscent of the coarser Kinks of a yesteryear.

Greta also attributes their endurance and tenacity to a willingness to foster a familiar sound juxtaposed against idyllic, strangelyhypnotic lyrical movements. The frolicking track 7. "Warm Disease," gallops horse-like through harsh guitar strums «JB a n d

rumpity drum undertones, while the contrasting beatle-esque lyrics provide a subtle irony.

Track two, " S o m e people," mixes mildly cliched chordal riffs with a carefully-contrived, selfcoined poetic device: "rock-star angst s u r r e a l i s m ! " Lead-rocker Paul Plaeens tunefully titillates with Beck-like oddities: "Mentholated mayonnaise, styrofoam machine, turbo powered sex drives...Some p e o p l e blow my mine." W h i l e Plagens' oblique profundity may merely blow hot air. he does effectively master the t e c h n i q u e of opaque introspection, dealing with sometimes disturbing personal subjects: rehab reminiscence, intelligent nonchalance, and proverbial

ballading. What gathers the sound within the group is the haunting expressiveness of Plagens' vocal capacity. Echoing the throat throttling of Jeff Buckley mixed with sorely strained J o h n L e n n o n , Plagens captures a vocal vivacity with surprising success; some of the lyrical developments in fact recover the band's conventional a w k w a r d n e s s . That is exactly what redeems the band's painfully punk-rock-jacked-up-jock wanna-be image.

Meed my parental counsel: dancing naked in front of the mirror to growling Greta-tunes while howling "This is Great!" builds character.

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Well, w h i l e many pounds of hemp have purely pres e r v e d t h e late f l o w e r - f o o t of D e a d - l e a d , Jerry's sumblime taste in music has not faltered. He suggests a few more new releases to dip your musical toes into: punkjunkies Klover will give you toe-hair chills. Yet another punk-pop band with little substance has arisen from the post80's heretics of pop-culture.

Sorely simple riffs and self-asserted, ego-centric masculinity drive the stud-operated lyrics.

An image of even grosser boyishness self-satrizes the band's attempt at profound-pop effect.

Nothing is lucky about this three-leaf Klover—just a few green sounds, attempting Green Day, and getting green with envy in the failure. On a more positive note, Jerry suggests tantalizing your ear lobes with O v e r T h e R h i n e ' s latest re-release version of previously unavailable "live" material and others in Till We Have Faces, a soul-monitor of sensual lyricism and damn good music, too. Some people feel this cozy collection of live and studio s o u n d s is an a r t - w o r t h y collector's item, exposing the tension of Rhine's taught togetherness and smiling spontaneity. If Jerry proves wrong, why, use the CD for a nose ornament

T h e Blenders m i x up a w h o l e bowl-full of fun JENN D O R N staff r e p o r t e r

live folk narcosis with special music guests THIS SATURDAY @ DURFEE JULIANA ROOM 7:30 p.m. free

The Kletz was the place to be Friday night as hundreds of students packed in to groove on the tunes of the SAC sponsored a capella group.

The Blenders.

The evening started out as the four-man group took the stage and wowed the crowd with an a capella number which set the festive mood for the evening. The audience was d e f i n i t e l y ready for s o m e good sounds and responded to the music by clapping their hands and snapping their fingers to the beat. The band even managed to elicit a few wildly romantic screams every now and again from the single female

population in the crowd. For the rest of their hour and a half set, The Blenders performed a multitude of songs, some a capella, though some included musical accompaniment as well. They also performed a number of cover songs, including a capella versions of " F a i t h " and "Stand By Me." Perhaps the most moving song of the evening was one written by the b a n d a b o u t a child n a m e d Charlie who was killed in a hand gun accident. T h e a u d i e n c e remained silent for a few moments after the song had ended before bursting into applause.

The harmonious, doo-wop sounds of The Blenders provided a welcome break from the monotony

of campus life.

The group seemed very comfortable on stage and happy to be performing, and since they were having a good time on stage, this rubbed off on the audience who had

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FRANK from 5 papers, the response of people willing to volunteer was larger than ever. "We are very happy there is such an interest because this issue is so important," DeYoung-Pcterse said A companion art exhibit, "One World, Many Choices," comprised of paintings by area middle and high school students is offered at The DePree Gallery. Responding to tolerance and diversity, students capture personal experiences in a multi-cultural environment through painting and drawing.

