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Letter to Integrated Coeds Will Be Halted
80th ANNIVERSARY — 12 Hope College, Holland. Miehigan 49423 December 8, 1967
Three Ohstaeles
StudentCenter Still Delayed By Glenn Loom an
anchor News Editor
In an interview in the October 2 1, 1/^66 issue of the anchor Pres-ident Calvin A. VanderWerf sa id that it might be possible for g r o u n d to be b r o k e n f o r t h e S C S C before June, 1967. It is now De-cember, 1967 and g r o u n d h a s yet to be over tu rned .
ACCORDING TO President VanderWerf certain c i rcumstances h a v e changed a n d const ruct ion will h a v e to be de layed.
He sees the first s t umbl ing block as be ing the r i s ing cost of the project . When the idea of a stu-dent cul tural center first m a d e its a p p e a r a n c e on Hope ' s c a m p u s in September, 1964, the project was projected to cost $1 .5 mil-lion. In October of 1966 the total cost of the project w a s raised to $2 mill ion.
Dr. VanderWerf now sees the const ruct ion as cos t ing a p p r o x i -mate ly S2.25 mill ion. This, he sa id , was due to r is ing cost of c o n s t r u c t i o n
A SECOND MAJOR ques t ion is whether or not the Capi ta l F u n d s Drive of the RCA, which w a s begun last year , will reach
its projected goal of $6 mil l ion. Of this $ 6 million Hope w a s to receive $2 mill ion for thecons t ruc-tion of the student center and the addi t ion to the mus ic bui lding. At the present t ime the total n u m b e r of pledges in the c a m p a i g n a re slightly u n d e r $5 million.
Central Reformed Church of G r a n d R a p i d s e a r m a r k e d $ 7 5 , 0 0 0 of its cont r ibut ion to the fund d r ive for the cons t ruc t ion of Dyks t ra Hall. Th is must be sub-tracted f r o m the total a v a i l a b l e for the s tudent cen te r , accord ing to Dr. VanderWerf .
The f inal ques t ion concern ing the const ruct ion of the s tudent center is the fu tu re locat ion of the art depa r tmen t and its effect on the $ 4 0 0 , 0 0 0 g r a n t f r o m the federal g o v e r n m e n t . Dr. VanderWerf sees the possibi l i ty that the#size of the g r an t m a y be reduced. The r e a s o n for this he sa id , w a s t h a t t h e g r a n t was based on the por t ion of the p r o p o s e d center to be used for ins t ruc t ional p u r p o s e s and it is not certain now that the SCSC will h o u s e the ar t depar tment .
I N A D D I T I O N , a cco rd ing to the s t ipu la t ions of the federal g ran t , the m o n e y must be used by J a n u a r y 1, 1969. If const ruct ion
is not begun by then acco rd ing to Dr. VanderWerf , the College will lose the loan .
Despite these hold-ups, Cra ig Hol leman , President of the Student Senate and a member of the stu-dent p l a n n i n g commit tee for the SCSC, said that cons t ruc t ion could begin immedia te ly if f u n d s were m a d e avai lab le .
Bob T h o m p s o n , ano the r mem-ber of the committee, stated that the revised blue p r in t s h a v e been received f rom the architect. Ac-co rd ing to T h o m p s o n , the new blue print is d r a w n with the ex-clusion of the art depa r tmen t . Be-c a u s e of this the bowl ing al leys a n d the l a r g e m u l t i - p u r p o s e r o o m h a s been included a g a i n a n d the s tudent recreat ion a r ea and the snack ba r h a v e been en la rged .
W I T H T H E E X C L U S I O N o f
the art depa r tmen t the ques t ion of the federal g r an t takes o n a new perspective. T h o m p s o n said that the federal g r a n t could still be retained if the mul t i -pu rpose r o o m s in the p r o p o s e d SCSC were used 50 percent of the t ime for educa t iona l pu rposes . Mak ing this possible is the m a j o r concern of the commit tee at this time.
By Tom Hildebrandt anchor editor
The letter that h a s been sent to H o p e w o m e n be ing considered for r o o m m a t e s of w o m e n of other cul tures will not be sent out in the future, a c c o r d i n g to President Cal-vin A. VanderWerf .
In a n n o u n c i n g this. President VanderWerf sa id that " t h e letter was cer ta in ly sent out of construc-tive motives , but had undes i r ab l e ove r tones . "
A C C O R D I N G T O Dean of Women Isla Van E e n e n a a m , whose office sent the letter, they were sent to " s p a r e the feelings of a n y w o m e n of ano the r cul-rure who mignt o therwise be placed with a student who does not want to r o o m with a pe r son of a different b a c k g r o u n d . "
F o r the past three weeks, the Student Senate has been debat-ing this letter and other pract ices described by the g r o u p as "dis -c r i m i n a t o r y . "
ON NOV. 18, Sena to r Dick Kooi p r o p o s e d a mot ion a sk ing that " a b i n d i n g pol icy statement be issued by the p r o p e r officials and by the p r o p e r s tudent-facul ty a n d / o r facul ty commit tee p ro -hibit ing d i sc r imina t ion of a n y sort on the b a s i s of race o r color; that the President issue o r d e r s to the effect that references to race or color a r e to be stricken as cri-teria for admi t t ance to hous ing units a n d for selection of room-mates . " This was passed .
The next week the mot ion was b rough t up for recons idera t ion on the g r o u n d s that the mot ion would d o no good for the cam-pus. At that meeting it was re-ferred to the Senate na t i ona l and social b e h a v i o r commit tee for s tudy.
A T 'I H E L A S T Senate meeting A1 Pederson , c h a i r m a n of this committee, presented a mot ion s imilar to K o o i ' s that was passed by the Senate. This mot ion in-cluded c o m m e n d a t i o n for the d r o p p i n g of ques t ions abou t race f rom the app l i ca t ion for ad-miss ion a n d the d i scon t inu ing of the pract ice of send ing the letter to those w o m e n who might r o o m with women of other cultures.
" T h e Senate 's q u a r r e l with the letter," sa id Dean V a n E e n e n a a m , " is that it is d i sc r imina to ry . This was the far thest th ing f r o m m y m i n d . "
Mrs. Van E e n a n a a m stated that r o o m m a t e s for f r e s h m a n women a re chosen on the bas i s of a letter to the Dean by each f r e s h m a n
w o m a n in which the w o m a n tries to descr ibe her pe r sona l i t y char-acteristics. T h o s e indicat ing a n interest in other cul tures in s o m e way, such as p l a n s to enter the Peace C o r p s or an interest in i n t e rna t i ona l re la t ions , a re sent a letter a s k i n g them if they would like to b r o a d e n their hor izons by r o o m i n g with a s tudent f rom ano the r culture.
D E A N V A N E E N A N A A M n o t
ed that the letter is sent to those who might r o o m with overseas s tudents as well a s neg ro students. She added tha t this h a s b e e n d o n e as l o n g as she h a s been Dean of Women and that she h a s received no react ion abou t it until the re-cent Senate debate .
The Dean said that it never occurred to her to send a s imilar letter to the n e g r o a n d overseas s tudents until a recipient of the
(Con t inued on p a g e 2)
Viet Referendum, Faculty Forum Are Next Week
T h e issues of the d ra f t and the war in Vie tnam will become ani-mated c t H o p e next week with a s tudent r e fe rendum and a facul ty f o r u m d i scuss ing the war in Viet-n a m .
The facul ty f o r u m will be held next Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Snow Aud i to r ium and the referen-d u m will be held on F r i d a y .
The r e fe rendum is to be held in c o o p e r a t i o n with the Na t i ona l Student Assoc ia t ion and will, with s imi la r r e f e r e n d u m s at other col-eges a n d universi t ies de termine NSA policy on the subject. Bal-lo t ing will t a k e place all d a y Fri-d a y in the Van Raal te lobby.
Two reso lu t ions a re to be voted on. The first, dea l ing with the war in Vie tnam, p r o p o s e s immed-iate cessat ion of b o m b i n g in N o r t h a n d South Vie tnam, t e rmina t ion of offensive mi l i ta ry o p e r a t i o n s and recogni t ion of the Na t iona l L ibe ra t ion F r o n l
The second resolut ion is con-cerned with the draf t and advo-cates the immedia te abol i t ion of the present selective service sys-tem. T h e resolut ion opposes a n y system of forced service to the gove rnmen t .
The pane l of faculty m e m b e r s will include H a r o l d Mikle, Dr. J o h n Bar low and Dr. David Clark .
Slater Questions Criticism
Saga Food Service to Bring New Programs to Hope By George A r w a d y
a n c h o r Associate Editor
S a g a F o o d Service, which will offer the College a var iety of new services, will replace Slater F o o d Service over the Chr i s tmas vaca-tion. As the new c o m p a n y takes over , Slater leaves ques t ion ing whether all the criticism a imed at it was justified.
P E R H A P S T H E GKfcJATEST c h a n g e which S a g a will b r i ng will be the o p p o r t u n i t y for non -boa rd -ing students to p u r c h a s e s ingle meals in the college dining halls. "S tuden t s eat ing off c a m p u s will just p a y the go ing ra te per m e a l , " sa id Robert De Young , Dean of Students.
Other new p r o g r a m s of S a g a would involve the extension of the h o u r s of the Kletz. The cof-fee shop would c o m e under com-plete jur isdict ion of the new c o m p a n y . Dean De Young said that other entirely new food ser-vices will be offered, but sa id that these can not be a n n o u n c e d at the present t i m e
E L D O N A N K R U M , m a n a g e r of the college Slater opera t ion , ques t ioned much of the criticism which h a s been leveled at his c o m p a n y ' s service. He said tha t the qua l i ty and var ie ty of f ood offered b y Slater was higher this yea r t h a n ever before.
" I d o not feel the food is the r e a s o n for the c h a n g e , " he said
"If n was the tood . we wouldn ' t h a v e the n u m b e r of s tudents eat ing here that we h a v e . "
As f a r as p r o m o t i n g a sense of college c o m m u n i t y , Mr. A n k r u m said that his c o m p a n y had tried to do every th ing it could to se rve the College, "We bend over back-w a r d s as far as the c a m p u s is conce rned , " he said.
IN A S T A T E M E N T a p p e a r i n g in last week's anchor , the Ad-minis t ra t ion p ra i sed the "con-structive, respons ib le and states-m a n l i k e act ion of the Student Sen-ate'" in eva lua t i ng the Slater Ser-vice and offer ing sugges t ions . President Calvin A. VanderWerf especially noted the work of the Senate d in ing hall committee of last sp r ing .
Mr. A n k r u m claimed that he had had no coope ra t i on with the Senate commit tee this yea r a n d had been unab le to a r r a n g e a meeting with the commit tee to dis-cuss w a y s to i m p r o v e the food service. " I was the one who had to t ake a su rvey to find what the s tudents w a n t e d , " he said.
C L A R E N C E H A N D L O G T E N ,
Business M a n a g e r and P e a n De Young agreed that the s ta tement last week h a d not considered the Senate 's lack of action this se-mester. " T o m y knowledge, the commit tee h a s no t met f o r m a l l y this y e a r , " sa id the Dean.
" T h e y were qui te e lusive," add-ed Mr. Hand log t en . "We weren' t
real ly s q u a r e with Slater on th i s . " Student Senate President C r a i g
Hol leman said that the commit tee h a d done noth ing with the food service this year .
"I DON'T T H I N K the food was really that b a d , " said Dean De Young. " I t got to be p o p u l a r to criticize it and a l t h o u g h we d o n ' t do th ings just because stu-dents compla in , we couldn ' t ig-n o r e the fac t . "
Mr. Hand log ten put down much of the p rob lem with Slater just with a lack of " s p a r k l e " in m a n y aspects of the ope ra t ion .
