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Volume 107, Number 24

Hope College, Holland, Michigan Serving the Hope Community for 107 Years April 20, 1994

Cabinet-members elected for next year by Julie Blair

campus editor

Joel Plantinga ( '96) , Nina Bieliauskas ('97) and Mike Yanlis ('95) brought home the vole Friday to secure the positions as 1994-95 Student Congress President, Vice-President and Comptroller.

Unlike last year's rush to the ballot box, this year's voting num-bers were low, actions current Vice-President Chris Heaton ('96) at-tributes to the lack of candidates in the running. Bieliauskas and Yantis campaigned uncontested while Plantinga beat out opponent, Jer-emy Dobos ('97).

"For the lack of people we had running we had an appropriate turn out," Heaton said. "This year'selec-tion just didn't have the competitive spirit that it has had before."

That doesn't mean, however, that the candidates aren't qualified, Heaton said. 'This wasn't a great election but it had great results."

in fact, Heaton added, the 1994-95 Congress may be more qualified than this year's group. "Joel has more of a grasp on the way things work, maybe more so than Eric Fos-ter and I did because he has two years in as a representative. He's currently working on the appropria-tions committee and has an under-standing of the financial aspect of Congress."

in addition, many of this year's representatives plan to run for posi-tions again next year, another posi-

Volunteers to walk for hunger by Justin Wainwright

staff reporter

Some 2(X) people are helping combat world hunger by simply going for a walk this Saturday.

As partcipants in the 14th An-nual CROP Walk, walkers will raise an estimated two thousand dollars from donat ions pledged by commuity members for each mile walked.

Organized by the World Church Service, approximately $107 mil-lion was raised by almost 2000 par-ticipants nationwide. Twenty-five percent of the proceeds from this walk goes to local agencies, such as Community Action House, Good Samaritan, Evergreen Commons, and Salvation Army. The remain-ing 75 percent goes to ongoing Church World Service projects to help with hunger and water needs.

Those interested in participating in this year's walk can sign up in the Chaplain's office, or register Satur-day morning at Holland High School. Registration is from 8p.m. - 8:45 a.m. Shuttle vans leaving from the DeWitt flagpole will be transporting participants to regis-tration from 8 until 8:30 a.m. Satur-day morning. There will be one four mile track and one eight mile track. Each walker is automatically given a faculty pledge so everyone will have at least one pledge on their sheet. The walk will be held either rain or shine.

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tive feature Heaton says will add depth to next year's Congress.

"Mike did a great job this year toe," Heaton said. "He's very ma-tme and understands a lot of person-alities. He'll be a good resource for Joel and Nina."

Upcoming challenges include better incorporating Hope College with the Holland community and opening lines of communication

within the College between the stu-dents, administration and Congress representatives.

"We really want to stress com-munity relations," Plantinga said. "We want them (community mem-bers) to know who we are."

President John Jacobson gave a nod of approval to tentatively open the DOW center to outside commu-nity groups or start a boxing club

/Anchor photo by Anne Norton

with hopes to involve those who might otherwise lake to the streets at night.

Thai goes for students loo, Yan-lis said. "We want students to know they do have a voice in the administration...that voice is the voice of Student Congress. Some look at Student Congress and say

Local bands highlight Earth Jam by Jodi McFarland staff reporter

This Friday, April 22, the pine grove will come alive with the mu-sic of five area bands in the fifth annual Earth Jam.

The event, sponsored by the En-vironmental Issues Group, will be featuring 2 Headed Sam, Jawbone, 5 Day Rain, The Folk Lizards (also known as Erik and Charlie), Funk Hybrid, and The Voice.

"The performers are donating their time to entertain and educate the campus," said Environmental Issues Group (EIG) faculty advisor Stephen Hemenway. "We pay for the sound systems."

The event begins at 4 pm in the Pine Grove, weather permitting, and moves to ihe Kletz at X pm until midnight due to local sound ordi-nances. The Jam is entirely free to all, and is not targeted as a revenue-producing activity for EIG.

"This is a gift to the school from us and the bands," Hemenway said.

EIG will be selling Earth Jam '94 lee shirts at the event and Wednes-day in Phelps cafeteria, however, in an effort to cover their costs. Alpha Phi Omega plans to sell earthy neck-laces as well. EIG also has been

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Images reflects the beauty of other cultures by Jim Riekse

staff reporter

International Awareness Week at Hope was capped off Saturday with a combination food fair/vari-ety show, which drew a large crowd to sample international cui-sine and gain insight into other cultures.

The idea of the Images p r o gram was first conceived in the fall, and increased in momentum as the performance date ap-proached. The program was spon-sored by the Black Coalition, His-panic Student Organization, In-ternational Relations Club, Office of Multi-Cultural Life, and Social Activities Committee.

The food fair preceding the va-riety show was sure to please any appetite, with a wide selection of foods, including Haupia (Hawai-ian coconut pudding), Indian Samosas, Mexican Sangria, and a local Dutch favorite. Pigs in the Blanket. Not every exhibit fea-tured the edible, including an Af-rican Rhythm Exhibit and stations where people's names could be written in Japanese, Arabic, and Laotian. For those auditorially in-clined, listening stations were pro-vided with music from Hawaii, Mexico, India, and many other countries.

The variety show, hosted by John Vega, took place in an over-flowing Kletz. The night began with the first of six "reflections," which showed off the beautiful clothing of Ethiopia and Zambia. Later reflections would model

clothes from other nations such as Laos, India, Romania, Japan and Spain. The fashion show was laced with educational aspects as well, such as Melinda Ratdavong's pink Laotion wedding dress indicating her hopes for a female child. Hiro Muneta('94) displayed some rather fierce martial arts as he modeled Japanese apparel.

The first performance of the night was Olga Ananina ('96) and Paulina Rychenkova's reading of Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin." The poetic novel tells of a woman's confession of her love for a Rus-sian aristocrat and the accompany-ing pain that marks his absence. The remorseful tale was first read in Russian and then translated into English.

Amer Madi ('97) followed with a reading of Mahmoud Darwish's poem, "Those who Pass Between Fleeting Words." The poem ex-pressed the anguish of the Pales-tinians as they live in an occupied land. The poem contained such sobering excerpts as "From you the sword, from us the blood." The overall basis of the poem was ob-vious with the phrase "Be gone." uttered with force.

The sadness of the poem was not allowed to linger as Fatin Muhawi ('97), Jalaa Abdelwahab ('97), and Hannan Awad ('96) launched into a highly energetic song and dance, in which a Pales-tinian man describes the woman he loves.

The next dance was performed

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COME ON AND DANCE: Ntsiki Sisulu shows her See IMAGES page 2 obvious enthusiasm during Saturday's Images.

Peace of Mind David Chamin

Let's look, and look closely before we leap "Sexual Harassment is a form of sex discrimination. Many times, it is mistaken that only rape is sexual harassment, but this is not the case."

