Searchfor a New Dean of Students

The Dean of Students SEarch Committee met for the first time last Wednesday. The committee, charied by President Gordon VanWylen, is comprised of four student, two faculty and three administration represenatives.

The Wednesday session and a follow-up session on Thursday were used to determine where the search would begin for the new Dean of Students-a title changed by the committee to 4 < D e a n f o r S t u d e n t D e v e l o p m e n t " - - a n d w h i c h quilites would mark promising candidates.

The committee opted to search both nationally and within the c a m p u s c o m m u n i t y for a replacement.

It was decided that memberrs of the administration, faculty and student body should be en-couraged to submit letters of nomination for qualified, in-terested individuals to Bruce Himebaugh, Director of Human Resorces.

According to the draft adver-t i s e m e n t for the pos i t ion , ''Qualifications for this position include appropiste professional experience and graduate train-ing in college student develop-ment." The draft also outlined that "The successful candidate should p o s s e s s i m a g i n a t i v e leadership ability, have proven organizational skills, and be able to in teract pos i t ive ly with students, faculty and staff, and support the mission of the Col-

lege." The College will aslo advertise

the opening in publications such as The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Church Herlad and News from Hope CCollege. Schools similar in outlook and purpose to Hope, including GLCA and ACM (Associated Colleges of the Midwest) schools, will be notified as well.

The application deadline is May 5, with interviewing and final selection to be completed by the committee on May 30.

The duties of the new Dean will begin on August 1 1986. The Dean for Student Developemnt is the senior administrator responsible for student personnel programs such as residential life, student a c t i v i t i e s , hea l th s e r v i c e s , counseling, career planning and placement, campus ministry and orientation.

Serving as the administration repesentatives on the committee are Director of Student Activities Susan Langejans, Director of H u m a n R e s o u r c e s , B r u c t Himebaugh, and Chaplin Gerald Van Heest. Professor Chris Barney of the Biology Depart-ment and Professor Glenn Van Wieren of the Physical Educa-tion Department are the faculty representatives. The four stu-dent representatives are Janilyn Brouwer, Theresa MePherson, G r e g O l g e r s a n d D a n i e l VerMeek. The committee's next meeting is scheduled for April 2.

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Meyer Faces Charges for $5,000 in Damages

by Jill Mannor

On Saturday, Feb. 22, a Hope College student was arrested for maliciously damaging the pro-perty in and of the Albers Guest House on Hope's Campus.

Richard Meyer, 19, was releas-ed on a $5 ,000 p e r s o n a l recognizance bond Tuesday, Feb 25 by Judge John Galien, Jr. in Holland's 58th District Court. He was arraigned on three charges stemming from the malicous destruction of the college-owned property, which is located on the corner of 13th Street and Colum-bia Avenue.

Meyer is being charged with malicious destruction of proper-ty to a building over $100, a

felony crime with a maximun sentance of four years in prison and-or a $2000 fine, malicious destruction of property over $100, also a felony, and illegal entry, a misdemeanor crime with a max-imum penalty of 90 days in jail and-or a $100 fine, court officials said.

Meyer requested a court-a p p o i n t e d l a w y e r a n d a preliminary hearing is set for March 28.

The arrest took place when Public Safety officers called Holland Police Officers to assist in a break-in call. According to Captain Bud Barr of the HPD, the break-in was reported by

neighboring students who heard glass breaking in the house.

Two police off icers, upon entering the home, saw evidence of destruction and received no reply when they told the suspect to come out. They searched the first and second floors, but found no one. The officers then climb-ed to the attic where they allegedly found Meyer hiding.

Destruction to the home was extensive and included broken windows and furniture. Hope of-ficials estimate the damage to be at$5000.

-some information obtained from the Holland Sentinel

Congress Discusses Sexual Harassment, Student Elections

by Tim Estell

With some surprise. Student Congress met this past Thurs-day. The usual random arrival of members left some doubt as to whether a quorum would exist. Since the last scheduled meeting was cancelled due to lack of at-tendance, that agenda was car-ried over.

Dirk Weeldryer reported that the sexual harrasment policy has been completed and is now in ef-fect. It has not been released yet, so more details must wait. In other committe reports, long range planning is going on for a trip to the Grand Rapids opera this Spring or Fall, sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Committee; the Library Committee will be in-formed that students would like longer hours during the week and on breaks; and the existance of s student appeals board was ques-tioned by Dean Dirkse who noted that other colleges do not allow appeals.

An amendment to the constitu-tion was passed to handle the resignation of executive officers from Student Congress. It was decided that nominations for the vacancy would be accepted from congress members, who would then vote among their, can-dadates. This passed with a few abstentions.

Some discussion was made on the current policy of allowing community service instead of or in conjunction with a fine as punishment for some disobe-diences. Clarification was need-ed on the current policy before any decisions could be made.

Beth deNicola was selected to represent the students n the Campaign for Hope. Less than five applicants have been receiv-ed for student represetatlves to the Reformed Church Synod, and more responsibility Is to be given to the Judicial Board.

Investigation Into the raising of the activities fee by the trustees showed that It was merited due to the debt currently maintained by congress. In the future they assured congress they would allow more student Input on any changes In the fee.

A personal plea was made for volunteers to participate In the upcoming Model United Nations. The greatest need was for Friday between sight and twelve. This annual event brings high school students to Hope where they represent countries in solving current crises. Any students in-terested are encouraged to call Phil Tanis at 6241.

In light of the success of the Critical Issues Symposium, a let-

ter of congratulations will be sent to the planning committee. It was noted that the representa-tion of both sides was fair and diverse, and 'made people on both ends mad.'

Student elections will be com-ing up soon. They will follow last year's schedule, with petitions due after Spring Break. Any registered student may sign a petition, or run for any office. In a change from last year's policy It was decided to allow campaign posters up until election day. The only restriction Is that posters In the voting area must be taken down. A brief sugges-tion that all voters be registered was quickly silenced.

Ending the meeting on a vigorous note, there are rumors that a faculty member tried to discourage attendance at the dance the night before Critical Issues. They threatened to automatically drop ten percent of anyone's grade who attended. It was unanimously voted that this untolerable action be con-demned if the rumors were con-firmed.

OPINION HOPE COLLEGE ANCHOR March 1 2 , 1 9 8 6

Editorial Do I have any takers believing that ignorance is verifiabiy and

undeniably blissful? Not a chance, especially here on the Hope campus where any mere sign of blissful oblivion is rightfully and promptly dismissed with a memo from above. When the ad-ministration feels that members of the College are slipping into unawareness or experiencing bouts of apathy, it goes and establishes something like the Critical Issues Symposium. Don't get me wrong, the CIS was well organized, funded and executed. The speakers were obviously quite intelligent who provided a live-ly debate and opened up an opportunity for the audience to become familiar with the situation confronting many of our geographical neighbors south of the border.

I do, however, have one major qualm about the attitude sur-rounding the threshold of awareness of such wordly occurrences. That is what students are made to feel about the issues of that place beyond the circumscribed Hope campus.

One member of the College staff mentioned to a professor of the faculty that Critical Isssues was a time when students as a whole could wrench themselves away from their narrowed studies and focus on (or at least listen to) a real problem that very much in-volves the U.S. To his statement the professor replied something that sounded close to "Like hell they will."