President VanderWerf sa id that "i t was a d i s a p p o i n t m e n t to us that so few jun io r s a n d sen io r s eat on . " He said that there were " u n i v e r s a l l y enthusiast ic r epor t s on S a g a " at the other colleges contacted. M a n y G L C A and MIAA schools use Saga . Both S a g a and Slater a re na t ionwide o rgan iza t ions .
The President sa id that he h o p e d m o r e s tudents would eat on cam-p u s with the new food service. He observed tha t " the re comes a t ime when you must s a y wha t is in the best interest of the College and s tudents . "
S A G A I S E X P E C T E D to cost the College m o r e t h a n Slater did , acco rd ing to Mr. H a n d l o g t e n , but the President sa id that " w e ' r e hop-ing it will be a f inanc ia l s t and-of f . "
Exact f igures on the cost per m e a l of the two services were im-
poss ible to obtain . N o ra ise in the $ 5 0 0 per year b o a r d fee is anticip a ted.
Most s tudents on c a m p u s seem-ed to react f a v o r a b l y to theswitch, a l t hough m a n y ques t ioned wheth-er the new service would real ly be do ing a much better j ob than Slater in the long run .
T H E S E A R E the last two weeks for the food service which has , served the c a m p u s for over ten years . Mr. A n k r u m sa id that he had ins t ruct ions f r o m his super -iors to " g o out in s tyle" and sa id that the c u s t o m a r y C h r i s t m a s din-ner would be served a g a i n this year with a tu rkey to be ca rved at every table.
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S L A T E R TO SAGA - As of Jan. 1, Slater F o o d Service will no longer be feeding the students at Hope. Saga F o o d Service Inc. of Michigan, who will replace Slater's, p lans on m a n y new inno-vat ions in the school 's food program.
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Women Suppressed
Mr. Clean Ignores Men's Dorms By Pat Canfidd
The doub le - s t anda rd p rob lem on Hope 's c a m p u s has been hashed , rehashed and occasion-ally even talked out df existence However, there is one area, a lmost a lways ignored, in which a real doub le - s t anda rd p rob lem exists --the matter of housekeeping.
Hope women find they mus t for -feit va luab le time f rom their s tudy and social activities to m a k e their r o o m s spic and s p a n for the weekly surpr i se r o o m inspection. Men, on the other hand, only h a v e two or three year ly r o o m inspections which a r e announced one month a h e a d via bulletin b o a r d s . One d a y before, male R.A.s pe r sona l ly visit each stu-dent 's r oom, gently reminding them a g a i n of the impending in-spection and even a id ing in the limited clean-up activities.
WOMEN RECEIVE an impres-sive and f o r m i d a b l e inspection slip with the a p p r o p r i a t e g r a d e and comment checked: A--room neat and order ly ; H-could De bet-ter; C--your room hurts but the beds are m a d e and F - y o u r room is neat and order ly but the beds aren ' t m a d e ( For pluses add .3:
for minuses subtract .3) . Each F in r o o m inspection accumula tes a demerit for the girls.
The infrequent room inspections given to Hope men a r e not g rad-ed because, as one second-floor Kollen H.A. sa id , " W e want our boys to be mot ivated b y success, not f a i l u r e " Hand-writ ten com-ments m a y be left in the r o o m s but these must conta in only en-c o u r a g i n g r e m a r k s such as, " Y o u r room was a treat to in-spect. T h a n k you for con-siderately shov ing your over-flowing a s h t r a y s , empty and half-empty bottles into thecloset before 1 inspected. L o v e your R.A."
BEFORE HOMECOMING or Parents Weekend Open Houses, girls a r e subjected to special pass-
fail r o o m inspections. Housemo-thers, wea r ing white gloves, scru-tinize each r o o m careful ly, check-ing for the least smidgen of dust. (Dur ing the inspection tour, co-eds remain at attention, answer-ing yes m a ' a m or no m a ' a m wnen spoken to by the house-mother . ) Any girl fa i l ing one of these inspections receives five de-merits, wears a "1 was a P i g a t t h e House of Voorhees" (or the
appropriate dorm) and must sub mit to other unspeakable tortures.
For open-houses in mens ' d o r m s , it is the visi tors who suffer. Anv visi tor caugh t s a y i n g nas tv th ings a b o u t r o o m condi t ions is app rehended a n d swiftly removed f r o m the premises. Some com-ments o v e r h e a r d at a recent Kol-len Hall open-house: (visi tor po in t ing to l aye r of dust o n f l o o r ) "Gee, I didn ' t know you h a d wall-to-wall ca rpe t ing . " " L o o k , it only takes three tries to shut your closet d o o r . " " S o n , I think you ought to b o r r o w a shovel f r o m the kids across the hall and clean your r o o m . "
A L T H O U G H T H E housekeep-ing requirements for ma le and fe-male Hope students a re lopsided, there is a va l id ra t iona le behind the doub le - s t andard . As reported by the Dean of Men, "Actua l ly , since men on c a m p u s have no hours , they a r e not in their r o o m s enough to mess them u p . "
New Course Seen
BALD SOPRANO - "The Bald Soprano," a play by Eugene lonesco is being presented tonight at 8 p.m. in the Little Theater. The cast made up of primarily local high school students is being directed by Miss Ann Slaughter. The play, which was written as a parody on an English grammer book, which lonesco used to learn English, points out man's inability to communicate with his
fellow man.
Mock Convention Set For March Letter to White Girls Arouses Senate Debate
(Cont inued f r o m p a g e 1 )
letter " k i n d l y sugges ted" the idea to her early this fall .
F r e s h m a n L o r r a i n e Price, a ne-gro, reported that she and Sena-tor Shirley Lawrence had talked with President VanderWerf about the letter late in October. At that t ime the President g a v e as su rances that the letter would not be sent out in the f u t u r e
AWS P R E S I D E N T Carol Schakel said that the fact that this letter had been sent was pre-sented to her for action by the AWS shor t ly before the ques t ion
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c a m e up in the Student Sena te She said that , hav ing learned that it had a l r e a d y been acted upon by the Adminis t ra t ion , she forgot the matter.
Pederson reported that his com-mittee could not find a n y evidence of d iscr iminat ion on Hope ' s cam-pus, past or present, other than this letter. He said that the ra-t ionale for the motion is that hav-ing someth ing on p a p e r would be useful to the College in the fu ture and that there was a definite need for such a policy statement.
Koo i added that, a l though he had not seen a copy of the letter before he presented his motion to the Senate, he felt that there was a need to h a v e this policy written down. This would avo id h a v i n g indiv idual p rob l ems solved as they arise, with no th ing to pre-vent them f r o m occur r ing in the first p l a c e
MISS PRICE observed that , while the Senate was consider ing the motion, a la rge ma jo r i t y of the negro students on c a m p u s held a meeting to determine how the negro students themselves felt on the quest ion. Only pne of the m o r e than twenty s tudents present objected to the Senate motion.
The poli t ical sc iencedepar tment h a s a n n o u n c e d an a l l -day con-ference on the Presidential nomi-na t ing system in the United States. Over 5 0 0 western Michigan high school s tudents will attend thepro-g r a m on T h u r s d a y , March 28.
The conference will center a r o u n d a mock nomina t i ng con-vention, in which students will actual ly elect a convent ion chair-m a n , secre tary and other officials, and then nomina t e a cand ida te for President and Vice-President.
Political science m a j o r s and other Hope students with an active interest in political science will serve to answer quest ions and present ideas at the convent ion . The o rgan iza t iona l set-up will fol-low that oi the Republ ican Party,
and each high school will repn^ sent a state of the un ion and will h a v e the s a m e n u m b e r of votes as that state has at the Republi-c a n conven t i on
T H E MORNING SESSION wUl fea ture as keynote speaker , U.S. C o n g r e s s m a n Guy Vander Jag t . The rest of the m o r n i n g will be devoted to adop t ion of the p a r t y p la t form and caucuss ing .
In the a f te rnoon, students will f o rma l ly nomina t e and second candida tes for President of the United States. Brief speeches by each candida te will be permitted, and bal lo t ing will be held in the
s a m e m a n n e r as at the nat ional convention.
Political science depar tment c h a i r m a n Alvin Vander Bush al-
College Church Sponsors Coffee House" Sunday 44
This S u n d a y at 11 a .m. the Hope College College Church is s p o n s o r i n g a "coffee h o u s e " wor-ship service in the Kletz.
According to Ken Nienhuis , member of the p l a n n i n g com-mit tee " T h e service is designed for people who want to experience a different type of rel igious at-mosphere for worship than is found in the chape l . " According to Nienhuis this is a lso the r e a s o n it is being held at the s a m e t ime as the College Church serv ice
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Speak ing at this week's "cof-fee house" house service will be Eddie Gist, a s o p h o m o r e f rom New York City. Gist will speak on the subject of "Sensi t iv i ty ." Fol lowing his ta lk, d iscussion will be held over donu t s and coffee
Nienhuis said that the idea of the coffee house was obta ined f rom a s imilar type of worsh ip service held at The Church of the Savior in Washing ton D.C.
In comment ing on this experi-ment, C h a p l a i n Hil legonds said , "If this is just a g immick we should get rid of it immediately. But it should p r o v e to be an en-l ightening a p p r o a c h to worsh ip . "
Dress is in formal , accord ing to Nienhuis , and a s imi la r meeting is being p lanned fo r the fol lowing Sunday.
sn announced a special three-hour seminar in the president ial nom-inating process to be ottered din-ing the s u m m e r of 1968 at H o p e Since 1968 is a president ia l nom-ination and election year , the de-par tment hopes to t ake a d v a n t a g e of the convent ion pe r iods for ac-tual involvment in the Republican nat ional convent ion.
S T U D E N T S IN the seminar p r o g r a m will m a k e a s t u d y o f p r e -convention politics, the o rgan iza -tion of f inance of n o m i n a t i n g con-* ventions, and then t ravel to Miami for the GOP convent ion. They will talk with delegates and evalua te the delegate 's at t i tudes towards their role in and the significance of the na t iona l convent ion.
They will par t ic ipa te in cau-cusses, at tend conven t ion com-mittee meetings a n d assess the convent ion a t m o s p n e r e
At the beg inn ing of the fall se-mester each student will present a j o u r n a l with a descr ip t ion of the convent ion activities, as well as his research and j u d g m e n t s con-cerning the n o m i n a t i n g process.
Vandenberg is Named as New Admissions Hep.
William V a n d e n b e r g has been appointed Hope College 's Eastern Admiss ions Represen ta t ive In the near fu ture he will m o v e to New Jersey where he will h a n d l e public relat ions and act as admis s ions counsellor for the a rea .
V a n d e n b e r g g r a d u a t e d f rom Hope a n d ho lds a degree in busi-ness admin i s t r a t ion and in secon-d a r y educat ion. He served in the U.S. Mar ine Corps for three years and has taught at Ottawa Hills High School in G r a n d Rapids.
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Senate Proposes Amendment Blue Ribbon Committee To Study Religious Life
A p r o p o s e d amendment to the Senate consti tution, a resolut ion concerning discr iminat ion on Hope ' s c a m p u s and a new pro-cedure unde r which resolut ions must be presented to the Senate one week in advance ol their dis-cussion were passed at the Stu-dent Senate meeting M o n d a y night.
Za ide Pixley presented a pro-posed amendmen t to the constitu-tion stat ing, " A n y student a l r eady prosecuted b y state or municipal authori t ies cannot also be pen-alized by the Student Court for the s a m e offense unless said offense occurs on college p rope r ty or at a specific college function. The Court mair f tafns the right to in-terview the student. If state o r municipal authori t ies decide not to act and release the student to the school fo r discipline, the Court m a y a s s u m e or iginal jurisdic-t ion ."
THIS A M E N D M E N T is an at-tempt to r emove the possibil i ty of a student being placed in double j e o p a r d y . The Senate passed the p roposa l with the necessary two-thirds vote. The p r o p o s a l will be b rough t before the entire student body. In order to become a pa r t of the constitution, two-thirds of the students vot ing must a p p r o v e it.
