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M A R C H 3. 2010 • SINCE 1887 SPERA IN DEO' HOPE COLLEGE • HOLLAND. MICHIGAN

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VICTORIES— The men's basketbal l team (above) and women's basketbal l team (right) have gained momentum wi th recent wins and have secured their places In the NCAA Division III tournament.

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Mellon scholars to pursue digtal arts Amy Soukup C A M P U S N E W S CCHLJUTOR

•p i? ite spring, Hope Colleg^ Arts and numan i t i e s

Depar tments will accept 17

first-year s tudents to a new, prestigious academic program,

the Andrew W. Mellon

Foundation Scholars Program. The director of the new

Mellon Scholars Program, Professor William Pannapacker,

says the focus of the program

is to "cultivate faculty-student collaboration in all of the arts

and humanit ies using Internet-based technology—particularly

new media—to work with other

s tudents and scholars in a global

context." Mellon Scholars candidates

apply to the program spring

of their f reshman year either through self-nomination or

after being nominated by a faculty member. Once accepted,

participants spend their

sophomore year complet ing interdisciplinary seminars taught by guest faculty f r o m

all of the Arts and Humanit ies Depar tments . Mellon Scholars

will then begin working on a collaborative project, in small

groups, with a faculty mentor

dur ing their junior year. In their senior year, continuing Mellon

Scholars will work one-on-one

with a faculty mentor in their major field, producinganoriginal

contr ibution to scholarship. The program also offers

competit ive assistantships,

so Mellon Scholars can "earn

while they learn" doing research on their own projects in the

summer, just like s tudents in the

sciences. According to Pannapacker,

the Mellon Scholars program will encourage s tudents to

become cultural and intellectual

ent repreneurs as they demonstra te the value of ar ts and

humanit ies by "engaging new technologies for collaboration,

preservation, and dissemination

of artistic and scholarly work." The current changes in the

use of technology, including the popularity of digital meth-ods of communicat ion such as

YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and

blogging, are changing the role of academics in the world.

Pannapacker said this t ime of

technological change is "as radi-

cal as the print revolution in the 15th century, and we have to fig-

ure out how to deal with it. We

can't ignore it. We have to build

a new economy, particularly in

Michigan, that creates and sus-tains the arts and humanit ies,

and the Internet offers us new

tools for making that realisti-

cally possible." Up until recently, when a stu-

dent wrote a paper or completed a project, it was usually filed

away and very few people ever read or saw the student's work.

Pannapacker said the Mellon

Scholars program at Hope will

change that fact. "The idea is to have s tudent

work accomplish something in

the world by using the Internet

to disseminate it," said Panna-

packer. W h e n people look up Hope

College online, not only will they

find information on athletics,

performing arts and ministries, but Pannapcker said, they will

also find, "examples of s tudents doing outs tanding things in the

academic world and getting pos-

itive feedback for it." Pannapacker added that not

only will the Mellon Scholars

program encourage innovation in its participants during their

academic years, but the pro-gram will also benefit its partici-

pants after graduation, encour-

aging them to create their own opportuni t ies—to build the new

knowledge economy—instead

of relying on finding jobs that already exist or are imperiled by

the recession. The Arts and Humanit ies have

extended the deadline to apply

to the Mellon Scholars Program

until Wednesday, March 10. Pannapacker encourages any

first-year s tudent with an inter-est in the ar ts or humanities,

s trong writing abilities, and the desire to explore new technolo-

gies and career paths to apply to

the program. "We want to pick people who

have qualities suggest that they'll persevere through program and

contr ibute to its goals, and, in process, showcase the excel-

lence of Hope's academic pro-gram and their own potential

as public intellectuals and the

builders of a new economy that values the arts and humanities."

said Pannapacker. Students interested in learn-

ing more can access the Mellon

Scholars Program at ht tp: / / w w w . h o p e . e d u / a c a d e m i c / m e l -

lon/ or can direct questions to

[email protected].