Each Monday I enter the Anchor office at 7 p.m. to edit the minutes of the previous week's meeting of Student Congress. "Hacking and slashing" the minutes is not a glorious job, and the many office jokes notwith-standing, I am glad for the opportunity to get a sense of what really goes on in student govern-ment.

Last Monday a single item in the minutes stood out as if it were highlighted in neon; an ad hoc committee had made amendments to Hope's proposed sexual harassment policy. What surprised me was that I had not encountered any news release or any notifica-tion of the proposed changes. Reading further, I learned that this committee consisted of both faculty and administrators convened to address gaps left by the original committee of students, faculty, and administrators who began work last semester. The original committee's goal focused upon updating the current sexual harassment policy outlined in the student handbook.

The proposed changes articu-lated in the minutes were straight-forward. A more clear definition of terms encompassing the area of "sexual harassment," as well as a mandate for recieving "verbal permission" before each progres-sion in physical intimacy.

I applaud and support the effort to strengthen our campus policy of protecting individual dignity.

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Indeed^ this concern for each individual is and should be the ultimate goal. According to the student handbook this obligation includes the responsibility, "to protect the dignity, safety, and self-respect of all students, faculty, and staff."

After reading and considering the impact of the last proposed addition to Hope's handbook, I was left with several mental questions unanswered. How would the second proposed amendment be practically enforceed? What reasoning was employed by the committee in reaching the decision to offer two new amendments?

I have no doubt that before any final decision is made, students will be both informed and consulted. However, a second chance encounter brought to my attention some of the difficulties of gender relationships in an environment quite similar to that at Hope.

The April 12 issue of iheWall Street Journal tells of the travails of Valparaiso University, a college environment similar to our own in the area of gender interaction. A parietal-type curfew system is in effect. Distribution of condoms was both discussed and rejected, and the Christian roots of the school still play an important role in developing school policy. Nevertheless Valpo, as it is affectionately called by its students, has not been immune to

difficulties arising from sexual harassment and assault. In response to growing numbers of reported incidences, the college adopted a stringent anti-harass-ment policy and accompanying judicial system. The hope was to both support those victims and act pro-actively against those who presented a threat to the student body.

Unfortunately, as the Journal reports, "it is much simpler to create new rules than to enforce them—or predict their repercus-sions." The repercussions in Valparaiso's case were several lawsuits—initiated by individuals who felt that the judicial system improperly protected their consitutional rights. However, not all of the college's efforts were in vain. Suggestions of how to prevent being accused of harass-ment as well as steps to avoid being harassed were posted in each dorm room. Students were confronted with written advice about sexual harassment and advice concerning compliance every day in their dorm room home.

Perhaps this is a little extreme, but in my opinion it is far prefer-able to the establishment of rigid rules which may negatively impact upon certain segments of the school population. On an issue as sensitve as sexual harassment, rarely can it hurt to once again evaluate proposed changes in light of all those affected.

Continued from page 1 they don't do a lot, but each repre-sentative on a committee or board has the same rights as any adminis-, trator or faculty member there."

"Students don't even know what goes on here on campus in regards to campus speakers," Bieliausklas

said. "There is information out there but the student can't always find it..."

One idea to increase communi-cation includes sending out fliers across campus and upping use of mass e-mail messages.

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"I think you'll see a definite co-hesion next year,"saidcurrentPresi-dent Eric K. Foster. "It may not be exactly like the chemistry we had this year, but they will give one another a lot of input and will work to compromise. They'll do a great job."

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Continued from page 1 selling Jim Morrison tees to help with costs. The event itself is not a money maker.

Only one group, locals The Folk Lkards, performed at the first Earth Jam and the 20th Anniversary of Earth Day in 1990, but the event has

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by Maria Gaipia and Ayako Kuroda C94) , who danced a Spanish Sevillana, which has the strong fla-vor of a flamenco. The dance fea-tured ornate dresses and intricate hand movements along with playful spins.

Ismaria Medel ('96) and Sophia Williams (497) presented a dra-matic interpretation of Sade^s "Woman in Somalia." The song dra-matizes the pain and hardships faced by a Somalian woman, represented by Medel, who toiled on the ground. Williams symbolized hope and danced which an angelic presence. At the end, the tortured woman is

grown in size with each succeeding year.

5 Day Rain will be playing in the afternoon only, due to an evening commitment, but all other bands will remain to finish the half out-door, half indoor concert..

Local talent The Voice had the

opportunity to open for Tears for Fears last September, and this will be the group's fourth Jam.

Of the past four Earth Jams, all but one has been rained out and moved indoors. If this should be the case once again, the Jam will be held entirely in the Kletz.

uplifted and embraced by this sense of hope. ^

Thapelo Matenge ('95) read two poems from South Africa, dedicat-ing J J Jolobe's "The Making of a Servant" to those South Africans who have died fighting for equality.

Brandon Hayashi (*97), Brick Chittle (496), and Chris Heaton ( '%) performed the Hawaiian dance "Kaulana Na Pua " which was cre-ated as a protest to the islands an-nexation by the U.S.. Native Hawai-ian Hayashi danced with energy and grace and his mainland pupils Chittle and Heaton held their own.

By far the favorite performance of the night was the dance to "Free-dom is Coming" from Sarafina.

Lunga Sinuka ('95) and Ntsiki Sisulu i*91) danced with unbridled happi-ness and excitement, causing little children to run up next to the stage to share in the experience.

The Hope Gospel Choir ended the night admirably with "O Sifuni Munga," a wonderful Swahili song accompanied with bongos and other African instruments. The Gospel Choir, only in the second year of their existence, definitely made many new fans who had not yet experienced their talent. . .

. The night went so well that as they left, many in the audience hoped that Images would become an an-nual event at Hope.

NEWS OF INTEREST

NATIONWIDE America's favorite pastime has become more expensive, as ticket

prices at baseball parks have increased by an average of 9% to $ 10.45. The increase for '94 is much more dramatic than last year, due in part to new park openings. Contributing to the rising price of a ticket are increasing player salaries and new higher-priced special section tick-ets. As ranked by the Team Marketing Report, the New York Yankees are the most expensive team to attend for a family of four with a total cost of over $ 115. The least expensive ballpark is that of the Cincinnati Reds, with a family price average of just under $80.

NATIONWIDE The Bureau of Labor Statistic tracks the wage paid to women

relative to men and annually releases the results. This year the results are mixed, even though on the surface there appears to be gains. In 1980, a woman earned an average of 60 cents for every dollar made by a man. Last year it was released that a woman earned nearly 73 cents— a relatively large increase in just over a decade. However, it is likely that the narrowing gap is a mirage. Wages for men have dropped over the past decade with elimination of key manufacturing positions, artificially inflating the amount that women earn in relation.