Al Pederson, representing the na t ional a n d social awareness committee, presented a p roposa l whic^ will put into writing the posit ion of the Senate concerning racial d iscr iminat ion at H o p e
The p r o p o s a l states " T h e Stu-dent Senate requests that a bind-ing policy statement be issued by the p rope r officials and by the p rope r student-faculty a n d / o r faculty committee prohib i t ing dis-cr iminat ion of anv sort on the bas is of race, creed, color or na-tional origin. Specifically these
shou ld not be considered as cri-teria for admis s ion to the co l lege for admiss ion to hous ing units, or for selection of r o o m m a t e s . "
I N ADDITION, " T h e Senate c o m m e n d s the u s a g e of the new appl icht ion for admiss ion in which -there is no ment ion of race or color. We further commend the order b y the President that the letters of 'Request for room-mate of another culture and race' be d iscont inued."
Shirley Lawrence asked the Sena tors to consider how this pro-posa l would help N e g r o students on campus . She asked them to careful ly consider the issue before vot ing and to keep it as unemo-t ional as poss ib l e
Claudine Moorepo in ted out that N e g r o students a re look ing for someth ing written down. Both mo-tions passed the Sena te
President Craig Hol leman in-formed Senators that any resolu-tion must be presented a week in a d v a n c e of its discussion. If this is impossible, it m a y be b rough t before the executive committee d u r i n g the week or receive a two-thi rds vote of the Senate and be discussed immediately.
Mark Vander L a a n , speak ing for the Cultural Affairs Committee presented several possible events for next semester. Tickets for the Simon and Garfunkel Concert will only be ava i l ab le in a block, he said. It is hoped , he reported, that there will be a conference next semester including speakers Dick Grego ry"and Detroit m a y o r •Jerome C a v a n a u g h . The com-mittee is also looking into p l ans for h a v i n g Pete Seeger on c a m p u s next spr ing.
P E T E SMITH reported that the Senate educat ional policies com-mittee would like a po l l t aken on the ca lendar changes suggested for semester break and pre-exam
Combined Choirs Present 'Messiah' Thursday Night
Tjie thirty-seventh pe r fo rmance of George Fredrick Hande l ' s " M e s s i a h " will t ake place next T h u r s d a y at 8 p .m. in Dimnent Memoria l Chapel .
Symphonette To Present Concert With Hope Band
A concert will be presented joint-ly by the Hope College Symphon-ette and Band, both under the direction of Robert Cecil, on Sun-d a y at 4 p.m. in Dimnent Mem-orial Chapel.
The symphone t t e will begin the concert with " S y m p h o n y No. 2 6 " by W. A. M o z a r t , " Elegy for Small Orches t ra" by Alvin Ktler, the " R u m a n i a n Folk Dances" by B e la Bar tok.
After intermission, the band will present " C o n c e r t o in B Flat Ma-jor for Two T r u m p e t s " by An-tonio Vivaldi , which was tran-scribed for b a n d by Philip J. Lang. This selection will be fol-
lowed by " V a r i a t i o n s on a Kor-ean Folk Song , " composed by J o h n Barnes C h a n c e The pro-g r a m will be concluded with scenes f rom " T h e L o u v r e " (based on Ancient Airs) by N o r m a n Dello Joio.
The " M e s s i a h " was or ig inal ly performed annua l ly at Hope, but now is per formed every other year . It will be per formed by-selected members of Hope 's or-chestra and members of both the College C h o r u s and Chapel Choir .
Dr. Robert C a v a n a u g h will con-duct with Robert Ritsema as asso-ciate conductor in cha rge of the orchest ra . Roger Davis will be the organis t .
Miss Joyce Morr ison, a member of Hope College's music depart-ment, will be the s o p r a n o soloist. The contra l to solos will be sung b y Miss Evelyn Wood f rom the staff of the_ Universi ty of Illinois. Robert Johnson , a tenor f rom Chicago, will be featured as will Richard Schreiber, the ba s s soloist.
Rev. William Hil legonds will give the invocat ion before theper-f o r m a n c e No admiss ion will be cha rged , but an offering will be taken.
breaks . He asked for a poll that would deal with the impor tance of mid-term grades .
Ba rb Timmer said that , " the Senate has given the committee enough val id r ea sons without tak-j ig a pol l . " Smith replied that the addit ional in fo rmat ion would be helpful in reach ing a decision.
The athletics committee has asked that the Carnegie-Schouten Gymnas ium be opened all h o u r s of the day . This mot ion will be b rough t Up at the next meet-ing.
DICK K O O I r e m i n d e d Senators of the Nat iona l Student Associa-tion referendum on the war in Vietnam and the draft . The referendum will be held this week-end.
Barb T immer asked the Senate food serv icecommit tee toes tabl i sh closer links with tWe new food service than existed with Slater food service so that the Senate will be informed
By Peg Yntema anchor Reporter
A few weeks ago , C h a p l a i n Wil-l iam C. Hi l legonds m a d e a pro-posal concern ing chapel that would require f reshmen to attend twice a week, sophomores once a week and would leaveupperc lass-men free to m a k e their own d e cision concerning chapel at-t e n d a n c e
As a result ot tms and of fac-ulty a p p r o v a l of the p r o p o s a l a l lowing exemption on g r o u n d s of conscientious objection. Presi-dent Calvin A. VanderWerf has appointed a committee to s tudy the spir i tual life on c a m p u s f rom the s tandpoin t of the a ims and goa l s of the col lege Invi tat ions for membersh ip were sent out M o n d a y to selected student and faculty representatives.
Several College Trustees, two a r ea churchmen, and members
Registration Altered for
The advis ing and regis t ra t ion procedure for next semester is being conducted in a revised m anner .
Students a re confer r ing with their faculty adv i so r s at the p r e sent time. As each schedule is com-pleted, the faculty member takes a copy and is responsible for turn-it in.
Mark Santiago is Victor in Frosh Speech Contest
F r e s h m a n J. Mark San t i ago , won first place hono r s in the fall semester William J. Meengs Speech Contest.
The contest, sponso red by Hol-land bus inessman William J. Meengs, was between represent<i-tives f rom the 15 sections of the College's f u n d a m e n t a l s of speech cou r se Competi t ion is held each semester.
Second p lace in the competit ion was won b y L o r r a i n e T. Price, f l so a f r e shman .
Studems par t i c ipa t ing in the contest were N a n c y Cogdill , Jen-nifer Kas tner , Debbie Moore, Patti Smith, William Welty, Sha ron Wil-lard, Cra ig Neckers, J u d y Over-beek, Richard Pa tmos , Jon Smoker and Doug Westveer.
Judges in p r e l im ina ry rounds were Dr. William Schrier, M. Har-old Mikle, Donald Finn and Geo-rge Ralph of the Hope speech faculty and s tudents S h a r o n Woz-niak and Al Verschure who are both speech m a j o r s .
In the final found the judges were Dr. William H. Bos, chair-man of the depar tment of speech Dr. Edward Brand of the Eng-lish depar tment , J o h n Stewart of the history depar tment and col-lege Chap la in Rev. William Hil-legonds.
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Planning Is Next Term
When all the tentative schedules h a v e been handed in, the total number of students who wish to t ake each section will be com-piled by the office of the Associ-ate Dean for Academic Affairs. Some sections will h a v e m o r e t h a n their limits will permit and cri-teria must be established for d e te rmining who will be allowed to t ake them.
"We haven ' t determined how it will work yet. We don' t know how great the problem will be , " said Dr. Robert Riekse, Associate Dean.
"We ' re t ry ing to be as fair as poss ible ," he continued. " P r o b a -bly the upper classes will have a crack at the classes first, in al-phabet ical order. There is n o w a y you m a k e the system perfect. We just a re t ry ing to advance a sys-tem so the right people get in the right classes."
Dr. Riekse said that thes tudents would be informed after the holi-d a y s how the exact pick-up of ca rds would work.
of the Adminis t ra t ion a r e also on this committee which is headed b y H u g h De Pree, c h a i r m a n of the Boa rd of Trustees.
T h e membersh ip of this commit-tee is diverse, accord ing to Dr. VanderWerf, because " t h e time has come when we can best ga in real u n d e r s t a n d i n g and mutua l i ty on the whole ques t ion b y open d ia logue between representat ives f rom each consti tuency of the col-lege c o m m u n i t y . "
The ques t ion under discussiorT is not conlined to the merits of compu l so ry chapel , but is a b r o a d look at how we can utilize our resources to help students develop a meaningfu l spir i tual l i fe
However, accord ing to William Vander Lugt, Dean for Academic-Affairs at the college, " C h a p l a i n Hi l legond 's" p r o p o s a l will not go into effect this year because the Board of Trustees voted to retain compu l so ry chapel last J u n e Their next meeting is aga in in June, and since the final decision rests with them, it won' t be pos-sible to have a n y c h a n g e before next year.
Little Theater Scene of Upstairs Basement Friday
The Palette a n d M a s q u e o f Hope College will put on a p r o g r a m called " B a s e m e n t U p s t a i r s " next F r i d a y at 8 p .m. The entire stu-dent b o d y is invited to attend and there will be no admis s ion c h a r g e
The p r o g r a m will consist of a two-man review presented b y George Ralph a n d Donn Finn of the speech depar tment a l ong with v a r i o u s ofher skits.
According to Mr. Ralph, most of the material fo r the p r o g r a m is or ig ina l but s o m e of it is bor-rowed.
The " B a s e m e n t U p s t a i r s , " which is put on every month, will h a v e a h u m o r o u s note this month , according to Mr. Ralph.
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O n S o n n d a n d F u r y
A N U M B E R OF S T O R I E S a p p e a r i n g in this issue point to a t rend that has or shou ld become d i s tu rb ing
to the s tudents of H o p e College. As the year p rogresses , it is becoming increas ingly evident that the Student Senate is not d o i n g its j o b a s the voice for the student b o d y on
this c a m p u s . For three weeks, the Senate h a s been
d e b a t i n g whether or not to ask to r a policy s tatement p roh ib i t ing d i sc r imina t ion on the bas i s of race, color , creed or na t iona l o r ig in in all phases of c a m p u s life. T h e impetus lor this discussion was a letter sent by the office of the D e a n of Women to students who migh t r o o m with w o m e n of
o ther cul tures.
Th i s deba te can on ly be seen as an i l lustrat ion of the Senate fa l l ing d o w n on die j ob . It is completely out oi touch with
the realities of this c a m p u s and for a num-ber of r e a s o n s should never h a v e been
b r o u g h t up in the w a y it was. First, the pa r t i c ipan t s in the d iscuss ion
exhibited a total i gno rance oi the facts
ol the s i tua t ion. T h e o r ig ina l mot ion , pro-
posed by S e n a t o r Dick Kooi , indicates that he was not a w a r e that a s s u r a n c e s had a l r e a d y been given tha t the letter would not a g a i n be sent, since it asked that the letter be d iscont inued. K o o i himsell a d m i t s to never h a v i n g taken the t ime to read a copy of the letter and thus become in fo rmed
first h a n d a b o u t the subject.
Second, the entire a f fa i r is a total waste of time. Al Pederson and K o o i a c k n o w l e d g e that there is not now n o r ever h a s been a
pract ice that could becal led d i s c r im ina to ry except this letter. To ask lor something written to avo id fu tu re difficulties is an ex-press ion of d o u b t a b o u t the C o l l e g e s per-
sistence in the C hris t ian principles on which it is founded . With fai th in o u r s t a n d i n g
by these pr inciples , we can on ly see the mot ion a s to ta l ly unnecessa ry .
TH I R D , I T S H O W E D a w a n t o n dis-r e g a r d lor the feelings ol the Dean of Women. T h e letter in ques t ion
was obv ious ly sent out ol absolu te ly
benevolent mot ives , il s o m e w h a t misguid-
ed ones. Br ing ing the s i tua t ion out in the open weeks after it had been settled was no th ing but e m b a r r a s s i n g a n d constituted a lack of d i p l o m a c y that would not be
tolerated in any other a r e a of c a m p u s
g o v e r n m ait . T h e superf lui ty of die mot ion is es-
pecially t ragic when it is realized that the t ime taken for deba te could h a v e been well used lor other things.