Now given, this was cynical and most likely not far from base. Obviously, the prof assumed that having the chance students would only goof off on that fateful Thursday, sleep through it en-tirely or, God forbid, attend the Arkie dance the night before and use the afternoon to recover from intense partying. Personally, I thought the dance fit neatly in between keynote addresses on Wednesday night and Thursday morning and allotted students enough time to go to both and, sans drinks, get a good night's rest in as well. Timing, though, plays a big part in extracurricular ac-tivities.

The extent to which I was Involved with Critical Issues was casual to say the least. I'm not up on world affairs and many times these things don't catch my attention. I do care enough, especially to the point of sitting and listening to a few of the speakers while attempting to quiet a conscience that had become unsettled with all of the hype that is directed towards people like myself. For a very brief moment, I felt at odds for not being on the planning committee for the event.

Concerning something like Critical Issues, students are placed in a very precarious position. They are held responsible for knowing the very details of world affairs, yet many, like myself, sometimes can't even get out from under the work that sits on their own desks that understan-dably holds more importance. Sounds like a whining excuse, eh? It's as if I were trying to rationalize my own ambivalent feelings about Critical Issues and such things...right?

Well, to tell you the truth I almost felt like avoiding the entire Symposium. How could I possibly care about Central America when I have so much backed up work? It seems that I do (or at least did) regard it as being important enough and ended up sit-ting respectfully through the debate thinking that the College sure did put much time, effort and money into pulling CIS off.

Apathetic I'm not. In fact, I'm quite sensitive to the human situation, I suppose it's just learning to live with those who feel that our responsibilities and obligations should be never-ending. I truly think that not attending all of the events of Critical Issues is hardly the highway to endless inflammation. Becoming familiar is fine, but insinuating dire consequences for poor attendance very rarely proves appealing.

Lou Valantasis, co-editor

Letters to the Editor To the editors:

I am writing in response to the Arcadian slave auction. I feel it was a very insensitive and distasteful way to promote a fund raising activity. Because I am a descendant of slaves, I know slavery was grotesque, its im-pact. still affects the l ives of many people. With less offensive ways to communicate your func-tion, I fail to see why a callous ex-pression of human suffering would be a catchy phrase. As a

minority student I am very un-comfortable. I wonder, if I was a member of the Arcadian frater-nity if you would sell me, or if we were in a different era, would you have considered slavery an acceptable investment? You are entitled to your freedom of ex-pression, however, please be aware that your freedom of ex-pression can conjure up images of fear and terror for others.

Richard Lancelot Bourne

To the Editor: I find it necessary to respond to

R a m i n A h m a d i ' s l e t t e r of resignation, as presented to the student body in the February 26 issue of the Anchor.

As a member of the student congress, I found Mr. Ahmadi's accusations extremely unfair. He states the congress as a whole "has no understanding of the issue whatsoever. . .and is com-pletely misinformed and indif-ferent about the issues." The "issue" to which Mr. Ahmadi is referring, is that of the divest-ment of Hope College funds from companies which do business in South Africa.

The student congress, as a whole, was open to debating the issue of divestment t ime and t ime again. Mr. Ahmadi was given the chance to state his opi-

nion regarding the support of a d i v e s t m e n t . Other c o n g r e s s members continually sought to challenge Mr. Ahmadi's position by suggesting options to divest-ment or in congruence with divestment. One such option sug-gested that the Hope College ad-ministration take "advantage" of the stock held In the com-panies by actively denouncing the companies activities In South Africa by means of the stock holders meetings. This would In-itiate change from within the companies leadership center. Divestment symbol izes one's disagreement and disapproval of the apartheid system. Indeed, how can simply selling one's s t o c k t o s o m e o n e e l s e

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To the Editors, Well, at last the money made

from the fast has been collected, and, as the saying goes, the check is in the mail. Over 150 people participated, far more than in previous fasts. The money then saved by these peo-ple not eating was then generous-ly contributed by Western Food service to the Hunger Group. This amount, which is in exces s of 300 dollars, was then con-tributed to CARE. As CARE is currently conducting a campaign to raise 10 million dollars to match a grant from USAID, our contr ibut ion of 300 d o l l a r s

blossomed into over 600 dollars worth of aid to the hungry.

When one considers, as a general rule of thumb, that 100 dollars is enough to save a child's life, one realizes that collective-ly, we have saved the l ives of six children. The magnitude of this a c c o m p l i s h m e n t i s b e s t understood when one realizes the inherent worth of human life, and of the value one places on one's own life and the l ives of one's friends.

If you would like to help in this type of work, just drop in on a Hunger Group meeting. We will

be helping to sign up people for the Crop Walk at Hope, and will possibly be Involved In Hands Across America. Our meet ings are In the Chapel basement at 7 p.m. on Sundays, and we would enjoy seeing new members .

We would like to thank the Hunger Group m e m b e r s for their t ime and effort, along with Mark Larson who designed the 8 by 11 posters. We would especial ly like to thank Western Food Service, whose cooperation and suppost were essential to the fast. Sincerely,

Paul Harper

Dear Editor: Last week you took the liberty

to editorialize your opinion on the Arcadian Fratern i ty P l e d g e dance, held Wednesday, March 5, the eve of the Critical Issues Symposium. Although the events of that night are now in the past, as a fraternity we feel that your c o m m e n t s w e r e de tr imenta l enough to be deserving of a rep-ly. With that purpose in mind, there are several objections to your article that I would like to point out.

First of all, let m e begin with saying that you seemed to be s o m e w h a t p r e s u m p t u o u s In claiming that the dance w a s held 'based on the reasoning that, since thete are no c las ses on

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Thursday, people will have am- native to attenting the sym-ple time to recover from an all- posium. Let m e also remind you night party before coming to that, for many students, staying class on Friday.' It s e e m s up until 1 a .m. In fairly typical, strange that you, as an Indepen- and does not require a full day to dant, could have such a sure recover from. On top of that, I understanding of our fraternity's don't see any parallet between a reasoning for holding the dance, dance and, as you call It, 'an ail-To set the record straight, our night party.' the dance, held on reasoning w a s s imply that, campus, w a s In no w a y directly because students didn't have related with alcoholic consump-homework to do for Thursday, tlon. the might a p p r e c i a t e an op- Moving on, let m e address portunlty to do something on another Issue, namely , your Wednesday night. Let m e re- claim that the dance 'showed a mind you that the dance, held vast lack of respect for the s y m -from 9 p.m. to 1 a .m. did not posium and the work that has directly conflict with any Critical gone Into arranging It' as wll a s Issues presentations, and thus r • j o n cannot be considered an alterv, , (-ont.nned on P a g r 11

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March 1 2 , 1 9 8 6 HOPE COLLEGE ANCHOR NEWS Follow-up on Symposium Speakers

Dr. Ralph Lee Woodward by Rlanna VandeVusse

It was a cold, gray morning last Thursday as students, facul-ty, professors, administrators and other interested people filled the chapel wll of halfway to hear Dr. Ralph Lee Woodward Jr.'s address, 'Historical Perspec-tives on the Contemporary Crisis in Central America-Mexico.' the speech would have been given the evening before, but due to the bad weather conditions, he swit-ched places with Gustavo Para-jon.

The morning began with Para-jon recapping his speech from the night before and urging us all to intercede with our govern-ments to achieve non-violent discussion between our two coun-tries.

Woodward then took the podium. He spoke quickly and precisely, sometimes talking too fast for some students to follow easily. He began by telling of the strong nationalism and pride of Central Americans for their countries; of the feudal class system set up by Spain for three centuries; and of the problems that this m e d i e v a l s y s t e m created for Central American government. Next, he discussed the struggle between the liberal and conservative ruling-class Creole elite who took over after Spain's withdrawal in 1821. He also discussed how after Central America started modernizing, the peasants had progressively less land.

