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New task force studies attrition by Doug Deuitch A Dow Foundation study showing that

only 57 percent of Hope's entering freshmen remain to graduate has prompted the formation of an "Enrollment Task Force" to study this problem. The task force will do an in-depth study to try and determine more precisely why students leave Hope.

It hopes to develop a plan for the next three-to-10-year period. This plan would include recommendations as to what changes might be needed and in what areas.

"We will have to look at a lot of new things," noted Phil Fredrickson, dean for admissions. It may be necessary to "clean up things which drive students out," he added. The task force will cort-sider not only classes and programs, but also other areas such as residence living, guidance counseling, and financial aid.

When a student decides to leave Hope he must fill out a withdrawal form and usually must participate in an exit in-terview. On the form are reasons a student can check for deciding to leave. Fredrickson felt there were other reasons which students would not discuss, yet

might pertain to something at Hope. It is these additional ones the task force hopes to find and respond to through its study.

When looking at the attrition rate of students there a number of things one might consider. The majority of students who withdraw from a college do so after their freshman year; this percentage then decreases during the next three years. Also, different schools may have different qualifications describing their attrition rate. For instance, Hope in-cludes in its rate those students who are accepted into a three-two program in engineering, while another college may not.

"The fit of the student in the institution must also be considered," commented registrar Jon Huisken. "This would be how the student relates to the institution and his perception of himself within it. A student has to feel comfortable to fit in."

This lack of fitting in is shown by those students who have not declared majors. "Those students are of primary con-cern," Huisken continued.

"More guidance testing may be needed to determine the goals and hidden talents of these students," commented

Fredrickson. "Furthermore," Huisken added, "the

selectivity of the College in its admission affects the attrition rate. The more selective the school, the less attrition there is. Hope is rated as a highly selective institution."

If the enrollment of the College drops due to attrition, this could result in the loss of qualified faculty and programs. Hope, however, has been fortunate in

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Weekend

events slated Hope 's th i rd annua l Winter

Homecoming will be held Saturday, Feb. 9, featuring on-campus seminars, athletic contests, and a jazz band concert.

Winter Homecoming was initiated in 1978 in an attempt to provide a break from the "winter doldrums." - "The activities are designed to interest all friends of Hope College, not just alumni," noted Vern Schipper, director of alumni and community relations.

Registration will begin at 9 a.m. in Graves Hall. Four different seminars will be held at 10 a.m. and repeated at 11:15 a.m.

Longtime Hope professor of philosophy D. Ivan Dykstra, who will be retiring at the end of the current school year, will present an address entitled "But 1 Really Wanted to be a Truck Driver: Confessions of an Unrepentant Anti-Intellectual."

Winners of Hope's first Alumni Opus Arts competition will read their own works during another seminar session. Among alumni reading their works will be Delwyn Sneller of Holland; Linda Walvoord Girard of Barrington, IL; and Julia Herrick White of South Bend, IN.

Estate planning and financial management will be the topic of another seminar to be presented by John Greller and Kurt Van Genderen of the develop-ment office staff. The seminar will review the basics of estate planning and offer creative ideas for managing personal financial affairs.

The fourth seminar will feature a discussion on how computers will affect the home in the eighties. It will be presented by Herbert Dershem, chair-man of the computer science department. He will demonstrate applications of a home computer in personal finance, entertainment, education, and com-munication.

A luncheon will be served at Durfee Hall at 12:30 p.m. Hope's new movie, "Signs of Hope," will be shown during the luncheon.

Among athletic events planned for the afternoon will be a men's swimming meet against Calvin at 1 p.m. in Kresge Natatorium of the Dow Center, a women's basketball game at 1 p.m.

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by Steve Muyskens Next year's class schedule will not be

substantially changed from this semester's schedule if the proposal of the committee concerned with drawing up a new schedule is approved.

"Essentially what we're proposing to do," said Matt Vander Molen, Student Congress representative for the schedule committee and the Administrative Af-fairs Board, "is to change the Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule so that first hour starts at 8. That way every class day will start at 8. Chapel will be moved to 11, and afternoon classes will start on the half hour.

The reason for starting at 8, said Vander Molen, is that it allows students to get out a half hour earlier. This is better for working students, and also for athletes, who would be able to have a two-hour practice again instead of the current hour and a half.

Tuesday-Thursday classes will remain on the hour-and-a-half block system, but four- and five-hour classes will be allowed to have one-hour blocks on these days. This should allow more classes to shift back to the morning, said Vander Molen. Chapel will remain during the day because Student Congress surveys have been favorable to this idea. The com-munity hours will remain because

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"faculty and students seem to favor two community hours," said Vander Molen.

The proposed schedule changes went before Student Congress last night, and will go before the Administrative Affairs Board for approval next Thursday.