NATIONWIDE While many college recruiters refer to a "buyers market" in relation

to new admissions, the market is much more harsh for those who are graduating, pemographics play a key role, as those members of the "baby bust" generation—aged 18 to 29—are the second largest popu-lation group in America. Also complicating today's job search is the increased level of education expected of those leaving college. Ac-cording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job market for college graduates will remain tight until the year 2005, and perhaps beyond then.

NATIONWIDE Educators across America are excercising options of early retire-

ment and leaving teaching and administrative position. While this might appear to be good news to prospective educators, in fact it may be the sign of downsizing in the field of education. Over 18 states have begun programs to eliminate high-paying educational positions, which usually targets those with the most experience. In Pennslyvania last year, 12,000 teachers and adminstrators took early retirement. In Illnois, the number in the Chicago area alone was 20,000. Unfortu-nately the plans have not always created savings, as pension plans and severance packages are often quite costly.

Unofficial Student Congress Minutes

- , Submitted by Nina Bieliauskas

April 14,1994 Kristen Douglass, Justin Simpson, Angie Strey, Melissa Neckers and Jason Ruckert were absent. Announcements Attendance Review •Sheldon was up for attendance review after missing her third meeting on April 7. Sheldon was allowed to give reasons & was dismissed from the room. Congress voted on removing Sheldon & the motion was defeated unamiously. Sheldon remains on Congress. Board, Committee and Organization Reports •The Sexual Harassment Committee met on Thursday for the last time this year. Their changes will be brought before the Administrative Affairs Board. •The Administrative Affairs Board has considered an amendment to the sexual harassment policy. •Pacheco commented on the list that is held containing the names of alleged offenders of the policy. There is talk of the list being put into the hands of someone outside of Hope, with no connections here. Traditional Constituency Reports •Pangle commented on the loud atmosphere that the candidates had to deal with while giving their speeches at Phdps.Yantis explained that it is always a poor atmosphere, but there are those who listen. •Congress discussed whether or not Hope was able to discriminate on religous basis when hiring staff. New Business •Congress discussed the standing attendance policy. \ ' •Yantis asked if there were those who talked a lot to their constituents and less than 1/2 of congress raised her/his hand. •Jason Gaston mentioned that it was too late for the proposal that the locks on the back door of cottages be changed to codes rather than keys. •Hui, for Campus Beautification, talked about how putting a phone in the Kletz was not being well received because a phone was ripped off outside the registar's office. •commented that they are working on getting a phone between Gilmore andDykstra.

•Foster explained that the work in the tasks groups was exceptional this year and he is woiking on keeping contacts for next year.

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Professor adds passion to dance by Jamie Kalmbaugh staff reporter

i4nc/7or photo by Anne Norton

SMILING SWIMMING SISTERS Sara and SusanLooman and Kristen and Dawn Moving are two sets of siblings who belong to the same collegiate sports teams.

Hope sports are all in the family by Jodi McFarland staff reporter

Baseball playing brothers Tom C95) and Ken Osbom C96),and two sets of swimming sisters, Dawn ('94) and Kristen ( ,96) Hoving and twins Sara C97) and Susan Looman ('97) are more than just family. They're teammates in college sports.

Tom and Ken Osbom began with little league, and now play together on the Hope baseball team. The brothers play different positions, and rather than competing against each other, they woric as a unit against other teams.

"We're very much aware of one another," said Tom. "When he's catching and I'm playing short, I know what he's thinking. He knows my style and I know what he likes. It just works out really well on the baseball field."

Hope's women's swim team, which took second at Nationals, was all in the family, with two strong sets of sisters swimming their way to victory with record breaking

times. With graduation directly ahead,

this was the second and final year for senior Dawn Hoving and sopho-more Kristen Hoving to swim to-gether at the college level.

The Hovings have been swim-ming together since Dawn was nine and Kristen, seven. Because their high school in a suburb of Chicago did not have a swim team, the sib-lings swam their own way to sectionals and states year after year.

"It helped to discipline us. We were really hyper," confessed Kristen.

In 1993 both Hovings were on the All-MIAA team. Dawn has been an NCAA All-American 14 times in her life.

"I'm kind of ready to go on," Dawn said of swimming in her fu-ture. She plans to go into physical education for the disabled after graduating.

"I'm really looking forward to next year. We'll have a really young team," said Kristen.

Twins Sara and Susan Looman

began swimming together at the age of four, but little did they suspect that being teammates would follow them all the way to college.

"We really push each other in practice..." said Sara.

"...but it's not a negative compe-tition," Susan adds.

Sara almost chose not to con-tinue swimming in college, but Susan's plans to go on convinced her to change her mind. It certainly wasn't a mistake, because Sara got all of her best times this year. The sisters went to Nationals with the swim team for the first time this year, with Susan taking first in the 100 backstroke.

Sara has plans to major in special education, and entertains thoughts of one day being a swim coach, while Susan is majoring in physical therapy.

For the Osboms, the Hovings, and the Loomans, being siblings is more than fighting, playing, aad growing up together. They are on each other's side, and that goes for college sports, too.

Professors throw away their car keys by Sufjan Stevens staff reporter

Bo Jackson drives a Mercedes Benz to work and Michael Jordan seems content with a Lexus, but there's nothing wrong with religion professor Dr. Dennis Voskuil, who can be seen riding a one-speed bi-cycle with foot brakes to work every morning.

Although there is a definite dif-ference in wages between a retired NBA basketball player and a liberal arts college professor. Dr. Voskuil's decision to commute to work on a bike every morning is not due to a low salary. Actually, Voskuil and several otherprofessorsat HopeCol-lege have made a conscious deci-sion to throw away their car keys and get a little exercise before work.

Voskuil, who owns an old Ford Escort, a Dodge Mini-Van, and a Honda Civic, has ridden a bike to work for the past 17 years. His most recent bike, he says, is really quite primitive, but that is what he de-sires. "I don't want hand brakes or other gears," he said. "It 's not in enough, but it gets the job done." It

was a gift from his wife eight years ago that cost less than $ 100 at Meijer, and it has been reliable ever since.

"1 take it to Highwheeler and they laugh," said Voskuil, who does not allow weather to stop him from riding. He has missed very few days this year and only drives a car when he has to.

"I hate cars," he said. "I'm impa-tient. I don't want to take the extra time to walk or park a car. I don't know why more people don't do it."

While Hope is a fairly safe com-munity, it is quite possible to have a vehicle stolen. But Voskuil's guardian angel has taken care of that, "In 17 years, I've never had a bike stolen," he said, "and Tve never had a lock."

Stein Sletta, a recently-acquired professor of physical education at Hope College, has commuted on a bike since graduate school. Because his daily trip to work is about 3 1/2 miles, Sletta ridis a fully-geared conventional mountain bike and owns other makes for different oc-casions. "You get incredibly fit," he says, "and you feel wide awake when you get to work." ^

But how do you go about getting more people to commute on bikes? "Increase the gas tax to $5 a gallon," said Sletta. He feels more people don't ride in America because they are afraid of getting hit by cars and feel that riding a bike is inconve-nient. "If it were safe for people, it would be possible," he said. "I've lived in cities where they've made separate lanes for bicycles. It's a phenomenal thing and it takes a lot of traffic off of the streets."