Tuition

increases Arryn Uhlenbrauck G U E S T W R I T E R

On Feb. 19, President James Bultman sent to students and

their families the annual letter

explaining the raise in tuition prices. Next year's tuit ion and

board will be increased by 3.25

percent to $34,620 from this year's total cost of $33,530.

HopeCollege'sChiefFinancial Officer Thomas Bylsma said,

"Hope's administration has been in an aggressive stewardship

m o d e of operat ion for the past

several years. In other words, we have been very proactive in

trying to find ways to reduce

operating expenses — contain cost growth in areas that do

not diminish the educational

experiences enjoyed by our

students." Bylsma explained, "The

tuition, room and board fee comparison that we completed

for this year reveals that Hope's total of $33,530 is $5,600 (or 14

percent) less than the average of

(Hope's) peers." As reported by the Grand

Rapids Press, Calvin increased

costs by 3.3 percent, resulting in

Calvin's tuition costing $33,395. "I believe the success of

Hope has more to do with the

priorities in where we allocate our resources, the diligent

efforts of faculty and staff and the good stewardship of

the resources that have been

provided," Bylsma said. According to Bylsma, the

rising prices in tuition are cushioned by financial aid. He

said that most students, over

90 percent, receive some form of tuition discount including

merit- and need-based aid. Merit-based aid is received

through scholastic achievement awarded to incoming freshmen.

Bylsma said: "Need-based aid depends on the financial needs

of families. As you would expect,

the recent economic downturn has had a significant impact

on the level of need-based aid

provided to families. "This past year alone, the

amount of Hope-funded need-based aid increased by over

16 percent. For the past four years, the percentage increase

in Hope-provided aid has been

significantly higher than the percentage increase in tuition."

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2 T H E A N C H O R CAMPUS M A R C H 3 , 2 0 1 0

T H I S W E E K AT H O P E

Wednesday March 3 Alpha Phi Omega Hot Choco-late and Sugar Cookie Sale Hope's co-ed service f ra tern i ty wi l l

be sel l ing hot chocolate and sugar

cookies for $ 1 outs ide of the Science

Center 1 0 - 1 1 a .m.

Thursday March 4 Lecture Features Yacht Builder Leon Si lkkers, founder of S2 Yachts,

wi l l present the address "Fifty Years

of Mak ing Fun ' as part of the Meijer

Lecture Series. Graves Hall. Winants

Aud i to r ium. 4 p.m.

Friday March 5 SAC Presents Rudy Currence Singer /songwr i ter Rudy Currence

per forms at the Kletz. 8 : 3 0 p .m.

I N B R I E F

BAHLE OF THE BANDS RAISES FUNDS FOR HAITI

A Hope for Haiti Battle of

the Bands event will take place

Friday, March 5, presented by

Hope College Student Congress as a flindraiser for the Haiti

Foundation Against Poverty.

There will be prizes for both participating bands and spectators

of the event. Any band interested

in participating should e-mail [email protected]. All

donations are welcomed.

PROFESSOR EDITS BOOK

Dr. Teresa Heinz Housel of the Hope College communication

department worked with Dr.

Vickie Harvey, associate professor

of communication studies at California State University-

Stanislaus, to edit a book

titled, "The Invisibility Factor: Administrators and Faculty Reach

Out to First-Generation College

Students," which was published

in January. Heinz Housel and Harvey

pursued the book because of

their own experiences as first-

generation college students. Heinz Housel, in particular, had to learn

how to adjust to the demands of

a college setting, transitioning from her rural school to Oberlin

College. While their personal

experiences inspired them, Heinz Housel and Harvey researched.and

reflected on the issue to cover the

topic of first-generation college

students in a more widespread

sense.

"MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING" OPENS

Hope College Theatre will present William Shakespeare's

"Much Ado About Nothing,"

directed by Daina Robbins. Performances begin Friday,

March 5 in the DeWitt Center

main theatre. Tickets are $7 for regular

admission, $5 for Hope faculty

and staff and $4 for students and senior citizens. They are available

at the DeVos Fieldhouse ticket

office. The DeWitt Center ticket office will be open on performance

nights at 7 p.m.