Woodward then spoke of military invasions by the United States that led to dictatorships in Central American countries, and how capitalism there led to more and more impoverishment for the majority of the people. He discussed the repression of labor unions by these dictatorships, the clergy being servile to the state,

economic problems of having a two-crop economy, and lack of a m i d d l e c l a s s in C e n t r a l American nations.

He discussed problems and s u c c e s s e s in many Central A m e r i c a n c o u n t r i e s , wh i l e centering on Nicaragua, since that is the location of most of the current problems.

An earthquake in 1972 in Nicaragua was mentioned to demonstrate some of the many faults of the Sandanista regime and their disregard for human rights.

D r . W o o d w a r d w a s in-formative and unemotional. He kept a personal distance from his subject until the very end where he pointed out that he holds his hope in Christian Democracy as a solution for Central America.

A short question and answer period was held after the speech.

Gustavo Parajon by Doug Holm

Focusing on the historical rela-tionship between the United States and Nicaragua, Gustavo Parajon, M.D., opened the Sixth Annual Hope College Critical Issues Symposium last Wednes-day night by criticizing the Reagan Administration's finan-cial support of the contra rebels fighting the Sandinista govern-ment in Nicaragua.

"Do all you can," he asked the audience that filled Dimnent Chapel, "to help your govern-ment come to grips with the situation as it is in Central America, and to start negotiating rather than sponsoring war."

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and CEPAD, two relief organiza-tions within Nicaragua, Parajon was a last-minute replacement for Dr. Ralph Lee Woodward. Woodward had been scheduled to speak, but did not arrive in Holland until late Wednesday evening due to plane trouble.

Parajon's address began what Cr i t i ca l I s s u e s C o m m i t t e e Chairperson Dr. James Piers hoped would be a "challenging, e n l i g h t e n i n g , and thought-provoking" sympos ium that would "increase awareness of the complexity of issues in Cen-tral America."

In giving a history of the forces shaping the lives of people in Central America, Parajon em-phasized the dominance of the area by the United States.

"The results of these forces," he said, "have brought about the development of a system that has been pursued by the United States government in our area which has as its prime objective the preservation and the im-provement of the American business interests in the area."

Using Nicaragua as an exam-ple, he traced the history of U.S. involvement in that country since it gained indepencence f r o m S p a i n in 1821. H e highlighted such 19th Century figures as Cornelius Vanderbilt and W i l l i a m W a l k e r w h o developed business and political interests in. the country. He also spoke of the importance of Nicaragua as a possible site for a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and how that helped lead to direct U.S. military intervention in the period 1909-1933. And he touched upon how the U.S. instituted the m i l i t a r y d i c a t a t o r s h i p of Anastasio Somoza and the crea-tion of his National Guard in order to "maintain, preserve and protect American interests" in the 1930's.

That involvement, he said, led to the revolution in 1979 that brought the present Sandinista g o v e r n m e n t to p o w e r in Nicaragua. Somoza may have b e e n A m e r i c a ' s " r e g i o n a l p o l i c e m a n for all Centra l America," but his repression in Nicaragua caused him to be "very hated and despised by the people."

"When you have a repressive regime, when people become in-creasingly poor, when people are losing the little land that they might have, when people don't know how to read or write, then people become very restless," Parajon noted. "And the only way you can deal with that is by repression."

This "spiral of violence" caus-ed by repression and the worsen-ing economic situation of the peo-ple was the basis for the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution, Parajon said, not Soviet-Cuban subver-sion. And the same could be said for the rest of Central America.

"To ignore this basic history of Central America and to try to ex:

plain what is happening there alone on the basis of an East-West conflict is nonsense," he said.

Throughout his address, Para-jon criticized the Reagan Ad-ministration's policy of sup-porting the approximately 15,000 contra rebels currently fighting the S a n d i n i s t a g o v e r n m e n t because it seems to ignore the history of the region.

"We think it is very important that you people know what is happening there," he said, "That what is happening in Central America is a natural explosion of the feelings of people and the needs that have been repressed for so many years, and that military alternatives—which is no solution at all—will only make it worse."

opportunity to advocate with the ruling elites' and is now exerting its influence to end the political repression which exists in those areas. He noted that the church as become increasingly active in working to alleviate the pro-blems of the underprivileged and those who suffer from political-social repression. Specifically, it has taken an active role in land reform, hunger relief, education and medicine.

Following the lecture by Van Engen, the Reverend Johnny Al icea Baez exp la ined the reasons for the Church's involve-ment in political and social reform. 'If the Church is to carry out its mission, it must relate to people's everyday problems,' he said. 'The crucial question for the Church today is how it should

Rev. Charles Van Engen Rev. Johnny Alicea Baez

by Matthew Anderson

As part of the Critical Issues Symposium last Wednesday and Thursday, Dr. Charles Van Engen, Assistant Professor of M i s s i o l o g y a t W e s t e r n Theological Seminary, and Rev. Johnny Baez, National Secretary of the Hispanic Council of the Reformed Church in America, delivered a joint lecture presen-tation entitled 'The Role of the Church,' on March 6 at 10:15 a.m. in the DeWitt Theatre.

Dr. Van Engen's lecture dealt with the role of the Church in social reform in Central and Latin America. He explained that the interest which the Church now has in political and social reform in these areas can be traced back to the influential position of the Catholic Church in the Spanish Empire furing the period when Spain was conquer-ing Central and Latin America.

'In the Spanish Empire the monk and the soldire worked hand in hand,' he said. 'Spain came to the Americas for the primary purpose of establishing the Catholic Church in the New World. The Church and the State were very closely linked.'

Van Engen explained that, dur-ing the role of the Spanish Em-pire in the Central and Latin America, the Church was an in-tegral part of the entire society in these areas. The Church took an active role in providing educa-tion, agriculture and science to the surrounding culture. As a result, said Van Engen, religion became an essential component of everyday life.

'Over 90 percent of the popula-tion in these areas is Roman Catholic, and there is a deep religious feeling shared be all,' said Van Engen. 'The Christian faith pervadeds every aspect of their lives.'

Van Engen said that, because of the Church's historical ties to the state,the Church in Central and Latin America 'has a special

inperpret existence with respect to those who are hungry, underprivileged and oppressed.'

Reverend Baez said that, in trying to make the Christian faith relevant to people who suf-fer from political persecution, the church in Central and South America is compelled to em-phasize the social and ethical im-plications of the Christian faith as well as the spiritual ones, and is thereby becomming 'actively involved in the Church's mis-sion.'

'One cannot divorce social con-cern from the Christian faith,' said Baez. 'When socially op-pressed people hear Christ say that they are the salt of the earth, that they are of value in God's sight, they will develop a sense of self- worth which will make them intolerant of being repressed, and hwich will motivate them to work together as a community to effect change.'

Constantine Manges

by Sarah Eberhard On W e d e n s d a y m o r n i n g ,

March 6, a breakfast was held for Dr. Constantine Menges who is Special Assistant to the Presi-dent for National Security Af-fairs (National Security Coun-cil.) At this breakfast, Dr. Menges spoke for a few minutes and then answered some ques-tions. In the discussion that followed. Dr. Menges made several points clear about the ad-ministrative position on Central America.