Both Director ol Bus iness Affairs Clar-ence H a n d l o g t e n and Food Service Direc-tor E ldon A n k r u m h a v e indicated that the Senate has not been especially effective in c o m m u n i c a t i n g the wishes ol the student b o d y to the Slater o r g a n i z a t i o n . It was difficult to get the p r o p e r commit tee to
meet, let a l one to h a v e it accompl i sh some-
th ing construct ive. This is a b reach of a trust . Sena to r s
were elected to i m p r o v e the s tudent life at H o p e College. D e b a t i n g a closed issue in-stead of seeking to i m p r o v e services to s tudents does not seem to be the most ef-fective step to reach that goa l . Motions to i m p r o v e this in the fu tu re d o not blot out
pas t negligence. The Kletz, for the pas t two yea r s open
at the request of the Student Senate Presi-
dent , has remained closed this year . The Admin i s t ra t ion has p romised that consul-tat ion on the subject will t a k e place, but
present President C r a i g Ho l l eman has yet to indicate t ha t these t a lk s a re even p l anned .
OT H E R E X A M P L E S o f o v e r s i g h t s c a n be found . The H o p e - H o l l a n d - H a m -
let dr ive a w o k e f rom an unusua l ly pro-longed sleep on ly recendy. N o report on the status of the p r o p o s a l to ga in a b r e a k
before or alter l inal e x a m s h a s been given.
This s i tua t ion c a n n o t be allowed to continue. T h e s t u d e n t s ol this college elected
the Sena to r s lor a p u r p o s e and spend
m o n e y to h a v e t h e m accompl i sh someth ing . A successful H o m e c o m i n g o r Mom a n d
D a d ' s D a y is not sufficient.
Strides in the pas t show that there is impor t an t work that mus t be d o n e by the Senate. Hopefu l ly , the ques t ion ol why the Senate is not d o i n g tha t work will not h a v e to be answered o r asked in the near future.
Readers Speak Out
Dear Editor . . . In order to avoid a n y misunders tand-
ing, I should like to point out that the assessment of v a r i o u s academic depart-ments reported on the f ront p a g e of the anchor of last week was discussed on a quant i ta t ive, and not on a qual i ta t ive, basis .
Much of the most inspired and in-spir ing teaching on the c a m p u s has been and is being conducted in the depar tments mentioned. Students recognized this of-ficially by vo t ing Professor Vande rbush the recipient of the first a n n u a l H.O.P. E. a w a r d for dis t inguished teaching and by nomina t i ng Dr. Dykstra and Dr. Kenneth Weller for this high hono r every year since its inception.
C E R T A I N L Y T H E S E men a re a m o n g the very finest teachers on our campus . To s tudy under them, and other members of the depar tments mentioned, is a rich in-tellectual and personal experience. Gradu-ate m a j o r s f r o m their depa r tmen t s have dist inguished themselves as leaders in their profess ions and have m a d e highly suc-cessful records in leading g r a d u a t e s e h o o l s in our nat ion. In addi t ion, these teachers h a v e mades ign i f i can t cont r ibut ions to cam-pus life and the welfare of s tudents fa r t r anscending depar tmenta l lines.
The discussion a rose out of the c h a r g e that certain depar tments a re unders ta f fed relative to others; the- point is that the ad-minis t ra t ion clearly recognizes this quan t i -tat ive imba lance and is work ing earnest ly with the depar tments involved in a n effort to correct it.
LAST YEAR, the depar tments of bus-iness admin i s t r a t ion and economics, phi-losophy, political science, a n d soc io logy were all engaged in joint efforts with the admin is t ra t ion to add addi t ional staff mem-bers. For at least one opening in each of the four depar tments , we were unable , des-pite our best efforts, to hire a pe rmanen t , full-time teacher who met our qual i f ica t ions .
As a result, each of the depa r tmen t s is unders taffed with respect to p e r m a n e n t staff members . In order to fill the b reach , fine t e m p o r a r y or par t - t imeteachers were hired, or the teaching was distr ibuted over the exis t ing staff. Still, the work l o a d (includ-
ing teaching, academic adv is ing , committee ass ignments , and other services to the college) of a ma jo r i t y of the members of these depar tments is excessive.
The point which I wished to m a k e was that the admin i s t r a t ion clearly recog-nizes this fact and should and will give top priori ty to these and a n y s imilar ly understaffed depar tments in the hir ing of pe rmanent faculty members for the future.
C.A. VanderWerf
.Just a bit of " f i l l ing" for some g a p s in your s tory involving sociology last week.
Excellence should ever be striven for -and will never be fully at tained. We are s tr iving in sociology. Results? Last year Hope had the only soc io logy student in the state of Michigan as a Michigan Scho-lar . Calvin, Albion, K a l a m a z o o , Alma, which a re the on ly other schools involved in this p r o g r a m with the Universi ty of Michigan, had none. This year we h a v e another sociology Michigan Scholar . This is excellence of a kind.
N E X T FALL WE will send three ma-jors to g r a d u a t e school in socio logy - the largest number in Hope ' s history, I be-lieve. F ive more of the seniors will go to g r a d u a t e school in social work. This is another " f i r s t . " Two m o r e a r e semina ry bound. Ten to g r a d u a t e school out of 18 seniors isn't a bad percentage. Perhaps this too is excellence - m a y b e the best per-centage in the col lege
Part of the p r e p a r a t i o n of Jim Skiv-ington for g r a d u a t e school is his teaching the in t roductory ' a b course with Pat Beh-rens, another g r a d u a t e school b o u n d so-ciologist under the gu idance of a facul ty staff member . Jim wasn ' t recruited because of a shor tage . This course was p lanned du r ing the s u m m e r with the help of an Adminis t rat ive s u m m e r g ran t . It was laid out in staff meetings some of which involv-ed the two student assis tants . Here we are s tr iving for excellence in t ra in ing seniors much like l ab ass is tants a re used in bio-logy, chemistry, p h i l o s o p h y discussion g roups , etc.
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Life on Earth?
There was great excitement on the planet of Venus this week. F o r the first t ime Venus ian scientists m a n a g e d to l a n d a satellite on the planet Earth, and it h a s been send ing back s ignals as well as photo-g r a p h s ever since.
The satellite was directed into an known as M a n h a t t a n ( n a m e d after the great Venus ian a s t ronomer Prof Manha t -tan, who first discovered it with his tele-scope 2 0 0 , 0 0 0 light years ago) .
B E C A U S E OF excellent weather con-dit ions a n d extremely s t rong s ignals , Ven-usian scientists were able to get v a l u a b l e in fo rma t ion as to the feasibili ty of a m a n -ned f ly ing saucer l and ing on Earth. A press conference was held at the Venus Institute of Technology.
"We h a v e come to the conclus ion, bas-ed on last week's satellite l a n d i n g , " Prof. Z o g sa id , " tha t there is no life on E a r t h . "
" H o w do you know this?" the science reporter of the Venus Evening Star asked.
"FOR O N E T H I N G " E a r t h ' s su r face in the a r ea of M a n h a t t a n is composed of solid concrete and noth ing can g row there. F o r another , the a tmosphe re is filled with c a r b o n m o n o x i d e and other dead ly gases and n o b o d y could possibly b rea the this air and surv ive . "
" W h a t docs this mean as f a r as o u r f lying saucer p r o g r a m is concerned?"
"We shall have to take our own oxy-gen with us, which means a much heavier f ly ing saucer than we or ig ina l ly p l a n n e d . "
"ARE T H E R E a n y other h a z a r d s that you discovered in your s tudies?"
" T a k e a look at this photo . You see this d a r k black cloud hove r ing over the
sur face of Ea r th? We call this the Con-sol idated Edison Belt. We don ' t know what it is m a d e of, but it could give us a lot of t rouble and we shal l h a v e to m a k e fur ther tests before we send a Venus Being there.
"Over here you will notice what seems to be a r iver , but the satellite f ind ings indicate it is pol luted and the water is unfit to d r ink . This m e a n s we shall h a v e to c a r r y our own water which will add even greater weight to the s auce r . "
"SIR, WHAT A R E all those t i n ^ b l a c k spots on the p h o t o g r a p h s ? "
"We ' re not certain. They seem to be metal part icles that move a l o n g certain paths . They emit gases , m a k e noise and keep c r a s h i n g into each other. There a r e so m a n y of these p a t h s and so m a n y metal particles that it is imposs ib le to land a f lying saucer without being s m a s h e d by one . "
" W h a t a r e those s t a l agmi te project ions st icking u p ? "
" T h e y ' r e some type of g ran i t e fo rma-tions that give off light at night. Prof. Glom has n a m e d them skysc rape r s since they seem to be s c r a p i n g the skies ."
"IF A L L YOU s a y is true, won' t this set back the f lying saucer p r o g r a m sev-eral y e a r s ? "
"Yes, but we sha l l proceed as soon as the Grubs ta r t g ives us the added f u n d s . "
"Prof . Z o g , why a re we spend ing bil-l ions and bill ions of zilches to land a l ly ing saucer on Ear th when there is no life there?"
" B e c a u s e if we Venus ians can learn to b r e a t h e in a n Ea r th a tmosphere , then we can live a n y w h e r e . "
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The 'Messiah:' A Look at a Legend Editor's N o t e This week senior music major Scot Cutting writes a critical preview of the perfor-m a n c e of George Frederic Han-del's "Mess iah ," to be g iven b y the H o p e Col lege Messiah Chor-us and Orchestra in Dimnent Me-morial Chapel next T h u r s d a y , under the direction of Dr. Rob-ert W. C a v a n a u g h .
By Scot Cutting
L u d w i g v o n Beethoven o n c e s a i d of G e o r g e F r ide r i c Hande l : " T o h im 1 b e n d the knee. F o r H a n d e l is t he grea tes t , ablest com-pose r tha t ever l i ved . " Beethov-en ' s h igh p r i a s e mus t su re ly be the result of h is h e a r i n g a per-f o r m a n c e of t he " M e s s i a h . " T h a t the " M e s s i a h " s h o u l d elicit such h igh p r i a s e f r o m a c o m p o s e r of Bee thoven ' s s t a t u r e is of no sur-pr ise , fo r the " M e s s i a h " is t h e c o n -s u m m a t i o n of H a n d e l ' s skill a n d a r t i s t ry as a m u s i c i a n .
H A N D E L WAS B O R N on Feb-r u a r y 23 , 1 6 8 5 ( the s a m e yea r a s . Johann S e b a s t i a n B a c h ) , in Hal le , E n g l a n d ; he died on H o l y S a t u r d a y , April 14, 1759, in Lon-d o n . He w a s a child p r o d i g y on bo th the o r g a n and the h a r p s i -c h o r d even t h o u g h his even tua l f a m e evolved ou t of his skill a s
a c o m p o s e r . U n l i k e Bach, his abil i t ies were recognized d u r i n g his l ifetime a n d his n a m e w a s k n o w n a c r o s s the con t inen t of E u r o p e .
When he w a s in his fifties he s u d d e n l y rea l ized tha t he h a d r eached the zen i th of his abil i t ies as a n o p e r a c o m p o s e r . It w a s this r ea l i z a t i on that led Hande l to a n o t h e r s p h e r e of c o m p o s i t i o n in which he received even g rea t e r tri-u m p h s t h a n he h a d in the field of o p e r a : the o r a t o r i o . T h e c r o w n i n g ach ievement of his w o r k in o r a -to r io is, of cou r se , the " M e s s i a h : " the l i v ing legend .