P ERSPECTIVES

Why was Belhar Confession written in Afrikaans? Krlsten Roth G U E S T W R I T E R

W h e n author Chris Rice visited campus at the beginning

of February, he was deliberate to point out five signs in our culture

that we are in a new racial time. As someone who has spent

much time working with racial

reconciliation in America, he spoke with certainty when he

said that we, as a group, are

moving forward. We are, in fact,

embracing much of what the Belhar Confession says to be

true, and we are rising up as a generation to live into the lives

Christ has called us to live. However, he also challenged

listeners. He challenged us

to take necessary s teps—no matter how big or small—to be

deliberate and intentional in the

ways we live and the ways

we enable others to live. The

Belhar Confession, he would

claim, was a documen t wri t ten to be applicable everywhere,

always.

To me, the Belhar Confession is more than

a document applicable to

the church in resistance to

apartheid in South Africa at the end of the 20th century.

I love that the document has

been recognized by both the Reformed Church in America

as well as throughout the

world. I think the document is beautifully written, bo th in its

original Afrikaans language as well as in every other language

that it has been translated into

throughout the past twenty

years. The Belhar Confession

shows me the key principles

taught by Jesus in the New

Testament are taken seriously by todays Christ ians across

the world. It shows there is

hope for justice, unity and

reconciliation motivated by the Gospel. Reading this

document brings m e joy and

hope, but it also upsets me in

some way. Halfway through my senior

year of high school, I graduated and moved to South Africa by

myself. I stayed there for a year

as a s tudent in a ministry school

called Pneumatix, located 45 minutes outside of Cape Town.

In this school, 1 was one of

two American students, and the only one who lived there

independently f rom my parents.

All of the other s tudents were

African—either residents of South Africa, Namibia or

Zimbabwe. The races were mixed—there were white,

colored and black s tudents and

teachers present at the school. The socioeconomic statuses of

each student were different too. The unifying factor was Christ .

This unifying factor, whether it be called Christianity or Christ or the idealism of Christ,

was overwhelming on the eight-

acre farm that was h o m e to Pneumatix. However, there was

no predetermined religion. There was a mix of traditions

present, including reformed and

Pentecostal traditions as well as par ts of traditional African

religions. While the s tudents were overwhelmingly white, the

religious a tmosphere was quite mixed. Church at tendance was

mandatory on Sundays dur ing

the school year, but s tudents were allowed to choose which

church to attend. At the beginning of the year,

I had to attend churches that

conducted their services in

English, but after about three months of living in South

Africa, I could attend churches with services in Afrikaans. This

allowed m e to experience many different denominat ions and

congregat ions—from tribal to

Dutch Reformed to Apostolic

Faith Mission affiliated

say regardless of how they have

changed, they are still not right. I know some may think I'm

a small, unprofessional, upper-middle-class American girl, and

it's outrageous for me to live in a country for only a year and

over-simplify by saying things

are not right. I know that post-apartheid reconstruction is a

very complicated issue facing the world today. I know that

stories reach much far ther back than the "official" period

of apartheid, that they stretch

back to when Jan van Riebeeck sailed f rom the Nether lands and

claimed the soil of South Africa to be Dutch territory, and even

back to the idea that the white

man has power, and further, to the idea that any m a n can have

power over o ther men.

churches. An element of our schooling

was practical ministry

experience, in which we, as a

s tudent body of 100, split up into

three teams and traveled a round South Africa for a month at a

t ime twice a year. During these

"tour" times, we were exposed to wealth and poverty, black,

whites and coloreds, churches,

schools, nurseries and squatter camps. The range of beliefs and

traditions I saw shocked and

inspired me. The reason the reading of the

Belhar Confession upsets me in

some ways is because I never read it until af ter I spent a year

in Africa and re turned to the States. I had never even heard

of it. Such a beautiful document should shape the way we live our

lives and the way that we treat others. Granted, I know that

I did not live in South Africa dur ing apartheid, but I did study

it, and the af termath of apartheid

is still very apparent in the country. Some citizens say that

condit ions have worsened, while some say they have improved. I

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I have tried to educate myself

on the workings of South African

politics in an effort to better

unders tand why the Belhar Confession was so unapparent to

me while living in South Africa,

and I am not sure if I will ever know why it is not a document

more talked about in a society that so desperately needs justice,

unity and reconciliation.