First, the U.S. policy is balanc-ed. Four mutually reinforcing elements help keep this balance. For one, the U.S. encourages democracy. The U.S. wants self-determination for the people of Central America. Two, the U.S. supplies economic aid to help im-pove living conditions. The U.S. gives aproximately Vfc billion dollars in economic aid to Cen-tral America. Third, the U.S.

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as a defensive response. Two, mi | | when the Democratic Resistance f A | | Q 111 U P i s UP the Sandinista from « . n a • disguising thousands of their Continued from age troops as domestic communist strives for active diplomacy for insurgents and training them to realistic political solutions, if a t - i n f i l t r a t e o t h e r C e n t r a l tainable. The U.S. has sent am- American governments. Thus, bassadors to Central American the N i c a r a g u a n F r e e d o m countries to talk one-on-one with Fighters are a defense barrier the leaders. Four, the U.S. pro- for Nicaragua's neighbors as vides security assistance to well as a reason for the San-friendly governments so that dinistas to carry out their they can defend themselves democartic committment to the against expanded Soviet, Cuban, O r g a n i z a t i o n of A m e r i c a n and Nicaraguan subversive ag- States. gression. Finally, the U.S. believes that

Secondly, the United States democracy can succeed in Cen-believes that much progress has tral America, but ony if we help, been made in Central America in Otherwise, "our choice will be a resisting Soviet subversive ag- communist subversion spreading gression. In four out of the five northward and southward. We Central American countries, face the risk that 100 million peo-democracy has been steadily in- pie from Panama to our open creasing in the past five years, southern border could come Costa Rica , Honduras , El under the control of pro-Soviet Salvador, and Guatemala each r e g i m e . s . are becoming slowly more and threaten the United States democratic, but they still need with violence, economic chaos, our support. ; and ~a human tidal wave of

Thirdly, the administration refugees." (President Reagan, has several reasons to support April 4,1985) the Democratic Resistance in These are just some of the Nicaragua. One, it is legitimate remarks that Dr. Menges ad-self-defense because the San- d r e s s e d to the group at dinistas initiated armed subver- breakfast. He also reiterated sion against its neighbors in 1979 these ideas at an 11:30 a.m. talk and the resistance began in 1982 and at the 1:30 p.m. meeting.

Judicial Board Seeks Members The Judicial Board is in its for-

mative stage at present and is still accepting applicants. Please tell why you are interested and your qualifications. Don't let the word "qualifications" scare you off. This might include anything from a relation to your major to an interest in disciplinary action on campus. Please submit a one page resume to Dave Brat or your area representative.

What exactly is the Judicial Board? When a student gets ar-rested by Public Safety for walk-ing on the left side of the hall, he-she has two options. The student may either see Bruce Johnston or waive this procedure and re-quest a panel of their peers other-wise known as the Judicial Board. From this point the nor-mal appeals procedure may be used if the student feels an im-proper decision has been reached by the Dean or the Judicial Board. The student will then ap-pear before the student standing and Appeals committee which is

composed of both students and administration. The Judicial Board will see much more action next year according to the Dean. Therefore, the better the ap-plicants are, the better the board will be, and the less time you may spend in the Clink.

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Tuition on the Rise Again

by Larry J. Wagenaar

Like most of you, I recieved the memorandum from Dr. Gordon Van Wylen's office explaining the need for a 7.14 percent in-crease in tuition and why this is needed despite a 3-4 percent in-flation rate. Dr. Van Wylen's reasons appear justified upon first reading however something troubled me inside as to what he was saying so I decided to do a little digging.

"During the years of high infla-tion in the early 480's, faculty salaries did not keep pace with inflation. We have been a t temp ting since those years to compen-sate for this by annually pro-viding increases in faculty salaries that are a bit greater than the cost of living." This statement does not rest well with me as I remember some double digit percentage increases in tui-tion during the time when the faculty salaries described above did not keep pace with inflation. When tuition was more than keeping pace with the cost of liv-ing as reflected in inflation where did the excess money go? Especially if it was not put into the costs that Dr. Van Wylen has described as falling behind? Why do we need to "catch up" on these items that were used to justify increases when they were made then? I'm afraid that we a l l h a v e f r i g h t f u l l y b a d memories; it might be helpful to lay out the increases as they ocurred in 1980-1986:

1981 14 percent 1982 11 percent 1983 8 percent 1984 7 percent 1985 8.5 percent 1986 7 percent

It troubles me when I see Hope approaching the $10,000 per year mark in order to be a student. When I began at Hope, in 1980, tuition was $3,920 per year. Next year it will be $6,742 per year. That is a 76 percent increase in only seven years. If we are honest with ourselves, inflation has not risen at that rate.

Problems arise when parents and students attempt to pay for the rising cost of education and Hope's spiraling costs more than exemplify the problem for most of us. The comparison made in the letter sent to m e adeptly com-pared us to other private institu-tions but as someone within the administration observed to me the comparison was not made amongst Hope's prime competi-tion, eg. Calvin, Alma, Albion, Western Michigan and Michigan State, but rather to more expen-sive colleges that for the mos part are not Hope's concern. For all this larger loans are needed, family finances are strained and for some students schooling at Hope is simply dropped. From my experience, the income of students and parents follows in-flation tightly and their '^'ity to

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College Orchestra Strikes Student Production "Top Girls"

No Sour Notes by Mary Taylor

On Friday, February 28, the Hope College Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Robert R i t s e m a , p e r f o r m e d t h r e e demanding pieces which re-quired a great deal of prepara-tion.

The c o n c e r t opened wi th ' ' O v e r t u r e t o D e r Freischutz,"the opening of the opera by Carl Maria von Weber. This piece, like a symphonic, summarizes the entire opera. "Passacagl ia on a Weil-Known Theme" followed, in which com-poser George Jacob's artistic use of orchestral coloring is evident.

After a short intermission, the performance c a m e to a cl imax with "Symphony No. 9 in C Ma-jor." This "Great" Symphony, Schubert's largest symphonic work, includes an Allegro sec-tion, a charming Andante move-ment, a dance-like scherzo, and concludes with a brilliant move-ment, Allegro Vivace.

Dr. Ritsema feels that the per-formance went very nicely. He c o n s i d e r s it q u i t e an ac-c o m p l i s h e m e n t f o r a n undergraduate group to perform such works.

Top Girls, a play by Carly Churchill, will be presented Tuesday, March 18, at 8 p.m. in the DeWitt Main Theatre. Ms. C h u r c h i l l , f a m o u s for h i s disregard for the conventions of the "realistic"theatre, set the play in present-day London, but in its first scene, several women from the historical and fictional past s h a r e the s tage with Marlene, Top Girls' 20th century heroine. The remainder of the play shifts freely over a year-long span in Marlene's life, detailing, often humorously, her personal and professional strug-gles.

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The nine woman cast, many of whom play more than one role, features Abby Meengs-Bakker, Karen Engel , Reka Jel lema, K a t h i M c G o o k e y , K r i s t i n e Nelson, Penny Rathbun, Ma-n y A n n V a n d e n H u e v e l , J i l l VanDeVeen, Leni Weisl and Maria Westerhoff. The produc-tion is directed by RaeAnn Leenhouts and stage managed by Kristi VanderKooi. Costumes w e r e des igned by Michel le Bombe.

The admission price for Top Girls is $2 at the door. The pro-ceeds will go to the Theatre Stu-dent's Forum, which is sponsor-ing the production.