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The Blenders consists of four men: Ryan Lance, Timothy Kasper, and brothers Alan and Darren Rust, all in their mid-20's. They hail originally from Fargo, North Dakota, though they now reside in the Twin Cities, Minneapolis/St. Paul.

The Blenders have been performing together for five years and have appeared on the Arsenio Hall show, the Nashville Network, and at C a e s a r ' s P a l a c e . T h e y w e r e awarded the Contemporary Artist of the Year award in the college circuit and are nominated again this year. They have three albums out i n c l u d i n g their n e w e s t release, From the Mouth, which they are promoting on this tour.

that could localize the whole meaning of the Anne Frank experience," Wilson said, "so that it could be b r o u g h t d o w n to the p e r s o n a l level."

Most of the student art work in Depree has been a whole year in the making.

"What we got was some good art that is in some cases responded to personal differences," Wilson said. "In other cases it became a fairly literal response to the Anne Frank story. Overall, it is a celebration of an individual personality."

The artwork is deeply personal.

contained in multi-media forms, and is a definite compliment to the Anne Frank story.

The Anne Frank exhibit, created by the Anne Frank Foundation in Amsterdam, opened simultaneously in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and New York City on June 12, 1985. Since that time the exhibit has been seen by more than 2.0 million people all over the world. General costs for the exhibit is $3 for adults, $2 for senior and students, and $7 for families. The Holland Museum is located on 31 West 10th Street, across from Centennial Park.

Mihalek has heard that Hope w o n ' t renew C e n t e n n i a l P a r k ' s lease a f t e r c o n s t r u c t i o n of the Hayworth Center is complete.

"I think maintenance is hoping that the l e a s e i s n ' t r e n e w e d , " Mihalek said. "Every time we have a problem, they just come and shake their heads."

Julie Goebel, director of housing and student life, sympathizes with students' concerns.

"You pay big bucks to come to Hope, so I think that we should offer good accommodations," Goebel said. "But I worked at Michigan

State for eight years and in comparison the choices that Hope students have are incredible."

Incredible as they might be, Dave Nicolson ('96), has some advice for those students who just c a n ' t seem to get their housing repaire. Nicholson and his roommates, residents of Belt Cottage, worked out a deal when the school asked them to move out of their house last spring to facilitate building for the Haworth Center.

"Put in a maintenance form and if that d o e s n ' t work, go talk to Frost."

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The first of the two night per- ment of a story, formance began with a dance en- which seemed ' m titled, "Consort." In their muted to be j u s t as dancing, orange, lavender and rose costumes, portant as the and required the d a n c e r s to the six men and six women began also be actors.

The men and women to playfully interact with each other related through some specific lines flirtatiously to the music of a harpsichord. Much of the dance seemed of trying to become close, and keepto revolve around the formal dance i n g e m o t i o n s w i t h i n a c c e p t e d steps of the 1700's, when minuets bounds. In an explosion of pride, were played and steps were ex- one of the male dancers would show ecuted to them. Feld made these off his skills to the ladies, leaping dance steps incredibly complex and and twisting high into the air, redifficult by the speed, the lifting, the turning lightly to the ground just to stretching, and the leaps that each throw himself into a graceful fury

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Just as the mood of light and sweet interaction had emerged, so it instantaneously changed. The stage was darkened, and the dancers clutched each other, juxtaposing the hesitation and formal closeness of before. Gone was the control, as the men wrapped their arms around the women and swung them against their bodies. The choreography hinted of the sexual, and each pair danced closely. " C o n s o r t " ended in a dark picture of the men tossing the women into the air as their legs swung straight up to the lights, holding for a moment, then

V i s i t i n g w r i t e r s serve a S o u t h e r n v a r i e t y of p o e t r y and s t o r y t e l l i n g AMY VIVIO staff r e p o r t e r

Appalachian writers Michael Chitwood and Lee Smith kicked off a n o t h e r year of H o p e C o l l e g e / OPUS Visiting Writers Series events with an enthralling reading to a p a c k e d h o u s e at t h e Knickerbocker Theatre last Thursday evening.

Chitwood read recent poems whose subject matter ranged from fishing to the story of Lazarus.The poet's suit and tie may have caused some audience members to compare him to a business executive, but he quickly won the audience over.

Talking about his latest poetry collection, Whet, he quipped, "My publisher wanted to do a 4 whet* t-shirt contest." »• Chitwood's irrev-

uncle's favorite sayings: "Yeah, and people in Hell want ice water!"

