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TAKING A BREAK FROM LIFE...

Wes White and Pamela Shippy

spend a few quiet moments away from the final hectic days

of classes at the Holland State Park this past weekend.

With exam week just around the corner

Hope students spent the weekend

celebrating Easter and finishing up

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Neo-Nazi propaganda infiltrates Hope's campus

President Jacobson reacts to racial clash at Olivet by (ireg Brown

staff writer

by Beth Paterick

staff writer

White supremacistcartwns and literature have been appearing on Hope's campus on bulletin boards and car windows since spring break.

President of Hope College John Jacobson said in a public statement, "It is the work of people from out-side our campus who have no right to deface our campus by posting these offensive materials."

It is believed that they use Van Wylen library to photocopy their literature. Amy Giles ('94) a student worker at the library says she has seen them a few times.

They photocopy their materials in the basement copier then place the literature on each copy machine bulletin board and the main bulletin board.

She says, "The group looks like high schoolers. They wear all black and combat boots, almost like a uni-form. Their hair is cut really short and shaved/'

She said they didn't think much of it at first, but it has become more serious. She says now the student library workers are to report them directly to the head librarians.

Kelly Jacobsma, head librar-ian. says they will call public safety

immediately if they see them pho-tocopy again. "We will also make sure the individuals are aware of our bulletin board policy."

All postings on bulletin boards on campus must be authorized first. So all unauthorized materials are taken down.

The first attack of white supremacist literature on campus was the last weekend of Spring Break. The literature was put on most bulletin boards on campus, including Lubbers Hall.

According to Bobby Fong, Dean of Arts and Humanities, the reaction of students and faculty at seeing the material was one of "anger and disgust." Their immediate re-action was to take the cartoons and literature on the bulletin board by Dean Fong's office with a petition underneath.

The petition read, "We, the undersigned, categorically reject the racist and white supremacist alti-tudes expressed in the cartoons and statements that were placed in our building over the weekend of April 4-5 1992." Underneath was the signatures of 62 students.

The administration is concen-trating on the legal aspects of the postings. Richard Frost, Dean of Students, has contacted lawyers to find laws and statutes to prosecute

the group. Public Safety is also trying to

investigate attempting to identify the group. Dean Frost says he has asked students and faculty to "re-move the material, date it and turn it into Public Safety so they have a compilation."

He also urges anyone who sees the group to report them to Public Safety right away.

He says, "We are a private community, not public and we should be able to exercise our rights."

Dean Fong, says he sent the first batch of material to the Postal Inspector. He also wrote to the group at their Holland P.O. Box number to indicate they were trespassing and would be prosecuted.

Some students have become panicked, but Dean Fong says, "You can't allow your lives to be changed by this or it will be their victory." He says it takes courage, but you have to insist on your right to an educa-tion and not let them control your lives. He says he speaks both as "a minority and representative of the college."

Tom Renner, Director of Pub-lic Relations at Hope College says to his knowledge there have been no postings since the weekend of April 12th. The investigation will still continue.

Approximately 70 black and white students at Olivet College clashed on April 2 in a racial con-frontation that resulted from a lack of communication.

On Hope's campus. President John Jacobson voiced his sympathy to the situation saying, " I am very sympathetic with students, admin-istration, and faculty at Olivet. This has caused a lot of pain for many people."

"In order to prevent such things from occurring there needs to be communication within a commu-nity," he said. "It is difficult to have open communication within the community with the media present in force as it has been in Olivet."

The confrontation resulted from a conflict between two while stu-dents in which one of the students locked herself into her room in Shipherd Hall, refusing to allow her boyfriend to enter.

Her boyfriend, joined by two black friends, proceeded to pound on her door in hopes of getting her to open it. The woman became fright-ened and called the Phi Alpha Pi fraternity house requesting help.

Ten white fraternity members responded by going to Shipherd Hall where a crowd had already gath-ered. I he confrontation then ensued

between about 40 white students and 25 black students who came to the aid of the two black students.

Two students were treated for minor injuries, the sheriff's depart-ment said. Property damage was limited to a broken window inside Shipherd Hall.

Olivet, with 8% of their ap-proximately 700 students being black, was one of the first colleges in the state to admit minorities. "We've had a long history of racial harmony on campus, so this comes as a shock to us," said Olivet Presi-dent Donald Morris.

The disturbance of that harmony continued on the night following the conflict when a trash can was set on fire at each end of a hallway occu-pied by black students.

Several students said the cam-pus had been tense as a rumor had been circulating that a white female had been mugged by four black males. Thursday after the conflict a student assembly was held in hopes of allowing students to discuss their feelings about the racial tension and to dispel any further rumors.

Olivet students made sugges-tions to administration to require classes that discuss ethnic diversity. Students also suggested that the ad-ministration hire full-time profes-sors who can support the ethnically diverse campus.

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CAMPUS Movies take viewers beyond bounds of reality by Erika Brubaker

features editor

Movies lake us beyond litera-ture and place us in a new, fantastic realm, said Roy M. Anker during his lecture "Why Movies? A Personal View" on April 14.

Sponsored by the department of English, this lecture and video presentation drew a crowd of mainly faculty and some students.

Anker, a Hope graduate who is now a professor at Calvin, explained the allure of literature, which draws the reader into another reality. He riled the instances of Alice falling into the rabbit hole in Alice in Wonderland and Lucy tripping into the wardrobe in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Both of these girls accidentally happen upon a reality, another world, that is very different from our own.

In films, as opposed to litera-ture, the viewer is transported into the position of a closer spectator or even an actor. Anker pointed out that the first movies had audiences ducking under their seats during gunfights. Even today, we flinch and jump during particularly rivet-ing scenes.

Anker pointed out what he called the "seductions of visual real-ism." The reality we know, or even a reality different from our own, cannot always be put into words. Through film, so much more can be accomplished.

Films provide the sense of vi-sual image that literature cannot. A film takes what visual imagery that is found in literature and takes it even further.

As examples. Anker used

opening scenes from Pat ton and The Mission. The first opens with a shot of a large flag, with the general as a small form before it. A series of close, scrutinizing shots follow. The Mission begins in the opposite way, moving from a scene that is micro-scopic to one that is panoramic: the viewer first sees the feet of the members of the tribe, and sees more and more until finally we see the tribesmen throw a missionary, tied to a cross, into a river, where he then goes over a waterfall.

Film makers have the use of montage, or editing, to alter the space, location and time of the real-ity that they are portraying. They are able to pull out the salient details, to "see the world as God sees it." Anker cited Citizen Kane as an example, in which we see the fifteen-year dis-solution of a marriage take place in the lime of a couple of minutes. Scenes from The Godfather show the life-long disfiguration and transfor-mation of a soul in a span of about five minutes.

Through films, artists can use the "capacity of individual shots and frames to encompass...the full gist of the narrative."

Certain shots completely and effectively sum up the entire movie. As an example. Anker used a series of frames from Citizen Kane that show Kane's physical deterioration over the years.

Anker started his lecture with the interest and allure of literature, and how it takes us away from the current surrounding reality to a new world, often one much different from the one we are used to. Film, how-ever, takes us even further from our reality by actually placing us in the new, fantastic one.

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SAC changes movie date; plans Labor Day Block Party by Cynthia Keip

staff writer

Social Activities Committee (SAC) has been busy changing movie schedules and the Fall wel-come back activities.

The scheduling of the last two weekly campus movies was shifted around. Originally, Beauty and the Beast was to be shown Easter week-end, followed by Father of the Bride. Due to the success of Beauty and the Beast at the Academy Awards, Disney Studios pushed back the re-lease dale of the movie.

Tom Hardy C93) said, kTlie only reason we have the movie \s because we had booked it and it wj. -supposedly the last movie of the

year for us. We planned on it being big."

Another change SAC has made concerns the events of Labor Day. Instead of having the traditional Labor Day picnic and a Welcome Back dance, SAC plans to sponsor a Block Party.

Hardy said, "The Block Party is a new idea we had this year. We took out two events and in place of them we're sponsoring a bigger event on Labor Day. We've taken out the Welcome Back dance and also not put as much money into the Home-coming dance as we had." The money from these events will be put towards the Block Party. SAC plans to block off a portion of 13th Street from Columbia Avenue to at least

osmopolitan Hall. V .

Hardy said, 'The food service is going to be catering. We're going to have a band, similar to a Spring Fling situation. It's basically going to be a night-time show again, but it's not going to run as late into the evening."

SAC will also have some games at the Block Party. They plan to have Air-Ball, an air-filled dome in which people can play games such as volleyball.

