OCTOBER 1, 1981
VOLUME 9 4 - ISSUE 4
U. of AA. Prof
Taraki/Afghan.; mm
25 Years Later
to Teach Here
On Thursday, October 8, at 7 p m. in Winants Auditorium. Shirlee Taraki will by Tim Gortsema „ Dr, Bernard Van't Hul. professor of English at the University of Michigan, will be here on campus next semester as a visiting distinguished professor. Although the specific courses he will teach have yet to be chosen. Dr. Van't Hul will be working with the idea of teaching writing in d e p a r t m e n t s other than English. He will try to accomplish this through a series of workshops, meetings, and seminars. "I want to know what the faculty thinks of the writing their students do now," he said. The strengths and weaknesses of it will be evaluated and then incorporated into a plan to enhance the students' abilities. However, he emphatically stated, " I ' m not going to tell anyone what to do. Hope's English department has a good name, not only a r o u n d here, but throughout Michigan." Van't Hul stressed that English is not a subject to groom students and then send them off to other classes to learn. English is a subject that can be helpful in all classes ranging from economics to mathematics. After spending twelve y e a r s at Michigan, he is looking forward to working at a smaller school. "I want to learn who the Hope College student is and what he is like," he said. He pointed out that working at a larger university doesn't give him the chance to be as personal as he would like. " I ' m looking forward to getting to know a new community and working with new colleagues."
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Van Wylen Responds "Fifty
Percent"
by Tim Shaffer In an interview with the anchor last week. Hope College President, Dr. Gordon Van Wylen, reiterated the words of Assistant Dean of Students Bruce Johnston, stating that the college's policy on off-campus housing requests is " a n equitable solution to the problem." While admitting that the Administration "didn't handle it super-well," Van Wylen also said that many of those penalized by the college from breaking their housing contracts had conveyed to him that they thought paying 50% of the cost of a room was lair. The controversy centers around the well-publicized shortage of students in the Hope residency system. When the college stopped granting permission for offcampus housing in late July, a number of
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American
Woman
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Afghanistan. She will show slides of the Afghanistan she knew for 25 years, including the recent troubles which have befallen the country. Ms. Taraki lived in Kabul from 1947 until 1972. There she married an Americaneducated Afghan and raised two children. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Chicago, Ms. Kabul taught English In the girl's school in Kabul Upon her husband retiring from government services, she joined the Teacher's College of the Columbia University team of educational advisors to the Afghan Ministry of Education. After her husband's death she returned to the U.S. and settled in Evanston, Illinois, where she is currently a library assistant at Northwestern University. Ms. Kabul looks back on her life in Afghanistan with bittersweet memories and regrets the events that have recently brought the country under Soviet occupation. She is closely involved with efforts of the United States to assist the many refugees from Afghanistan who have fled to Pakistan and other countries. As a founder and vice-president of the Chicago-area chapter of the Afghanistan Relief Committee, she has personally aided in the resettlement of refugees to the Chicago area and has been active in a fundraising effort to help the refugees abroad. Dr. Penrose will be present to assist in answering questions regarding the present political situation in Afghanistan following the presentation.
Freshman Advising Now Offered
to
Policy
by Mary Stewart September 21 m a r k e d the opening of the freshman Peer Advising Center. students remained who wished to reside Under the supervision of the P'reshman off-campus. Instead of giving those Studies Office, the center is a project students a definite refusal, the college designed to better meet the needs of new< housing office) told them that they would students. The Advising Center, located in the "probably not be granted permission." Since the students could not tell prospec- D e W i t t b a s e m e n t ( L - 0 4 ) , o f f e r s assistance with concerns ranging from tive landlords "probably" or "probaby not." they had to make a commitment. Those who chose to take the off-campus housing, and subsequently were not granted permission, c a m e to school and discovered that they had been billed for a semester in the college residency system anyway. This policy applied to students who made the last minute decision to live at home, as well as those choosing apartment life. — In the past, according to Van Wylen, the
academic to social to residential. P e e r advisors are available Monday through Friday, 11-4 p.m. The sessions are confidential and m a d e by appointment. At other institutions, the use of peer advisors to assist in the academic, personal and career advisement of new students (continued on p. 6)
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