When Lee Smith, Chitwood's counterpart, took the stage, she told a story about moving to Alabama.

A new neighbor woman came by, and spotting all of Smith's books, exclaimed, "Who reads all those?"

When the novelist explained that she was not only a reader, but also a writer, the woman said, "Oh, that must be so boring!"

Smith, with her reddish-framed reading glasses perched on the end of her nose, quickly set about proving how interesting a writer she truly is. She read from the beginning of her latest work. Saving

Grace.

T h e novel tells the story of Florida Grace Shepherd, whose father, Reverend Virgil Shepherd, is a traveling charismatic, serpent-handling preacher. Smith's overintohisex- narrative was rich with appalachian p 1 a n a t i o n s imagery, heightened by the charm about the origins of her southern dialect. of some of his seSmith also shared lections, includ- her inspiration for writi n g o n e of ing the novel. She met a h is

woman in a mall who told her, "When you've had the serpent in your hands, it gives your life an edge." The writer began to wonder what the woman's life had been like, and Saving Grace was born.

"Listening to poets or novelists gives a whole new perspective to literature," Colleen Ortwine ( ' 9 6 ) said. "Listening to Lee Smith really brought out her stories and made them real."

The Last Call Band opened the reading with an eclectic, energizing mix of songs. Both writers' works are available in the Hope-Geneva B o o k s t o r e and at o t h e r a r e a booksellers.The next Opus/Visiting Writers Series event, a reading by award-winning poet Maxine Cumin, will be on November 1.

dropping down again.

The second dance of the performance was titled, "Gnossiennes," and with it Feld maximized a sense of ambiguous spiritual-

ity.

T h e i n s i d e of the playbill read, "Gnossiennes: those possessing spiritual or mystical knowledge."

The stage was darkened, except for a pale light coating the floor. A w o m a n dancer, Ha-Chi Yu, appeared in white tights and a white, filmy sheath. As Peter Longiaru began to play a slow, scattered melody on the piano, Ha-Chi Yu danced, her dark hair falling down to her shoulders. The dance was dependant on the intrinsic emotion of Yu, r e q u i r i n g her to m o v e

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of ballet subtlety yet with full force. Yu twisted and stretched smoothly, her face a mask of changing expressions. She glided and shook her upper body, gathering her hair and then letting it down. Yu ended up on the left side of the stage, lying on her side, moving only her legs and her face. A second dancer, Buffy Miller, joined Yu in forwarding this sense of subtle movement, constantly m o v i n g in vivid motion.

Miller danced around Yu's position on the stage, then began dancing over her. Miller retreated backwards, half-dragging Yu with her.

Later the two dancers were joined by four other women in white, moving and turning close, yet always maintaining the separation between themselves and the two principal dancers. It w a s a strange dance c o m b i n i n g purity and w i s d o m , more) BALLEX on I2

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Seven seduces with sadism J. W A I N W R I G H T movie reviewer

It's a politically correct nightmare—gratuitous sex in Showgirls and gratuitous violence in Seven all in the same weekend. While the f o r m e r may leave you e m b a r rassed, nothing can possibly make you more uncomfortable than the two-hour shockfest Seven.

Although the pairing in this movie may be r e m i n i s c e n t of "buddy cop" movies like Lethal Weapon, there is no comic relief and no friendship between the two.

Detective William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), a veteran of 34 years on the police force, is officially retired at the end of the week. Although he has nothing planned after his retirement (since he has no family and no real close friends), he needs to get out because he can't believe how barbaric the world has become.

Somerset's life is so ordered that he falls asleep listening to a metronome.

Little does he know that this will be the most bizarre week of his career. His replacement, David Mills (Brad Pitt) is the complete opposite; arrogant, eager, and a little short-tempered, he actually requested the worst part of town because he wanted a little excitement. What could be a belter first case than the murder of a 1,000 pound man who seems to have drown in a bowl of spaghetti? It actually turns out to be a murder corresponding to the first sin, gluttony, where this man was forced to eat non-stop until he ruptured his insides. Unfortunately, this is as comfortable as the movie gets.

The most shocking moment, in my

opinion, was the crime of sloth, where a man was found tortured beyond belief and tied to a bed to rot for a year until his discovery.

The crimes are so brutal and presented in such a suspenseful manner that you can't help but smell the stench of death with Somerset and Mills.