I have also seen the Belhar Confession as an expression

of South African language.

The Belhar Confession was originally written in Afrikaans.

As a speaker of Afrikaans, I am aware that I speak "the language

of the oppressor." Afrikaans is a "dialect" of Dutch and was

formed in the years af ter van Riebeeck arrived in South Africa.

Today, it is spoken by only a few

million people, the vast majori ty

of whom are white. This Confession is a product

of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa. This denominat ion

is referred to as the "N.G. Kerk" in South Africa—the proper

wording for this is Nederlandse

Gereformeede Kerk. This is an Afrikaans denominat ion

in South Africa. While 1 love languages, and while South

Africa is one of the mos t diverse countries in the world regarding

languages—eleven that are official—this language barrier

proves to be huge.

If you were to go to a Dutch Reformed Church in South

Africa, there would probably be no black members of the

congregation. This case is the

same in Apostolic Faith Mission churches. The AFM church is

actually referred to as an AGS church in the South African

culture, shor t for Apostolies

Geloof Sending. This division in Sunday services is not only the

case for the Afrikaners; I blame not only them.

There are many different

denominat ions that I am not so familiar with that only

per form their services in

Zulu or Xhosa. The point is that these

churches are in no way

visitor-, or seeker-, friendly.

They do not p romote mixing between races but set people

firm in their ways, using

language to do so.

The quest ion I have is, "Why was this Confession

originally wri t ten • in Afrikaans?" Not everyone

could understand. If this had originally been writ ten in

English, nearly every literate person in South Africa could

have understood it to begin

with. Instead, it was writ ten in a language that a minority of

the populat ion understands.

It seems ironic to me

that this was done—that a document so beautifully

describing how we need

to live together and what

justice can do for the church was writ ten for only a small

group of people who have not

changed how they deliver their services, only allowing t h e m

to be accessible for speakers of

Afrikaans. I love South Africa. I think

it is a beautiful country. It is

somewhere I am proud to have called home, and I hope to call

it home again in the future.

Reading the Belhar Confession, though, opened my eyes in a

way many s tudents may not have experienced because they

did not have the experiences I

did. I also do not hate speakers of Afrikaans; I do not think they

are completely to blame for

some of the situations in South Africa.

I do think each race, language group and denominat ion—in

South Africa, America and every area—should re turn to the

Belhar Confession, though, and strive to fulfill what it calls us to

do as humans and Christians, for 1 have faith in what was

described to us by Jesus in the Gospels, and I believe that we can live justly, in unity and

reconciled with one another.

M A R C H 3 , 2 0 1 0 NATIONAL T H E A N C H O R 3

Chile struck by 8.8 magnitude earthquake Quake strikes 70 miles from second largest city; deals significant damage to infrastructure and buildings Eric Anderson C O - N A T I O N A L N E W S E D I T O R

A magniUide 8.8 ear thquake s t ruck Chile on Saturday at 3:34 a.m. local time. The epicenter was located about 70 miles f rom Concepcion, Chile's second largest city. Multiple cities have already been declared disaster areas, with cities such as Concepcion and the capital city of Santiago suffering significant damage to inf ras t ruc ture .

The ear thquake has caused t remors th roughou t the eastern coast of South America . Waves f rom the ea r thquake also p rompted t sunami warn ings for the ent i re Pacific basin. This area includes Hawaii, which had braced itself for potentially damaging waves but was relieved when the warn ing was lifted.

Even as rescuers move in to sor t t h rough the rubble, the area con t inues to endure af tershocks . The dea th toll has been r epor t ed at about 700, bu t that n u m b e r is expected to rise once power and communica t ion ne tworks are res tored. Two million Chi leans have also been repor ted as displaced.