The rise of the biking industry should also produce more interest, he said: "There are more opportuni-ties for making a comfortable bike today."

Other professors who ride on oc-casion but not routinely still feel that biking is a healthy means of recre-ation. Dr. J. Scott Ferguson, director of choirs at Hope College, feels bik-ing should not be confined to health professors or fitness freaks. "I feel it is important for all musicians to be fit," said Ferguson, who owns a 20-year-old Fuji ten speed, the only bike he's had since high school. It sounds like he's not looking for a Mercedes Benz anytime soon.

They say he is a professor. "I 'm not a professor," he says.

"I 'm Julio. Rivera is a personality. Julio is a character. Julio is a his-tory."

At the age of 40, Julio is an inspi-ration. He sings. He paints. He writes, "For it is your mission to explore and expose your full poten-tial to the universe ... I am here to help and guide you." But most of all, he dances.

Officially, he is a Visiting Assis-tant Professor of Dance at Hope College — at least for Spring se-mesters. Unofficially, he is a true giver of life, using his wisdom, vi-sion, and passion to propel his stu-dents and audience to reach deep within themselves.

"He intrigues me because he teaches a lot about dance, but more about ourselves and our capabilities," said Lynette Karboske ( '95) . "That's really what we go to college for."

Rivera first en-countered the world of movement as a child when he danced for com-pany in his parents' home in Puerto Rico. He describes his childhood dancing as "emulating the rhythms of my culture."

"Everyone thought it was cute," he said.

As he thinks back to his younger years, he is also reminded of his fascination with the agility and physical ability of the dancers he saw perform. To his wonderment, his mother told him they must have their tendons cut to be so flexible. At the time, Revera didn't really believe her.

His next and most critical en-counter with the art form was when he was a junior at Princeton Univer-sity studying psychology. When offered an independent project on perception, he jumped at the chance — and what a better way to start than to take a dance class. Unfortu-nately, the class he was interested in had a prerequisite Rivera had not taken.

"I acted," he explained. "I pre-tended I had experience."

The professor, Ze'eva Cohen, allowed him to attend class, and years later eventually hired him as a Professor of Dance at Princeton University, where he currently teaches during the Fall semesters.

Rivera went on to earn a dance

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scholarship with the Alvin Ailey

American Dance Center based in New York City that Swnmer, which proved to be one of the most signifi-cant summers of his life. When he graduated with honors from Princeton, he got his first teaching position at the center.

After teaching at the center, and moving to Miami to dance with the Fusion Dance Company, he was offered a job of coming to Hope to be a visiting May Term Horton (a specific modem dance technique) dance instructor.

"1 had never heard of Hope Col-lege," he said. "The students were great. They really wanted to learn."

Thanks to the hard-working and dedicated students of Hope College, Rivera decided to become a perma-nent fixture of Hope and the Hol-

land community. "Why shouldn't I

be here?" he said. " I t ' s exciting ex-panding the pro-gram. I'm here to charge this commu-nity ...charge the stu-dents."

Rivera now owns his own dance com-pany, based in New York, called Con-

temporary Motions. It is made up of four dancers, and performs all over the world. The company is also the professional resident company of Hope College.

When Rivera is not busy teach-ing at Princeton and Hope or direct-ing his dance company, he is travel-ling around the world teaching, per-forming, and choreographing.

"1 choreograph for the dancers to enjoy il," he 5>aid.

What about the audience? "I hope they like the performance,

because I'm doing it with a lot of passion and love," he added.

What the future holds for Rivera

is and will remain a complete mys-tery for him. He would like to publish a book of his poems or pho-tography some day, but doesn' t look that far in the future. If he is still dancing, he would like to have pro-gressed to a higher plane. For the time being, he is still "exploring and learning."

What advice would he give those students who aspire to be a success-ful dancer?

"I think they should learn about the dance inside and outside the classroom. You learn about life outside of the classroom much more than inside. You learn the steps, but not the passions and emotions," he says. "I think the passion is greater than the body. When you have both together, that's incredible magic."

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Editorial

The beauty of diversity Ours is a country founded on the cultures of a vast

population of immigrants. Our ancestors came together, by choice or by force, in this country and suddenly found themselves siurounded by traditions and beliefs which were unfamiliar to them... and formed a nation.

We've all grown up being told that the United States is a melting pot where different cultures exist together in peace and harmony.

However, in reality, there is no "melting pot" because this implies that these cultures have blended together. They are actually very different and distinct... and not always getting along because of the differences.

The primary reason cultures don' t get along is that they don't understand each other's differences. They can't look beyond the fact that they are seeing something unusual to see that these differences can be beautiful.

During this past weekend's Images program, audience members were introduced to many aspects of cultures outside their own, presented as a way to show the beauty of diversity. There were food sampl.es and fashion shows, as well as some truly inspirational entertainment.

It didn't matter that some people in the audience weren't familiar with the works of Pushkin. It didn't matter if some were unaware of the current status of the Palestinian struggle. It didn't matter that some didn't know the plotline of Sarafina. The point was that all the audience members were exposed to cultures formerly seen as unlike their own. However, they were able to see in the struggles and celebrations of these "foreign" cultures similarities to their own. A connection was made, and the differences grew smaller.

Not everyone is going to accept cultural difference as something beneficial or even desirable. Not everyone is going to gain a deep and meaningful understanding of the plight of the Native Americans after taking an Encounter With Cultures class. They might, however, have a hard time accepting the stereotypical view of Native Americans sitting around at the reservation bar getting lit all the time. They might think twice about their own perceptions of these cultures after hearing how these cultures view them.

Learning about other cultures is the first step toward understanding the obvious differences which exist. Whether it be through classes such as our own Encounter with Cultures or through entertainment such as this past weekend's / w a ^ , exposing ourselves to cultures different from our own brings us closer to understanding each other's anger and frustration... and might simply bring us closer.

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A message from the ,94- ,95 Congress Cabinet-elect Dear Hope College Students,

Thank you to all who took the lime out on Friday to vote in the Student Congress elections. The thretf of us are very excited about the opportunity that you have given us to serve you as the cabinet of next year's Student Congress. In the time before Student Congress Rep-resentatives are elected next fall, we would like to make it clear that we are all very open to your comments and suggestions for Congress next year. Give one of us a call, pay us a visit, or send e-mail to us with your constructive comments, as they would be very appreciated.

Next year, we would like to see Student Congress as an agent to our organizations to beconfe even more

active in the community as well as the campus. In the meantime, we are going to be making a concerted effort to improve communication in many areas. We are focused on communicating the activities going on at Hope to the students so they are aware of what may benefit them. We are also going to be encouraging members of the administration to be more visible to students so that the student body can know who is mak-ing the decisions that lead this col-lege.