O N E M U S T CALL it a l egend fo r the re is a g rea t deal of un-ce r t a in ty c o n c e r n i n g the ac tua l cir-c u m s t a n c e s of its c o m p o s i t i o n a n d initial p e r f o r m a n c e s . Unfo r tu -
na te ly , m u c h of this u n c e r t a i n t y is t he result of bo th t r a d i t i o n a n d c h a n g i n g times. Well m e a n i n g a n d / o r ego-centr ic c o n d u c t o r s a n d p e r f o r m e r s h a v e in t roduced i n n o v a t i o n s a n d c h a n g e s in the n a m e of " t a s t e " while at the s a m e t ime r e t a i n i n g s o m e of the m o r e i n a n e t r ad i t ion .
" M e s s i a h " w a s wri t ten in 23 , 24 , 26 , o r 2 8 d a y s , d e p e n d i n g on which s o u r c e o n e consul t s . The first p e r f o r m a n c e w a s g iven on April 13 (not ice the m o n t h , please!) , 1742 , in Dubl in , I re land . Due to H a n d e l ' s f a m e a n d p o p u -lar i ty , the h o u s e w a s sold ou t a n d the p e r f o r m a n c e w a s a g rea t success.
On M a r c h 23, 1743 , the "Mes-s i a h " w a s first p e r f o r m e d in Lon-don . K i n g G e o r g e II w a s presen t and a c c o r d i n g to t r a d i t i o n he w a s so m o v e d by t h e " H a l l e l u j a h Cor-n s " that he rose to his feet. T h e audience , seeing the K i n g rise, a l so h a d to rise.
HOWEVER, T H E R E a r e o ther equa l ly va l id ( o r inva l id , depend-ing on o n e ' s preference) accoun t s c o n c e r n i n g the r e a s o n s for the aud ience r i s ing to its feet. One is tha t K i n g G e o r g e II, a r r i v i n g l a t e , h a d just entered the concer t hal l . Another ( a n d m y f a v o r i t e ) is tha t the K ing , r ight at the s tar t of the C h o r u s , excused himself to visit the water closet a n d his l o y a l subjects du t i fu l ly rose to their feet. Some au tho r i t i e s d i scoun t the idea the K i n g w a s m u s i c a l l y a n d spir-i tual ly m o v e d b y s u g g e s t i n g tha t he w a s a mus i ca l i l l i terate and a l s o tone deaf .
Next T h u r s d a y the " H o p e Col-lege Mess i ah C h o r u s a n d Orches-t r a " u n d e r the direct ion of Dr. Robert W. C a v a n a u g h will p r o sent its ve r s i on of the " M e s s i a h . " Roger D a v i s will be the o r g a n i s t a n d Rober t Ri tsema will be the a s soc ia t e c o n d u c t o r . J o y c e Mor-r i son will s ing the s o p r a n o s o l o s a n d E v e l y n Reyno lds will s ing con t r a l to . Miss R e y n o l d s s a n g here jus t recently a n d is ce r ta in ly wor th h e a r i n g a g a i n . Robert
Jack Vaughn of Peace Corps To Lecture Friday Moruiug
J a c k V a u g h n , a n a t i o n a l direc-tor of the P e a c e C o r p , will be on the H o p e C o l l e g e c a m p u s fo r a lec-tu re a n d i n f o r m id d i s c u s s i o n next
F r i d a y m o r n i n g . Mr. V a a g h n , w h o will a r r i v e in
H o l l a n d T h u r s d a y n igh t , will meet with a n y interested s tuden t s on F r i d a y m o r n i n g b e g i n n i n g at 9 in the P res iden t ' s R o o m in
G r a v e s Hal l .
Mortar Board Compiles Facts Ou Grad Schools
A spec ia l serv ice for j u n i o r s a n d sen io r s interested in g r a d u a t e s tud ies h a s been insti tuted b y Mor-t a r B o a r d . C a t a l o g s a n d o ther s o u r c e s of i n f o r m a t i o n f r o m over 90 g r a d u a t e s choo l s a r e a v a i l a b l e
for s tudent u s e in the l i b r a r y . in a d d i t i o n , the i n d i v i d u a l de-
p a r t m e n t s at H o p e h a v e ra ted each g r a d u a t e s choo l wi thin its a r e a of interest , a n d these f acu l ty r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s h a v e been com-piled b y M o r t a r B o a r d .
At 10 :30 he will del iver a lecture in W i n a n t s A u d i t o r i u m . Dean fo r Academic Affa i rs Wil l iam V a n d e r Lugt h a s a sked t eachers to excuse f r o m classes a n y s tudent w h o wishes to at tend. C la s ses will not be d i smis sed , h o w e v e r .
H o p e Col lege is jus t o n e s top on a t o u r which Mr. V a u g h n is m a k n g of a n u m b e r of col leges a n d univers i t ies in the Mid-We^l.
Mr. V a u g h n h a s been n a t i o n a l d i rec tor of the Peace C o r p s since J a n u a r y , 1966, when he r ep laced S a r g e n t Shr iver . P rev ious to tha t he w a s r e g i o n a l d i rec tor of the Peace C o r p s in La t in Amer i ca .
He al;io held the pos t of LInited States A m b a s s a d o r to P a n a m a , Ass is tan t Secre ta ry of State f o r In t e r -Amer i can Affa i r s , and co-o r d i n a t o r for the Al l iance fo r Pro-gress p r o g r a m .
Mr. V a u g h n g rew up in Albion , Mich. He won the M i c h i g a n Golden Gloves compe t i t i on th ree t imes a n d fough t 2 6 p r o f e s s i o n a l b o x i n g m a t c h e s be fo re en te r ing the f o r e i g n service.
J o h n s o n will s ing t enor a n d Ri-c h a r d Schreiber will s ing b a s s . All the solois ts h a v e h a d cons ide r -ab le exper ience in b o t h concer t a n d o r a t o r i o work .
U N F O R T U N A T E L Y , WE will h e a r a r a t h e r c o n d e n s e d vers ion" of a g rea t w o r k . Out of the or i-g ina l f i f ty- three p a r t s of the w o r k , twenty- two will be omit ted. As writ ten, the w o r k is m a d e up of th ree m a j o r sections. H o w e v e r , a n i n t e r m i s s i o n (with a n offer-to ry , of c o u r s e ) between p a r t I a n d p a r t II s e r ious ly d i s r u p t s the con t inu i ty a n d m o o d of the piece. With all the o m i s s i o n s a n d the u n n e c e s s a r y in te rmiss ion , wha t o n e h e a r s is not " M e s s i a h " but the ghos t of H a n d e l s c r e a m i n g " R a p e ! ! "
It is i ronic tha t at the top of the p r o g r a m there is a v e r y im-press ive a n d s o l e m n s ta tement which s ays : " I n o r d e r that the con t inu i ty of the w o r k be m a i n -ta ined , it is reques ted tha t the au-dience r e f r a in f r o m a p p l a u s e u n t i l the end of t h e p r o g r a m . " I s u p p o s e that s o m e p e o p l e m i g h t even con-s ider the s t a tement opt imist ic .
W H A T E V E R T H E r e a s o n s fo r the o m i s s i o n s , o n e is i n e x c u s a b l e mus ica l ly . In p a r t II, the re a r e three c h o r u s e s a n d a rec i ta t ive that mus t be d o n e in o r d e r wi thout omis s ion^ . T h e first c h o r u s is in f m i n o r . T h e second c h o r u s be-g ins in f m i n o r a n d ends with a beau t i fu l ha l f - cadence o n t h e d o m -
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inan t (C m a j o r ) . T h e th i rd chor -us beg ins in F m a j o r a n d ends in f m i n o r . T h e rec i ta t ive beg ins in b-flat m i n o r . T h u s we h a v e a key scheme of P'-C-F-B-flat. However , with the th i rd c h o r u s omit ted, the key s c h e m e becomes F-C-B-flat . S o m e m a y h a v e to h e a r it b e f o r e they can u n d e r s t a n d wha t I 'm t a l k i n g a b o u t . Jus t t h i n k i n g a b o u t it hu r t s m y ea r s . T h e c h o r u s o m i t -ted is "AD We Like Sheep H a v e G o n e A s t r a y ! " Even with it omit-ted o n e still gets the message .
P e r h a p s the s t r anges t t h ing o n e will hea r next T h u r s d a y night
i nvo lves b o t h a n add i t i on a n d a n o m i s s i o n . In the b a s s a r i a " W h y Do T h e N a t i o n s So P 'ur ious ly R a g e ? " t h e b a s s , after f i n i sh ing the a r i a , will t u r n a r o u n d a n d face the choir a n d repea t the first half ove r a g a i n . In d o i n g so he is m a k i n g it a d a c a p o a r i a .
T H I S A C T I O N s u p p o s e d l y s t ems f r o m a p e r f o r m a n c e which a K ing of E n g l a n d a t tended a n d w a s si t t ing b e h i n d the cho i r . So, to be respectful , the b a s s t u r n e d a r o u n d a n d repea ted the first half of the a r i a f o r the K ing .
U n d o u b t e d l y t h e b a s s lost b o t h his j o b a n d his h e a d , fo r the a r i a is not o n e to be s u n g to a ru le r of a na t ion . I o n l y f o u n d two sou rces tha t m e n t i o n this a r i a with the idea t h a t it is d a c a p o . Both s a y tha t there is abso lu te ly no evidence that it is d a c a p o a n d that the rea l d a c a p o is the c h o r u s that immed ia t e ly fo l lows ( a n d which will be i m m e d i a t e l y omit ted next T h u r s d a y ) .
T h o u g h I ha t e to d e s t r o y a m y t h , " M e s s i a h " is not a Chris t -m a s work . Most of it is conce rned with Advent a n d Chr i s t ' s life. Why not p e r f o r m it in the s u m m e r ? ? Also, why p e r f o r m it every two yea r s . T h e r e a r e m a n y other g o o d re l ig ious works . Wha t ' s w r o n g with B a c h ' s C h r i s t m a s O r a t o r i o ?
One m o r e poin t c o n c e r n i n g next T h u r s d a y ' s p e r f o r m a n c e : Great mus i c is a l w a y s g rea te r t h a n it r a n ever p e r f o r m e d .
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Dear Mr. Kroodsma: By John N i v a l a
While r u m m a g i n g m y w a y t h r o u g h the latest collection of " t r a s h " to e m e r g e f r o m the a n c h o r office, 1 w a s s u r p r i s e d to find a letter which ca tegor i -ca l ly a n d inept ly a t tempted to tear d o w n the ent i re a n c h o r staff. Being a p a r t i c i p a n t in the week-ly d i spe r sa l of g o o d news a n d c a m p u s d i sas te r s , a n d not r e g a r d -ing myself a s be ing p a r t i c u l a r l y w a r p e d , 1 felt m o v e d in m a n y direct ions , c u l m i n a t i n g in a vio-lent a t t a ck of s t o m a c h c r a m p s .
MR. KROODSMA'S letter w a s
not o n l y a s s in ine , but it was a l so incoherent . I r ea l ly w o n d e r wha t he w a s t r y i n g to s ay . It wou ld be e a s y e n o u g h to s h a k e m y head , l a u g h a n d p a s s his epistle off as the g a r b a g e it was . However , since he h a d the guts (if not the skil l) to put his t h o u g h t s into pr int , he deserves a n answer .
One of Mr. K r o o d s m a ' s discern-ab le ob jec t ions centered a r o u n d the s p o r t s page . He felt t ha t one shou ld not write s p o r t s articles unless he h a s h a d s o m e p rac t i ca l exper ience in athletics. If we con-t inue this l ine of r e a s o n i n g , Mr. K r o o d s m a s h o u l d never h a v e picked up his dull pencil , b e c a u s e he o b v i o u s l y h a s h a d n o experi-ence in c l ea r ly p re sen t ing his t h o u g h t s . One h o p e s tha t he will con t inue to pi tch better t h a n he
writes. T H E F A C T T H A T Bob Van-
d e r b e r g is not a " l e t t e r ed" ath-lete does not necessar i ly m e a n that he is u n q u a l i f i e d to s tate his views on the p e r f o r m a n c e (o r lack of it) of H o p e ' s t e ams . Very
few of u s k n o w all the int r icacies of a u t o m o b i l e p r o d u c t i o n , but we d o h a v e a genera l idea of w h a t the f in ished p r o d u c t s h o u l d look like. We a l s o ho ld s o m e expecta-t ions c o n c e r n i n g the c a r ' s pe r fo r -mance . If the m a c h i n e does not fulfill o u r expec ta t ions , we w o u l d r e t u r n it to the dea le r a n d wou ld expect s o m e cons t ruc t i ve act ion to be t aken . U n f o r t u n a t e l y , athletic-t e a m s d o not c o m e with a war -r an ty .