Soldiers have been dispatched to the hardes t hit areas. Their dut ies will include keeping the peace and dis t r ibut ing aid. In response to incidents of looting, the Chilean government reached an agreement to provide

PHOTO COURTESY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

C H I L E f S DEVASTATED I N F R A S T R U C T U R E — Above, a collapsed highway near Chile's capi ta l city of Santiago. The epicen-ter of the earthquake was 200 miles away from Santiago and 70 miles away from Concepcion, Chile's second largest city.

supplies f ree of cost to needy res idents .

Whi le this ea r thquake was much more powerful t han the o n e that s truck Haiti, the damage is not as severe. Th i s can be a t t r ibuted to, among o ther things, Chile's super ior

building s tandards . Dur ing a press conference

Saturday night, Chi lean President Michelle Bachelet declared a state of ca tas t rophe calling t he si tuat ion "an emergency unparal leled in the history of Chile."

President Barack O b a m a has pledged U.S. suppor t . In a s t a tement made Saturday, O b a m a said, "We can' t control nature , bu t we can and must be p repared for disaster when it strikes."

Secretary of State Hillary

Cl inton had p lanned to visit South America before the ea r thquake s t ruck. She still in tends on making the tr ip but is unsure of when she will leave.

Conservatives converge to plan for upcoming election season Sam Tzou S E N I O R S T A F F W R I T E R

Republ ican leaders officially ended the i r th ree-day Conserva t ive Political Act ion Confe rence Feb. 20, in W a s h i n g t o n D.C.

The annual con fe rence focused on a var ie ty of m a j o r topics facing conservat ives . News sources such as USA Today and t he Examiner descr ibed the confe rence full of energized Republican poli t ic ians.

T h e confe rence also

fea tured a large variety of speakers inc luding f o r m e r Vice Pres ident Dick Cheney, fo rmer c o n g r e s s m a n Newt Gr ingr ich , Fox News a n c h o r Glenn Beck, au tho r Ann Coul te r and Texas C o n g r e s s m a n Ron Paul.

T h e annual confe rence received more coverage this year af ter the Democra t i c par ty lost its super major i ty af ter Sen. Scott Brown's, R-Mass. , victory. Brown's vic tory r emoved t he Democra t i c super major i ty s ta tus of 60 sena tors .

O n e of the main messages

conservat ives m a d e clear in the con fe rence was their re jec t ion of progress iv ism in Amer ica and m u c h of t he pres ident ' s

agenda . "Progress iv ism is a d isease

in America," said Fox News a n c h o r and con fe rence keynote speaker Glenn Beck, as r eco rded by the N e w York

Times. C h e n e y m a d e a surpr i se

appea rance at the conference . Cheney has been vocal in cr i t ic iz ing the O b a m a adminis t ra t ion ' s ac t ions a f te r

CP AC Straw Poll

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference features a straw poll meant to gauge con-ference goers' support for possible Republican presidential candidates. This year's poll featured

an all-time high for voter participation with nearly 3,000 votes cast. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas scored a surprise victory, breaking former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney's consecutive

three-year victory streak. Here are the top finishers:

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Ron Paul-31 percent Mitt Romney-22 percent

Sarah Palin-7 percent Tim Pawlenty-6 percent

Mike Pence-5 percent Newt Gingrich-4 percent Mike Huckabee-4 percent Mitch Daniels-2 percent

a lit t le over a year in off ice . He seemed op t imis t i c tha t Republ icans could gain m o r e power as t ime goes on .

"The sky's the limit here," C h e n e y said. "I think 2010 is going to be a p h e n o m e n a l year for the conservat ive cause, and I think Barack O b a m a is a o n e - t e r m president."

T h e con fe rence focused on i m p o r t a n t issues such as heal th care, fore ign policy, global c l imate change and several o thers .

Speakers acknowledged c u r r e n t political issues, as well as t he dec rease in r ep resen ta t ion tha t conservat ives have in t he gove rnmen t and asked pol i t ic ians to put ef for t in to reviving conserva t i sm.