James Van Putten, professor of physics and chairman of the schedule committee, has encouraged student input, and written comments can be submitted to the registrar's office, or students may contact their student representative.

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College to expand endowments ^uttar e'ect

by Steve Muyskens Recently administrators, along with

campus publications, have been v frequently mentioning the Endowment of

Hope, but few students realize what it is. Hope's endowment fund, an in-

vestment, the interest from which is used to fund a variety of programs, has been in existence for some time. One hundred and fifteen years ago. the College had an endowment of $85,000. Today the en-dowment is $4 million-which is "less than half that of other Michigan schools," according to Bill Anderson, vice president for business and finance. Kalamazoo's endowment is near $12 million, and Albion's is over $16 million. Oberlin, with an $85 million endowment, is largest in the GLCA, but even these figures hardly rank with the $1.4 billion endowment of Harvard.

In June 1978, Hope's Board of Trustees voted to establish the Endowment of Hope program. The program's goal is to add $10 million to Hope's endowment fund by 1983.

A recent College brochure describing Hope's endowment explains; "With the physical plant essentially completed and

sound fiscal management f i rmly derson, "they don't have to raise as much established. Hope College is now turning money from alumni to underrate to a major effort to provide long-term operating expenses." resources which will ensure the future Endowment income is the interest financial strength of the College. The received from investment of endowment primary vehicle for doing so is through a funds. Whereas a school such as Oberlin program to build endowment." might have a endowment income of $4

The shift in emphasis from new million plus per year. Hope gets "less buildings to the endowment was ex- than $300,000 in endowment income," said plained by Kurt Van Genderen, former Anderson. director of donor financial planning, now Where this $300,000 goes is determined a consultant for the College: "Bricks and by which one of the three types of en-mortar are about where we want them, dowments it came from. Income from There will always be renovation, but no unrestricted endowments can be used for completely new buildings in the near any purpose, and presently goes into future Thus, with the completion of the operating costs-thereby reducing tuition. Dow Center, Hope students have most Quasi-endowments, the second type, are likely seen the end of new construction commonly used for student fees, projects on Hope's campus for while. Memorial scholarships, as listed in the The development of physical facilities Hope catalogue, are usually the result of'

has been essentially completed," states restricted endowments, which constitute themdowment brochure. half of the money in the endowment fund.

When asked what is the greatest ad- A mere $60,000 will endow full tuition for a vantage of having a large endowment, single student. Anderson replied, "financial security for the institution. Schools with the most endowment funds--if enrollment declines-can call on the endowment to help carry

them through." In addition, said An-

to AALA term Professor of English Charles A. Huttar

has been elected to a three-year term on the Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language Association.

The Delegate Assembly is an advisory body of 241 members, elected to represent the 28,000 members of the Modern Language Association. Huttar will represent the division on religious ap-proaches to literature. In the past. Hubert P. Weller, professor of Spanish, has served on the Delegate Assembly.

Huttar organized and chaired a program on "Theological Implications of Narrative Form" at the association's recent convention in San Francisco.

Attending the convention with Huttar were Dirk Jellema and Peter Schakel. both associate professors of English.

Schakel, who is spending this year at the University of Virginia under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, spoke at two of the con-vention meetings on one of his specialties, the study of C.S. Lewis.

Zurich orchestra to play

Show forms ^ v e n t s planned

The Gallery in the DeWitt Center will exhibit the work of Grand Rapids sculptor Ron Pederson from Feb. 4 through Feb. 18.

The exhibit, entitled "Seats, Etc.," will be comprised mainly of sculptures in wood, steel, and bronze. The show deals somewhat with metaphorical relation-ships between chairs or "seats" and their surrounding environment.

"Pederson 's use of traditional materials also is a refreshing element in this show." said William Mayer, assistant professor of art.

A reception for the artist will be held Monday. Feb. 4 at 7 p.m.

(continued from p. I ) against Olivet in the Dow Center gym-nasium, and a men's basketball game against Albion at 3 p.m. in the Holland Civic Center.

Supervision and activities will be provided for pre-school and elementary aged children during the morning, and through the luncheon.

The Dow Center will be open for use free of charge. Racquetball court times should be scheduled in advance.

After the men's basketball game there will be refreshments, as well as a concert provided by the jazz band under the direction of Robert Cecil, professor of music.

The internationally-celebrated Zurich Chamber Orchestra will be featured in the Holland Great Performance Series on Thursday, Feb. 14 at 8 p.m. in the Holland Civic Center.

Under the baton of their founder, Edmond de Stoutz, the Zurich Orchestra has toured throughout the world, in-cluding the Far East, South America, and the Orient. The orchestra is conducting its fourth American tour, having last

performed in this country in I970.r

The series is co-sponsored by the Holland Concert Association and Hope's Cultural Affairs Committee. Holland has reciprocal agreements with concert associations in the communities of Benton Harbor-St. Joseph. Muskegon, and LaPorte, IN.