The lighting in this movie is very poor—but once you see the few details that are noticeable, you'll thank the filmmakers for hiding the rest. Eventually you will dread the finding of the next body because you can't imagine it getting any worse. The killer is portrayed in a very chilling manner. To prevent himself from leaving fingerprints, he slices off the tips of his fingers. Like Hannibal L e c t o r in The Silence of the Lambs, each spoken word is presented philosophically and without emotion.

He is patient, sadistic, and, as he s t a t e s , h a s r e a s o n f o r h i s crimes. " I h a v e not m a d e this choice," he asserts, "but rather I have been chosen...a deadly sin is committed every day on every street corner."

Although this is presented in the form of a mystery, the true suspense does not come from guessing who the serial killer is, but rather from wondering whether all seven sins (gluttony, greed, sloth, lust, pride, envy, and wrath) will actually be presented. The movie does a good job of building up the tension until the end. At its conclusion, there are no winners because everyone still has the chilling scenes of each murder in their minds and, just like Somerset, we all end up wondering how barbaric we really have become.

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Dutchmen shut out rival "TOM A K L A N D staff r e p o r t e r

Fielding one of Ihe most tale n t e d t e a m s in H o p e ' s a n d t h e MIAA's history, Coach Steve Smith and company continued their winning w a y s with a 2-0 victory over Albion on Saturday.

After nearly forty frustrating and somewhat disappointing minutes of first-half play, veteran forwards finished on a cross and began to win back the t e a m ' s confid e n c e in t h e m s e l v e s . S t e v e C o y ('98) " w a x e d " his Albion defender in the c o r n e r of the field with a quick move before hitting a cross that sailed through the air and came down on Paul R o s e n b r o o k ' s ( ' 9 6 ) head. Rosenbrook then " f l i c k e d " the ball to the w e a k side of the field where Geoff Rodocker ('97) — vindicating his transfer from A l b i o n — drove it past his former teammate and into the back of the net. "It felt good to score b e c a u s e it made a clear separation between my career

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at Albion ending and my career at of these important players who finished S a t u r d a y ' s scoring for the Hope beginning," said Rodocker.

The second half began well for Dutchmen. In the 74th minute of the Dutchmen as the f l o w of the play, Nate Kronewetter ( ' 9 6 ) drove game and their possession time of a slot pass across the goal where the ball were both favorable. Soon John Conlon ( ' 9 7 ) assisted Ryan enough though, Hope's fire burnt Groulx ( ' 9 8 ) w h o snuck the ball low and their dominating style of past the keeper.

Hope's tenacity and collective play seemed to slip away. "Albion shut out our players in the middle defense on all of the field played a so we countered by taking advan- large roll in the keeping balls out tage of our outside," c o m m e n t e d of Hope's net and the Albion BritSmith. He continued, saying, "We ons on their heels. Always a calmneed to improve on different aspects ing factor in the disheartening moof our game, but this will come. We ments of the game. Josh Sheldon played with a lot of heart and great ('96) and Chris Dombrowski ('98) enthusiasm; both needed to win big led the backfield and helped the players around them return their games."

A valued part of this soccer concentration and confidence.

Ready to knock off the top dog, team, as in past years, is the amount of depth on the bench that allows the D u t c h m e n f a c e t h e M I A A the coaches to feel comfortable sub- leader. Alma, at 4 o ' c l o c k today stituting players with out any "let down at the fields. Hopefully the down" in play. This aspect is clearly traffic around the Black River will evident in Hope's game when the be less than it was on Saturday and muck and mire of play is cut with a the bus from Alma won't suffer the substitution and players with fresh fate of Saturday's tardy bus from legs revitalize the game. It was one Albion.

Tracy Phelps

course her studies, she still has time to keep up with her friends and the staff r e p o r t e r infamous pranks between the men's F o r s o m e o n e w h o n e v e r and w o m e n ' s soccer teams. " O u r thought they'd play college soccer, m e n ' s and w o m e n ' s soccer teams Tracy Phelps ('97), has made great are ' k n o w n ' for our pranks we play contributions to H o p e ' s w o m e n ' s on each other," she laughs. "We got the guys really good last year!" soccer team.

Even though Tracy enjoys her Tracy, a b u s i n e s s m a j o r , is originally from Dearborn, Michi- fun, she takes soccer very seriously.