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"Vanishing Point" Beginning April 4, De Pree Art Center will be featuring an ex-hibit entitled "Vanishing Point." This show is organized by this year's graduating seniors. They have spent their college years directing their studies toward this exhibition. The final day of the show, one day after gradua-tion, serves as the culmination of their careers thus far; beyond this point l ies the unknown. Just as in a perspective painting all action leads to the vanishing point, this is the conclusion only to present perception—an illu-

sionary finality. Paradoxically, it is an opening to future worlds. Their next challenge will be to discover what lies beyond this vanishing point.

Artists featured are Stacey P u r c e l l - K e s h a v a r z i , J o e l LeFever, Jon Hook, Gwen Grif-fin, Kevin Fischer and Cindy Abel. The exhibit will run through May 5. An opening reception will be held Friday evening (7-9 p .m. ) , April 4 in the gallery. Gallery hours are Mon-day through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday, 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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look at the Bangles new album "Different Light" and "Killer Lords" from the Lords of the New Church. Next week: "A Date With Elvis" from the Cramps and lots more.

Listen Up! by MarkS. De Young

Once upon a time in merry old England a child was born. He was christened Declan Patrick MacManus. As the son of a per-forming musician, Declan grew up with music in his blood. It is not surprising then that he learn-ed to play guitar and began writing songs at an early age. Young Declan knew, however, that it was not easy to make a good living as a professional musician so he took a job as a computer operator. He got mar-ried to his teenage sweetheart and was soon blessed with a son whom he n a m e d Matthew Patrick Dec lan MacManus. Although this made him happy, he was not quite satisfied with his life. Many people would have been content to settle down into a happy little existence like this, but not Declan. He was constant-ly writing down ideas for songs on scraps of paper while he worked or as he rode the train to and from work. Soon he knew that he simply had to play. He began busking along the streets of London. He did this not for peo-ple's donations as most buskers did, but in hopes that he would be discovered. Once he was even ar-rested for creating a public hazard while playing outside the headquarters of CBS Records in London. It was also at this same time that he began hanging out in the clubs around town where bands such as Brinsley Schwarz were playing. He even spent a brief period of time as a roadie for them. It was during this stint as a roadie that he became friends with Nick Lowe, the band's bass player. Nick sug-gested that he look up a new com-pany called Stiff Records that was run by a fellow named Jake Riviera. The tape Declan sent them was the first one they ever recieved, but nobody there even listened to it. They figured that with a name like Declan Mac-Manus it must be all Irish folk music or something. Finally Jake did hear Declan play and he signed him up almost im-mediately. Nearly as quickly as he was signed, they set about the business of finding him a new

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name. Declan was not over-whelmed by this idea but went along under Jake's assurance that it was the only way to go. This was during that historic period in history when the Pistols and the whole punk thing were really happening, so they felt that the name Elvis would fit in well with all of the anti-establishment hype that was go-ing on. So, Elvis it was. They ad-ded Costello (his mum's maiden name) and the new King was born.

Jake quickly booked Elvis in the studio and set about making a record. As his backup band Jake brought in a Southern California bar-band he also managed called Clover (out of which came John McFee of the Doobies, Huey Lewis and half of the News). The resulting album was called "My Aim is True." After the album was completed they set about to put together a regular band. Out of the applicants were chosen Pete and Bruce Thomas (not related) and Steve Nieve; thus the Attractions were born. So it was; and so it would be for near-ly eight years and ten albums (give or take a compilation or two). During those years Elvis and the Attractions explored many areas within the realm of popular music, even taking time out in '81 to record an album of country standards. For the pro-ject Elvis chose Nashville pro-ducer Billy Sherrill who has worked with virtually every ar-tist in Music City at one time or another and who Elvis later recalled as "a complete and ut-ter hack. Hasn't got an ounce of feeling in him." They played this and that until "Goodbye Cruel World" in '84 which many people (Elvis included) call their worst album.

Which brings us to 1986 and "King of America," which many are calling the best (myself in-cluded). Throughout the years there have been many changes but never as many as took place in the time between these two projects. First, Elvis Costello is no more. No matter what they may call him on MTV, that per-son is gone. Declan is back;

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Declan Patrick Alysius Mac-Manus to be exact. Elvis was a creation of a record compnay who grew out of control on a diet of alcohol and who knows what else. All that is over now as is his relationship with his wife. The divorce is final and Declan has fallen in love with Cait O'Riordan of the Pogues, a Celtic group he recently produced an album for. The name, the lifestyle, and the love interest are not all that have changed either. It is not only no longer Elvis, but no Attractions as well. Although they do appear on a couple of tracks, the main backing group consists of many of the players who worked with Elvis Presley (the TCB band) and a few other very well-respected American musicians.

The album's producer, T-Bone Burnett recently told Musician magazine "I don't think anybody's realized yet how good he is. ...This record is a break with his past. It's back to what he really cared about in music in the first place." This is the record every fan of this man always knew that he had in him. More importantly, it is the record the man always knew he had in him.

Everything that was trapped inside all those old songs has been released. It's all right up front where you can get to it. Anyone who had the pleasure of seeing the Costello solo tour in '84 will already know that there is more the man than the records have ever captured before. Before now, that is. The music and style are back to the basics, sort of moving ahead by reaching back.

If you have been a real fan all along, rejoice. If there has always been something that has kept you from liking him, it's time to try again. Whatever you do, check out the Costello Show. And do me (and him) a favor. Whenever you hear people talk-ing (and they will be) about the new record by Elvis Costello, politely remind them that it's not E lv i s anymoe. It's Dec lan Patrick Aloysius MacManus and The Costello Show.

There's a new mania going on in California which is about to sweep across the country. It'll never be as big as Beatlemania, but it may rival Hulkamania. What I speak of is Banglemania.

A few years back everyone was taking notice of a group called the Go-Go's and the fact that they were pretty good musicians, for girls. Now people are taking notice of a band (the Bangles) that is pretty darn good and not even talking about the fact that they happen to be females. It's actually too bad that it has taken this long for such a thing to hap-pen. I mean, nobody ever said anything like "Yeah, Lucille Ball. She's pretty funny, for a woman." or "Aretha Franklin? Darn good singer, for a woman." So, if you're looking for a good record by some fine musicians, you might try the new one from the Bangles.

The group is a four-piece and talent seems to be spread around quite well. Each member sings

lead on at least a couple of the tracks and is given writing credit on one or more. To write this off

. as just another pop record would be a big mistake; the band writes in a number of different styles from straight pop to sixties-influenced rock to pseudo-folk that is much like Suzanne Vega or Rickie Lee Jones. The only disappointment here is the inclu-sion of a song written by Prince (or Christopher as he calls himself here). Before I offend any Prince fans let me say that I think that Prince is extremely talented and that he is putting out some very good music these days but the Bangles (or more than likely their record company) could have done better in choos-ing one of his songs to record. And Columbia has chosen it as the first single. Oh, well. I sug-gest you go out and buy the album; then listen to ALL of the songs and wait 'til they release "Walk Like an Egyptian" and watch it go Top 5.

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Tis the season for compilations tra la la... The past two or three months have seen the release of literally dozens of compilations of every imaginable type, from a Dr. Demento boxed set to Epic's "Best of the Unsigned Bands" album. The latest of these records to cross my desk is "Killer Lords," a Best of com-pilation from the Lords of the New Church. For about the same price many people paid for the import 12" single of "Like a Virgin," you can get that song plus 11 others. This record is mainly for those folks who have never really been fans before. To be straight about it, this is a very

safe record as far as the Lords go. But it does serve its purpose; it includes the three or four songs that have become hits( ?) and the only domestic release of the Madonna song.