On that note, we would like the students to know that what we do on Student Congress impacts your lives as well. In Student Congress, we deal with the Student Activities Fee and appropriate them to Student or-

ganizations. We also serve on com-mittees with administration and en-joy equal power with them on these committees which set the pace for many areas of your life, ranging from Religious Life to Athletics. If you will be returning next year to Hope College and are committed to the future of your education and your college, please consider run-ning for Student Congress. Weiook forward to not only serving the stu-dent body of Hope College, but also working with committed individu-als who want to make a difference. Thank you and God bless you, Joel Plantinga ('96) Mike Yantis ('95) Nina Bieliauskas ('97)

Comptroller states his goals for the upcoming year Dear Editors,

Thank you to all of the students who turned out in large numbers to vole for the 1994-95 Student Con-gress Cabinet position last Friday. I am looking forward to serving you again next year as your Student Congress Comptroller. The upcom-ing year holds a great deal of poten-tial in affairs of Student Congress and in the life of Hope College.

As the Anchor indicated, the Student Congress Appropriations Committee has spend many hours in budget hearings and deliberations for the 26 student organizations. These organizations receive their operational budgets through your $42 contribution per semester to the

Student Activity Fee. It is the re-sponsibility of the Comptroller, along with the Appropriations Com-mittee to determine the most effec-tive and beneficial use of the Activ-ity Fee.

My goals as Comptroller are three fold; 1. promote student participa-tion in all organizations, 2. ensure fiscal responsibility among student organizations 3. develop a clear means of communication between students, organizations, and the ad-ministration.

One of the concrete means I sug-gest to meet these goals is to con-tinue to develop the Student Union Desk into a information center for

students interested in campus ac-tivities and functions. As well, I have and will continue to advocate one common office space for stu-dent organizations which will maxi-mize student resources and enhance the quality of all student groups.

The success of Student Congress is contingent on student input and participation, that is why we need you! Please consider running for Student Congress this upcoming fall and be an integral part of the an-swering student concerns in Con-gress and on various Faculty boards and committees. Respectfully, Mike Yantis ('95)

Reader argues that faith is part of all aspects of life Dear Editors, ment-imposed eac rule forpurported olifies the severitv of tl Dear Editors,

I wish to respond to the recent letters to the editor addressing the issues raised by Rob Harrison's col-umn "Impressions." These letters have generally supported the views that (1) expressions of faith in a public coiitext constitute a coupling of church and state in violation of the first amendment; and that (2) Christianity (and other religions) should therefore be practiced only in private. These views, however, result from a fallacious understand-ing of the roles of faith and govern-ment.

In short, we Christians simply wish to be able to pray and talk about our beliefs in public. Such endeavors are by no means equiva-lent to government promotion of Christian ideology. Neither do they constitute "forced religion," since others are not required to participate or even to agree. In all fairness we would likewise have to admit ma-jority-approved public expressions ofdifferent faiths. But I would rather listen to different ideologies and be guaranteed a free, open exchange of ideas than be silenced by a govern-

ment-imposed gag rule forpurported impartiality. Indeed, which policy seems more congruent with Consti-tutional, democratic freedom?

But few people realize that the government in fact already supports at least two "religions"! Atheism and agnosticism, like Christianity, are specific worldviews. Lacking conclusive (i.e., "scientific") proof, all three require faith. By prohibit-ing adherents of "religious" faiths from expressing their beliefs in pub-lic schools and courts of law, the government gives preferential treat-ment to worldviews which dismiss or deny the existence of God. Un-fortunately, the present belief that government must bar expressions of faith from the public arena to remain "neutral" permeates our so-ciety. (To support this view, many unjustifiably assume that the first amendment phrase "free exercise" means "exclusively private practice" of religion, even though the amend-ment itself contains no such indica-tion whatsoever.) The fact that many self-proclaimed Christians don't even realize that their rights have been infringed upon merely exem-

plifies the severity of the situation. This is truly unfortunate, because a faith which does not manifest itself in the entirety of the believer's life, public and private, is a faith robbed of significance.

Of course, God never intended our faith to be quarantined to the confines of our private lives. He attested to this by spectacularly res-cuing His servants Daniel, Peter, and Paul (as well as others) who persevered in public professions of faith in spite of government perse-cution. Jesus Christ himself com-manded us to "go and make dis-ciples of all nations." We cannot do this if we leave our Christianity in the closet or in the Sunday pew.

If you are a Christian, I challenge you toconsider the following: Would you rather compromise your faith to obtain the begrudging tolerance and fickle acceptance of an unsympa-thetic culture, or hear the words "Well done, my good and faithful servant" from your Lord and Savior who loves you? You must make your own choice. I have made mine. Sincerely, Ryan Bennink ( l95)

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walls & tackles women's issues by Amy Vivio

copy editor

"They're hard to find because they haven't any titles," said Pulitzer Prize winning poet Charles Simic about some of his works. Thus he began his presentation for a large crowd at the Knickerbocker Theater this past Thursday evening.

The poems read by Simic and his counterpart, David Young, had no difficulty in finding theiraudience's minds and hearts, however. The pro-gram, sponsored by OPUS and the Visiting Writers Series, titled "Ghosts in the Garden, Ghosts on the Stair," was a multifaceted and

intriguing one. Simic, bespectacled in gold-

rimmed glasses and possessing an accent which he de-scribed as an "atro-cious Slavic" in one of his pieces, delved into the darker side of life in most of his works. "1 believe in the soul; so far it hasn't made a difference," he

"Water tastes*

better after fried squid"

— Charles Simic

award-winning The World Doesn't End, he read, "We were so poor 1 had to take the place of the bait in the mousetrap."

The contrast between Charles Simic and David Youn^ became immediately apparent in Young's first poem. He read his first piece, a collection of memories involving dancing, in a clear, somewhat me-tallic voice. "I grew up in Omaha, although you probably can't hear my accent anymore," he said. Al-though Young's poems also some-times dealt with darker moments, he seemed to have a different, lighter outlook on life in many of his works.