"For this year I'd really like gan, and although now a soccer star, didn't actually start playing soccer to break my scoring record, and do until s h e w a s in s e v e n t h g r a d e . my best to help my teammates out However, soccer soon became her as much as possible," said Tracy, favorite sport. By her freshman year "We have a young team this year Tracy was already playing on her and lots of skill, but we really don't high school's varsity team but never know how well everyone plays yet, thought s h e ' d continue to play af- and w e ' r e still really trying to come together as a team. We're getting ter graduation.

"Originally, I thought I'd go there, slowly but surely!"

Tracy claims that the team is to a bigger Division school and play field hockey- I didn't think I was i m p r o v i n g d e s p i t e t h e i r r e c e n t good enough at soccer. My older losses. " T h e skill is out there," she sister c a m e to Hope though, and I e x p l a i n s , " b u t i t ' s f r u s t r a t i n g beliked it here so I decided to come cause we're just not winning. We're and j u s t t r y - o u t f o r t h e s o c c e r getting better though, especially because of Stein [Slette], our coach. team," explains Tracy.

Since that time Tracy has im- He is great and pushes us all really hard. I think that he is responsible proved her skills, and last year even for o u r s u c c e s s t h e s e past f e w held the scoring record for most years." points and most goals. This doesn't "This year has kind of been stop her from continuing to work discouraging because of our record, hard. but I think we are really starting to Although Tracy's concentraget it together," Phelps said. tion lies primarily in soccer and of A L L Y S O N PICKENS

D O N ' T T O U C H M Y BALL.: Chris Dombrowski ('98) dribbles through traffic in Hope's victory.

Cosby's Pick of the W e e k .

Hello there again. You're back for more and I'm here to give you what you want: sports picks. I know how you just can't get enough of my never ending supply of wit and wisdom. Since basketball and hockey haven't started yet, and I missed the boat last week with The Pull (I would have been wrong anyway, though) it looks as if I'm left with football to put my men-

tal prowess to the test. There are so many good games to choose f r o m I'm like the old woman in a shoe: 1 have so many children I just don't k n o w what to do. I shall f o c u s on the world of Division III and I got a gut feeling while delivering babies today. Hope will break its losing streak and win one in grand style 13-10.

I hope they can do it for the sake of all the Dutchmen faithful across the land.

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V o l l e y b a l l — H o p e College had a busy week playing seven matches. In those seven matches Hope posted a respectable 43 record. In M I A A matches Hope d e f e a t e d Albion and arch rival Calvin College, while losing to K a l a m a z o o . T h e ' other m a t c h e s w e r e all non-league affairs.

W o m e n ' s Soccer -The Flying Dutch played a pair of games with mixed results. They won one and lost o n e . H o p e s h u t out Adrian 3-0 but then lost to Albion 3-1. In this w e e k ' s action Hope

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by Calvin College. Hope finished behind Alma and Albion respectively.

M e n ' s Golf-—The men's team did not fare quite as well as the women with their fourth place finish. Hope finished behind Olivet, Albion, and A l m a Colleges.

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Runners finish up strong FROM THE HIP

There are four freshmen men who will be supported next year by staff r e p o r t e r this year's sophomores who are Jeremy Bogard, Tim Franklyn, Aaron Over the river and throuh the VandeWege, Jesse Graf, and Scott woods, and off to the finish line.

Derby. "This year's T h e M e n ' s and freshmen don't have to Women's Cross Country worry about the future team hosted the MIAA team because the sophoCross Country Jamboree m o r e c l a s s will h e l p at the Beachwood Restrengthen the team," formed Church. Hope's Bannink added. m e n ' s and w o m e n ' s Marie Matchett teams both placed sec('97), w o m e n ' s captain, ond, staying just behind who placed third with a Hope's rivals. time of 19 minutes 30 Hope's fresh, fast seconds, was happy to teams, comprised of fifty see the teams' progresrunners, tested out the sion at the meet. "It was field at the last home meet encouraging to see how Saturday at the third meet we ran" Matchett said. of the season.

Saturday also shed " T h i s is the first n e w light o n t o t h e race where we learned of women's freshmen team. our strengths and weak"The freshmen girls on nesses," coach Mark the team are moving up", Northuissaid. "I feel that Matchett added.