Single admission tickets, if available, will be sold 15 minutes prior to the per-formance. Hope students will be admitted free with presentation of their I D.

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Street to remain closed Hope's Board of Trustees recently

accepted a plan to tear up 12th Street between College and Columbia Avenues and replace the area with grass and walkways.

"The basic items necessary,^ stated Bill Anderson, vice president for business and finance, "are the removal of the existing street, tying in all the new walkways from the various buildings to

Twelfth Street will soon be nonexistent between College and Columbia, to be replaced by grass and walkways, (photo by Lora Rector)

other areas of the campus, building a 29-car parking lot at the west end of 12th Street (of which eight spaces will be for giiest parking and 21 spaces will be for W e s t e r n T h e o l o g i c a l Seminary) . . . , lighting, an un-derground sprinkling system . . . , and a drop-off area for the theatre."

The estimated cost of this project is $174,000, which will be raised through contributions and an improvement fund which has been set up for projects such as this. "Originally the plan was much more elaborate;" said Anderson, "however, due to the cost (nearly $500,000) the plan has been cut to a bare minimum."

Anderson explained that "if funds allow, future plans may include the in-stallment of a statue at the east end of 12th Street and the planting of trees." He went on to state that Mandeville Cottage will be torn down, but probably not until Voorhees Hall has been renovated. Crispell Cottage will also be razed; however, this is the long-range plan and no date has been set for its removal.

The starting date for the 12th Street project has been set for sometime this spring with completion planned for the fall. A picture of the plan will appear in the anchor at a later date.

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Coonrod performs Saturday Hope's music department will present

pianist Michael Coonrod of the In-terlochen Arts Academy in a guest recital Friday, Feb. 8 at 8 p.m. in Dimnent

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Memorial Chapel. The public is cordially invited; admission is free.

The program will feature the Sonofo in B minor by Chopin, and three movements from Stravinsky's ballet, Pefrouchko, plus shorter works by Mendelssohn, Henry Cowell, and George Walker.

Coonrod's first important per-formances were in high school after winning the Billings Symphony Young Artist Competition. He played the Ravel G Major Concerto and later the Rachmaninoff C Minor Concerto. His undergraduate training was at the University of Montana with the Dutch pianist Lucian Hut, and his graduate study was at the Peabody Conservatory of Music with Konrad Wolff, Leon Fleisher, and George Walker.

In his short career, Coonrod has per-

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Hope's Board of Trustees have decided to increase college costs once again for the next academic year. The decision to increase Hope's cost to $5,775 was made at the Board of Trustees' meetings on Jan. 24 and 25 and was finally announced to the campus near the end of last week.

The bulk of the over $700 increase will come through the tuition charges, which were raised to cover "approximately 73 percent of actual cost of the academic and co-curricular program." The room and board charges will also increase, but not significantly, while the student ac-tivities fee will remain the same as this year.

The breakdown for the next year's cost will be as follows;

Tuition Board Room Activity Fee

$ 3,920 1,060

765 30

The College stresses that the cost to the student was kept to a minimum, meaning that there will be a greater emphasis on outside sources to make up the dif-ference.

Also emphasized was that student aid could undoubtedly increase with the increased college cost to the students and their families.

"North Star" sheds light on artist "North Star," a film by Francios de

Menil on the contemporary American sculptor Mark di Suvero, will be shown Feb. 14 in Winants Auditorium, Graves Hall, at 11 a.m. (community hour).

The film is a documentary on the life and major works of di Suvero, who is often referred to as the last American

"heroic artist." As Nancy Foote, critic for Artforum, writes: "The energies which inform his work have always gone beyond formal concerns. His sense of fun of movement, his desire for the viewer to play an active part, gives his con-structions a freewheeling earthiness and accessibility."

Pianist MichaeL Coonrod will be featured in a recital tomorrow evening in Dimnent Chapel.

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Rush hangs together Something new and different

mav come to Hope's traditional rush and pledging period this year-a sense of order and openness.

The thanks for the changes must go to Dave Vanderwel, the newly-returned associate dean of students (gone last semester on the College's first administrative sabbatical).

In the past, the hanging of rush calendars for the various

fraternities and sororities has consisted of a mad rush (no pun intended) to "beat all the others'' to the best spot in the cafeteria.

This year the calendars can be seen hanging in an orderly way, with no sign of a struggle (though a few of them hang a bit askew). Rather than leaving the organizations to their own devices, Vanderwel gathered the representatives of the groups together for a drawing, which determined where each sign would be hung. Nice and calm and understated-no fists, no machetes, no bloodshed.

An even more important in-novation which can be attributed

to Vanderwel's efforts to civilize the rush and pledging process is outlined in the letter vanderwel sent to the president of each fraternity and sorority. This letter announces Vanderwel's intention to speak to the prospective pledges, before they commit themselves to being pledges.

