Van Wylen inauguration today; 'New era' begins
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Volume 84—6
October 13, 1972
Speaks at WMU
McGovern decries bombing by Dave DeKok Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. George McGovern, speaking Tuesday at a rally at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, condemned as fraudulent President Richard Nixon's policy of bombing North Vietnam until the return of all U.S. prisoners of war. IN HIS ADDRESS to the capacity crowd, McGovern questioned what it is that keeps the United States involved in the Vietnam war. "My 20 year old draft age son was 10 when I first spoke out
against the war," he stated. "Why are we still involved? Because we are told we have to keep on killing to free our prisoners of war. What a fraud!" THE SOUTH DAKOTA Senator went on to say that the POW's will not come home until the bombing is stopped. He pointed out that since Nixon took office 550 U.S. servicemen have been taken prisoner and the number is growing daily. McGovern said he had recently spoken with two young men who argued that the U.S. was protecting the freedom of South Vietnam by bombing the North.
"DID YOU SEE the recently published picture of the little Vietnamese girl covered with burning napalm running screaming toward the news photographer's camera? I'd like you to think about that picture and then think about the 10,000 other children who have been killed during the course of the war. " T h e death toll of civilians has doubled since Nixon took office," he added. "Is there any more honor in bodies with yellow skin than bodies with white skin? The Bible says that everyone was created in the image of G o d . " continued on pageS, column 5
"IT IS A TRAGIC deception that we are bombing to protect democracy in South Vietnam," he told the audience. "President Thieu has executed 38,000 of his South Vietnamese opponents without trial. He has imprisoned every person who publicly disagrees with his policies. "To top it off he has suspended all village elections, the only real form of popular democracy in the country. His government is nothing but a corrupt and immoral dictatorship." MCGOVERN ACCUSED top officials of the South Vietnamese government of becoming millionaires in illicit drug traffic there. He noted that one-third of all hard drugs used in America come from South Vietnam. The Senator repudiated any need to stay in South Vietnam to preserve America's honor.
Family goal met
by Annetta Miller Planners of the Build Hope program, Hope's eight-year capital development project, are enlarging the campaign this fall with Phase II, the public announcement of the program and its objectives outside the college community. THE KICK-OFF meeting for Phase 11, which involves trustees, faculty, staff, students, and other invited guests, will be today at 6:15 p.m. in the DeWitt Cultural Center ballroom. A slide and sound presentation will depict "The Vision of Hope," and President Gordon Van Wylen
Abortion laws overturned IN A 33 PAGE opinion handed down Oct. 5 by Judge Charles Kaufman, the state's existing 126-year-old anti-abortion statutes were struck down on grounds that they violate the Ninth Amendment and the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. The legal status of the state's abortion laws is now uncertain, and will remain so until the Michigan Supreme Court rules on Kaufman's decision or until voters pass on Proposal B, the abortion referendum on the Nov. 7 ballot. HOWEVER, according to an article in the Oct. 6 Detroit Free Press, Kaufman's ruling is theoretically the law "until a higher court rules counter to it. "Another circuit judge could legally rule differently in a different case,'*, the article continued, " b u t that would not settle the question, only muddy i t . " PROPOSAL B states: "All other laws to the contrary notwithstanding, . a licensed medical or osteopathic physician may perform an abortion at the request of
a patient if the period of gestation has not exceeded 20 weeks. The procedure shall be performed in a licensed hospital or other facility approved by the Department of Public Health." The referendum appears on the ballot as the result of a year-long state-wide petition drive by abortion reform supporters, who collected over 300,000 signatures of registered voters. THE PROPOSAL is opposed primarily by right to life committees, which have also expressed chagrin at Kaufman's ruling. The president of one such group, The Voice of t h e Unborn, told several of his regional leaders recently that abortions already are being performed around the state. "The fight goes o n , " he said, adding that the moral issue involved goes beyond t h e court case. KAUFMAN admitted that in reaching his decision he considered abortion "strictly as a legal question." Abortion is not the same as murder, he concluded, because present law does not treat the fetus as a full legal person. The voided anti-abortion law, enacted in 1846, permitted abortions only t o save the life of the mother. When those laws were
songs from "Fiddler on the Roof." The Hope College stage band, under Jackson's leadership, will also perform. THERE WILL BE several athletic events during the weekend. The soccer team will entertain Albion at 3:30 p.m. Friday at the Van Raalte athletic field, 11th street and Fairbanks avenue; the cross country squad will host Olivet College at 11 a.m. Saturday at winding Creek golf course; and ^ e football team will challenge 01ivet at 2 . 1 5 p m S a t u r d a y at Riverview Park. At 11 a.m. Saturday a dedicaj t o n ceremony of a flagpole erecte c j j n m e m o r y of a 1965 Hope graduate will be held outside the Cultural Center. The flagpole was purchased by Hope graduates in memory of Paul G. Bast who died w h e n his Air Force jet crashed in Thailand earlier this year. Graduates who competed in athletics while at Hope will hold their annual homecoming luncheon Saturday at Durfee Hall. Several sororities and fraternities are planning either luncheons or receptions for their alumni. After the game there will be a reception for alumni of Mortar Board, national women's honor organization at Voorhees Hall. A BUFFET dinner for alumni, parents and friends will be held Saturday from 4 : 3 0 to 7 p.m. at Phelps Hall. Congressman Guy Vander Jagt, a Hope alumnus, will deliver the sermon at the 11 a.m. Sunday worship service in Dimnent Chapel. The public is invited to attend. The Board of Trustees is holding its fall meetings on campus this weekend, also.