SAC hopes attendance will im-prove for this event since the turnout for the Labor Day Picnic and the Welcome Back Dance has been ex-tremely low for the past few years.

Hardy said, "I think it's going to bring a lot more people in. There are going to be other activities be-sides the band at night."

Two sociology professors awarded $138,050 grant to continue research on Reformed Church of America

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Holland - Through a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc., two Hope College sociologists will be able to continue their study of membership trends in the Reformed Church in America (RCA).

Dr. Donald Luidens and Dr. Roger Nemeth, associate professors of sociology, are conducting the study of the reasons for post-World War II membership growth and de-cline in the RCA. They have been involved in research on the RCA for more than 15 years.

The $138,050 from the India-napolis-based charitable foundation will support the current project from its beginning this summer through its conclusion in 1993.

A key component of the project is a conference following the study's conclusion. The conference will bring together 50 leaders of the RCA enabling Luidens and Nemeth to share their findings and suggest ways that the results can be used to benefit the RCA and other mainline de-nominations.

"For many years we have been

eager to make full use of our stud-ies—and other data, such as the 1990 U.S. Census figures and informa-tion from surveys of future RCA clergy," Luidens said. "We are ex-tremely grateful that Lilly has seen fit to support our ongoing investiga-tions."

Among other studies, between 1976 and 1991 Luidens and Nemeth conducted three surveys of the denomination's laity and clergy. The surveys will serve as a key source of information for the current project, through which they hope to learn about the social factors underlying changes in the ethnic, age, gender and geographic compositions of the denomination.

"We were very surprised to learn that the RCA appears to be more 'Dutch' today than it was five and 15 years ago. That is, a higher proportion claim to have some Dutch ancestry," Nemeth said. ' 'We had expectal that, over time, the Dutch background of the RCA would be less evident, but that is apparently not the case. We want to know why."

By analyzing the patterns of growth and decline throughout the 15 year period, he said, "We hope to have a better hand on the factors behind this ethnic 'homogenizing.'"

Said Luidens, "It would appear that, while the denomination is losing members at a slow and steady rate nationwide, the membership losses are particularly pronounced among those who do not have Dutch back-grounds.

"Apparently there is a core of membership—a 'bedrock' group if you wiU—which is particularly loyal to the RCA," Luidens said. "They will stick with the denomination through thick and thin."

Luidens and Nemeth hope to pinpoint where the "loyalist" faction lies.

The grant also provides Luidens and Nemeth with release time from teaching, enabling them to focus on the study, and student assistants and travel funds.

Luidens and Nemeth also ex-pect to produce a series of articles and a book from their research.

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Graduation to honor seniors, Schuller Graduating class receives best wishes from President Jacobson by Cynthia Tanty campus editor

With only a week and a half of their college careers remaining, Hope College seniors are anticipat-ing graduation. At the senior ban-quet last Thursday, President Jacobson told them, "Some of you may be thinking you are going to leave Hope College in another two and a half weeks. But 1 want lo suggest to you that you are not."

The schedule of events includes

"Much of what you know you have

learned here...you have learned habits of mind and ways of doing things. These

will be long lasting." — P r e s i d e n t J a c o b s o n

the Honors Con-vocation on Thursday, April 23 in Dimnent Chapel at 11 a.m. For those plan-ning to go through the ceremony, it is imperative they attend com-mencement re-hearsal at 5:30 p.m. at the Hol-land Civic Center on Wednesday, April 29.

Finally, the event seniors have been waiting for starts with Bacca-laureate at 11 a.m. in the chapel on Sunday, May 3, with Commence-ment lo follow at 3 p.m.

The Rev. Timothy Brown, pas-tor at Christ Memorial Church in Holland, will give the Baccalaure-ate sermon, titled "Life's a Risk— Take One!"

The Rev. Dr. Robert H. Schuller, founding pastor of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, will present "From Suc-

cess to Significance" as Com-mencement speaker.

In addition, Schuller's wife, Arvella, will receive a doctorate of humane letters (L.H.D.) during the Commencement ceremony. She is the executive producer of the Hour of Power television program and a member of the Hope College Board of Trustees.

Said Jacobson to seniors, "Much of what you know you have learned here—not only the facts and theories, which you may forget or which may become overlaid by

learning you will do in graduate school or in later life, but, more im-portantly, you have learned here habits of mind and ways of doing things. These will be long lasting."

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significant friends that you are likely Arvella Schuller to receive honorary degree ever to have. These fnends will be with you the rest of your life, even, I might add, if you never see them again."

With many good wishes, Hope College seniors are about to be sent into the world. "CONGRATULA-TIONS!," said Chaplain Mary Newbem-Williams. "Make every effort to experience the richness of diversity in this life in the work environment, where you live, and who your friends are. Go to gradu-ate school. Be the best you can be."

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Holland — Arvella Schuller, executive producer of the "Hour of Power" television program and member of the Hope College Board of Trustees since 1984, will receive an honorary degree from the college on Sunday, May 3.

Schuller, who is from Orange, CA, will receive a doctorate of hu-mane letters (L.H.D.) during the college'sCommencementactivities.

"Arvella Schuller is a very im-portant person in the Schuller min-istry," said Dr. John H. Jacobson, president of Hope College. "She has worked beside her husband since the very beginning, and became in-volved at an early stage in the whole area of supervising and managing the production of the 'Hour of Power' television program."

"Consequently she's had an extremely influential role for a gen-eration in American television," Jacobson said. "Of course she's also been a highly effective and valued member of our Board of Trustees for the last eight years," Jacobson said.

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music became the base for her ongo-ing involvement in classical and sacred music.

She has been with the "Hour of Power" television program since its beginning in 1970. The international program emanates from the weekly worship services at the Crystal Ca-thedral in Garden Grove, C A, and is the most watched religious program in America, according to the No-vember, 1990 Arbitron Ratings.

The ministry at the Crystal Ca-thedral often reflects Schuller's guiding hand. She was instrumental in the early development of the 24-hour NEW HOPE Counseling Ser-

vice, The Helping Hands (food and clothing service for the underprivi-leged), the Christian Day Care Cen-ter of the church, and the Crystal Cathedral's Literacy Center (affili-ated with the Laubach Literacy Center).

To show its appreciation, in 1990 the Crystal Cathedral dedi-cated 52 Holland bells in her honor, the Arvella Schuller Carillon.

She has also been dedicated to service in the community. Schuller has served on the boards of many organizations, such as the Orange County Bum Center and the Re-formed Church in America Women's Department, and has supported the Mary Magdalene Project, which is a special ministry lo young prostitutes, and the YWC A Home for the Homeless.

The greatest priorities of her life, however, continue lo be as wife and mother. She and her husband have five children—Sheila, a 1973 Hope graduate; Robert A., a 1976 Hope graduate; Carol, Jeanne and Gretchen—and 13 grandchildren.

She has written several books providing practical insights into the family, including Mommy Is Better Than a Blanket, The Courage of Carol, and The Positive Family.

Hope students gain experience from Washington D.C. internships by Jill Sandor guest writer

Seventeen Hope College stu-dents are currently in Washington, D.C. for the Washington Honors Semester. The students, selected on the basis of grade point average and recommendations, have the oppor-tunity to work at two different in-ternships of their choice while on the program.

Gary Elsinger ('93), one of the Washington Honors Semester stu-dents, is a political science major from Leonia, NJ. Presently, he is interning with the National Repub-lican Congressional Committee.

Elsinger's first internship was with the American Conservative Union (ACU), a group which lob-

bies government on conservative issues. His main task here was to assist in putting out "Ratings of Congress," an annual report made by the ACU on Congressmen and their voting records.

Another major activity for Elsinger at the ACU was to help with the Conservative Political Ac-tion Conference (CPAC). A three day conference of conservative speakers and debates, CPAC was sponsored by the ACU along with the Young Americans for Freedom.

Some of the speakers at the CPAC included Jack Kemp, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, and presidential can-didate Pat Buchanan. There was also a banquet with Vice President Dan Quayle as guest speaker.

"I met Pat Buchanan; 1 shook

hands with Newt Gingrich [RGA]... it's the best opportunity since we've been down here, to meet all these leading figures in one weekend," Elsinger said about CPAC.

Elsinger attended all three days of the conference. He worked at the ACU information booth, distribut-ing literature and policy positions, and got to hear many of the speak-ers. He was able to obtain free tickets to the CPAC for all the Hope students in Washington, many of whom were able to attend several of the CPAC events.

Elsinger said that his internship with the ACU was a great experi-ence.