She felt we ran well with strong that the f r e s h m e n girls determination for workwere promising because ing towards the Conferof c o n t i n u o u s l y i m ence meet at Albion in Anchor p h o t o by Jill F i s c h e r proved personal records. seven weeks."

The other top runRUNNING MAN: Eric Carpenter ('96) legs S a t u r d a y ' s meet ners with significant perIt out In the MIAA Jamboree on Saturday. brought out the best personal records for the formance ever for men's m e n ' s team are: Jeremy Bogard captain Erik Carpenter ('96), who placed first through sixth.

Dan B a n n i n k (*97), w h o v( ' 9 8 ) 26:25 v(15th r place overall). placed seventh out of 81 runners.

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S o m e kind of wonderful Silently they sit a c r o s s f r o m e a c h o t h e r . With h a i r braided and faces painted they look ready for battle. As the moment approaches, they take deeper breaths. She throws out a wink and he nervously smiles back. T h e one-minute whistle blows, the men step into pits and the women crouch down on the side.

The event begins. Through the roaring crowd, the Pullers cling to the rope as if for dear life, while rallied by Moralers. As the tongues of the Pullers hung out and sweat dripped f r o m their brows, Moralers leaned over, reassuring them not to give up.

I stood there, watching this for three hours at The Pull last Saturday. Prior to Saturday, The Pull seemed sexist to me. Having the females on their knees w h e r e they b e l o n g w h i l e the males show physical strength seemed quite stereotypical. But, as I watched Andy Sill ('98) tense up with pain, and his moraler, Cori Freudenburg ('98), lean over and tenderly touch his cheek with a cloth, I realized sexism does not play a part in this '98 year tradition.

This relationship is a marriage between Puller and Moraler.

Every inch of rope that slips out of his hands, she too feels the burn. Every drop of blood that he sheds on the rope, she feels the pain.

Without the Moralers, Pullers would be lost. Due to the intense discomfort Pullers are subjected to, the job of a Moraler is essential to the outcome of Pull.

From the position Pullers are in they are u n a b l e to see coaches. They are unaware of the c o m m a n d s c o a c h e s send out.

Moralers not only support the puller, but relay instructions from the coach. Together, they form one unit. There is something not only mysterious about this relat i o n s h i p , but s o m e t h i n g e x tremely beautiful.

These are not weak girls on

their k n e e s s e r v i n g m e n .

Moralers are in no way submitting to the Puller. These strong women are carrying the burden with the Puller. They not only c a r r y the s t r e s s and pain of moraling, but they carry the Pullers' stress too. Without the Moralers, Pullers would have to relay on their own inner strength.

But what happens when their strength runs out with two hours left to pull?

Kneeling there, dressed in painted jeans, she becomes his voice. He trained for two weeks and she reminds him how much he wants it. She pushes him to test his limits and when heads are back and tears are rolling off his cheeks, she communicates the orders. When he wants to drop the rope, she encourages him to not let go. As he cries out in agony, she brushes his hair back and urges him to keep going.

That is where the beauty lies. Wading through mud and peering through tears 1 was reminded what makes women so different from men.

Not many men would wipe the brow of their guy friends.

Pullers have a different way of moraling. Through yelling and chanting. Pullers motivate with force.

On the other hand, women in the Pull sense the Puller's pain and will stop at nothing to keep him hanging on to the rope.

Moralers are empathetic motivators. They see the pain of the Pullers and experience it with them.

Not only experience it but motivate them to go on.

Being a Moraler is not a job for weak women. A weak woman could not carry a puller through three hours of pain. Women who have moraled in the Pull are strong, brave women. Those women who bore the burden of the Pull should be commended for their contribution to this tradition just as much as the men who were on the rope.

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His time, 25 minutes, 52 seconds, surpassed his personal record of 26 minutes and 6 seconds last year.

Carpenter was pleased with the men's team performance in edging up to the Calvin team this year.

placed seconds behind Erik Carpenter with a time of 26 minutes, pulled up the pack of tightly knit Calvin runners. "I am pleased with the varsity, we finally got enough courage to go after them," Bannink said.

Mike Cranmer ('97) 26:43 (18th).

The women's other top performances are as follows: Ellen Schultz ( ' 9 8 ) 19:41 (4rth place overall), Michelle Neel ('96) 19:49 (5th).

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For the first time this season, the Hope College Flying Dutchmen football team took their show on the road to Wabash of Indiana last Saturday. Much like at h o m e , the Dutchmen left the field distraught after their poor performance as the team lost 35-10. As expected, Jeremy Norris ('96) stepped out of the the spotlight and let Jason Bays ('96) do the job .