"This is a pre t ty good bo t t om. Yeah, I know this is as bad as I want it to get. But if we don' t s tand u p now and recognize it, it's going to get much , much, much worse," Beck said according to an Examiner press release. "All we have to do is recognize the p rob lems that we have, admi t to our mistakes, d o the hard

work." Aside f r o m the speakers

at the CPAC conference , the o the r impor t an t event for

the con fe rence is a s t raw poll to d e t e r m i n e what pol i t ic ian is more likely to be the next conservat ive candida te for the year 2012. Whi l e CPAC is no t related or affi l iated to the Republ ican party, polit ical analysts look to this poll to d e t e r m i n e what cand ida tes could be leaders in the u p c o m i n g elect ion.

Republ ican pol i t ic ians r e t u r n e d to work on Feb. 22, with a minor i ty in t he U.S. Senate, House and in the n u m b e r of governors .

Even so, the leaders at CPAC expressed belief that the s i tua t ion for the conservat ives of Amer ica will improve in the

fu ture . In a con fe rence that

seemingly fea tured no th ing but glowing depic t ions of f u t u r e Republican success. Beck concluded his keynote address by of fer ing some caut ious opt imis im.

"We will make it, and at night we will be beat t ired. We will be so tired," said Beck, "but when we pu t our head down on our pillow to go to sleep again that night we can be happy because we know t o m o r r o w it will again be morn ing in America."

4 T H E A N C H O R N A T I O N A L MARCH 3, 2 0 1 0

T H I S W E E K I N Q U O T E S

"I 'm sure t h a t my m o m was the re l if t ing m e u p b e c a u s e I h a d n o m o r e legs." - Joannie Rochette, a Canadian figure skater who won the bronze in the women's competit ion, on skating her long program just four days after the sudden death of her mother. Rochette became the first Canadian figure skater since 1988 to stand on the podium.

"In t e r m s of t he ac tua l ce lebra t ion , it's n o t ex-actly s o m e t h i n g u n c o m -m o n in Canada." - Steve Keough, a spokesman for the Canadian Olympic Commit-tee, on the Canadian women's hockey team's celebration of its gold medal by drinking cham-pagne and beer and smoking cigars while lying on the rink for a half-hour after its victory.

"I have a lot of w o r k t o do, a n d I i n t e n d to ded i -ca te myself t o do ing it. Pa r t of fo l lowing th i s p a t h for m e is Buddism." - Tiger Woods speaking at a press conference to address his recently revealed infidelities.

"Today 1 interviewed a

squirrel in m y backyard

and then threw to com-

mercial . Somebody help

me . " - Conan O'Brien, former Tonight Show host, via Twitter. He gained more than 100,000 followers within the first three hours of creating the account.

"We cannot preach tem-

perance f rom a bar stool.'" - Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., saying the U.fj. needs to approve a curb on carbon emissions to influence global climate negotia-tions.

" W e were t h i n k i n g of a toga party." - Steve Jobs, Apple chief execu-tive, joking to stockholders about what the company will do with its $25 billion in cash reserves.

"1 have missed t he Ken-t u c k y - S o u t h Caro l ina g a m e t h a t s t a r t e d at 9." - Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., dur ing a Senate debate that lasted until midnight Thursday; Bunning blocked the extension of unem-ployment benefits to 1.2 million Americans who are expected to lose them next month.

"If you look like me,

you may be ejected from

Southwest Air ." - Director Kevin Smith, on Twit-ter, after being kicked off flight for being too large.

"It ' s easy being vice presi-

dent — you don ' t have to

do anything." - Vice President Joe Biden joking just before the af ternoon session of the health care summit Feb. 29.

Assassination of top Hamas official raises suspicions Glen Shubert G U E S T W R I T E R

A t o p Hamas official, M a h m o u d a l -Mabhouh, was

assassinated in Dubai o n Jan.