"1 was amazed at how much 1 was actually able to do," he said. "Because our office was so small, I had a large impact on our policy. It

was great." One of the most valuable things

he gained from the internship, he said, was the friendships he formed with people in the office.

"They're good contacts to have, when I get back to Hope. It will make writing papers and keeping up on current events a lot easier."

Elsinger commented that doing his internships in Washington, D.C. made him especially aware of cur-rent political developments.

"Being in Washington, you're exposed to these issues constantly. You hear every new rumor, every little scandal. You're at the center of the news for the world."

When asked what advice he would give to incoming Washing-ton interns, Elsinger replied, "You have to be willing to start at the

bottom. You start doing little things and then they give you bigger things lo do."

"You need good communica-tion skills," Elsinger continued. "You have to be professional and work well with the people in your office."

Elsinger commented that there were many advantages and oppor-tunities available through a Wash-ington internship.

"It 's work experience. It gives you a taste of what it's going to be like when you get out there," he said. "It's very possible to get into an internship and then go right into a job."

Most of the Washington Honor students had one of their two in-

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Customer comes first at Christian music store by Erika Brubaker features editor

Jacob's Ladder is a different kind of store in downtown Holland. Started over a year ago by Hope student ShawnJacobCQl), the store is a thriving part of the downtown area.

Jacob's Ladder is very cus-tomer-oriented. Every aspect of the store is designed to please the cus-tomer first. Jacob said, "1 think the true mentality should be: don't own a store or a business for your own profit, own it for the clientele's profit."

Jacob directed the music buy-ing for a chain of Christian book-stores while he was still a student at Hope. During this time he saw the need for a store that catered solely to the Christian music-lover. "While I was doing that, more and more 1 came to realize that I was in the thick of something that was getting very big. " Jacob explained, "People are so limited by the availability of what is in stores. And they are also limited by radio.... On the radio you either have what is inspirational.... There are so many other styles that are not being played on the radio." Jacob explained that much of the inspira-tional music that is played on the radio is old and is no longer available to the consumer.

"Christian music has always been in Christian bookstores, and it's always been kind-of secondary, an afterthought. But within the past two or three years. Christian music

has really exploded as far as styles are concerned. We've got everywhere from light rock to hard rock to metal to 'death metal ' (which is like Sui-cidal Tendencies or Megadeath, An-thrax or any of these hard-core groups). There are Christian groups that do this kind of thing."

"You get any-thing that is re-motely contempo-rary or even on the brink of being light-rock style, most b o o k s t o r e s throughout the U.S. won't even touch this stuff. Because of that, there is an incredible need [for stores that will dis-tribute all styles of Christian music]."

Right now, the store has over 3500 titles. An entire wall of the backroom is covered with over2500 titles on demo tapes. Unlike other music stores, Jacob's Ladder has the demo tapes and listening equipment separate from the cus-tomer, as a way of promoting cus-tomer-staff interaction.

"The person would have to in-teract with us and share with us their responses," said Jacob. "I think that's made the difference. Because it

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forces us lo gel lo know people and them to get to know us, and I think it creates a trust. And there should be a trust. A lot of people respond lo us by saying,4 You know, we really sense a fellowship here. It's not something you see, but it's some-thing you feel.' And we really ap-preciate that."

For Jacob, the priorities in business are doing the job well, not making a huge profit. "If it doesn't work, that's OK, because we did the job well. Thai's really all that mat-

ters. ... You've got to have some ideals, or you'll go crazy."

The store has been open for eighteen months now, since Jacob was a senior at Hope, and is do-ing well. "This year, we're up over last year. . .retail is doing so poorly with the reces-sion, and music is really down [but] amidst that we were up. Which isn't too badforabusiness that is not even two years old, and that's located insuchanook...a l o w - v i s i b i l i t y f rontage , with poor parking fa-

cilities out in front." The store is doing so well that it

even expanded this past January, when Jacob knocked down one of the walls to make the storeroom larger. "We were just getting so much product in, it was getting way too cozy."

Jacob's Ladder has recently expanded in other ways as well. Within the past eight months, the store has branched out into a mail-order business. This enables the business to operate on an interna-

tional level, with customers from as far away as Sweden and Portugal. "That's been a lot of fun. We gel these people from throughout the world writing to us for stuff."

Mail-order prices tend to be considerably lower than those of products that are sold in a store, because there is no overhead lhai must be covered. At Jacob's Ladder, however, "We have opted to iry to do as much as we can."

One reason for opening the siore is that there are not enough knowl-edgeable Christian music distribu-tors. Jacob explains that Christian music is very poorly distiibuled, with many bookstores being very selective as to which artists they will sell in their stores, if any.

"Ignorance really abounds as far as Christian music is concerned. Most people think the craziest il gels is Michael W. Smith or Amy Gram."

According to Jacob, "You've got people who were brought up in a tradition, and standard rock'n'roll is an anything goes sort of thing, ihe idea of Christian rock, or Christian heavy metal, or Christian rap, or contemporary light rock. ... There are various levels of responses lo that type of music. Because tradi-tionally rock and roll or drums... or guitars have kind of been looked down upon by the Church.... This is why distribution is so poor."

"Pursue mercy" is the motto of the store. "I don't know where it came from, but it's kind-of stuck. It's all-encompassing." The store's hours are Monday through Saturday, from 11 a.m. until 9 p.m.

Graduation equals retmion for international student by Reba C S h e s k y staff writer

- "The lifestyles are very differ-ent. We don't have as many mate-rial things, like cars or other ma-chines."

Most seniors have enough Zhang has occupied her spare things on their mind without plan- time at Hope with a number of dif-ning their first family reunion in ferent activities. Presently she is the almost 10 years. resident assistant (RA) of Doesburg

That isexactly what Mei Zhang Cottage, tutors calculus and some ( 92) is looking forward to. At computer science, is a computer graduation her family will be re- consultant for Western Theological united for the first lime since her Seminary and even plays Inter-mural brother left lo come lo Hope 10 soflball. Zhang also admits she likes years ago.

"For financial reasons and other ones, it's not very convenient for us to go back and forth to China," said Zhang.

The reunion is very exciting for the computer science major, who is origi-nally from Hangzhou, China.

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talking a lot to friends. Zhang has two

more classes she has to lake in the fall be-fore she graduates. After that, she would like lo go lo graduate school somewhere in computer science. Her only requirement right now in choosing the school is that it is at a warmer location than Hope.

Hope student wins Japanese Language Speech Contest b y Jon Joffe staff writer

After submitting her speech to the Japanese Language Speech Contest, Tamara Luehrs did not know what to anticipate.

With little expectations but high hopes, Tamara travelled to Chicago on Saturday, March 28 for the speech competition.

She was rewarded for her ef-forts by receiving first prize in her category for students who have studied Japanese for less than one year.

The 1990 graduate of City High School in Grand Rapids was really shocked by her success in the competition.

"I was really surprised to win first prize and at the time, 1 didn't feel that I deserved it," stated Tamara bashfully. "My speech was con-cerned with the differences between Japan and the United States and how both cultures have the same goals."

Tamara is the first student from Hope College to compete in the Japanese Speech Contest, and is one of only four American Students at Hope College to be invited to visit a college in Japan this summer. Luehrs also plans to return to Japan during her senior year to strengthen her skills in Japanese.

Luehrs believes the help pro-vided by her professor in the Inter-national Studies office made the award possible.

"Shinko Kagayo, assistant professor of Japanese, really helped me prepare my speech," said Luehrs. "My work in Profes-sor Kagayo's class was instru-mental to winning the award."

Her victory makes her ineli-gible to compete at the Japanese Consulate in Chicago next year. However, she has plans to compete in the national contest, which will be held in Washington, D.C.

Her major in international studies with an emphasis on po-litical science and economics will help her with her goal of practic-ing international law and pro-moting U.S. business in Japan.

People like Tamara Luehrs make closer ties between Japan and the U.S. a likely reality.

Archives program focuses on Diekema

have gotten permission to visit. They "Here during the winter it's too are already in the country visiting cold outside and the roads are too her sister who is a fashion designer, slippery. The weather changes too Her sister and parents will be driv- much. You never know what the ing from New Jersey for the cer- weather's going to look like tomor-emony. row."