Mr. K r o o d s m a a l s o feels tha t o u r s p o r t s edi tor h a s been l ax in his a t t e n d a n c e a t s p o r t s events. Tsk , tsk. H o w g r e a t a r e the er-r o r s of the u n i n f o r m e d . If o u r f r i end ly c o r r e s p o n d e n t h a d m a d e the slightest effort to s u b s t a n t i a t e his c h a r g e s , he w o u l d h a v e dis-covered tha t Bob is o n e of the m o r e fa i thfu l fo l lowers of o u r a th-letic fo r tunes . C o n s i d e r i n g what h a s h a p p e n e d so f a r this s ea son , B o b dese rves s o m e p r a i s e f o r p e r
severance . OUR V I T R I O L I C critic a l lowed
his v e n o m to s p r e a d b e y o n d the b a c k p a g e s of the a n c h o r . T h e fact tha t the s p o r t s edi tor is no t his kind of athlete a n d hence w a s not s u p p o s e d to be o p i n i o n a t e d w a s ex tended to the " k n o w l e d g a -bi l i ty" of the rest of the staff. He seems to feel tha t we a re "d i -s ea sed . " Well, ou t s ide of a b a d cold a n d a sl ight c a s e of m o n o , we a re not all t h a t b a d off. How-ever, if Mr. K r o o d s m a is still unsa t i s f i ed , I 'm s u r e we wou ld be wil l ing to u n d e r g o a b l o o d test/ T h a t ' s a p p a r e n t l y wha t he w a s af ter .
One of the m a n y repea ted s lu r s w a s that the staff m e m b e r s w h o a r e g r a n t e d the r ight to present s o m e p e r s o n a l c o m m e n t on the j o y s of co l leg ia te life a r e deliber-a te ly a t t emp t ing to d e s t r o y the f r a m e w o r k of this insti tution. Without de lv ing into the s tabi l i ty of tha t f r a m e w o r k . , I wou ld like to fill Mr. K r o o d s m a in o n a ve ry i m p o r t a n t p o i n t If we d idn ' t g ive a " t i n k e r ' s d a m n " a b o u t this col-lege, we wou ld not e x p e n d the t ime
. a n d ene rgy in t r y ing to e x p o s e s o m e of its fa i l ings , no r wou ld we feel the need to a g i t a t e f o r s o m e co r r ec t ive ac t ions . Jus t b e c a u s e we d o not r e g a r d m a n y institu-t ions a n d concepts a s s a c r o s a n c t d o e s not necessar i ly m e a n we a r e d i s l o y a l . Well . . . seeing as how (here u s u a l l y is a t i m e l a g b e t w e e n n a t i o n a l events a n d their impac t o n H o p e College, it f igu res tha t we wou ld h a v e a j u n i o r J o e Mc-C a r t h y r i s ing up who r e g a r d s c r i -ticism as heresy .
Mr. K r o o d s m a a l so m a d e the s t a tement tha t if we " f i n d the w o r d s " to s a y that H o p e Col-lege is " w o r t h w h i l e or g o o d , " it wou ld b e the d a y that he " w o n ' t be here a n y m o r e . " T h a t s o u n d s l ike a p r o m i s e . T h i n k a b o u t it. Would we spend the m o n e y to at-tend H o p e if we did n o t bel ieve t h a t it is o n e of the best p l aces to receive a n e d u c a t i o n ? It a p p e a r s tha t the letter w a s wri t ten with lots of a n g e r a n d little t h o u g h t It is a fact t h a t t he spleen is not located a n y w h e r e nea r the b r a i n . One s h o u l d r e m e m b e r tha t b e f o r e he decides to air h is c o m p l a i n t s .
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Hope's Radio Station WTAS Experiences Difficulties By Laura Mumford
anchor Reporter The effectiveness of WTAS as
a communica t ions medium is un-der investiKation by the C o m m u n -ications Board , accord ing to Dr. David Marker , member of the boa rd .
This action was taken when the va lue of WTAS in relation to its budget was quest ioned. T h e s t u d y will continue for three or four m o r e weeks, a a d the cymmittee will ultimately m a k e a decision OIL t_he_basis of polls and talk*-with WTAS personnel , explained Dr. Marker.
HE ADDED that a l though the results of the last poll have not been quant i ta t ively tabula ted , it ' appea red that WTAS is listened to by a p p r o x i m a t e l y half of the student bod v.
Because^ ot the invesugcuiun, WTAS was asked to withhold its m a j o r expenses and to retrain f rom soliciting advert is ing. Ac-cording to Mr. Clarence J l a n d -logten's office, the s ta t ion ' s bud-get has not been approved .
Despite the min imum funds , however, .lack Ligtenberg, s ta t ion m a n a g e r , felt that it will not affect the present p r o g r a m m i n g of WTAS. He said that there are enough funds to main ta in a full p r o g r a m each night. The s ta t ion is able to p u r c h a s e the top twenty p o p u l a r songs and can add them
to their l i b ra ry of over 5 ,000 selections.
LIGTENBERG ADDED thai WTAS can also cont inue its b road-cast ing of Associated Press news at 8 and 10 every night. How< ever, he did state that because of the restricted funds , WfTAS can-not b r o a d c a s t news specials which it had hoped to do.
Although WTAS is able to re-tain its p r o g r a m s , the station is hand icapped because it cannot solicit adver t i s ing , which is the stat ions only means of income. The only adver t isements b road-casted a re public service an-nouncements, said Elliot Meyers, adver t i s ing m a n a g e r .
Meyers expla ined that if thebud-get is a p p r o v e d , there will be p rob lems acqui r ing advertise-ment contracts for this semester, as most businesses have a l r eady spent their budgets. He stated however, that the businesses us-ually ob ta in new budgets in .Jan-ua ry , and adver t i s ing might be solicited for the second semester.
MEYERS HAS " h i g h hopes" for his adver t i s ing c a m p a i g n , par-ticularly because his staff of ten people is la rger than before. He also indicated that his depar tment is much m o r e organ ized . Busi-nesses, he added, a r e f a v o r a b l e toward WTAS and have a small market f rom which to choose. Meyers ant icipates no great dif-
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Al though, as faculty a d v i s o r F r a n k She rbourne said, WTAS is "s lowed u p " in s o m e o f L j L improvements and restricted in its expans ion , the limited funds have not d(Vacted f rom the qua l i ty of the stat ion. Some improve-mems, Al A a r d s m a , technical m a n a g e r explained, a re not neces-sari ly limited because of the bud-get. They involve, instead, m o r e efficient use of what a l r eady is pre-sent and a definite o rgan iza t ion of pu rpose s for each depar tment within the s lai ion.
One such improvement wae complete rewir ing over the sum-mer to increase the versatil i ty and efficiency of the station. A a r d s m a added that the facilities a re now much more funct ional .
OTHER IMPROVEMENTS, some of which a re still ant icipated, a re increas ing student par t ic ipa-tion and student listening. Accord-ing to Ridph V id en tine, p r o g r a m guides will be distr ibuted to every student when funds are ava i lab le . Signs a lso are being placed a r o u n d c a m p u s to m a k e students a w a r e of WTAS. Ligtenberg a l so hopes that once a better s ignal and reception is acquired, the at-titude toward WTAS will improve .
B r o a d c a s t i n g tapes of student recitals, c a m p u s lectures and con-certs will hopeful ly be new addi-tions to WTAS p r o g r a m s , addec \ ' i lentine. This would be possible however, only if the equipment can be ob ta ined . WTAS has al-ready begun b roadcas t i ng Stu-dent Church services, as well as the Associated Press news a n d headline coverage .
Both A a r d s m a and Valentine indicated that WTAS tries to m a k e itself a d a p t a b l e to thestudents and to p r o v i d e enter ta inment for all tastes. Valentine added that WTAS cannot specialize like WLS in Chi-cago . for instance.
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WTAS - Miss Penny Morse is taking her shift on the nightly broadcast by WTAS, Hope College's radio station. The station which has faced numerous problems so far this year, most of them financial.
held for s tudents wishing to be-come discjockeys. Hestressed that njost s tudents before aud i t ion ing have never talked into a mike be-fore.
However, other equal ly import-ant posi t ions a re ava i l ab l e at WTAS. Valentine said that news writers, record l ib ra r i ans , adver-tising and public re lat ions per-sonnel a lso are needed. He added that much educat ional and prac-tical exper iencecan be acquired by work ing for WTAS
T H E Q U E S T I O N HAS ar isen per ta in ing to the effect that an I'M stat ion on Hope ' s c a m p u s would have on WTAS. The com-m o n opinion of WTAS personnel is that it would not s ignif icant ly affect V\ IAS, bas ica l ly because the audience appeal would differ.
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T H E PURPOSE OF the FM station would be to p r o v i d e high qual i ty p r o g r a m m i n g , expla ined Dr. Beery. This p r o g r a m m i n g would p r i m a r i l y consist of edu-cational KM and classical music. The Adminis t ra t ive Commit tee would r ecommend that the station be opera ted by a p p r o p r i a t e acad-emic g roups in the college, such as the speech and d r a m a depart-ments. The s ta t ion would "no t be student-run, a l t hough it would be student - w o r k i n g , " added Dr. Beery.
The FM sta t ion would not be aimed at the college communi ty , but would be b r o a d c a s t t h rough out western Michigan and possi-bly pa r t s of Wisconsin. Hope could then par t ic ipa te in the state educat ional network. It is pro-posed that the stat ion b r o a d c a s t th rough a fifty mile r ad ius , f rom three to five h o u r s a day .
S U C H A STATION would not require a l a rges t a f f , explained Dr. Beery. A chief engineer with a first class license and other engi-neers with third class licenses would be needed. Facu l ty mem-bers and some students a l r eady meet these qual i f ica t ions .
The p roposed KM sta t ion would require a license f r o m the KCC. This could not be appl ied for un til the p r o p o s a l is a p p r o v e d b \ the Adminis t ra t ion. The money presently is not a v a i l a b l e for the under tak ing , a l though Dr. Beery indicated that " a por t ion of the Public B r o a d c a s t i n g Act of 1907 provides the possibi l i ty of par-tial suppor t of the establ ishment
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Dr. Beery stressed that the KM p r o p o s a l is on ly one of several p roposa l s , all of which must be decided upon . He did s a y that Hie pioposed" F M s ta t ion would be designed as economical ly as possible. He added that because of the time limit, if the oppor tun i ty to acqui re a n FM s ta t ion is by-passed , then it might be near ly impossible ever to acqu i re one.
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RCA Studies Possible Merger Editor's Note: This is the first in a two-part series of articles by juniors Norman Mol and Ken Nienhuis dealing with the me-chanics, significance and effects of the pro-posed merger between the Reformed Church in Amcrica and the Presbyterian Church of the United States. Aforthcoming article will deal with the effect of this merger on Hope College.
By Norman Mol and Ken Nienhuis
At present , the Reformed Church in Amer-ica is f ac ing the quest ion of merger. It is a quest ion that will be decided within the next two yea r s and regard less of the outcome the effect on t h e d e n o m i n a t i o n wi l lbep ro found .