According to the letter, he will meet with those women who plan to pledge a sorority, after they have attended the final tea and before they fill out their p r e f e r e n c e s h e e t s ; for prospective fraternity pledges, the meeting will take place just before bid responses must be in.

The purpose of the meeting will be to acquaint the individuals with "what pledging is all about, the college's perspective on it, and some personal advice." This means that, for the first time, pledges will have a clear idea of their rights and of the College's regulations which apply to pledging; this information may help to clarify in each student's mind why he is pledging, and where his priorities lie.

Vande rwe l is to be congratulated for his efforts; hopefully, they will bring some semblance of sanity and humanity to one of Hope's time-honored traditions.

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Register now, pay later Saga hours are a raw deal Notice how lately there has

been a kind of metamorphosis around this campus? Somehow it seems that since the Iran takeover of the American Em-bassy there students have shown an increased interest in world politics, at least in the limited sense that they are now in-terested in the Middle East.

The next thing to come along was the Afghanastan invasion, spurring President Carter's recommendation to begin draft registration once again. Most definitely this little piece of news increased student awareness. This time, however, the awareness was spurred because at long last the foreign affairs of what seems like an infinitely distant country have had reverberations on this little haven.

Far be it for us to condemn the students' suddenly aroused in-terest in foreign affairs; in fact, we think it's great that for the first time since about 10 years ago Hopeites have begun to realize that what the Federal Government does could in all reality affect us.

The only sad note is that by the time we have begun to realise that we can be affected by the leaders' little follies and

decisions, it may be too late to do anything about it. The registration for the draft does not mean that the draft will begin, but nonetheless one wonders why registration has suddenly been brought back to the limelight if in fact Carter does not plan to do anything more with it. Hopefully it is just another one of his many attempts at flexing his muscles.

Still, it should not be the policy of the College to sit back and watch the Government begin registration when this implies agreement with the draft. Hope should be against the draft; why is nothing done about stopping registration for the draft? Students, it seems, had stronger reactions when the state voted to raise the drinking age.

What perhaps should be done is for the Student Congress to draft a letter opposing the rein-statement of the draft. No doubt this will not turn the tide of sentiment in Congress about the issue, but perhaps if, in this election year, Carter finds that some things are not highly favored by certain groups who will be inconvenienced by his little political maneuver, he may think a little more before taking the registration issue one step further in the near future.

Today as I sat down to dine in our magnificent new cafeteria, my attention was snared by a "table tent" lauding the student body for their rapid ac-climatization to the new scramble system.

"All well and good," I said to myself as I read through several paragraphs of praise and perused some fascinating statistics concerning peak hours and throughput for the several meals served. I was also quite pleased to see (for the first time since the facility opened in January) a posting of the hours during which students (and others, of course) hiay avail themselves of this new facility.

My mood suddenly turned quite sour when it occurred to me that the time indicated for the closing of lunch was exactly five minutes before the 12 noon Tuesday-Thursday classes let out! There seems to be some conflict here, especially when one considers that anyone who has a 12 noon class on these days will have few alternatives other than eating during community hour.

The situation is even worse for a student with both a 12 noon and a 9 a.m. class. That unlucky soul has no choice but to eat between 11 a.m. and noon, a time supposedly set aside for groups and organizations to hold events, meetings, etc. that may be of interest to the campus community in general.

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I would very much like to see a significant amount of study on this issue, preferably before these new hours become permanent.

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A call to arms-Earlier this week the traditional blood drives at Hope, in which (photo by Steve Goshorn)

Red Cross held one of APO's they gathered 206 pints of Mood.

The Gehrung Associates have passed their first-year evaluation with flying colors. The company, out of Keene, New Hampshire, has been responsible for keeping Hope in the public eye for the past year.

Gehrung Associates a re com-munication specialists who deal ex-clusively with institutions of higher education, which include the University of Southern California and several Eastern schools.

The firm serves as a liaison between its clients and regional and national media. Because Hope's public relations department has its hands full with local and state publicity, it was necessary to

Alumni Opus published this month Under a new program begun this year,

the Alumni Association has introduced the Alumni Opus, which will appear in this m o n t h ' s News From Hope College.

During this week's homecoming ac-tivities the winners of the Alumni Opus Arts competition will give a poetry reading in the President's Room in Graves Hall. The first session will be at 10 a m., to be repeated at 11:15 a.m. Copies of the poems will be available at the English department office for those students who want to see them.

The Alumni Opus was modeled after Hope's student Opus publication, the difference being that this special Opus is

open only to alumni. According to Eileen Beyer in her report to the Alumni Board, the project 4'sought to recognize and reward the artistic achievements of Hope alumni population which might not part icipate in traditional alumni programs."