A note to Lords fans: if you considered buying the Lords live videocassette, rent it first. You may be disappointed, but better to be disappointed for two bucks than thirty.

Tune in Sunday at 5 p.m. on WTHS for LISTEN U P ! - T h e Radio Program the audio version of this column, where you can hear music from these albums and other new releases from the past week.

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Upstaje Left Spotlight on Senior David Rowell

In May, David Rowell will be graduating with a B.A. in Theatre and a concentration in Lighting Design. A techie. A ''behind the scenes" man.

He started his college career at Catawba, North Carolina, work-ing in the theatre stunt company. Next he went to Burlington Com-munity College in his home town in South Jersey. In January Of 1983 (nearly a sophmore) he ar-rived at Hope College.

Describing himself as a Jack-of-all-Trades in the beginning, Rowell first worker in the scene shop and acted in Cinderella. 'They needed a bass, so I was

cast." Rowell explained. Never-theless, he followed that role with another one in Waiting for Godot.

"Over the summer I decided that I needed to focus on something, I couldn't keep doing a little of everything. I had to find an area of concentration." I r o n i c a l l y , R o w e l l ' s f o c u s became lighting. It took almost another year of working on the lighting crew but Dance X gave Rowell the final push to go into lighting. "I ran the lightboard for Dance X and fell in love with lighting.

As a e a s t e r e l e c t r i c i a n , Rowell's duties vary depending on the show. But basically he

supervises the intro. and lighting crew, takes care of most of the paperwork (plugging charts and cue charts) and generally gets the lighting ready for technical rehersals. During the run of the shows, Rowell checks all the in-strumentation and gels for each performance and is in the booth throughout the performance in case of any major or minor emergency.

Having worker under Rowell during The Fantasticks, I know first hand that David takes his work seriously. At the same time, he's been known to have fun, entertaining the troups with "war stories" (the mishaps from previous productons), and pro-viding his crew with M&Ms, ect.

Rowell hasn't lost his Jack-of-all-Trades status completely, mostly because he's the type of person who will help out when the need arises. This fall, for exam-ple, Rowell stagemanaged The Shadow Box. And during the run of The Fantasticks (a near sell-out show) Rowell often served as a much needed usher.

Is Rowell's whole life in theatre? "Well, almost. No, seriously, I have other in-terests." Among Rowell's other interest are the martial arts ("I'm still just a pracitioner.")

He's also an avid reader-particularly science fiction, a videoholic, a computer nut (thanks in part to Michael Grind-staff), and a film fanatic-buff.

When asked if he was frighten-ed about graduating in May, Rowell answered quite frankly, "No! I'm ready." And then he added, "The hardest part will be missing the people I've worked with--Michael, the lighting staff, the people here."

What is after Hope for Rowell? "I've accepted a May-December position with the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival. And I hope to get into Hew York City to do a little freelance work."

Is grad school down the road? "A ways down the road. It's time to get back out and get dirty again. Maybe in two or three years I'll go for my MFA." And in the long run? "Educational Theatre in Vermont. My dad and I have always talked about star-ting up a restaurant-bar. Maybe I'll teach by day and work with my Dad at night." Obviously, the dreams don't end just because you're graduating.

Rowell's preferred area of lighting is dance. "Running the board for Dance X drew me toward lighting. And, Well, with dance-it's just the dancers and

the lights, you know." And as an ex-dancer (knee problems) his attraction to dance is understan-dkble, and his skill still quite ap-parent. Rowell's respect and ad-miration for Michael Grindstaff, Light ing D e s i g n e r for the theatre, showed itself through much of the interview. "Where I am-in my attitude and my abilit ies inlighting and the theatre-is due to Michael. He's been a teacher, a good influence, and a friend. He's shown me a lot, not just about theatre."

As Rowell said earlier, he'll miss the people he's worked with while at Hope, the people like Michael. "But having experienc-ed working on a crew under both of them, I'm sure they'll keep in touch-if for no other reason, at least to exchange computer games and the scoop on the latest movies they've seen."

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Dance XII BeginsTomorrow Through the 15th

by Meg Miller Dancing fever is in the air with

the annual dance concert being held this weekend. Dance XII will, as others in the past, be a spectacular display of new young talent of the art of dance.

All those participating in the concert are excited to show off their hard work. Dancers, choreographers, lighting and costume technicians and many others have been working since January to make this dance pro-duction a success.

Although dancing is hard work, Laura Dietrich, freshmen tap dancer, said there's more to it. 'I've made many wonderful friends and had a lot of fun despite all the hard work,' Dietrich said, 'All in all its been a great experience for me.'

'As a senior graduating in May I've really had some exciting ex-periences being involved in dance at Hope,' says Susan Bosch,'Dance XII is an excellent way to finish my dance career at Hope before moving on.'

All those involved in the dance production this year do so for dif-ferent reasons. Some of the dancers are out to have fun and meet others while others are ma-joring in dance and have plans to continue.

Sue Kempker, a junior dance major, has future plans in dance. 'I believe that it is very impor-tant for a person involved in dance to have the opportunity to perform,' Kemker said. 'I've been involved in all the dance productions at Hope and have had fun while gaining per-formance experience from all of them.'

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Dance pieces to be performed this year have been choreograph-ed by Hope's Dance Department instructors. Maxine DeBruyn, Department Chairperson, will have a modern piece displaying a journey through life. Linda Graham will have two pieces; one of ballet entitled 'Morning Song', and a jazz piece entitled 'Dandelion Wine'.

Hope's two new dance instruc-tors as of January will also have pieces in Dance XII. Daryl Ret-ter , tap i n s t r u c t o r , h a s choreographed a traditional tap piece, 'In the Medley Mood.' Robert Estner, former main company Joffrey Ballet dancer, will have his dancers performing to the jazz tune of Benny Good-man's 'Sing, Sing, Sing.'

Complementing this year's performance will be two guest dancers from the Joffrey II Ballet: Monique Irish and Brent Phillips, who will be performing two pieces: entitled 'Daisy', a modern dance and 'Flower Festival at Genzano', a more classical work.

Dance XII will be an excellent display of up and coming per-formers, so don't miss it. The concert will be held March 13, 14 and 15 at 8:00 p.m. in the DeWitt Theatre.

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Highlander is at best a far-fetched, ailing, sword-wielding embarrassment that would make for prime material on an episode of "Fantasy Island."

Through flashbacks to the Dark Ages in the Scottish Highlands, we are familiarized to the heroic and courageous H i g h l a n d W a r r i o r C o l l a n Macleod (Christopher Lambert) as he leads his clan into battle against an enemy clan only to suffer an obviously fatal wound from the sword of his evil ar-c h e n e m y K r u g e r ( C l a n c y Brown). Miraculously, Macleod survives and after his family and friends cast him out of the village for fear that he has been in-fluenced by Satan, it is revealed that Macleod is in fact immortal. Macleod, then, has survived for over four centuries and he lives in modern day New York City under a false identiy. The con-flict arises when it is learned that Krugor too is immortal and the movie builds to a showdown bet-w e e n the two sword bat-tlers—good versus evil.