It is a l so a quest ion that is hotly con-tested. At present no accu ra t ep red i c t i oncan be m a d e as to which way the decision will
Ko. T H E PROPOSED MERGER would be
with the Presbyter ian Church in the I 'ni ted States ( P C l ' S ) , c o m m o n l y known as the Southern Presbyter ian Church , and would result in the f o r m a t i o n of the Presbyter ian Reformed Church in America. In the light of present developments , it is possible that the first General Assembly of this g roup could meet in June of 1970. If all of this happens , it would mean that the RCA would be pa r t of a un ion five times its present size and that it would have a na-tional scope for the first t ime in its history.
The present chain of events goes back to .li>ne of 1961. At this time the General Synod of the RCA considered p r o p o s a l s f rom v a r i o u s g r o u p s within the church concern ing mergers in several directions. These were studied du r ing the following year . One of the p r o p o s a l s suggested merger with the PCl 'S .
In April of 1962 a meeting was held between representat ives of both denomi-na t ions at which p l ans were laid for a Joint Commit tee ol Twenty-lour which would be m a d e up of twelve representatives f rom each g roup . This p lan was a p p r o v e d by the Synod of 1962 and the committee went into action immediately. At the invi-tat ion of Dr. Irwin Lubbers , then President of Hope College and a member of theJoint Committee, a meeting was held at Hope in
June, 1962. T H I S WAS T H E first of a long series
of meet ings that h a s continued to the present. Progress h a s been g r a d u a l but definite. In 1965, the General Synod of the RCA and the General Assembly ot the P C l ' S g a v e the Commit tee a directive l o p r e p a r e a p lan of union for presentat ion no later than 1968 . " Since that time the Commit tee h a s p repa red three dral t docu-ments that deal with government , worship, discipline, theology, witness and structure for the p roposed church.
According to Dr. Bernard Hrunsting, pas to r of the Kirst Reformed Church of Hol land and a member of the Committee of 'Twenty-four, the final meeting oi the Commit tee will be held in F e b r u a r y of 1968. \t this time the final draft ot the p lan ol union will be made .
'This p lan of union will be presented to bo th the General Synod and the Gen-eral Assembly in June of 1968. 'The two bodies will be meeting s imul taneous ly but in different locat ions. If the p lan is a p p r o v e d by these g roups , (at the General Synod, this would require a ma jo r i ty vote), it will be referred to the presbyteries and the classes of the denomina t i ons for a vote. In the Reformed Church , a ma jo r i t y vote in two-thirds of the classes would be required for a p p r o v a l . In the Presbyter ian (. hur( h, a ma jo r i ty vote in three-fourths of the presbyter ies would be required. 'This vot ing would be d o n e between June, 1968 and
June, 1969. _ n u i IF APPROVED, the p lan will go back
to the rul ing bodies for final enactment in June of 1969. A t rans i t ional commiss ion , consis t ing of twelve members f r o m each d e n o m i n a t i o n would then take over and the mach inery for merging the denomi-na t ions as outlined in the p lan of union would go into effect. Dr. Hrunst ing specu-lated that this p rocedure would take f rom two to three years. However, a l r eady in J u n e of 1970, the General Assembly of the new church would meet as a single
body . T o tnose in f a v o r of merger, the issue
is not a theological one. Rev. H e r m a n Ridder, President of Western Theological Seminary , said that the a d v a n t a g e of the merger is general ly a p r agma t i c one. The quest ion that counts seems to be whether a m(a*ged church " c a n get the job done better than two smal ler independent de-nomina t ions . Rev. Ridder thinks that this is p r o b a b l e because the merged church would be a large, nat ional o r g a n i z a t i o n
REV. GARRET WILTERDINK of Western Seminary, giving another reason for merger, said that it would probably
m a k e possible the cutting of admin i s t r a t ive
costs. In addi t ion. Rev. Wilterdink noted that
geograph ica l ly the RCA and the P C L S would compliment eachother well. The Reformed Church has 2 6 0 , 0 0 0 members and 934 churches located mostly in New York. New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois and Cal i fornia . The Presbyter ian (. hurch is about four times larger , hav ing 9 5 1 , 0 0 0 members and 4 ,002 churches, the vast ma jo r i ty of which are concentrated below the Mason-Dixon Line.
'The new denomina t ion , accord ing to Rev. Wilterdink, would therefore be a na-t ional o rgan iza t ion , h a v i n g churches in a far greater a r ea of the coun t ry t h a n either denomina t ion has now. He sa id fur ther that in a na t ion which has as mobi le a. popu la t ion as the I 'ni ted States, a na-tional church is a lmost a necessity if mem-bership is to be conserved.
In addi t ion. Dr. Hrunst ing said tha. merg ing would " d e m o n s t r a t e the oneness of the body of Chris t ." Rev. Char les Van-der Heek of Hol l and ' s Rose Park Reformed Church went a step father , viewing the churches as so close theological ly and o rgan iza t iona l ly that merger is a "Hibli-cal impera t ive ."
O N E GROUP AGAINST merger is the Fellowship of the Concerned. Members of the Fellowship are general ly f rom the Wes-tern Michigan churches.
Rev. Adr i an New ho use, pas to r of the F irst Reformed Church of Zeeland and president of the g r o u p , has said that th( goa l of the Fellowship is to insure ' a cont inuing Reformed Church.
The feeling of the g r o u p is that merger will lead to the eventual d i s rega rd of those va lues which have t radi t ional ly been re-ga rded a s essential to the Reformed Church. This is because the PCUS-RCA merger is viewed, a c c d f e i n g to Rev. Newhouse, as a p robab le " s tepp ing stone to fur ther mergers . "
THIS F E E L I N G HAS been kindled by the 1966 decision of thp Southern Pres-by te r ians to t ake pa r t in the d iscuss ions of the Council on Church Union. The pur-pose of COCU is the eventual merger of the Episcopal , Methodist and Presbyter ian churches into one denomina t ion .
The fear of eventual par t ic ipa t ion in C O C U a n d the merger it p roposes h a s turned a great number of R d o r m e d church-men aga ins t the PC US-RCA merger . C O C U par t ic ipa t ion to m a n y would symbol ize a willingness to sacrifice wha t are r ega rded a s p r i m a r y Reformed Church beliefs.
Rev. G o r d o n Van Oostenberg of Hol-l and ' s Trini ty Reformed Church , a fo rmer President of General Synod , is one who opposes merger because of the PC US pa r -
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ticipation in C O C U . He said that the Soutn-ern PresbyteMan action " s h o w s the direc-tion ,in which that church is go ing ."
WHILE T H I S HAS p r o b a b l v become the central a rgumen t aga ins t merger other factors have been b r o u g h t forth. Rev. New-house said that in the pas t church un ions have not tended to p r o v i d e an increase in congrega t iona l g iving or a greater mission effort. He also said that it r ema ins to be p roven whether or not o rgan iza t iona l costs could be cut by merger .
Predictions concerning the fate of the proposed merger a re var ied. It is a com-mon opinion that the p lan of un ion will be app roved b y General Synod next spring.
However, the real test of the p lan will come when it goes to the local level for approva l . In a poll of 18 Reformed Church ministers in the Hol land a rea only two felt that it would be passed. Both of these men were opposed to the merger . Many of those who f a v o r the merger are not sure abou t what will happen. Seven of the 18 ministers felt that it would be defeated and the other nine were of the opinion that it is impossible to m a k e any prediction. Most of these men feel that it will be very close and could go either way.
IT IS POSSIBLE to speculate on the politics of the si tuation. It is general ly held that there is much suppor t for the idea in the eastern a r eas of the church. Dr. Hrunst ing felt that it is very possible that all o f t heeas t e rnc l a s se s would a p p r o v e
the plan. If this happens , it would require a p p r o v a l f r o m only seven of the classes in the rest of the denomina t ion to meet the two-thirds requirement. Rev. Hrunst ing felt that this is possible but not certain.
An indication of opinion on the ques-tion can be obtained f rom the poll of Hol land ministers. Of the 18 polled, eleven were opposed to the merger, five were in f a v o r and two were undecided. The min-isters who are opposed to the merger saifl that their churches backed them up in this posit ion.
When it comes, the final decision will h a v e very definite effects either way. Rev. Van Oostenburg said that if there is no merger , there are churches that would leave the denomina t ion and become affil-iated with one of the Presbyter ian denom-inations. How m a n y there would be is h a r d to say but they would p r o b a b l y come f rom the eastern area* of the church.
R t V . N E W H O U S E also aff i rmed this. He said that both sides agree that there will be some split over merger no matter which way it goes.
On the other hand , if the merger takes place, there is evidence that it will not be accepted calmly. Many of the members of the Fellowship of the Concerned were reluctant to talk about ihis ^ossibil i tv be-cause they wish to stress the fact that tney are go ing to try to keep the merger f rom taking place. However, if it happens , m a n y feel that they would be obl igated by con-viction to vote to get out. Rev. Newhouse, in speak ing about the possibi l i ty of se-cession for his congrega t ion , s a i d , " 1 would think that we would undoub ted ly bp one, '
Ol the Holland area ministers who were polled, five said that they would p r o b a b l y lead their churches in leaving the merger Many factors enter this dec i s ioa The pro-cedure for seceding would be slow and difficult. All churches are legally required to follow the denomina t ion into themerger . However, the present draf t of the p lan of un ion leaves room for a congrega t ion to vote to get out after a period of one year. People who are aginst the merger do not like this one year clause. Rev. Newhouse stated that "it would dull the thinking of local churches on the critical issues "
ANOTHER FACTOR seceding churches would face is the possibili ty of f inding themselves isolated and helpless when they leave. Some ministers would try to get out only if they were sure thai there would be a sizeable g r o u p go ing with them.
Not everyone who is aga ins t themerger would try to get out. Kleven of the Hol land area ministers said they would s tay even though only five were actual ly in favor of merger .
Dr. Bruns t ing , s t ress ing that the threat of secession has b e e n overemphasizec^said, " I don ' t think any split will occur . " He went on to say that if the union does take place, churches will find out du r ing the one year wait ing per iod that the effects of merger are not as offensive as would be initially expected. Rev. Van Oostenburg also felt that if split occurs, it would not be great . His reasons were that the prob-lems of going it a lone with only a small g roup of churches and no seminary would
be too great . . . _ C H U R C H E S COULD get a r o u n d this
by jo in ing another g roup such as the Chris t ian Reformed Church or the Ortho-
d o x Presbyter ian Church. However , this ' g r o u p would p r o b a b l y be small .
It is p r o b a b l e that not much split will occur unless interest can be susta ined over the one year period and then on ly if a sizeable g roup would m o v e out together.
Readers Speak Out. . .
Letters to the Editor (Cont inued f r o m page 5)
ENOUGH D E F E N S I V E talk. We do need teaching help in sociology. It is inter-esting that each of thesocial sciences named in your article n e e d s a " b o o s t " in the theory of its field. Interesting also is the fact that the social sciences h a v e lately come to the curr iculum of the college. In the mid-to-late 1940 's Dr. Van Saun taught courses in sociology, psycho logy and ph i lo sophy in the s a m e semester.
Last yea r about 50 people were contact-ed about a teaching j ob in sociology. F ive were qual i f ied for depar tmenta l c h a i r m a n . Two were out of our price range. One took another job . The one who was offered the highest s a l a r y a n y Hope professor w^lild L. h a v e been receiving was a l ready receiving the s a m e s a l a r y for teaching five hour s a a week. T h e fifth o n e we were not inter-
ested in. Sociology teachers a re in short
supply. . YOU SEE, my f r iends and H o p e s
fu ture a lums, Hope 's f inancial p rob lem ie current ly your s and will extend into youi future. The problem is l a rger than charge: or countercharges will solve - b igger thar. excuses and buck-pass ing will cover. 1 h a v e the hunch the imagina t ive , c r e a t m energy that p roduced a Student Church, a Higher Horizon, a Chr i s tmas Vesper, a Phi ladelphia Project and an academic reputa t ion as br ight t o d a y as in a n y yes-teryear could " b r a i n s t o r m a series o solutions. This c a m p u s is blessed with students of energy, faculty of qua l i ty and
I Adminis t ra t ion of concern. If wc will get together, we are equal to the task. Think
we will? Robert Vanderham
PageS Hope College anchor December 8, 1967
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REBOUND—Floyd Brady ( 3 3 ) and an unidentified Aquinas player fight for a rebound in last Wednesday's game. Hope defeated Aquinas, 109-93, for its first win in two starts.