Entries were divided into three catagories: fiction, poetry, photography, and two-dimensional art. The judges for the submissions in the poetry and fiction catagories were William Schutter; Henry ten Hoor, retired professor of English; and Eileen Beyer.

The two-dimensional art and photography was judged by Bruce Mc-

Combs, assistant professor of art; Ron Pederson, a member of the Calvin College art department; and Mae Van Ark, a Holland artist who has studied here at Hope.

Winners for the fiction competition were Beverly Greer Langeveld in first place, and Vera Holle Bloemers in second. Poetry winners were: first place--Delwyn Sneller, and second place-Linda Walvoord Girard. Photography winners were: first place-Rein Vanderhill, second place-Robert Echrich, and third place-Harry Bylsma.

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The firm works closely with director of college relations Tom Renner. It keeps abreast of pending stories and features of prominent publications and keeps Renner informed so he can give them possible relevant sources from the College. Renner may also suggest ideas of interest from Hope which may be passed along to writers.

In the past year, Gehrung Associates have been responsible for getting Hope spots in such well-Tead magazines as Us, Glamour, and Black Collegian, a magazine for college-bound minorities. Earlier this fall, Hope was mentioned on the "Today Show," thanks to the firm.

In addition to being responsible for these stories, the firm reinforces articles that are written about the school in-dependent of their agency. The recent article in Money magazine, where Hope was rated as one of the top 10 small private liberal arts colleges in the country, is an example of this.

After only a year, it is impossible to judge the long-range effects this type of exposure will have on the College, but since Hope hired the firm, it has been contacted by more and more national publications for possible stories, with a pending article in Time magazine.

Classics fraternity uncovered Hope has a classics department, and

the number of students studying Greek and Latin has nearly doubled in the last two years.

There is also on Hope's campus an honorary undergraduate classical fraternity called Eta Sigma Phi, whose aim is to stimulate interest in classical studies, spirit cooperation and goodwill among ' the classical department's members, and further interest in the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome.

The organization has been a part of Hope's community since 1958 and is now in the process of selecting new members.

Students Involved in classical studies become eligible after having completed two semesters of superior work in Greek or Latin or if they have comparable skills

acquired through a strong high school background in either language.

Eta Sigma Phi hopes to triple its membership this year. Trips to Chicago and Detroit are being planned as well as a visit to the Michigan Classical Con-ference (MCC) in Grand Ledge, MI during mid-April.

Initiation ceremonies will be held Feb. 28 in the Learning Resource Center of Graves Hall during community hour. Letters will be sent to eligible students by the beginning of next week.

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During the past week there have been demonstrations and mock draft card burnings on major campuses across the United States in reaction to President Carter 's announcement that draf t registration will be resumed.

While many coUege^ge people are ardently opposed to the idea of the resumption of the military draft, a recent Gallup opinion poll found that the U.S. public as a whole is evenly divided on the issue.

With regards to registration, report number 169 (August 1979) of the Gallup Opinion Poll Index reported that those polled overwhelmingly support a plan to register all young men so that the call-up time wuld be reduced in the event of a national emergency. The report states:

HA total of 45 percent of all adults say the draft should be reinstated while 46 percent disagree. Young adults are far more likely to oppose a return to the draft than are older adults.

"While the public has mixed opinions about reinstating the draft, attitudes have grown- somewhat more favorable since March 1977 when 36 percent favored a return to the draft and 54 percent were opposed.

"If a draft were to become necessary, should young WOMEN be required to participate as well as young men? This question was also asked in the latest survey. Opinion is found to be fairly evenly divided, with 43 percent of all adults interviewed answering af-firmatively and 50 percent saying women should NOT be drafted.

"Among those who think young women should be required to serve in the military, opinion is about evenly divided between those who think that women should be eligible for combat roles and those who think they should be exempted

from this type of service. "While Americans are about evenly

divided on reviving the draft, they vote strongly in favor of a system of universal registration-at least for young MEN. A system of military registration and classification has been advocated by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to speed mobilization in an emergency.

"The public votes 76 to 17 percent in favor of such a plan for all young men, and 50 to 41 percent in favor in the case of women.

"While there are mixed feelings about an Immediate return to the draft to fill military manpower needs, this sentiment should not be interpreted as a reluctance to serve the nation.

"An estimated 4 million young adults appear ready and willing to volunteer for a proposed VOLUNTARY national ser-vice program in which young people of both sexes would serve for one year either in the military forces or in non-military work after completion of high school or college.

"In addition, an estimated 6 million young persons (18 to 24 years old) in-dicate at least some interest in such a program.

"Whether or not young people have an active interest in volunteering for national service at this time, an over-whelming majority (77 percent) of persons in this age group feel that young people should be given an opportunity to become involved in such a program.