In "Thoughts of Chairman Mao," Young, also wearing glasses and sporting a moustache, described what Mao may have written if the

Chinese leader had put his ruminations into poetry form: "Wars merge like seasons; / sometimes over hot wine / the old campaigners try to remember / who we were fighting that

read in the poem "The Old World." winter. Many of his pieces dealt with Various poems from a collecUon

desolation, solitude, and strange titled Foraging seemed to deal pri-encounters. In "Factory," he de- marily with food and ghosts. Young Glared "I was on the floor making detailed one such being's eerie m y s e l f comfortable / For a night of thoughtsin A Ghost, toOne Alive . little sleep and much thinking." One "If you knew a bit more you might of the last poems he read, titled envy me, / moon-scalded as I am. "Mystery Writer," described a late- In another poem, "Hunting for night walk: "My dark thoughts Mushrooms in Orange County," would keep me company." mushrooms were described as

However, Simic also displayed "Blank eyeballs bulging in the an uncanny sense of humor, both in grass, and in one of his new pieces, his constant commentary and in his Young detailed the charms of gar-poems. "Water tastes better after Iic:"pungentivoryholytothenose." fried squid," he declared after tak- Finally, to round out the evening, ing a sip from his water glass. He Young read selections from an up-also described his newest book, coming collection of his. Night Hotel Insomnia, as "great for people Thoughts and Henry Vaughn: We who can't sleep and hate poetry." In play with infinity. That is our luck,

one of the untitled poems in his

Trio jazzes up life at Hope by Rob Abbott

staff reporter

The final Great Performance of the year will feature a Notre Dame architecture graduate and a man who—according to The New Yorker—is "The best bass-ist alive." Gene Bertoncini and Michael Moore, formally The Gene Bertoncini Duo, will visit Hope on Saturday, April 23 for an evening of el-egant chamber jazz.

G u i t a r i s t Gene Bertoncini, the architecture grad (he says it helps shape his music's form and style) has been a performer since the age of 16. His list of credits includes playing with such big names as the Benny Goodman sextet, Lena Home, Hubert Laws and the Met Orchestra; and ap-pearing regularly on the Merv Griffin andJohnnyCarson shows. He has taught at the New En-gland Conservatory of Music, New York University and is cur-rently on the summer jazz faculty at the Eastman School of Music along with Michael Moore.

Moore, called "One of the most consistently brilliant bass-ists in recent history" by The New York Times, has been a promi-nent performer since the age of 20, when upon graduation from

the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, he joined the Woody Herman Band.

Moore has also performed and recorded with some famous names , among them Tony Bennett, Benny Goodman and Marion McPartland, who said of Moore, "...He was the best bass soloist I 'd ever heard. [His solos] have such lyricism, such melodic glow, that you don't think of them

asbasssolos...they'reen-

S S , t ^ * e s u n t 0

themselves." T o g e t h e r ,

the Gene Bertoncini Duo has per-

formed for over 10 years, meet-ing with critical acclaim with every new project. They were called "the foremost chamber jazz string duo of our generation" by noted Pennsylvania critic Roy Morgan and "both sk i l l fu l accompanists...and provocative soloists" by John S. Wilson of The New York Times.

The duo will perform next Sat-urday in Dimnent Chapel at 8p.m. Tickets are available at the DeWitt Theatre ticket office this Thursday through Saturday, and are $10 for seniors $12.50 for other adults and $6 for students. The office is available during regular woricing hours and noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday.

by Jodi McFarland

staff reporter

With an all-female cast and a richly visual set. The House of BernardaAlba promises to be much more than just a drama set in Spain.

"The questions that the play raises are about walls—the walls that we put up between us and other people, the walls we put up around our-selves," said director and assistant professor of theatre Diana Robins.

On the surface this drama, the final main stage production of the 1993-94 season, is about three gen-erations of women who are faced with the repression of their tradi-tion-bound society, but at a deeper level this play explores the pain, rage passion, and jealousy that can-not be repressed.

"A lot of people who have read the play should know that it' s a very emotional play to see," said Renae Geerlings ('96), who plays the maid. "It speaks about society, and it is what art is on the serious side."

Every element of the production combines to make this a unique play.

from its set to the costuming. Hard work and creative energy come to-gether in this production to tantalize the senses and invoke thought in its audience.

The play's script calls for stark white, austere scenery, but set de-signer and professor of theatre, Ri-chard Smith has created a more strik-ing, abstract set. A mosaic of warm reds, oranges, and yellows muted by a suppressive black provides not only the feel of Spain's hot climate, but also better reflects the personal-ity of the play, said Smith.

Even resident costume designer and assistant theatre professor Michelle Bombe has managed to take what could have been tradi-tional black mourning garb and cre-ated costumes that match the tone of the play as well as add to it. Bombe has taken muted silks of different colors and painted black over them, to give them different casts to accent the different characters.

"The impression will be black, but when the light hits the costume it should reflect out another color," said Robins.

Jean Bahle will be the guest art-ist, playing the title role of Bemarda Alba. She has extensive experience on stage, and has been noted as one of Grand Rapids' most popular ac-tors, Robins said.

"She's helped to ground the pro-duction with her strength," Robins

said. The play opens on Friday, April

22, and will feature a post-play dis-cussion on Saturday the 23. It will continue to run the fol lowing Wedne^lay through Saturday, April 27-30. Tickets for students and se-nior citizens are $4, S5 for Hope faculty and staff, and are $7 for general admission. For the Wednes-day and Thursday, April 27 and 28 shows tickets are two for the price of one for Hope students.

From behind the scenes to on stage. The House of Bernardo Alba presents a production of high qual-ity and thought provoking themes that will end the main stage season of the De Witt Center on a note of strength.

Faculty recital series ends on a high note by Sufjan Stevens

staff reporter

The final concert in the 1993-94 Hope College Faculty Recital Se-ries was presented last Sunday, April 17, in WicherS Auditorium, featur-ing works by Faure, Francaix, Schumann, Torroba and Shubert.

Opening the concer t was Shubert's "Auf Dem Strom," a Ro-mantic lieder performed by soprano, Laura Floyd and accompanied by homist, Thom Working and pianist Joan Crawford. The piece, trans-lated "On the River," includes a melodic chardal accompaniment on piano with an elegant harmonic un-derlying of the theme on horn. Floyd performed with incessant passion; her control and elegance was both romantically passive and richly de-monstrative. With exceedingly dark tones, she bellowed: "Xh, how I tremble with dread at that wideness, far from every shore where no is-land can be seen." In all the amorous lustre, it is easy to forget that the poem is merely a melodramatic por-trayal of 19th century lovers leaving each other.

Bringing us back to reality was Larry Malfroid's performance of

Schumann's Romanza for Guitar, a very short, but delicately lyrical piece that was transposed for piano. "Although the Romanza was writ-ten for the keyboard," said Malfroid, "the guitar can draw on the wealth of the many fine orchestrations for string and piano."

He also performed Three Span-ish Songs by Fredrico Torroba. The piece contains three movements that utilize light tones, extreme tempo rubato and sensitive themes to ex-press the joviality of the Spanish culture.

A wind trio, comprised of Gail Wamaar, oboe, Russel Floyd, clari-net, and David McCoy, bassoon, performed Jean Francaix's "Diver-tissement," an animated piece in four-part form. The opening Pre-lude is supported by playful themes and repeated syncopated rhythmic patterns in oboe and clarinet, al-though each instrument is synchro-nized to its individual melody.

The Allegretto assai begins with brisk, accented chromatic patterns colored by occasional triplets in the bassoon or rapid off-beats in the higher winds. Although the tones remained fairly constant, the chang-

ing rhythmic patterns kept the^ listener's attention. ^

The Elegie has a waltz-like meter and the clarinet and bassoon accom- ' pany the expressive melody in the^ oboe. Wamaar's tone softened, yet remained controlling and illustra-^ tive in her fine performance.