Bays completed 11-27 passes for 120 yards and three interceptions. Travis Williams ('98) replaced placekicker Trevor Starnes ('97). Williams kicked a 35-yard field goal with ease and also later hit a pooch-kick extra point.

The extra point attempt came after a pleasant fourth quarter drive that amounted to 32 yards on eight plays. Brandon Graham ('98) scamp e r e d f o r f o u r y a r d s into the endzone to cap it off. However, as the saying goes, too little too late.

Graham finished the game with 16 carries for 64 yards.

According to Coach Dean Kreps, the number one reason for the loss lay in the hands of Wabash's quarterback, who passed for 350 yards. "He tore us to shreds," said C o a c h Kreps. "We d i d n ' t even touch the ball offensively until there was 9:00 left in the first quarter. I think before next week's game, we will have to make some defensive changes." Wabash opened the game up huge, with a 70 yard drive off of 14 plays to score.

According to Coach Kreps, the players jumped offsides at key points of the game, and a 48-yard touchdown reception to Doug Gle ('96) was called back due to illegal motion. "We were just not able to sustain a drive at all," said Coach Kreps.

Bays mixed the ball up well, as Gle caught four, Rich Kesteloot ( ' 9 6 ) g r a b b e d f i v e , and S t e v e Oursler ('97) caught a couple banditos for eighteen yards. Jesse Crotty ( ' 9 6 ) did not play due to bronchitis. Thus far, he is the team's most consistant receiver.

The Flying Dutchmen's next opponent will be Aurora of Illinois at home on Saturday. Last season.

the two teams tied 3-3 in a boring scuffle. However, it appears that the team has improved as they lost to Wheaton 28-21, and Albion 21-14.

Both of those teams were ranked in the Great Lakes Collegiate A s s o c i a t i o n ' s top 25 last week.

Hope will try to improve on last year's tie and put its first mark in the win column for the 1995 season and for coach Kreps.

M I A A newsflash: Albion lost 14-3 to DePauw last Saturday, giving them their first loss in 28 straight games. "This makes the Homecoming game against Albion look a little better. I hope we will have a couple wins by that time," said Coach Kreps.

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BALLET f r o m 9 strange ritualistic movement, and jumps. And three of the dancers, Margaux Zadikan, Jason Jordan, classic ballet.

The final series of dances, "The and Valdemar Sanchez-Lombardo, Jig is Up" found all the dancers danced as acrobatic, bawdy Lollistriding on stage dressed in vibrant pop Kids. Arms linked, they struttatters mixed with grey; they were ted and kicked up a storm, as well pauperistic showmen and as tossing Margaux up in the air, showgirls, they were elated raggle- cheerleader style. Finally, all the taggle gypsies. The music was in dancers appeared on stage again, the vein of Irish and Welsh tradi- accentuating each folk-step, and tional song, bellowing out infec- brimming over with grinning faces tious melodies by bagpipes, guitar and laughter. Ending up arm in arm and fiddle. This dance seemed a folk in a line across the stage, they took triumph for Elliot Feld. It incorpo- their bows and accepted the wellrated line dancing and jigs, com- deserved uproar of applause.

Observing each dance o n c e plete with knee slaps. Yet it had a would never be enough to fully apstrong foundation in the leaping grace of ballet, along with modern preciate the character and meticubody characterization that is unique lous effort that went into the creto Feld. There were also several ation and execution of them. But dance solos included. Angela Amort Feld and his beautiful, fresh ballet danced to the bagpipes with fierce, had given the audience a glimpse energetic kicking and complicated of what it means to be moved by steps perfectly suited to her skill. music, to contain a spirit that insists All the men danced, performing you move, to dance! intense body-shaking and flatfooted

PULL f r o m 7 weeks paid off."

On the north bank, the news of Even's victory was delivered to the team and sobered crowd, who realized the victor when they weren't told to reel in the rope.

"Helluva job, guys," said Odd Year Coach Bill Dreyer ('97). "Die off slowly." The silent crowd looked on as the Even Year frolicked in the Black River.

to give final encouragements.

The final strain gave judges the chance to measure the rope. Even Coaches were airborne with happiness as they delivered the good news to their Pullers and Moralers.