"Those in the survey who expressed interest in volunteering (that is, said they 'definitely' or 'might' be interested) were asked whether they would prefer military or non-military service.

"Those choosing non-military service outnumbered those picking military service by the ratio of 2-to-l."

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med vidiot. I watched an awful lot of television in my formative years, and to this day wonder what kind of influence it has had on my lifestyle. Has it made me more passive? Has it removed the rough edges from my creativity? Have situation comedies like My Mother The Car, Captain Nice and My World And Welcome To If had some kind of psychological effect upon my psyche as myths may have in an earlier time?

There are some who think television's impact is negligible. Some tout it as an educational or socialization device. There are those shut-ins, the elderly, and children with inattentive parents for whom the box offers companionship. Still others feel that television should be labeled a dangerous drug.

It is the medium we love to hate. One may criticize the banality of its offerings while slyly sneaking off to watch "Bugs Bunny" cartoons. There is a min-dlessness presented that is sometimes appealing. One doesn't have to con-centrate or participate. As one friend raved after completing his term paper marathon, sitting down in front of Tora, Tora, Tora. "I don't want to have to think!" He cheered the violence with glee and resignation. Television is the outlet which longs to be an inlet.

Television is growing, and with this so is choice. As it is, too many expect that when they turn on the television there should be something in the void that immediately appeals to them. It is no wonder that the networks push for the lowest common denominator. If the viewer would just scan the listings for the week, make appropriate selections, and watch just those, he would be more satisfied.

It used to be said that as the Soviet Union became more capitalistic and we moved towards socialism, our two countries would meet in the middle. It is beginning to seem again that this is in-deed a possibility, only now it is in geography rather than philosophy. That other great leveler, television, has seen a similar shift between the big three net-works x and public television. While commercial television is in stasis-perhaps a vacuum-PBS has tried to

broaden its appeal. It has added lighter fare to its intellectual appeal. In addition to opera, symphony, and public affairs, it has contemporary music and science fiction. With public television's growing prestige, it is no longer seen as a young underdog. Critics in Atlantic and Harper't magazines have of late called into question public television's success in attaining the objectives which established it. To be fair, though, it has supplied a viable option to the majority of offerings on the glass teat.

Public television's new season is grander than ever, but it is worthy to note the progress of an older production: "The American Short Story." It is in its third year and appears to remain quite healthy as of its season premier Feb. 4. Success is sweetened by the fact that it is imported by the BBC. A home-grown series is again in competition with England's popular •4Masterpiece Theater. ' '

PBS has done with the short story what "Masterpiece Theater," and to a lesser degree native networks, have tried to do with the novel, only it is easier to remain true to an author's original visage in an hour-long short story than it is to capture the complexities of a novel.

In the past, "The American Short Story" has presented Stephan Crane's "The Blue Hotel," Wright's "Almos' a Man," F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs her Hair," and other snippets of Americana. Their new season includes new shows as well as old. The first new presentation was Ring Lardner's "The Golden Honeymoon," which humorously showed that old people are just tall kids. Future programs will treat the work of John Updike, Katharine Anne Porter, N a t h a n i e l H a w t h o r n e , E a r n e s t Hemingway, Ambrose Bierce, and William Faulkner.

Literature and film do not always mesh well. Sometimes the work suffers, but it is usually the other way around. As a film, "The Golden Honeymoon" softened the limitations of Lardner's stylized folksy non-prose. Faulkner no doubt will be hard to transcend. Still, PBS deserves credit for bringing culture to a vapid medium. Plotted against "M*A*S*H," it will probably not garner a lot of viewers, but public television isn't too concerned about ratings. It deserves looking into. Maybe after reruns . . . .

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mainta ining a relat ively s table enrollment now for many years.

Fredrickson noted a number of ways Hope has been able to maintain its enrollment and can continue it for the future. One is the strong alumni association. Many students who come to Hope are children of alumni. The school could work closely with community and junior colleges and attempt to draw thpse students here. ^ Furthermore, Hope has been very successful in selling itself. 4tWe have a sophist icated market ing program," Fredrickson stated. "Hope is in the forefront of many other colleges."

The Dow Foundation study on Hope was one of a number on small Michigan colleges. The foundation had been donating money in small amounts to many colleges but had decided to study a number of them with the intention of contributing a large amount to only those schools. Part of the study centered on the enrollment and attrition rates.

Its findings then prompted President Gordon Van Wylen to convene the task force. In addition to Fredrickson and Huisken, Bruce Himebaugh, director of

financial aid; Robert Cline, assistant professor of economics; and chaplain Van Heest are members. by Keven Matkewiti

Many Juniors and seniors remember

M r i t m o n n O V A / n o r l Ca™ 6 # 6 a s « gym and not a cafeteria. I V I U m i C ? l l u u w n e a Since the construction of the Dow Center,

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by Adrian Hope's wrestlers once again had a

rough week as they lost one and tied one and had noone place in a tournament. ' In the duel between the Dutch and Adrian the grapplers were defeated 27-9 as they had to forfeit two matches to the Bulldogs. Of the six matches wrestled, Hope was only able to manage two of

, them as Mike Sutton and Garry Visscher • picked up the wins.