In one flashback, Ramirez (Sean Connery) appears out of nowhere atop a white stallion and explains to the Highlander why he was able to survive being skewered by Krugor's sword. Macleod, like Ramirez himself, cannot die. Ramirez goes on to inform Macleod of the other im-mortals in the world and how someday there will be a gather-ing in which all will fight each other until only a single remains. There can only be one immortal but it is not clear why there have been several of them for cen-turies anyway. The plot revolves around this legend that Ramirez tells. We learn from Ramirez that the way to actually kill an immortal is to decapitate him. As a result, we are forced to view dozens of bloody skewerings that do not kill but only temporarily inconvenience these immortal samurai. The movie relies on this gimmick for entertainment, so it would seem, and we repeatedly see heads smashed against walls, stomaches being torn open by close-range machine gun fire, and countless sword wounds that have no effect on the victim other than an immoderate loss of im-mortal blood.

Ramirez becomes the Obiwan-Kenobi of the Dark Ages instruc-ting Macleod on the finer points of sabre warfare. Unfortunately, Connery is a pitiful swordsman and the dozens of dueling scenes become extremely tedious as we see Ramirez standing flat-footed flinging an obviously heavy sword that he can barely control. Macleod eventually learns well from him and is prepared for "the gathering" of immortals that just happens to take place in New York City, 1986.

Once the plot is established, the flashbacks end, and one of the film's only enjoyable at-tributes—the scenery of the Scot-tish Highlands—is never seen again. Instead, we see the various immortal warriors duel in dark slum alleys who one by one are decapitated by Krugor. Police are baffled by these mysterious "headhunter kill-ings."

The story grows progressively worse when Macleod falls in love with a woman policeperson who happens to be none other than an expert on the metallurgy of an-cient sword-making. Macleod confides in her and proves his im-mortality by having her stab him with a dagger. The bald-headed K r u g o r m e a n w h i l e , h a s transcended through time yet has managed to have kept abreast of the latest fashions as he stalks through the streets of New York in a silver-studded black leather jacket with safety pins piercing his neck in a ringed arrangement.

The final confrontation bet-ween Krugor and Macleod, the last remaining immortals, is an unsuspenseful, shortlived, sword battle ending in yet another graphic decapitation. Yet when it's over you can't help but breathe a sigh of relief, not so much for Macleod's predictable victory, but because no longer will you be subjected to any more oversimplified, sluggish, bloody, clanging sword duels.

The only way I could recom-mend this film for viewing is if you didn't see enough of this type of entertainment in Conan. Highlander Is a non-thrllllng thriller that is at times laughably dlssappolntlng.

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March 1 2 , 1 9 8 6 HOPE COLLEGE ANCHOR SPORT Hester Makes

All-MIAABB Team Senior Matt Hester has been

voted onto the 1985-86 All-MIAA Men's Basletball Team, being the only player from Hope on the team. Matt has been playing on the varsity team for the last three years, along with excel l ing in t h e d i f f i c u l t m a j o r of chemistry and maintaining a 3.48 grade point average . Joining him on the f ive m a n team are Dwayne Johnson from Albion, Will Lynch from Kalamazoo, and Jim Schipoer and Kevin Van

Duryn from Calvin. J im Schip-per w a s voted the Most Valuable Player, he and Matt will be remembered for thier excellent playing at this years Hope-Calvin game played at Calvin which earned them the distinction of be-ing voted the Most Valuable Players for the game.

Scott Gelander and Steve Ma-jerle, Hope's senior captains, were voted onto the M1AA Men's Basketball Honorable Mention Team.

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economically hurt the company? And how, in reality, does simply selling one's stock to someone else help the blacks of South Africa, other than relaying our superficial support? I am not asserting in any way that we should not divest, but it s e e m s clear that in order to make a real difference we have a respon-sibility to do more than just divest.

If Mr. Ahmadi is so concerned with the plight of those oppressed by the apartheid system, why does he refuse to even listen to other options, which could, in ac-tuality, work constructively with divestment in having an impact on the South African situation. For instance, why hasn't Mr. Ahmadi o r g a n i z e d b o y c o t t s against the companies which are involved in South Africa and in which Hope College has in-vestments?

Instead, Mr. Ahmadi has resorted to unfair accusations and childish name calling simply because the congress, as a collec-tive body, did not pass his 1'proposal." I wonder how his let-ter made those m e m b e r s who did support him feel.

Mr. Ahmadi also suggests that next year's congress candidates should be questioned about their " g o a l s and c o m m i t t m e n t s " before being elected. This is all well and good, but I remind Mr. Ahmadi that the student con-gress is a place where many dif-ferent issues must be considered and dealt with throughout the year. Therefore, to simply be concerned with one "particular special interest," like divest-ment, is a gross misrepresenta-tion of one's constituency.

On at least one occasion, Mr. Ahmadi did homework for the majority of a congress meeting. This was, of course, after he had been given the opportunity to speak out again on the divest-ment issue. Because of this, should Mr. Ahmadi's motives for

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"serving" on the congress be questioned? Perhaps so.

I was terribly offended by Mr. Ahmadi's assertion that the stu-dent congress is nothing but a "useless and ineffective attach-ment to college bureaucracy e n g a g e d in d e c e p t i o n of students." How dare Mr. Ahmadi even attempt to judge the con-gress in this way.

Yes, Mr. Ahmadi may pat himself on the back for the fine job he did on the sit-in, but judg-ing others simply because they do not hold to the same opinion as he is both narrow minded and un-fa ir . E s p e c i a l l y s i n c e Mr. Ahmadi chose to show little or no interest in the other agenda of the student congress.

Mr. Ahmadi says that he resigned because his conscience "does not allow him to decieve or betray his constituency." That is all well and good for Mr. Ahmadi to show his "integri ty" to everyone, but by using the stu-dent congress to lobby for the issue of divestment exclusively, hasn't he already deceived and betrayed his constituency? I am sure that his off-campus consti-tuency is interested in other issues in addition to divestment. Is he as keenly aware of those?

Mr. Ahmadi is a great fighter of the social injustices of the world. I suspect it is easier to support a cause when one is thousands of miles away from it. What about the social injustices which go on everyday within the Hope College campus communi-ty, Mr. Ahmadi? Are you just as concerned about that?

Mr. Ahmadi has been quick to point the finger and harsh in judgements and accusations of the student congress as well as its leadership. As a member of the Hope College student con-gress, I believe a public apology is in order. , Most Sincerely, Theresa J. MePherson Voorhees Hall Representative

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'indicated an abscence of respon-sibility on the part of the Area-' dian leadership.' Once again, these conclusions seem to be a result of you misunderstanding the intent of the fraternity in sponsorig the dance. This misunderstanding was apparent-ly due to your interpretation of our promotion of the dance, primarily one sign in Phelps, which did in fact advertise that there were no c lasses on Thurs-day. However, as I stated before, our intention was certain-ly not to belittle the Critical Issues Symposium. In fact, to claim that the fraternity was disrespectful of the sym-posium was nothing but an un-fair, illogical conclusion based upon you misinterpretation of our intentions. It just so happens that several members of the fraternity were very supportive of the symposium, and two in particular even hosted one of the keynote speakers on behalf of the Fellowship of Christian Students Issues Forum. I can't deny that our advertising for the dance m a y h a v e been m a d e un-n e c e s s a r i l y v u l n e r a b l e to misinterpretation, but it was definately not an attempt at 'rebellion', 'propoganda', or be-ing'cute' .

Finally, permit me to respond to your claim that the dance 'can do nothing but hurt the Arkies,' and that 'there is little to be gain-ed from it but bad feelings.' It is my hope that through this letter anyone who may have question-ed the integrity of the Arcadian fraternity in this situation has come to a better understanding of our intentions. As a fraternity, part of our nature is that we sometimes promote social func-tions for the benefit of the entire campus, as well as our members .