The ending Scherzo is driven by persistent changes of style and m e - t

Iodic patterns, from robust unison r scale-lines, to chirp-like patterns in each voice, to placid expositions of prominent themes. 4

Ending the program was Gabriel Fauve's"QuartetNo. 1 inCMinor," ' the major work of the evening per- * formed by Wesley Ball, pianist, Mihai Cra ioveanu , v io l in is t , Deborah Craioveanu, violist, and * Robert Ritsema, cellist. The piece, written infourmovements,produces a magnificent collection of tone col- f

ors within sustaining phrases of re- t

markable Romantic themes that are prominent today. ^

This concert concluded the year's * ongoing series that has celebrated 4

the craftsmanship and virtuosity of performers and teachers that are rec- ^ ognized locally and nationally for , their determination for quality and reverence for music. >

Choral collage marks successful season's end! by Sufjan Stevens

staff reporter

The combined choirs of Hope College presented a choral collage concert last Thursday, April 14 in Dimnent Memorial Chapel, per-forming a variety of choral music from the Renaissance to the 20th century. The program included The Collegium Musicum, College Cho-rus, Chapel Choir and Gospel Choir.

The Collegium Musicum opened with sacred and secular Renaissance compos i t i ons , inc lud ing John Bennet's fanciful, contrapuntal "Let Go, Why Do You Stay Me?" and Claude Goudimel's "Two Settings of the 23id Psalm," a sacred work that uses expressive vibrato in the soprano voice and swelling tones in the tenor and bass voices to enrich

the interminable combination of pathos and delight.

The Collegium also performed EdwardElgar'sRomantic part-song, "My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land." This work marks the vast compilation of secular literature that influenced 19th century choral pieces. These were settings of lyric poems in a variety of moods and styles sung in three or four parts. They eventually played an impor-tant role in developing the new mass audience of the century. Elgar's par-ticular part-song displays this lusti-ness of appeal that still captivates audiences. His work is sustained by themes of longing and loneliness.

The group also performed Paul Chihara's complex, ultra-rational "Lie Lightly Gentle Earth" and Maty as Seiber's 'Three Hungarian

Folksongs." The Collegium exhib- * ited their capacity for humor by per- > forming Z. Randall Stroope's "Old Horat iusHadaFarm,"aLatinwork ^ that takes familiar themes of "Old i MacDonald Had a Farm" to pro-duce a pleasurable sound that is both * amusing and technically challeng- + »ng. v

The College Chorus also demon-strated their awareness of cultural ^ music through their performance of >

the vigorous Shaker tune "Follow-ers of the Lamb." The Shaker theme ^ begins in the solo bass voice, per- » formed by Jonathan Pott ( t97), and continues to develop with the intro- * duction of other voices, expanding ? continually until the entire ensemble heightens the climactic resolution. *

See CHOIR pageS

6 The Anchor April 20.1994

9 P O R T S

From the Cheap Seats Steve Shilling

Rain Delay Theater I think you'll make a great minor league manager"

— Annie Savoy

1994 marks the tenth season that I have managed in Major League Baseball.

Now, most may have stopped reading right there, thinking. "He's nuts!" And I agree that it's a strange statement, but for a real baseball fan, it is an interesting story.

It was the summer of 1984 and somewhere between watching the Cubs' Daily Double of Bobby Dernier and Ryne Sandberg and hitting 115 home runs in the neighborhood wiffleball league, I got started managing big league baseball teams.

That was the summer that 1 got introduced to Strat-O-Matic Baseball.

Strat-O-Matic Baseball in its purest form is a board game. Each player has his own card and ratings and you use three dice and occasionally a bunch of charts to determine play.

I think I got hooked into it

somewhere in a rain delay of a quadruple-header in the wiffleball league. A friend of mine had the game and we were playing with teams we had drafted up from the 1979 baseball season. It was during the third game that we were playing (it takes 30 minutes to play a game) that I was sold on Strat-O-Matic Baseball.

I don't remember much other than that I had (then California Angel) Nolan Ryan on the mound. At the end of the sixth inning my friend says, "I don't have a hit." Which was great, until it got better. t4I haven't even had a base runner," he said.

I was nine outs away from a perfect game.

Nolan Ryan rang up the first eight outs and with one more to go, the number nine hitter stepped to the plate in (Boston Red Sox) Fred Lynn.

He singled to center. Nolan retired the next batter

and the one-hitter was secured. It's still the closest that I've been to a perfect game in ten years.

I went out and bought the game the next day.

It came in a great orange box and I got five teams to start with: the 1980 Philadelphia Phillies and the 1981 Boston Red Sox, Oakland A's, Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs. Since then, I've gotten all the teams in the collection and played a lot of games and have had quite a few memo-rable moments.

I replayed the 1984 playoffs and found out that Chicago Cubs really should have beaten the San Diego Padres (3 games to 0) and gone on to beat that great Detroit Tigers team in seven games.

Twice, unlikely basestealers stole second, third and home in one inning (Greg Luzinski, '81 Phillies and Lee Smith,.'84 Cubs).

Roger Clemens ('86 Red Sox) pitched my only no hitter in my ten years against the '86 Yankees (in New York) in the first game of a seven game playoff series.

And, in back to back games, both John Tudor ('85 Cardi-nals) and Dwight Gooden ('85 Mets) were one out away from a no-hitter, only to have them broken up by S ha won Dunston ('85 Cubs).

Today, Strat-O-Matic Baseball is now played on the computer (IBM or Macintosh) and a game takes from up to fifteen minutes (by human control) or three seconds (by computer control). Also, the game includes graphic ballparks (current and histori-cal), so it seems like you're really at the stadium.

For the fan who has always dreamed of playing or manag-ing in the big leagues this might be the best thing yet.

Tennis and track

Nina Bieliauskas staff reporter

TfoeFlylogDutch busted:! Kalamazoo with a straight double-header on Saturday, April 16, in Softball

In the first game, Hope won 13 to 3, and won 3 to 2 in the second The crowd went wild each time one of Hope's own crossed home

' Starting it all oft, there : were 19 hits and 13 runs in

the first game with only one : •: error. in - die field. • Laurie : Byington ('96) went 3 for 3 | Mid Heather Walters ( | | | |

hit 3 singles. Nikki Mannes {'95) pitched 3 strike-outs and only One walk, while Kristen Swope ('95) was the star of (be game having 2 triples, one single and 6 runs batted in.

The second game fol-lowed suit with one tremen-dous triple play beginning with Heather Ozinga ('97), who was catching.

, "We're doing really well this year," commented Tonya Balckmore, the stu-dent assistant coach, "We have severai power bitters and consistent pitchers."