Four forfeits were the only points that the Grand Rapids school of Bible and Music could muster, but it gave them 24 points, which matched the amount that Hope got for winning the six matches wrestled. Winning for the Dutch were John Victor (142), Peter White (158), Sutton (167), Gary Markert (177), Kevin Anderson (190), and Visscher (hug).

In the Grand Valley Tournament none of the wrestlers were able to place. Several of the men had good showings, however, as White took two matches while Sutton and Visscher each took one.

The wrestlers are now 0-3 in the league and 1-5-1 overall.

Hope's new logo In an effort to introduce uniformity in

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formed numerous recitals and has ap-peared with orchestras through the U.S. and Haiti. Recently, he made a recording its identification devices, a committee led of Beethoven's Sonofo In E Major, Op. by President Van Wylen has developed a 109 for broadcast over National Public new logo for Hope.

there has been an increase in intramural sports and overall student sports activity.

To facilitate student activity on the racquetball courts, this article is for those students who would like to start playing at Hope but who aren't quite sure what to do. For those who play often, you may Just sit back and gloat about all your knowledge.

There are two things that have to be done before you can play at the Dow Center. The first is that a court has to be reserved, and the second is that you should be familiar with the basic rules so you can play the game.

I think one factor that inhibits many people at Hope from playing racquetball is that they are not sure how to obtain a court. The process is really very simple. All you have to do is stop by the Dow Center equipment room (the counter between the two locker rooms) and ask to reserve a court. You can also reserve a court by calling ext. 3273. Tell the worker the time you want to play (it can't be more than 24 hours from the time you make your request).

Now, all you have to do is show up at the appointed time and pick up a court reservation card at the equipment room. This serves the purpose of double-checking your court reservation. If you do not pick up your court reservation card,

you do not have a right to the court; somebody else may sign up and play on it. So, after picking up your card, it's off to one of the six courts for an hour of fun according to the following rules.

In an attempt to simplify the rules, some of the finer points will be left out, but hopefully the general ideas will become clear.

The Game: The object is to hit the ball before it bounces twice and have' it hit the front wall before it bounces at all. If you serve and your opponent fails to do this, you are awarded a point. If you serve and you fail to do this, you lose your serve. You win a game by scoring 21 points.

The Serve: TTie server must stand between the two lines parallel to the front wall, drop the ball, and hit it to the front wall. After hitting the front wall, it may hit a side wall, but it must bounce beyond the short line (the red line closest to the back wall). The serve must not hit three walls or fly from the front wall to the back wall without bouncing in between. A server has two chances to serve suc-cessfully. If the server fails to do so, the opponent is awarded the serve.

The Receiver: The receiver must stand behind the two red lines at the base of the side walls to await the serve. The receiver may elect to return the ball on the fly or after it hits the floor. It can, however, bounce off the side walls before hitting the front wall~as long as it doesn't bounce off the floor before it hits the front wall.

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Radio. The review stated that "Coonrod did real justice to the work; his per-

, formance provided the mystery, the relentlessness, and the tenderness that

The new logo was chosen after two years of discussion and reviewing. It incorporates the traditional anchor en-closed by a triangle symbolizing the

the composer had struggled so hard to College's Christian heritage.

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T u o more! That ' s six in a row for Coach Glenn Van Wieren s High-Flying Dutchmen. That also happens to be the longest s t reak for any Hope basketball team in 15 years .

The victories came at the hands of two of the weaker teams in the MIAA, but if one considers that last season Hope was THE weak team in the league, six in a row is quite a turnaround. This is even more phenomenal when one looks at the roster and sees only two seniors on the squad.

The 86-71 victory over Adrian and the 7^-67 win over the Kalamazoo Hornets gave the cagers a 5-1 league mark , while their overall slate reads at 10-5. The wins also should be a contributing factor in preparing the Dutchmen for the toughest week of the schedule. They played league-leading Calvin last night and will play defending league champ third-place Albion on Saturday.

Calvin trounced Hope 66-54 in the first contest between the rivals, while Hope handled Albion surprisingly easily in the first game between the squads 94-76.

Hope once again got off to a slow s t a r t against Adrian as they found themselves behind 25-13 midway through the first half.

Tight defense and a basket by Scott Benson with a minute to go in the half enabled the hoopsters to take a point lead, 33-32, at the half.