Zhang will have a lot to tell her Zhang says she will miss the parents when she sees them. She security of being in college, but is

asn t seen them in the four years looking forward to moving on. she has been at Hope. Zhang's biggest problem now

Zhang feels she has grown up a besides the general wrapping up of lot since she left home. "It's one of the year is getting tickets for her the things I appreciate most and I family. She is hoping for good reahze why people go away 1° weather, so tickets won't be a ege, said Zhang problem, but she doesn't want to

Zhang has also found a lot of take any chances. differences between here and life in Some students have offered her China. Generally speaking 1 would their extra tickets if they have any, say that everything is new, said but at this point she has no guaran-Zhang. t e e s < •

HOLLAND—The Joint Ar-chives of Holland's Spring Speaker Program will focus on Gerrit J. Diekema. one of Holland's most prominent historical figures, on Friday, April 24, at 3 p.m. in Winants Auditorium of Graves Hall at Hope College.

A reception will follow in the Archives reading room, located on the ground level of Van Wylen Li-brary.

The talk, "Gerrit J. Diekema: A Reconsideration," will be delivered by Dr. C. Warren Vander Hill, who wrote a biography of Diekema in 1970.

Vander Hill's presentation will touch on several aspects of Diekema's life, and will include new and revealing facetsof Diekemathat have come to light since 1970.

Diekema, who served in ca-pacities ranging from local lawyer

to U.S. Minister to the Netherlands, was bom in Holland in 1859 and graduated from Hope College in 1881. After receiving his law degree from

He served in a variety of civic positions, including as mayor of Holland, as president of the Michi-gan Slate Sunday School Associa-tion and as a member of the Hope College Board of Trustees.

On the national scene, he was active with every presidential cam-paign beginning with McKinley in 18%, who rewarded him with an appointment to the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission. He served in the United States House of Repre-sentatives from 1907 until hisdefeat in 1910 by Democrat Edwin F. Sweet.

Other activities included serv-ing as chair of the Chicago Office of the Republican Party's Speaker's

Bureau, asTaft'scampaign manager and running for governor of Michi-gan in 1916.

The pinnacle of his career was attained in 1930, when President Herbert Hoover appointed him the U.S. Minister to the Netherlands. He was extremely popular with the Dutch people.

Diekemadiedon Dec.20,1930. It is estimated that more than 8,500 people paid their respects as he laid in state in Hope (now Dimnent) Memorial Chapel.

Vander Hill is provost and vice president for academic affairs at Bal 1 State University, and is one of two Diekemabiographers. In addition to focusing his doctoral dissertation on the prominent Holland politician, he wrote the book Gerrit J. Diekema, which is part of the "Great Men of Michigan" series published by Eerdmans Press.

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• •• Cheers and Jeers Jeers to Publ ic Sa fe ty f o r not re leasing in fo rmat ion on

assaul ts , break- ins , etc . and f o r handing out so m a n y

pa rk ing t ickets. T h e escor t service a l so needs to be

improved .

Cheers to W T H S fo r the posi t ive c h a n g e s , the dea l

with M T V and the J a p a n e s e rad io station fea ture .

C h e e r s to C r e a t i v e D i n i n g S e r v i c e s ( C D S ) f o r

sponsor ing Cas ino Nigh t and the Peps i -P is tons Cha l l enge .

Jeers to the admin is t ra t ion f o r c lasses on G o o d Fr iday ,

no Crit ical Issues , c h a n g i n g the name of M a y Day , and as

a lways , the tuit ion increase .

Jeers fo r the c e n s o r s h i p of the c o n d o m sculpture .

Jeers for ra is ing the r equ i remen t s fo r o f f - c a m p u s

housing.

Cheers fo r the m a n y yea r s of service f r o m p ro fe s so r s

Dr. Verhey , Dr. Di rkse , and Dr. Bruins .

Chee r s to S tuden t C o n g r e s s fo r br ing ing in A l e x Ha ley

to speak.

Jeers to Jane H o l m a n for once again sel l ing H o p e -

Calvin tickets ear ly .

Cheers to the Sen io r Class fo r rais ing $ 4 5 0 0 fo r the

A lumni fund .

Chee r s to S A C fo r br inging in all the great m o v i e s this

past year .

Cheers to Dr. B lankespoor for being named the National

P rofessor of the Year .

Cheers to the men ' s and w o m e n ' s s w i m t eams on their

seasons and D a w n H o v i n g for be ing the fas tes t 200 -ya rd

but ter f lyer in the na t ion fo r Divis ion III.

Jeers to H o p e Co l l ege for the lack of access ib i l i ty to

bui ld ings for hand icapped people .

Chee r s to the Env i ronmen ta l Issues G r o u p and Dr .

H e m e n w a y fo r m a k i n g the c a m p u s e n v i r o n m e n t a l l y

consc ious .

Jeers to the apa the t ic s tudent body w h o had a poor

showing for the S tuden t Congre s s e lec t ions .

Cheers to M a r y N e w b e m - W i l l i a m s fo r g o i n g out of

her w a y to be access ib le to s tudents , and fo r ge t t ing the

mult i -cul tural p r o g r a m off the ground. .

Chee r s to all the g radua t ing seniors . Y o u have all

earned it.

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Apathy problem creates inefficiencies, critics Dear editors.

Student apathy runs rampant on Hope's campus. Students are not participating in many of the offered activities that happen on campus. This problem is not only a campus problem: it spreads nationwide.

Il is seen in the presidential primaries, where roughly 25 percent of the registered voters vote. It is also seen here at Hope during the student congress elections and the Spring Fling court nominations.

Holly Moore was just elected to be the next Student Congress president. She won by 347 votes but she just received 573 votes to win and only 799 students voted in this election. There are over 2,000 stu-dents enrolled here at Hope College and not even half of them bothered to vote in this very important elec-tion.

The race for vice president.

however, was much closer. Joe Kuiper, the new vice president, won by 47 votes. There were 820 votes cast for vice president.

The comptroller race was the closest of them all, with Julie Meyer winning by 24 votes. 830 votes were cast in this election, but all the candidates were within 50 votes of each other.

The student body should be more concerned about who is elected to the student congress cabinet. The fact that two first year students ran for positions on the cabinet reflects the fact that most of the students here at Hope couldn 't care less about Student Congress.

The Social Activities Commit-tee recently held nominations for the Spring Fling court. This is similar to Homecoming court but for the junior class. Only 250 students even took 5 seconds to fill a nomination

out. This is sad, since there are 526 students in the junior class alone. Students will complain about the court being all Greek, but did they bother to vote? To be on the Spring Fling court, a male would need only lo have 23 nominations. A female would be on the court with 22 nominations.

Tom Werkman ('92) recenily said, "Apathy is the largest problem with ihe student body. They just will not get involved. What can Student Congress do about il? I don' t know."

Student Congress can't do anything about apathy, but the stu-dents can. They have lo gel involved and encourage others lo be involved loo.

If the students here don't bother lo get involved and vote, Hope will end up like this country: inefficient and full of critics. Todd Block ('94)

Parking ticket breeds frustration with college An Open Letter to Duane Terpstra and the Public Safety Department,

Recently, on an apparently slow evening, apublic safety officer found it necessary to ticket the majority of the cars found in the Hope College Columbia Apartment lot for not being officially registered as per-mitted lo park there.

Now, assuming there was some sort of mix-up, after all we had parked there for the greater portion of two semesters without problems, I trudged over to the public safety department to straighten things out.

At this point I would like to take the time to apologize to the lady behind the desk. I realize you have nothing to do with the antics of the office you work for, but you are unfortunately the person available to irate walk-ins who vent their frustrations upon you.

I was handed an appeal form and was informed that il was indeed a valid ticket, and was instructed to look in the parking guidelines handed out with every permit pur-chased.

Lo and behold, in the prover-bial fine print under section D.2 was: "Persons wishing to park at cottages, Columbia Ave. Apts, Centennial Park Apis., and Venema Apis must receive permission from the public safely office."

At this point il did not look good. However, there was a glim-mer of hope (definitely no pun in-tended) just over the horizon, be-cause the next line read as follows: "Parking at these locations will be assigned at the time the permit is purchased."

As the lady behind the desk may have noticed, my demeanor instantly changed. If they were go-ing to fine print us, we were going to fine print them.

1 would like to think that I have at least a basic understanding of the English language, and to me, that last sentence more or less says that when people living in those places purchase the permit, public safety would hand over a sheet of paper so that we may be officially registered for those very important parking assignments, which quite obviously they did not do.

How foolish we were to think we could actually win this, even if we were right. Il apparently doesn^t matter, right or wrong, but those who pay to come here are wrong, and those who collect the money are right. I must have skipped that class when they were leaching that defi-nition of right and wrong. It is like paying for general upkeep oh ceil-ing tiles with 20+ year old glue that fall down, bul thai sloiy is already a

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year old. These incidents seem to typify Hope's approach to students once they are here. What kind of character and integrity can they claim to have as they nickel and dime us lo death?