"I think the guys worked so hard they deserved it," said Moraler Cori F r e u d e n b e r g ( ' 9 8 ) . "It felt good to see that all the work that they had put into the last three

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Neucks also takes responsibility for his kidney problems. "I've always had a real high pain tolerance," Neucks said. "(Doctors) are wondering if I'm just able to push myself farther than I should be able to." Neither Puller has negative feelings toward the event, and both wished that they could have been a part of the team.

"I think i t ' s a really great thing," Neucks said. "I just have to really watch myself to see where my limit is, what I'm capable of doing."

Pull coaches are not certain what caused the 'freak' injuries, but they could have happened on either side of the competition, Frost said. " K n o w i n g w h a t each team does, I don't think there's a significant difference in what the two teams do. It could have happened to either side."

"It was kind of a freak year," said Even Year Coach Tom Poole.

"I d o n ' t think w h a t w e do as Coaches has a lot to do with it." The Even Year Team experienced the usual injuries, including muscle strains and soreness. "We don't like to see it, but it happens," Poole said.

Odd Year Coach Ross Vrieze ('97) does not blame the workouts for the rash of injuries. "Our workouts compared to the workouts our coaches put us through I think are a lot lighter," he said.

Pull alumni James Oonk ('93) pulled for two years, and then served as a Coach. He said he feels that practices need to maintain their intensity to prepare Pullers for the mental strain of the actual event.

"Pull is very hard on the body, I won't say it's not," Oonk said.

"The reason Pull practice is as intense as it is is so you can build up mental endurance and discipline."

Neucks does not feel that the coaches or the intense atmosphere of p r a c t i c e s led to his illness, though.

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"One of the Pull coaches told me, 41 won't be pissed if you stop, but I will be pissed if you're injured,"' Neucks said.

Oonk said that this year's injuries were more unusual than he remembered from his years working with the Pull, but that people should not be overly concerned.

"When you look at Pull compared to other sports, I think the injuries are very fractional," he said.

"The injuries are when something freak happens, or its bad timing or bad luck. I think it just looks more serious because Pull is so short."

The first female Puller in the competition's 98-year history, Keri Law ('99) blew her knee out during practice, one of the more common Pull-related injuries.

But Moraler C a r r i e K o o p ' s ('99) injury was far from a run-ofthe-mill complication. During the actual Pull a small pinpoint hole opened in one of her lungs, causing the air inside to leak out like a reverse bellows to create air pockets under the skin of her chest, neck and face. She suspects that it was caused because her head was lower than her lungs as she moralled, building up pressure in her chest that caused the rupture. She knew the moment it happened, but continued in her role as Moraler without telling anyone something was wrong, she said.

"I probably wasn't that smart, but then the emotions take over," she said. "I blocked out the pain and s a i d , ' I ' v e got to do this. I ' v e worked three weeks for it.'"

Koop's punctured lung made diaphramic breathing extremely painful, so she relied on her vocal chords to deliver the calls to her Puller. She now has a barely audible voice to go along with her swollen

"It feels like you get the wind knocked out of you every time you breathe," said said. "I'd do it all over again."

Oonk has the s a m e attitude about the competition, although it may be responsible for a lifetime of serious migraine headaches, a preexisting condition which pulling aggravated.

"It's not diagnosed, but that's probably the cause," Oonk said. "I strained the walls of the blood vessels that go to my brain, probably from over-exertion." Oonk has been on medication for the condition ever since, but still rates his Pull experiences highly. "It was worth it, I figure," he said.

This year's list of Pull casualties does give the administration reason to hesitate. Frost said.

"It j u s t gives me reason to pause and question if there is a way we can be more helpful and careful as they prepare and go about getting ready for Pull," he said.

Each year following the Pull representatives and coaches for both sides meet with Frost and Anne Bakker-Gras, director of student activities , to review the event.

Weekly meetings are held during the three weeks leading up to the actual competition as well.

"We are saying that the lives and safety of students are of paramount importance, and that's why we are going to hear discussion about training and those types of things," Frost said.

Those discussions could entail talk of preparation guidelines or prep sessions for coaches before practices begin to cover basic first aid and nutrition. Talks will begin in the next few weeks, and in the meantime, the injured will mend themselves and move on with a curious pride in the entire experience.

"Pull gets a lot of crap form other organizations because it's totally different from anything else," Vrieze said. "The only people that understand it are the ones that did it."

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