Hope came out of the locker room red-hot a s they hit nine out of 10 f rom the field to take a commanding 53-36 lead. The Bulldogs could not close the gap significantly and the Orange and Blue

had another win under their belts. Leading the Dutch in scoring was

Benson with 16. Rick Reese and Tony Roberts added 12 and Loren Schrotenboer threw in 10 points.

The main concern against the dismal Kazoo squad was overconfidence. It would have been very easy for Hope to look past the 3-13 Hornets and on to Calvin. This concern was unfounded, however, a s the Flying Dutch got off to one of the fastest s tar ts of the season as they took a 21-7 lead. A 67-percent shooting clip in the first half, as well as the Hornets ' 32 percent, gave us a 46-27 half t ime lead.

All things seemed to be on the same course for the second stanza as Hope built a 72-47 lead. Kalamazoo then sunk the next 16 points and cut the lead to nine, 76-

63. with about three minutes remaining in the contest.

The Hornets were unable to get any closer as the Dutch gained their com-posure a n d once again expanded the lead to the final margin.

Scott Benson hit 11 of 12 f rom the field and five straight f rom the line as he led all scorers with 27 points. Benson is now shooting a phenomenal 59 percent f rom the field and nearly 81 percent from the line through 15 games. Matt Neil was the only other Hope player to score in double figures, with 11.

Tom Vander Stel came off the bench to play an excellent game as he made nine points and led all Hope rebounders.

The Albion game Saturday will be at 3 p m. as it is the Winter Homecoming contest.

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The Volley: The volley continues until the ball bounces twice or hits the floor before it hits the front wall. The person who wins the volley is awarded a point if he served, or awarded the serve if he was the receiver.

Hinders: If a player gets in another player 's way either by obstructing his vision or by the position of his body, a hinder is called and the volley is replayed, as if nothing had happened.

Between these simplified rules and the instructions on how to obtain a court, everybody should at least give the sport a try. Because, as one student put it, "It sure beats s tudying."

Women's team-water bunch

Ann Stone, Deanne Palladlne, and the 800-yard freestyle relay team of Stone, Nancy Vande Water, Leslie Bethards, and Nancy SchoJten have qualified for the AIAW Division III meet.

Stone swam the 200-yard freestyle event in 2:05.549, setting pool and school records.

Palladino qualified by setting a pool and school mark of 322.30 points for 11 dives for the three-meter diving.

The 800-yard freestyle team swam the event in 8:27.4, which easily eclipsed the qualifying time for the nationals, which is 8:32.0. The ladies will travel to Allegheny College in Meadville, PA in early March for the meet, which will take place bet-ween the 13th and the 15th of that month.

by Jordon Loch Another week of women's swimming

has past and it is becoming an every-meet thing to see the ladies breaking school and pool records, even qualifying for nationals.

Last Wednesday night, against Calvin, the Dutch responded by downing the Knights 79 51, setting three pool records, and sending two women on to the nationals.

Ann Stone and Deanne Palladino qualified for nationals, and Leslie Bethards set a pool record in the 100-yard freestyle.

Saturday, the Dutch matched strokes against the Hornets of Kalamazoo and prevailed, 60-42.

It was to be another day of the usual for

the unusually talented women from Hope as they established two school records and qualified the 800-yard freestyle relay team.

The relay team of Stone, Vande Water, Bethards, and Sholten qualified for nationals, and Bethards set a school record in the 200-yard backstroke, as did Vande Water in the 200-yard butterfly.

The women travel to Adrian Saturday to take on the lady Bulldogs at 3 p.m. The big meet of the season will then take place next Wednesday as the ladies will take on Albion at the Britons' home pool. The winner of this contest will, barring a major upset, win the league. The Dutch will also try to avenge a tough 67-63 non-league loss at the hands of Albion on Jan . 26.

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Dutchtankers edge Scots

by Bill Lydens Last Saturday Hope's men s swimming

team rallied to victory over the Alma Scots by a score of 59-52.

The Dutch, who were favored to win, fell behind in the early going and were forced to pull together in a "real team ef for t " in order to overcome an 11-point mid-meet deficit The 400 free relay team of Beck Green, Craig Anderson, Tim Davis, and Dave Moored secured the Dutch victory when they easily out-stroked Alma s team in the final event of

the day. Four school records were recorded in a

meet which saw many individual best times. A new mark was set by the 400 medley relay team of Pat Nelis, Mark Trudell, Craig Anderson, and Tim Jasperse with a t ime of 3.59.54. Nelis' lead-off 100 backstroke in the relay of 1:01 3 also set a school record Breast-stroker Mike Schmuker set records in both 100- and 200-yard breasts t roke events with times of 1:06 64 and 2:25 81 respectively.

With their victory, the tankers a re undefeated in regular season MIAA action. This Saturday at l p m., however, they will put their record on the line as they host both Calvin and Adrian in a dual

meet.

Hope's women swimmers cheer for spirit, (photo by Steve Goshorn)

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