Hope Defeats Aquinas, 109-93, In Second Game of the Season
Displaying ou t s tand ing scor ing power, Hope 's Flying Dutchmen rolled to a convincing 109-93 victory over the Aquinas College Tommies Wednesday night al West Catholic High gym in Grand Rapids.
Once aga in , Hope 's senior sen-sat ion, F loyd Brady, b r o k e the 30-point m a r k , as he tallied 10 field goals and hit twelve of 14 free throw attempts for 32 points. Thus , B r a d y has a two-game to-tal of 65 points.
BARRY SCHREIBER, fresh m a n whiz, nailed down a s tar t ing f o r w a r d j ob with a 21-point per-fo rmance . G u a r d Bruce McCrea-ry , held to four tallies in the first half, b r o k e loose in the final 20 minutes for 15 to finish with 19 points. McCreary ' s backcour t par tner , senior Gary R y p m a , scored 16, including eleven in the second half.
The Dutchmen moved out to an early 14-4 lead and stretched that m a r g i n to 22-9 at the 10-minute m a r k . At this point, B rady led the way with eleven tallies. With eight minutes r emain ing , H o p e held a comfor tab le 3 0 - 1 5 lead. The outclassed Tommies m a n a g e d to close the g a p some-what to 46-34 at the halft ime buzzer.
Leading an scorers at intermis-sion was Brady with 17, with
Aquinas ' 6-4 center Denny Patter-son close behind with 16.
T H E TOMMIES threw a tough full-court press ai the Dutch at the outset of the second half, c aus ing several Hope miscues and bring-ing Aquinas back into the g a m e , 51-45. Two quick baskets b y Tommie g u a r d Paul Jage l s m a d e the score 56-52, but that was as close as Aquinas got. Regaining their poise, the Dutch began to pull a w a y with Schreiber and Bra-dy hitting clutch baskets .
McCreary fired in two in a row f r o m 15 feet to give Hope an eleven-point lead, 70-59. With five minutes to go, McCrea ry p o p p e d in another and the s c o r e b o a r d r ead 97-78. R y p m a ' s two char -ity tosses sent the Dutch over the magic century m a r k and into a 101-86 lead. *
After shoo t ing 3 9 per cent f r o m the floor in the first half, H o p e picked up somewhat in the next s t anza to finish at 4 3 per cent. Also, the Dutch connected on 2 1 of 2 7 free throws for 78 per cent.
LEADING T H E Tommies in scor ing was .lagels with 24 points a n d Patterson with 22.
In the p re l imina ry contest, the Hope f reshmen won their season opener b y a 82-71 score. Dar ry l Hi l l ebrands led Hope with 17 points, while B o b b y Blanton had 15 and R a n d y Adolphs twelve.
Review of the News Chicago
At a Chicago ceremony m a r k i n g the 25th a n n i v e r s a r y of the first controlled nuclear chain reaction, President Lyn-den J o h n s o n offered to open to inspection all American nuclear facilities except those "with a direct na t ional defense signifi-cance." President J o h n s o n ' s of-fer was designed p r e s u m a b l y to p romote acceptance of the treaty aga ins t the prol i fera t ion of nuclear .weapons .
Washington, D.C. Sen. Eugene McCar thy an-
nounced that he will oppose President Johnson as an anti-war cand ida te in four to six Democratic presidential pri-mar ies next year.
Out oi concern mat me Ad-ministration apparently had set no limit on the price it would pay for military victory in Viet-nam, Sen McCarthy will enter the Democratic primaries in Wisconsin, Nebraska, Oregon, California andMassachussetts.
New York City As a part of "Stop the Draft
^jVee^'L demonstrations, orga-
nized across the nat ion, dem-ons t ra t ions in New York City were unsuccessful in forc ing the closing of a New York induc-tion center. Arrests totalled 2 64 d u r i n g the week, inc ludingped-latr ic ian Benjamin S p o c k a n d poet Allan Ginsburg. Sponsors h a d hoped to attract f ive thous-s a n d protesters to the a rmed forces center.
South Africa A Capetown hospi ta l report-
ed the wor ld ' s first successful h u m a n heart t r ansp l an t f rom a y o u n g w o m a n killed in an auto-mobi le accident to a m a n dy-ing of a d a m a g e d heart. After f o u r days , Louis W^ashkan-s k y ' s su rgeon predicted that his patient would win his uphill bat t le to live a n o r m a l life with the t ransplanted hear t .
New York City Francis Cardinal Spellman,
spiritual leader of two million Roman Catholics in the New York Archdiocese and a churchman known throughout the world, died this week at the age of seventy-eight, of a stroke in New York.
Ihlparaiso Downs Hope, 79-61 By Bob Vanderberg anchor Sports Editor
V a l p a r a i s o s Crusaders , m e na-t ion 's thirteenth best smal l college cage team accord ing to one wire service poll, shot at a fantastic 66 per cent clip f rom the floor in the second half S a t u r d a y night, spoil ing Hope ' s season opener 79-61.
The F ly ing Dutchmen, led by fo rward F loyd B r a d y ' s 19points , led at half t ime by a 30 -29 score. In fact, the 6-3 senior f rom Chi-cago scored ten of his teaifis first eleven points as the Dutch g r a b b e d an 11-10 edge with 11:24 to p lay in the half. F r e s h m a n B a r r y Sch-reiber, getting the nod by Coach
Russ DeVette at the vacan t tor-ward spot , cl icked on a d r iv ing lay-up with 6 :48 r ema in ing to give H o p e their largest lead, 21-14.
T H E COLD—oHOOTING Cru-sade r s f inal ly got rolling, with h igh-scor ing g u a r d Dick Jones ' three-point p l a y cutting Hope ' s a d v a n t a g e to 26-25 with two minutes t ) go. /Ml told, Va lpo connected on on ly 27 per cent of its field goa l attempts in the first half.
After the intermission , Valpo quickly took over control of the contest. After t a k i n g a 31-30 lead on Jones ' lay-up, the C r u s a d e r s raced to a 3 7 - 3 0 a d v a n t a g e b y
Third Wrestling Season Begins With New Coach
Star t ing its third va r s i ty season , the Hope College wrestl ing team, coached by George Kraf t in his first year of coach ing at Hope, is look ing toward a season of building.
This will be the g r a p p l e r s first season under Coach K r a f t ' s gui-dance, and in fact is the first o rward - look ing wrestling pro-
Seminary Tops In Intramural Football League The Semina r i ans took top hon-
ors as the r a in - soaked 1967 inter-fraterni ty football s eason came to a close last week.
The Semina r i ans compiled a 6-0-1 record in their first season of competit ion. They were follow-ed closely by the Arkies and Fra -ters, 5-0-2, and 5-1-1 respectively.
In the golf t ou rnamen t , theC'os-mos c a m e out on top, with cap-tain Dale Grit l ead ing the way with an 82. Fol lowing close behind were the Arkies, Fra ters , and Em-mies. The Knicks and Centur ians were not represented.
Hoopsters Will Face Concordia Saturday Night
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Concord ia College of River For-est, III., will field a ve teran quin-tet t o m o r r o w night when it faces Hope in the Dutchmen's home opener at the Civic Center.
Coach Faszholz has five letter-men re tu rn ing f r o m last year ' s squad which won 13 of its final 15 games after winning only two of its first six contests. One of those ear ly losses c a m e at the h a n d s of the Hope cagers , by a 77-7 6 score.
Last yea r ' s s ta r t ing g u a r d s , senior Bob Kars ten and junior Cir jck Bjerregard, a re counted on to hand le the backcour t chores aga in this season. Dick Craven , a 6-4 senior, will s tart at one fo rward , with j un io r t ransfer Roger Burgdorf at the other.
Tom Ruppert , who was second in the nat ion last season in rt^ b o u n d i n g with 23 per g a m e , grad-uated in June, t ak ing his 18-point a v e r a g e with him. Consequently. Concord ia m a y be weakened at the pivot. However , Coach Fasz-holz is hop ing that 6-6 junior Dave Wild can step in and fill Rupper t ' s shoes adequate ly .
While H o p e was losing to Val-p a r a i s o last S a t u r d a y night, Con-cordia was c ru sh ing Principia College, 107-71. The Dutch will be h o p i n g for their second straight win of the season.
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g r a m in its his tory. Mr. Kraf t pointed out that the last two sea-sons were one-shot a f fa i r s while this is to be the start of a con-t inuous wrestl ing effort.
The first step toward this goal is the es tabl ishment of pract ice facilities in the basement of Kol-len Hall, e l iminat ing the need for us ing the West Ottawa High School gym, as has been done in the past .
The t eam ' s s ta lwar ts for this sea-son a re expected to be Rick Van-denBerg , at 167 pounds , who posted a 7-2 record as a fresh-man , Keith V a n Tubergen in the heavy weight c lass and Kar l Na-do l sky at 152 pounds .
The squad is rounded out by George Avery at 160, Bill Cook, a re tu rn ing le t lerman at 145, Tim De V o o g d at 123, Robert Garmi-r ian at 137, Car l Rauwerdink at 167, and Tom Vickrey at 160. Due to an ineligibility, the 130 p o u n d class is open and will pro-bab ly have to be forfeited.
The g r a p p l e r s meet fou r MIAA foes this year in Olivet, Adr ian , K a l a m a z o o , and /Mbion. Calvin will not be compet ing this year due to the decision to d r o p their wrestl ing t e a m T h e t e a m will open this coming S a t u r d a y , meeting Grand Rapids Jun ior College on the J. C. 's h o m e mat .
t u r n i n g three Bruce McCreary er-r o r s into three quick and easy baskets .
The Dutchmen s tayed within fou r poin ts of the talier Crusade r s for the next eight minutes, but three s t ra ight buckets by Va lpo m a d e the score 52-42. Spark ing the ra l ly was s o p h o m o r e gua rd Bruce Linder.
APPEARING IN a Hope uni-f o r m for the first t ime since March, 1966, f o r w a r d T o m Pelon scor-ed on a lay-up and a tip-in to close the g a p to 58-50 with 8:15 to p lay. However, led by the out-side shoo t ing of Linder and Jones V a l p o b e g a n to pull away .
Hitting 24 of 3 6 second half field goa l tries, V a l p a r a i s o finish-ed with a shoo t ing percentage of 4 6 per cent. Meanwhile, the Dutch hit 2 5 of 55 for 45 per cent.
Hope recovered m o r e rebounds t h a n the C r u s a d e r s , 31--22, with B r a d y pul l ing d o w n 14 .
B r a d y a l so led all scorers with 33 points . Ga ry R y p m a put in 10 a n d Schreiber and McCreary
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JSadjourma Tops Four All -League Soccer Choices
The Hope College soccer team, coached by Dr. Philip V a n Kyi, placed four p l a y e r s on the all-conference s q u a d of theMichigan-lllinois- Ind iana Intercollegiate Soccer League.
Selected to the first team was f r e s h m a n DeGaulle N a d j o u r m a , a ha l fback f rom Chad , Africa. Representing Hope o n the second
team were senior back Dave l)e-Velder and f o r w a r d s Manuel Cu-ba , a f r e shman , a n d Fred Schut-m a a t , a jun ior .
In other soccer news. Coach Van Eyl was elected the new pre-sident of the Mi l conference. The coach a l so announced the 1968 soccer schedule, which will include conference tilts with Ear l ham, Wheaton, L a k e Forest , Calvin, M a c M u r r a y and Wabash . Also o n the agenda are non- league g a m e s with Albion, K a l a m a z o o , Oak land , and Mich igan State, this y e a r ' s na t iona l co -champs .
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