Build Hope Phase II begins
Declared unconstitutional Michigan's abortion laws have been declared unconstitutional by a Wayne County Circuit judge, who affirmed a woman's right to privacy and to control her own body.
The inauguration of President Gordon J. Van Wylen highlights homecoming activities this weekend. THE FOUR DAY schedule of events began last night with an 8:15 p.m. convocation in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. Dr. John W. Snyder, executive vice chancellor of the University of California at Santa Barbara, spoke on the topic "Christian Education in a Post-Christian World." . i Van Wylen is to be inaugurated as Hope s ninth president this afternoon. The ceremony was preceded by a luncheon for 500 invited guests in Phelps Hall, at which representatives of the commumty, alumni, student body, Reformed Church in America, facan d the state of Michigan ex ^ii? *i ce en ony ^ / } will be attended by delegates from more than 150 colleges, universities and learned societies. A reception will follow the ceremony at the DeWitt Cultural Center. The Hope College band, under the direction of Robert Cecil, associate professor of music, will present its eighth annual Kletz concert tonight at 8:15 p.m. in the Kletz. The band will perform a medley of music by George Gershwin, and will feature two trombone solos by John Jackson, director of student activities. PARTICIPATING in the annual conducting contest will be Associate Dean of Students Nona Kipp, who will conduct "The Merry Pranks of Til Eulenspiegel," by Richard Strauss; Assistant Professor of Theater John Tammi, who will conduct "Finlandia," by Jean Sibelius; and Associate Professor of Religion Robert Coughenour, who will conduct a medley of
enacted, Kaufman asserted, women had few rights. Now, however, their status has changed. FORMER STATE Sen. Lorraine Beebe and the 1050 women she represented in bringing the lawsuit before the Wayne County court undoubtedly agree. Michigan's abortion statutes deny women the benefits of modern medicine and the right to plan their families as they see fit, they argued. Kaufman's ruling places no time limit on abortion - he leaves the decision to a woman and her doctor. However, abortions must be performed by a licensed physician under surgical conditions meeting state approval, the judge stipulated. SENTIMENT FOR abortion law reform has been increasing in Michigan since 1967, when the first of a series of annual legislative hearings was held. In March, 1971, an abortion reform bill passed the state Senate but was stalled in the House. Three months ago t h e Michigan Court of Appeals handed down a decision declaring much of the law unconstitutional. The ruling was confusing, though, since the judge's opinion was regarded as commentary and not binding by law.
will speak at a dinner which will follow in Phelps Hall. "The Importance of Build Hope" is his topic. To date approximately $2.6 million in pledges has been netted in Phase I, last spring's intensive fund raising drive designed to demonstrate the college's commitment to its future. The amount approximates 30 percent of the campaign's $8,850,000 goal. THE BULK OF the pledges has come from the College Family division, which includes trustees, faculty, staff and students. The College Family surpassed its original goal of $100,000 by nearly 16 percent with a total of 1,111 pledges and $115,934.50. Two trustees, James Ver Meulen, general chairman for Build Hope, and Howard Sluyter, started the College Family Fund last April with a pledge of $1 million and a challenge to other board members to raise a second million. DEAN OF STUDENTS Robert De Young, chairman of the administrative division of the College Family, termed the outcome of the campaign "heartwarming." "It's never f u n to ask for money, but everyone responded generously," he said.
Donations from the administrative division, which includes staff members, secretaries, maintenance and housekeeping, and the health and food services, reached $23,214.40, exceeding the projected total by $13,000. FACULTY CHAIRMAN Sheldon Wettack, professor of chemistry, reported that faculty commitment and participation were also good. "They realized the consequences of the overall drive and responded extremely well," he said. One hundred thirty-five faculty members pledged nearly $46,000 for the cause. A student division fund-raising organization paralleled that of the faculty. To carry out the student fund raising campaign, a large and complex organization was established, involving approximately 450 students. Eight hundred seventy-eight students pledged a total of $47,464 for the campaign. OTHER GIFTS from local individuals, corporations, and churches, including People's State Bank, Hart and Cooley division of Allied Thermal, and Maplewood Reformed Church, totaled $70,000. Future plans for Build Hope include further solicitation of incontinued on page 6, column 5
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Architect's model of the future physical education center. Some of the monies for the building will come from the Build Hope fund.