As a last ditch effort, I would like lo challenge the actual ticket itself. The plate number and permit number does not match any car that I own, nor anyone else at Hope.

-But lo challenge on something like that would take a real court, something that fell by the wayside here at Hope along with legitimate search and seizure proceedings, trial by your peers (not just a rubber stamp tribunal), and something called the Bill of Rights.

To close out this rambling brought on by continual frustration and disillusionment with thecollege, Duane, 1 suggest you leave some time open at the end of the week because I intend to drop off my payment and I would like it if you would receive il—all 1,000 pennies worth. Maybe Til just throw in 999 and you can bill me the extra penny lo my account.

I mean, after all, money is money, and that is what it is all about, isn't it?

With regards, Andrew Toering 493

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VIEWPOINT m H M A S S

ONFUSION M A R L A V A N B A R E N

Big Sister It had been a long day. My

last class was finished, and 1 made my usual trudge over to the anchor office in hopes of getting a head start on the next issue. Twelve o'clock rolled around, and I had finished one measly page. But my two escorts home had arrived, and it seemed like a good idea to get some sleep because the next day would be nasty.

As we walked out the door, Brent asked if I wanted to go to the beach. It's 12:00 on a Monday night, and I was planning on getting up early and not getting to sleep until late the next night.

"Sure, why not," I said. Five of us started out to Kirk

Park at about 12:30a.m. After walking in the sand, and watching the stars and satellites we left for Holland and arrived about 3 a.m.

No, this didn't make Tuesday any easier. But it sure was nice throwing responsibility to the wind and having fun with my friends.

Throughout my four years at Hope, I have done late-night runs to Taco Bell, and 1 have gone to GR at 1 a.m. in search of donuts. Sometimes I've just talked with friends or taken a walk to Kollen Park in the rain. Once, I even drew pictures in the sand at Grand Haven Beach. It's not easy making perfect circles and legible words that say "You are here" with two people and their four feet, by the way. 1 have also spent many an hour doing paint-by-water pictures and coloring in coloring books (it's a great way to relieve stress and have fun-you should try it sometime).

One of the most rewarding experiences I have had was being a big sister through Higher Horizons. Sure, sometimes the two hours a week were tough to manage and new ideas for things to do run thin, but it is great to know that Wendy is happy having someone to hang out with and who wants to do things with her. I know she loves the fact that we can go swimming at the Dow.

Because of my relationship with Wendy, I have gone to the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, I have seen her graduate from the D.A.R.E. program, I have gotten to play silly games and decorate

cookies at her school's winter carnival, I have a great person to color with (she loves art projects), I have been able to see the excitement in her eyes when she introduces me to her favorite teachers at school and I have experienced the little ego trips that come from being the preferred escort (over her mother or older sister) to school and social events.

Now that I am going home to Colorado, 1 have to end my official position as big sister. I find myself wishing that I could somehow do more to give Wendy some of the advantages that I have had. I also wish I could protect her from some of the bad influences and events in her life now and in the future. She is one of those lucky people who has a great, giving heart—she has given much to me.

The goal of Higher Horizons is to provide underprivileged kids in the area with positive role models—a friend—nothing more. I can only hope that Wendy has been positively influenced by me.

If any of you have considered becoming a big sister or big brother Higher Horizons definitely will find you a match. For more information call Marcia Bradsell at X7875.

D E E P

T H O U G H T S S T E P H E N D . K A U K O N E N

A Graduate's Prayer

The final issue has finally arrived and I am filled with joy and ecstasy. It's been a long year. A lot of hard work has gone into this year's paper, and now the end has come.

I would like to thank my staff and give a special thanks to my production editor Maria Van Baren, who has gone above and beyond week after week, and to Scott Runyon, my associate editor, who has done an excellent job and is set to take over my position next year. Without their help, I couldn't have done it.

And a thank you to all our readers, who week after week, kept us here at The anchor on our toes, watching our every move.

The anchor will be back next year and looks forward to once again serving the Hope commu-nity.

Dear God, As my college days come to a

close, I would like to take a moment to thank You for all You have given lo me.

I lhank You for the strength you have given to me during my four years at Hope. The strength to drag myself out of bed, into the shower and off to class every day. The strength to crank out paper after paper, lake lest after test, and make it through the hectic pace of college life.

I thank You for the many close friends You have brought lo me. I value every one of the friendships I have had and the experiences and memories that we have shared.

I thank You for the opportu-nity for a good education and for a good mind. The opportunity to learn and be challenged.

1 thank You for my health and for safety, especially when unexpected visitors enter through my basement window and pay me a visit me during the early morning hours.

I thank You for my parents who have supported me through

all these years and have given me love and a good Christian home. And for a mom and dad who have been behind me in all I do, while giving advice (whether I wanted il or not) or a shoulder to cry on.

I lhank You for the caring people of Hope. From professors who have dedicated their lives to teaching students like myself and taking the time out of their busy schedules lo get to know their students; lo coaches who bring out the best in their players—physi-cally, mentally, and spiritually; to teammates who sweated out the seasons with me year after year; and lo all the other caring people who make Hope what it is.

I pray for guidance in all 1 do. As I enter the 'real world,' I face many uncertainties and will be faced with making many deci-sions. Give me guidance and knowledge in making these decisions.

I pray for the desire to be like You. To live a life striving to exemplify a Christ-like attitude and life-style.

I pray that You will help me to 'color outside the lines' and dare

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Senior Dinner I have thirty minutes to

write this, and the deadline is approaching like a thousand pound crap hammer. Sad thing is I'm not a writer; I'm a howler, and it's for Jenny and Beth 1 howl one last time. No more columns, 1 told them.

Why waste time writing when you can be living? But they insisted I should write one more before I go. Maybe even kill Cal. Put an end lo that beast once and for all.

Hell, why not? He should have been killed a long time ago. So it is for Jenny and Beth I open my mouth wide and hurl these last desperate words onto the paper one more time.

There I sal at the Senior Banquet, a lugubrious affair that I was already an hour late to because I had been out in the rain throwing worms back into the grass.

Worms, I thought, the last creatures left lo save in Holland. We've killed everything else. So, sopping wet with mud dripping from my fingers, I had wandered into Phelps searching for an empty seat, with the promise of free food echoing in my stomach.

The place was packed with some three hundred people; three hundred graduating seniors soon to be ejected into the world like plague infested sheep on a catapult.

They would be splattered on the most basic of ontological problems: jobs, marriages, where to live. Many rotting forever on the floors of average doom, stinking up the place, immune to their own smell. With that in mind I sat across from a nice looking couple, arguing about where they would

study after dinner. And I must confess to you 1

found them most interesting. From what I could see, incapable themselves of loving fully, they each felt that the other's love was incomplete.

That, I thought, was the real reason the guy ended up throw-ing his napkin down on his plate, and storming out of the room, yelling obscenities.

Naturally, still hungry after eating all my food, I reached over with my hands to his plate, removed the napkin, and grabbed his leftover chicken cordon blue.

"What are you doing?" the girl screamed at me.

"I'm eating," I replied. "That's disgusting." "My eating is not disgusting,

only your interpretation of it is." "You're a pig!" "Thousands of children are

dying daily; AIDS is rampaging through the human race; the earth, diseased; the ozone, gone; God, dead. Say, is that Eternity perfume you have on?"

"What?" she asked, gazing deadly at the table cloth. Then she seemed to recover from her trance. "All that suffering is in God's plan."

"Seems like a rather botched plan, doesn't it?"

"Who are you to judge God's will?"

"Who am I not lo?" "HUH! You're going to

Hell." "How much worse can il be

than Holland?" I asked shoving, barehanded^ the rest of the chicken in my mouth.

"Then you'll never get to Heaven.". .

"Well, if Heaven means spending an eternity with you, I don't want lo go anyway."

"You're trying to reduce me lo an air-head."

"Nonsense, I only suc-ceeded."

Well, my deadline is here; no lime to write anything more, and I couldn't care less if you think this column is incomplete, mainly because it's probably better off than your life.

lo be different. Not to always go along with the 'crowd,' but to stand up for my own beliefs.

I pray that I will never grow old, but to always keep a little bit of kid in me. So often it is too easy lo get caught up in the hustle

and bustle of life, and I forget to enjoy life for what it is.

I pray for contentment for what you have given to me and be thankful for what I have.

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Outrage expressed over prejudiced literature Dear editors.