I know that our fraternity has sponsored a dance on the eve of Critical Issues for at least the last three years, and every year the dance has met with an over-whelming response. 1 also know that several people have express-ed their enthusiasm to m e for a break from studying at a time, in the midst of pledging, when all-campus social events seem to be particularly scarce.

I think in the future it might be wise for you to exercise a little added discretion in the use of your position.

Respectfully,

Kevin Shoemaker Corresponding Secretary Arcadian Fraternity

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pay is eroded when tuition far outstrips their take-home pay in-creases. Higher commitment to scholarships is helpful but as we all know, scholarship funds can be fickle and when the money isn't there the past tuition in-creases are. It s e e m s far wiser to keep tuition increases modest and find funds to "catch up" from other sources. Hope College is famous for fund drives and Dr. Van Wylen has done a supurb job at keeping the dollars rolling in. In light of a $26 million campaign it might be hard for some of us to see the iustice of a 7 + percent in-

crease in tuition, especial ly because of past increases. Read your letter well and see if the r e a s o n i n g m a k e s s e n s e to you—it's our debt that Hope Col-lege is increasing. We have many multimillion dollar building pro-grams lately, they will be of little value to me and those who come after m e if we can't pay the bill.

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Are you interested in becoming a leader of the Anchor, Inklings, Milestone, Opus, WTHS or SAC? Pick up an application in the Stu-dent Affairs Office today!! !

Thanks for all your help and sup-port Janine. You're a great mom!! Love, your daughter.

Hey Crazy Welcome to Hope. It's about time you finally got here. Love Cheezeburger.

Looking for fun and rewarding experience? The Milestone is looking for people to work on the yearbook. We meet on Tuesday and Thursday at 7:00pm at the Milestone off ice on first floor Dewitt. Those who wish to obtain staff postions for the '87 edition need to work on this year's book.

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Sue Hart ''You've ben there through the good t imes and the bad. The drying tears and holding back the lonliness-giving me a friendly shoulder to lean on and enough smiles ." to brighten any day. Thank you for being the best mom and ol' friend. I couldn't have done it without you. Tammy

Mike Pikaart-Keep your eye on your, Teddy or he may disap-pear! S a n d T

Cluster 2-4 Thank you for all your love and support and encourge-ment in the past weeks-Tammy and Laura

1986 pledges: You guys are awesome! ! ! We love you.

CLASSIFIEDS Mo and Michelle- Thank you for being so understanding and pa-tient with me during the past weeks. You two are the best roommates I could have. Love you both, T a m m y

OKE Pledge Thomas Hang in there-it's almost over! I have to admit I'll miss the dates at 4 a.m. Even though I haven't given you much support-you know I care and am proud (I miss you too!) Way to go. . .Mona

Occult Suppl ies 3rd floor Voorhees is having a sale on these much demanded items! Tarrot Cards and Ouija boards our specialty. P.C.-How long will it take now for Armageddon???

Booker Bolt--do Caribou migrate South for the summer?

Hello Rita?.. .Barb-is that you? You have to hear about my weekend.. . .

Want to evacuate a guys' dorm? Scream-"COMMITMENT!!!!"

To the one-night stander: Who wants you to take a bow on the Hope College Stage when you don't g ive an e n c o r e per-formance?

Pledging is like taking a cold bath with a rubber ducky.

Someone at Hope is looking for the UBIG ONE"

Kappa Delta Chi pledges: Hell night here we c o m e ! ! ! Do or Die! the Master

Buffy you are doing a super job!! Hang in there! Love ya, MOM

Liz Cross and Scott Brown are the same person

Powerlight in History.. Many people believe that Alexander G r a h a m Bel l i n v e n t e d the telephone. This is false. Actual-ly Scott Brown invented the telephone so that his listeners could call him at WTHS to tell him how much they liked his show Sundays from 1-3. Un-fortunately, Scott was too busy setting up the phone company to get to the patent office, so Mr. Bell got all the credit for inven-ting the telephone. The Scott Brown Pwerlight show... .It's bet-ter than his classi lf ieds.

Liz Cross says. . . I 'm sick of Scott Brown writing my classified ads. I don't say any of this, I don't

wnat to be a pawn of his any mo...-the Liz Cross Souls Rock Show from 9-11 a .m. Fridays on WTHS. It's not controver-sial.. .yet. (a public service message from Brown Classified INC.)

BHW- thanks for the paint thin-ner! Your generous act of kind-ness was truly appreciated. -Your Favorite Painter

It has been reported by an anonymous member of the Stu-dent Affairs Staff that a bottle of happy pills were found in Sue Langejans' desk drawer late last week, following an explosion of good cheer from the ebullient Ac-tivities Director

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by George Schutt What a Lot of Squares. There are about 24,000 ceiling

tiles in Van Zoeren Library. There are also 18,000 floor tiles. All are aligned into neat grids, with not a tile out of place. The grids themselves are all aligned to the walls and shelves of Van Zoeren, which all stand either north-south or east-west, as do every table, chair, and book. Van Zoeren is aligned with all the other buildings at Hope and their contents are also aligned north-south or east-west; so it can be seen that everything at Hope is oriented in the s a m e direction. Hope lies in the City of Holland, which has a nice grid pattern, and the City of Holland l ies on a tile known as section 28 which is one of more than 2,000,000 tiles in a grid from Ohio to California. This grid, of course, is aligned north-south-east-west.

Where do you sit a s you read this? If you are still within 500 miles of where it w a s written you are on a tile on the grid, and are most likely facing either north, south, east, or west. You, too, are aligned for most of your l ife by chairs, desks, store shelves, and roads; all of which point you in one of the cardinal directions. You are a part of the grid.

The square s e e m s to have gain-ed its popularity with the first ad* vances in surveying and m a s s production. With m a s s produc-tion we could make lots of little tiles, and with better surveying we could align every one. But why did w e want to? It seemed the civilized thing to do. We

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Americans are a cocky people, and what better way to show God exactly whose land this was than to ignore His mountains and rivers by making features of our own. Nowhere but in America could there be a state like Col-orado.

Recently, we have gone though a wave of squareness in a more verical direction. Either through further proof of our civility or through laziness we no longer build buildings, we build boxes. And these boxes are subdivided into smal ler and smal ler boxes within, so that the entire struc-ture stands as a monument to our ability to make straight lines and right angles.

Hope, being the conservative school we are, has never gone against any flow. Thus Van Zoeren is shaped like a bread box, Pea le like a package of saltines, and VanderWerf like two boxes of Cracker Jack stapl-ed together. DeWitt also has the Cracker Jack look, only this t ime they used fifty boxes and w a s taped together by chimps. This was still not square enough, so they added to the ambiance by decorating it with squares. Yet DeWitt also stands a s an ac-curate symbol of the community in which it arose: the enormity of the squareness is somet imes beyond belief.

Now that you feel totally boxed in, I will share with you a secret: our square civilization is beginn-ing to crack. A wall is being built on this campus which distinctly

runs from the northwest to the southeast. And as if that were not enough, beside it is another w h i c h r u n s n o t h e a s t t o southwest. Add to this the curv-ed walls at the Dow Center and the plans for the new library and you can see that our well-ordered world is about to c o m e caving in at our feet.

Someday, you will be sitting in your livingroom, with your feet propped up on a footstool to the south by southeast, while your grandchild sits beside you, to the northeast. You can then explain to them how orderly and aligned and infinitely silly the world once was.

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