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Grand victory for Grand Valley Seth Dale

staff reporter

by Greg Paplawsky

sports editor

The men's tennis team continues to forge its way forward in this young MIAA season. The team stands at 3-1 in the MIAA and 7-7 overall. The team is coached by Steve Gomo who is in his second season as coach of the Dutchmen. The team is lead by Co-captains Kevin Bobofchak ('94) and Dirk Dewitt (*95).

The women's team is doing very fine as well. They hold a 10-5 record overall and a 1 -1 mark in the MIAA. In MIAA competition Hope beat Alma and lost to Albion. The Dutch are supercharged by a pair of fresh-men, each holding a 13-2 singles record. The prospects look good for a strong finish in the MIAA and possibly beyond.

On the track side of the coin the men have a 1-3 dual meet record thus far. They finished first in the

Grand Valley Invitational, beating MIAA rivals Calvin and Albion. The highlight of the year so far has to be Eric Carpenter's ('96) 1500 meter running. He set a Hope Col-lege record with a time of 3:53.21. This also qualifies him for the NCAA Division III Championships.

The women are faring about as well as their male counterparts. They have a 1 -2 record in the MIAA dual meets, and they finished second in the Grand Vailey Invitational to Grand Valley. In this meet they beat the same MIAA foes the men de-feated, Calvin and Albion. Alicia Elmore ('94) broke a Hope College record in the 1500 meters, which also qualified her for the NCAA Division III Championships . Michelle Neel('96) earned provi-sional qualifying limes for the NCAA Division III Championships in the 5000 meters and the 10,000 meter run.

After taking two of three from Olivet in last weekehds contest it

' wastoughtowatchThursday'scon-test as Hope got wolloped 21-9.

Olivet got on the board early with the first two batters of the game coming around to score. Hope's pitcher LesWiIliamson('96) walked three of the first four batters of the game but struck out the number three and five hitters to keep himself out of big trouble in the first inning. DeAndre Jamison didn't let him escape for free however, as he drove a single up the middle that plated two.

In the second inning Hope tied the score by capitalizing on three consecutive, no out, free opportuni-ties for baserunners . Mark

)Kuiper('95) led off the inning by getting hit by a pi tch, Rob Woodrow(94) walked and Tom Osbom( '95) got on when the pitcher bobbled a little grounder. After Kip Doesema( '95) grounded into a field-ers choice and Ken Osbom('96) popped up to short , Dave

.McWhinnie(94) singled hard past -the third baseman and two runs

scored. In the top of the third inning

Grand Valley lit up the board again as DeAndre Jamison drove in his third and fourth runs of the game with a shot to left. Hope didn't let them bask in the lead for long as they torched Grand Valley hurler Mike Siekierski for four runs in the bottom of the inning. After a walk to Chad Casserly('96) to lead off the inning, Chris Backus('94) singled hard to center. Casserly came around to score as the ball scooted by the center fielder. He could have saved energy and trotted home with his teammates because Kuiper followed Backus's single with a rocket that left the yard in right. Woody added the final run of the inning as he singled, stole a base, and ran 180 feet on passed balls.

The lead changed once again in the fourth as Williamson got rocked for three to make the score 7-6. After striking out the first batter of the inning he yielded a double to the number nine swinger. Leadoff man Doug Nyhuis followed with a drive over the wall in the same spot Kuiper had put it. After a couple of walks the final run of the inning scored on an error. i f .

Hope regained the lead in the fifth and up 'till this point you can see that there was an exciting game going. Pinch hit ter, Pete Suminski('95) led off the fifth with a single that was followed by Osbom getting hit by a pitch. After a per-fectly excecuted sac bunt by Doezema, Osbom drove home both Suminski and his brother with a hard single up the middle. The final run of the inning rode in on a Chris Greiman('96) double that hugged the third base line.

If the game ended there it would have been a great day. Unfortu-nately the sixth inning did take place and more runs were scored in that inning than the rest of the runs com-bined. Sixteen Grand Valley batters came to the plate and thirteen crossed it. There were two batters hit by pitches, three walks, eight hits, and three pitching changes in the inning. Commenting too much on this in-ning really Wouldn't be very fun so I'll just say that DeAndre Jamison doubled and homered in the inning and drove in four more runs. De-spite the great preformances of all

see B A S E B A L L p a g e 8

MEN'S TENNIS:

Fri.-Sat. April 22-23

Madison Wis

A WOMEN'S TENNIS:

Sat., April. 23, 1 p.m.

* at Kalamazoo

Mon. April 25, 3p.m.

at Ferris State

MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TRACK:

Wed. April 20,

•ALBION

WOMEN'S SOFTBALL:

Fri.-Sat. April 22-23

at Univ. Wis, Whitewater

Wed., April 20, 3:30p.m.

•at Albion

* -= MIAA opponent

MEN'S BASEBALL:

Wed. April 20 ,4 p.m.

•at Calvin

Fri., April 2 2 , 4 p.m.

•Albion

Sat., April 23, 1 p.m.

•Albion

April 20.1994 The Anchor 7

( 2 L A S S I U K D S Choir Continued from page 6

In Gabriel Faure's "Cantique de Jean Racine " the chorus makes use of each tone color and full sound to suspend the emotionally driving or-chestrat ion. The phrases are sectionalized by solemn piano ex-positions, performed by Robert Hodson, that shape the movement of the piece. The chorus' perfor-manceof Randall Thompson V T h e Last Words of David" was energiz-ing and majestic, although a bit melodramatic.

Following intermission, the Chapel Choir presented the world premiere of Marilyn J. Ziffrin's "Choruses from the Greeks," a work

Baseball— Continued from page 7

his teammates on thursday his four hits and eight RBFs really stood out.

The game was supposed to be a nine inning contest but was called after the seventh. It wasn't just the sixth inning that made it long. Pitch-ers from both teams combined to walk 16 batters and hit five others with pitches. There were 23 hits in addition to the free passes.

that was commissioned specifically for the choir. Texts for the piece included selections from Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Sophicles' Antigone, Ar is tophanes ' Lysistrata and Euripedes' Bacchae. "I chose these texts because they seemed right for a musical treatment," says Ziffrin, tland because of the wisdom, hu-manity, and even humor expressed therein."

Although the five selections within the piece are not related tex-tually, there exists a constant under-lying of innovative sounds and sur-real tones within each musical phrase that accentuate the puissance of the score.

The choir's sound was exuber-ant, playful, and affectionate and

their performance was quite profes-sional.

The Gospel choir, conducted by Damisha N. Taylor of Muskegon, performed Michael Fletcher's en-thusiastic "Look and Live," an awe-inspiring, soulful work that cel-ebrates the message of Jesus Christ with exuberant lyrics and motivat-ing harmonization. They also per-formed the sacred ballad "Worthy is the Lamb", an arrangement by Tay-lor.

Toconclude the program, Taylor led the combined choirs in the clos-ing song from Leon Roberts "The Mass for St. Augustine," a power-ful, upbeat spiritual that marks the culmination of a successful year for the choirs.

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