This letter is intended to speak to those members of our community at Hope who may not have been outraged by the racist propaganda that has infiltrated academic build-ings over the last few weekends -assuming that it came from outside the college, which is hopefully the case.

Without repeating too much of the despicable contents of the car-toons and articles, they stated that African-American men are more likely to commit rape and carry AIDS, that the only way to combat crime is to create a purely white society, and that as well as hating African-Americans, God also de-spises Jews.

%t Your God is a racist" is a direc t quote from one of the filthy pieces of Nazi propaganda. There were also references to homosexuals as de-serving of the scourge of the AIDS virus.

This is precisely the same sort of rhetoric that Hitler used to justify the Holocaust. None of the slander-ous statements are true in any way, shape or form. According to any reputable statistics, men of color (which includes all non-caucasian races, not just African-Americans) account for less than ten percent of the rapes committed in this country each year.

It is also untrue that African-Americans carry the AIDS virus in a higher percentage than do Caucasians—in actuality, Caucasian heterosexuals are at present the group of people who possess the highest incidence of AIDS in this country.

The purveyors of these and

many other examples of pro-Aryan propaganda would have you believe that their statistics are valid.

They would have you believe that it is the right of Aryan races to discriminate against people whose skin is darker than theirs, or whose eyes have a different tilt, or who speak another language such as Spanish.

They would have you believe that God condones this sort of be-havior. These are all falsehoods put forth by preachers of hatred and bigotry, people should pity for their misguided, dangerous and abso-lutely non-Christian ideas. Pity not-withstanding, they must not be tol-erated in our midst—sad as it may seem, hatred is far more contagious than love.

The ancestors of Caucasian races came to this country foreign-ers in a foreign land; many did not speak English. (Dutch immigrants spoke Dutch, by the way.)

The ancestors of African-Americans were largely forcibly brought here against their will within the institution of slavery, which was allowed to exist for so long by the same rationalizations that many people use today in this community to justify the absence of people of color in their companies except in menial jobs.

Racism has not disappeared since the abolition of slavery, nor has it become a characteristic of the hopelessly uneducated since the onset of the Civil Rights Movement. It is here, on our campus, at a Chris-tian institution; it has left its slimy trail on the bulletin boards of our academic buildings. !

It is the evil that has resulted

from many years of misunderstand-ing and intolerance of the part of people from different racial/ethnic backgrounds, but that in no way suggests that it must continue.

We are the younger genera-tion—the hope for the future of this college, this community, this state, this country...our world. We can influence our peers and fellow people, by the simple act of rising above hatred based on ignorance, whatever the rationalization used to support it.

If we don't understand some-one else's culture, language, reli-gion, customs or sexual preferences, we can learn what makes them dif-ferent from ourselves and appreci-ate the fact that we are not all the same.

In words of a well-known state-ment on social injustice: If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. We are all parts of the problem.

I met a very wise man last sum-mer, a man known among his people as an authority on social injustice and the evils of ignorance, and this is what he had to say about it: we are all two-legged creatures; we are all one people in the eyes of our creator. To hate another is to hate oneself by association, because divisions among us are artificial things.

They are contrary to the will of our creator, contrary to the order of nature that we have been entrusted to preserve. We are all one people, one spirit, one species, and no good can come from the denial of that truth.

| (With special thanks to Chief Robert White Eagle of the Iroquois people) Heather Mens ('93)

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Ins, outs, and accidents of the interviewing process

— — — 1 affectionately call Jerome, to the side of the road before the full im-pact of what happened hit me. When the man driving the tank came back

At this time of the year, the l o s e e i f t w ^ o k a y j w a s ^ t i c a l l y many graduating seniors who have hyperventilating, but I managed to not yet found a job are frantically convince h.m that I was fine, searching for one. This can prove lo w h e n ^ e police officer came, be a very stressful experience. he informed me tha . ^ „

The long tedious process of totaled. 1 wonder what clued him in? combing the want-ads, sending out Maybe the lack of car and engine resumes, making cold calls and remaining on the front of Jerome, trying to just get your foot in the But wait, the purpose o is door Then, if an interview does co lumn is to talk about the result from all of this hard work, a stressfulness of the interview pro-whole new variety of stress is thrown cess. So, what does one do when one upon you. What to wear? Do you totals one s car ten minutes before know enough about the company? oneissupposedtoteatanuiterview. Are you really qualified? Do you This is where the nice helpful police

have gunk stuck between your teeth officer comes in. orchronic halitosis? The list of things After taking down all of the to consider is endless. necessary information for my lovely

Career Planning and Placement ticket which 1 received, he asked me can help you out with a lot of these where 1 was headed. Holding back questions, but they don't cover ev- laughter over the helpless situation erything. Take my situation for ex- was in, I told him about my intervicv. a m p l e "Well, do you still want to go to

Last week, 1 had an interview it? he asked me. After considering scheduled for 1:30 on Thursday af- my options, and the fact that I no temoon in Grand Rapids. At ap- longer had a car, I told him that if il proximately 1:05,1 estimated myself w^s possible, I would like lo go. lo be about 10 minutes away from "HI tell you what/ he said, if my destination. Perfect liming to you have the number, I will call the arrive ten minutes early, as suggested station and have them notify ihe by Career Planning and Placement. company of what has happened and

However, Career Planning and that you will be a little late. And Placement does not warn you about then, after your car is taken care of I the slow moving vehicles on the will give you a ride. highway. I was following a slow I laughed at ihe thought of a moving garbage truck on 196— police escort to an interview, but I that's right a garbage truck, those look him up on it. After the man big massive iron tanks filled with from Merl'sTowing came and took trash—and 1 was debating whether I Jerome away to Chevy Impala should pass him or not. As he con- heaven, we were on our way. tinued to slow down to a turtle-ish On the short ride to the business, pace, I decided to make my move, he offered lo turn on the lights and Big mistake. s > r e n s 1 0 g e t u s l h e r e faster. I re-

While I was being a cautious spectfully declined. Then he had driver and checking to see if the lane another idea. was clear for passing, someone in "How about if I put some hand front of the garbage truck decided to cuffs on you, walk you all the way make an abrubt stop. This of course inside the building and take them off caused the garbage truck—that big when you meet the person you are massive iron tank filled with trash— interviewing with. Wouldn t that to also put on his brakes. Before I make a great impression?" he asked, realized what was happening, I was 1 again declined this offer, and suddenly testing my seatbelt to its the offer of his gun to get the job by limit as I slammed right into the force. I thought a phone call from back of that garbage truck. the station, mixed with a police es-

When I recovered from the cort was already more than a corn-initial shock, I looked up and all I pany can handle for one interview, could see was black. Then I realized So, I arrived in one piece, but a it was because the front of my car little late. This is not the best way to had completely buckled and had make your first impression. How filled up my entire field of vision.

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Opus sponsors readings by two authors of poetry and short stories

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New Yorker, The Nation and Sports As an epigraph to First Flight, Illustrated, and he was editor of the Baxter has chosen a quote from .acclaimed anthology. Sumac. Kierkegaard; "Life can only be un-

Annie Dillard has written, "Dan derstood backward: but it must be Oerbcr s one of our finest living lived forward "

"poets. I've loved his thoughtful po- Paul Auster, author of TVieNew / m s since I first came across them York Trilogy, has written "First Light nearly twenty years ago, and it's a is a novel that moves backward in delight to have the best of them time. Things keep falling away from gathered here in The Last Bridge us, and gradually we begin to un-Home \ find it a beautiful and derstand that Baxter is telling us our powerful book in every w a y o w n story. He is both tough-minded

' 9 Gerber s stories, Janet and compassionate. His characters Kauffman writes, Here are the are human,and that in itself is a rare stones you hear when you finally sit achievement for a writer, a thine to down someplace and listen. It's the be celebrated." jalk of cropdustere, library woricers, The reading is sponsored by anybody downtown. It's a human Opus, the college's student run lit-tiabitat, rangy, unkempt." erary magazine.

f Baxter is the author of three The works of both writers are story collections, the most recent of available in the Hope-Geneva Which isA Relative Stranger (\990)\ Bookstore.

Novel is slow and confusing byR.G. Blair book reviewer

Heavy Time by C J . Cherryh brings the reader into a universe that is almost, but not quite cyberpunk. There are certainly elements of the cyberpunk sub-genre in her novel, but it lacks the presence of the vir-tual reality data matrix known as cyberspace.

In the novel we first meet Morrie Bird and his partner Ben Pollard. They both survey the asteroids be-tween Mars and J upiter for ones that contain metals and other useable materials. The materials are needed for the construction of battle ships for the war against Earth's colonies.

When an asteroid is found to contain these materials the surveyers tag it and a 4driver comes and mines it. A 'driver is a huge mining ship that breaks asteroids into chunks and throws the pieces of asteroid to a designated pick up spot.

At that pick up spot other people gather the bits of asteroid into the refinery for processing, they are known as Shepherds. These Shep-herds are important and they have formed an organization so that even the company must deal fairly with them.

The whole operation is run by the ASTEX mining corporation. ASTEX is a suppressive organiza-tion that exists only to make itself more powerful. Bird and Ben are

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independent miners, who are not on the company's payroll. The problem is that ASTEX controls all of the charts for the asteroid belt and as-signs miners specific positions to search. The company is more inter-ested in its own capital and it uses laws to keep its workers in line and totally dependant on the company.

Bird and Ben are assigned a sector to survey by the corporation. Mama, they discover a distress call and act to help the ship. They dis-cover a man incoherent and near death. Bird possesses the values that we recognize today as morally up-right. He is responsible for saving the man's life.

Ben represents the new man with a completely different set of morals. He is more concerned with his own welfare than that of others. His main interest in the man they rescue is the ship to which he wants the salvage rights.

The man' s name is Paul Dekker. He survived an accident that killed his partner, Cory Salazar, and left him adrift.

Dekker finds himself in the middle of a corporate cover up. He is left with the questions of how and why was his ship disabled. The an-swer to this question entwines his fate with that of Bird, Ben, the 'driv-ers, and the Shepherds.

The corporation is depicted as an evil, self-serving entity in this

novel. This is very much akin to the cyberpunk depiction of a world where corporations govern society. In fact, the corporation is almost a form of government in itself due to its importance to the war effort.

People do rebel against the cor-poration. Throughout the novel there are references to a political event where the corporation opened fire on peaceful protestors. This led to the rab movement which became a way of thought as well as dress and action. These rab are very much like the punk characters in cyberpunk novels.

The novel left the reader feeling cheated. There was no sense of hope conveyed by the book. The entire message of the book seemed one of hopelessness. This would have been fine if the author had been a little quicker in developing her plot.

Most of the interesting part of the plot occurred in the first and last 50 pages of the book. The injection of the rab lingo into the novel serves more to confuse the reader than to provide any real sense of atmo-sphere.

There seemed to be no high point in the novel. The reader was led through a depressing morass of acceptance and futility. One comes from reading the book doubting whether the ending had any positive note in it at all.

All in all this book is not up to par with the wide range of goo^l books Cherryh has written.

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After several minutes of film previews I began to wonder about the value of reviewing a film that no one was in the theater to see.

But at the last minute a third viewer snuck in to join us, thus making this worthwhile. Maybe not. But judging from the turnout, it should be out on video soon, so save your money.

Lawnmower Man is an intricate science fiction film which takes the viewer on a sometimes confusing, sometimes exciting trip into the world of virtual reality.

Virtual reality involves the use of computers and computer gener-ated graphics to stimulate the senses into believing a simulated reality.

Stephen King's short story transformed to film will keep you interested with its intense graphics, but the story line lacks the twists that would make this an excellent film. •

In comparison with previous King books made into f i lms, Lawnmower Man has less gore than Pet Cemetary and more action than Christine.

Lawnmower Man stars Pierce Brosnan {ofRemington Steele) as Dr. Angelo, a scientist working for the government and researching virtual reality as a method for enhancing chimps' mental capacity in order for them to be used in warfare.

Upon the attempted escape of his prize chimp, who kills a guard before he is shot, Angelo lakes a leave from the research.

While on leave Angelo's wife deserts him because he is too ob-

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sessed with retreating into the simu-lated world of computer concocted virtual reality. She walks into his lab, where he is hooked up to a machine which is simulating falling and floating, and asks him, "What's next; firetrucking?" (Well, close enough.)

The lonely Dr. Angelo then decides to try out his virtual reality tests and synapse multiplying drugs on the learning deficient Job (bril-liantly acted by Jeff Fahey) who mows Angelo's lawn.

Job's intelligence develops at a rapid pace and he eventually be-comes more intelligent than the good doctor Angelo.

Through further injections and virtual reality training, Jobdevelopes ESP, mind over matter powers, an affinity for cowboy boots and blue jeans, and a Christ-complex.

Confused by all this and his lack of actual sensual experience. Job breaks into the institute and shoots himself up with more drugs.

He then proceeds to deal out some vigilante-style justice with a computer-graphic twist.

The film ends with a liberal amount of computer generated graphics that, when viewed on the big screen, leave the viewer with mouth open and saliva freely flow-ing.

Lawnmower Man is a good sci-ence fiction flick with some options for serious commentary on the in^ vestigation of the human mind and its power.

Presented in this format it left me feeling like the questions raised were simply cliches cheaply ex-ploited to make a buck. But that's entertainment.

Overall, I would say that if you enjoy good special effects in a sci-ence fiction film, Lawnmower Man would be worth your money and time to see before it left the big screen.

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What happens after a person plays in their last college sporting event? (1 mean, besides take a shower)

As a graduating senior 1 am about to find out. I play tennis for Hope and I am not talented enough to play on the pro circuit. In fact, I'm not good enough to play on a semi-pro circuit or even at Circuit City.

The point is that this is my last competitive season of tennis and 1 will miss it. Fortunately for me, I compete in a sport that I can continue to enjoy into my old age.

But what about the major college football player who doesn't make the pro's? There aren't to many senior football leagues around.

Oh sure, it's nice lo throw the old pigskin around now and then. But what if the person was a lineman. For 12 or more years of their life they have trained how to be the best blocker or tackier

possible. Not too many of their future

colleagues or bosses or potential clients will want to go out in the parking lot and butt heads for recreation. A possible conversa-tion with a colleague might go like this:

Lineman: Hi, I'm Brutus. Colleague: Man, you're big. Lineman: 1 was wondering if

you would like to do some blocking drills with me.

Colleague: That would be my second favorite thing to do right now, next to setting my face on fire and putting it out with an ice pick. Besides, I've got a tennis dale with the boss. Toodles!

Football lineman aren't the only ones who would be left alone with their sport. Hockey players would find it tough to find a playing partner as well:

Hockey player: Hi. I'm Sven. Colleague: So. Hockey player: I was wonder-

ing if you'd like to play hock... Colleague: What happened to

your teeth? Did you set your face on fire and try to put it out with an ice pick or something?

Hockey player: Yeah, yesterday after this guy asked me to do blocking drills with him.

To avoid these situations in your future, I will tell you the sports you should learn and at what age to use them.

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When just starting out in a company, you should learn to play basketball. There are always young guys at the office who like a little hoop action on their lunch breaks.

If you are in a prestigious firm, where power lunches and power ties are essential, you should learn racquetball.

As a middle aged mid-level executive, you should learn to play tennis. You will have to learn to play just poor enough to lose to your boss but well enough to be his doubles partner.

As an older upper level executive golf will be your primary source of recreation. Bul don't worry. Bosses are usually good at this game. So you don i have lo worry about losing to them as much. And if you're the boss, and you stink, no one is aloud to beat you anyway.

These are the basic sports you will need to get you through your career. If you work in a bar or a garage, bowling, pool, and then darts will be the proper substi-tutes.

Well, it seems that I have gone off on so many tangents from my original point, that I need a sine to show me the way back (geometry joke). Let's get back to my original hypotenuse, uh, I mean hypothesis.

Fvervone who doc.N not make

it to the next level in their sport must face that crux of what comes next—playing for fun.

For those of you not familiar with the term 44playing for fim," it means not caring whether you win or lose. It means liking your opponent even while you are playing. It means being a good sport all of the time.

It sucks. In tennis "playing for fun"

requires a huge change. A serious college tennis player will yell at himself, his opponent, the fans and the umpire if one is provided. He will also yell at inanimate objects such as the ball, the court, the net, his racquet, the wind, the sun, the clouds and his shoes. Then he will shake his opponents hand and congratulate him on a nice match.

Anything before the shaking hands part while "playing for fun" is a no no.

1 guess it's lime to address the question that has been on the tip of your tongue for a while now. What the heck does "crux" mean?

"Crux" sounds like a new name for Com Chex cereal. Except I think "Crux" would have a touch of bran in it.

Excuse my ramblings. I'm a rambler.

Of all people who will have a hard time finding others to play with, decathletes have to rank right UP IIKMC ai I he u

Who would want to do the 100 and 400 meter dash, high jump, long jump, throw the shot put and javelin, pole vault, run a mile and do hurdles, and dam.... What's the last event? I think it's Twister or something. Anyway, who would do all these things for fun?!

What are the odds of finding someone at your work or in your neighborhood that has a passion for doing the decathlon? Probably the same odds as you have of winning the lottery with out buying a ticket. About 20%.

Well, 1 could ramble on all night about different sports and how they are hard to pursue after college. But it still wouldn't change my point, because I don'i have one.

But if I did have a point, it would be this: College athletics is very special.

For many of us, it is the last time we will ever be able to take our silly games seriously. When the last point has been won and the last goal scored, it's time to start savoring the memories.

So enjoy the time you have and don't worry about when the crowds stop cheering. Besides, in twenty years it won't be how good you were but how good of a story you can tell that matters.

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A survey of330 students deter-mined that Hope students generally disagree with traditional sex roles, and about one-third believe that sexual harassment is a problem on campus.

The telephone survey was done by the 22 students in Dr. Roger Nemeth's Methods of Social Re-search class the week of March 30-April 6 using a computer assisted system. Telephone numbers of all students were randomly selected guaranteeing that every Hope stu-dent had an equal chance of being called.

Because the respondents were representative ofHope'spopulation, Nemeth said, "I am highly confldent that the survey represents the opin-ions of the student body."

The survey was designed with two purposes; to assess student at-titudes on a wide range of women's

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issues, and to assess students' per-ceptions and experiences of sexual harassment on campus.

Students generally disagreed with questions dealing with tradi-tional sex roles. Ninety-three percent of those surveyed approve of mar-ried women working outside of the home even when the husband earns enough to support them.

Also, 95 percent disagree that "women should take care of running their homes and leave the running of the country to men." However, 22 percent still believe that men are better suited for politics, and men are twice as likely to favor men in politics than are women.

The survey discovered that 33 percent of the student body feel that sexual harassment is a problem on campus. Nemeth says there are two ways to look at these results. The first is to be optimistic that one-third of the students do recognize the problem, or one can say that only 33 percent see sexual harassment as a problem.

"I tend to look at the one-third and say there is a problem," said Nemeth.

According the their results, 16 percent of those surveyed have been the target of unwanted sexual ad-vances such as touching, hugging or kissing; and 38 percent have been the target of unwanted sexual at-tention such as letters, visits or pressure for meetings. Men were just as likely as women to be targets of this sort of harassment.

Women, though, are three times more likely than men to be targets of unwanted sexual statements such as unwanted jokes, remarks or ques-tions with sexual implications. Twenty-two percent said they had been affected by these statements.

Due to the recent incident of harassment on campus, this is an important and timely study. Said Nemeth, "It is evident that a large body of students do think there is a problem, however, the majority of students do not think we have a problem.

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In respect to the Olivet student's suggestion to have re-quired courses in ethnic diversity, Jacobson said that people often act negatively to being required to do something, and therefore re-quired courses may not accomplish their intended goal.

"It is good to have courses that focus on ethnic diversity,"

said Jacobson. "It is also impor-tant to offer people attractive op-portunities to learn about diversity through such courses."

Hope will offer several sec-tions of an IDS class this fall covering the issues of ethnic di-versity.

(Portions of this article were takenfromanApril4 article in the Detroit Free Press, and the April 8 AP story in The anchor.)

Continued from pg 3 temships with a office of congress.

Jeff Grate ('92), a biology ma-jor from Sturgis, MI, had his first internship in the office of Senator Tim Wirth (DCO).

While working in the Senator's office. Grate had the chance to assist a legislative correspondent on envi-ronmental issues, answer constitu-ent mail, attend hearings, and per-

form other tasks. He also attended a breakfast

with the senator, where he got to meet the astronauts who had flown on the last space shuttle.

Grate said that although biol-ogy was his major, he applied for the Washington semester because he wantedachance to learn about policy and legal issues involving the envi-ronment.

"Even though it's a political

science semester, you don't have to be a political science major," Grate observed, commenting that many opportunities were open on the pro-gram for people of all majors.

Grate said his advice to future Washington interns would be, "Don't be afraid to ask questions. The only way to learn in this kind of environment is to ask questions."

"There is no substitute for first-hand experience," Grate added.

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ever, the interview went great. And as I was waiting for forty-five minutes for my ride to come pick me up after the interview, I tried to think about the good things that came out of this incident.

The main thing that I thought of was that there is no way in the world that they will ever forget me. Also, they probably think that I am a very dedicated and responsible person. And maybe, if 1 do get the job, they will be inclined to pay me more money because theyloiowthatlwill have car payments to make.

Which leads to the best out-

come of my accident, 1 get a new car. Well, it probably won't be new, but it will be new to me. Although 1 loved my car Jerome, and so did many of my friends, it will be nice to drive something that doesn't have post-ignition syndrome.

So, when you go through the interview process, don't forget Murphy's law; If anything can go wrong it will. Expect the unexpected.

(Columnist's Note: Although some members of the Hope commu-nity may share a common bong—in last week's column I was referring to the common bond shared by all Greek organizations.)

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JULIE MEYER AND JOE KUIPER-Congratulations on your election to Student Congress. Get ready for an exciting and productive year. I 'm looking forward to working with you.-Holly

TO ALL WILD SIB WOMEN who will be living in the SIB House next year; Get ready for a CRAZY and exciting year. I can't wait! Get rested up this summer!

BRAD VOTAVA AND TOM

WER KMAN- -Thanks for all of your

hard work on S tudent Congress. I'm

glad I had the opportunity to work with both of you.-Holly.

GOODBYE to all the red hot Sig-

mas! Haveagreatsummerandmake next year a good one!—CRR

FOOD SERVERS AND PREPA-R A T I O N - S u m m e r posit ions. Clearbrook Golf Club, Saugatuck. Excellent earnings, including free

golf, for full-time workers. Brand

newthisyear. CallJimat857-1766.

TOOURROLEMODELS,CASEY AND WINNIE; We hope that we can

live up lo the examples you have set for us. (And that we can find two others to cany on the tradition once we are gone.) We will miss you very much and wiU remember you with a toast at every 21 Club Meeting! We love you! Your adopted daughters: Holly and Noma.

MARY""Let me say once more that I love you." -your roommie.

LINDA & CARRIE—Only a week and half left! !—M

TO OUR GRADUATING SIBYLLINE SISTERS: Thank you for the time and energy you have

given to our sorority. Your loyalty

to the Sib sorority is appreciated and the values and traditions you stand for will be carried on. We love you and will miss you.

CONGRATULATIONS to Dave Ode, Randy Schregardus and Dana DeVries—winners of the Lambda Pi Eta raffle

KVA-Two months and five days 'til the BIG DAY. Are you ready for this!?! Thanks for helping me

through this year. I love you. See you at the altar. -Your Love.

SDK-The pressure's on. The last

classified ad section of my Hope

College experience and this is my

firs tad to you. I'mashamed. Ican't

handle the stress of coming up with

the perfect expression of my inner

most feelings of the relationship that

we have developed in our several

years together. How do I state in a worthwhile manner what you've meant to me when I have only this one last chance to sum up four years of memories!?! These ads probably

shouldn't even be long and it would

take me several anchor pages to explain my thoughts. I should have spent the 25 cents each seek and

written an ad to you weekly. But I didn't. Oh, the regret! Oh, the stress! I can't stand it. SDK, you're neat -Yourfriende.

BUYING AND SELLING USED BOOKS-includine Science Fiction, Mysteries, Wizard of Oz, Classics, Women's Issues, and others. Cen-ter Aisle Bodes, ETC., 77 East 8lh Street, 393-8090.

EARN EXTRA INCOME--Eam $200-$500 weekly mailing travel brochures. For infotmation send a stamped addressed envelope to: GalaxyTraveI,Inc.P.O.Box 13106. Silver Springs, MD 20911-3106.

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ASSOCIATE EDITOR

PRODUCTION EDITOR

N E W S EDITOR

CAMPLS EDITOR

FEATURES EDITOR

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Steve Kaukonen Scott Runyon

SPORTS EDITOR Cal Hodgson PHOTO EDITOR Rich Blair

Maria Van Baren ASSNT. PHOTO EDITOR David Betlejewski Jill Flanagan Cynthia Tanty Erika Brubaker Matt Buys

C O P Y EDITOR Polly Schuler PAGE DESIGNER Cami Reister

BUSINESS MANAGER Kristin Bauss A D MANAGER Fran Johnson

TYPIST Bret Bussey

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