20. Although still shrouded in

mystery, a l -Mabhouh 's dea th

was clearly intentional, and it is

k n o w n that he was suffocated and e lect rocuted to dea th in

his hotel r o o m by a t eam of 11

individuals. These individuals all possessed false passpor t s f rom

o ther countr ies and conduc ted

the well choreographed

operat ion in what has beeo considered an expert fashion,

except that they were caught by hotel securi ty cameras .

Whi le some suspect the opera t ion was p lanned and

carr ied out by the Mossad, the

secretive intelligence branch of the Israeli government , these

repor t s are still unconf i rmed .

Mossad has a .history of political

or intelligence killings dat ing back to 1972 in which many pro-

Palestinian mil i tants were killed

in response to the hostage crisis

and dea ths of 11 Israelis dur ing

the 1972 Munich Olympics .

Although some of M o s s a d s c landest ine opera t ions have

been exposed, it is thought that o thers have gone unknown.

Ronan Bergman, an investigative

journalist w h o has researched Mossad , said, "In some cases

Israel has decided to close the circle and take revenge o n people

who were beh ind symbolic acts of t e r r o r i s m - n o t necessarily the

m o s t violent o r lethal acts."

In t he case of a l -Mabhouh 's

Jan. 20 killing, it may be that he was no t just a symbol of t e r ro r i sm

but was actually heavily involved

in the violent act ions of Hamas . He was o n e of the creators of the Izzedine a l -Qassam Brigades,

an Islamist m o v e m e n t that has

been responsible for suicide

bombings and rocket at tacks against Israel and was repor ted

to have been in Duba i for to

purchase weapons for Hamas . The internat ional react ion

to this opera t ion has been

mixed and has involved many

actors. Each of the 11 assassins

used fake passpor t s f rom Great Britain, France, Ireland,

Germany and Australia. Both

Great Britain and Australia have publically denounced the

use of these travel d o c u m e n t s because the passpor t s used by

the assassination t eam included passpor t s of ci t izens f rom

those nat ions . The d o c u m e n t s were the passpor t s of actual,

living citizens of these nations, who instandy became falsely

implicated w h e n their passpor ts

were used by the assassins. Pr ime Minis ter of Australia,

Kevin Rudd, s u m m o n e d the

Israeli ambassador to inquire into the killings and vowed that

Australia would "not be silent on

the matter." The British Pr ime Minis ter

G o r d o n Brown also c o m m e n t e d saying, "We've got to car ry out a

full investigation into this."

If Israel is found to be responsible for this assassination,

it might no t bode well for

relat ions be tween Israel and the

nat ions whose passpor t s were used by the assassination t e a m

in Dubai . The response wi thin Israel

has also been mixed, with some

press sources suppor t ing the supposed act ions of Mossad as

helping to pro tec t their nation, while o thers have been critical

of these actions. Eitan Haber, in t he daily

newspaper Yediot Aharono t said,

"Let us assume for a m o m e n t that Mossad agents were indeed the

ones who executed M a h m o u d al-M a b h o u h in D u b a i - S o wha t ? - I

a m happy for t he el imination of

a cruel enemy." Inoppos i t i on to th i s commen t ,

Amir O r e n said in the Ha'Aretz: "After t he alleged Dubai mess,

the Mossad chief mus t go. Once

again, an assassination of a senior Hamas leader in a friendly Arab

country; once again, an opera t ion designed to kill someone quietly

and inconspicuously; once again,

a diplomatic mess." Whi le Israel is still expected

to be responsible for this

assassination, no proof has been discovered yet, and Israel has

refused to c o m m e n t on these

allegations.

President, lawmakers meet to discuss health care Amy Alvlne S T A F F W R I T E R

President Barack O b a m a

met with Republicans and

Democra t s at Blair House Feb. 25 to discuss the nation's health

care si tuation. There were 38 senators

and m e m b e r s of Congress in

a t tendance . Wi th the televised discussion about the heal th

care overhaul lasting over six

hours, - t he s u m m i t seemed

like a cross be tween a formal

Capitol Hill meet ing and a mee t ing of rambl ing county

commiss ioners .

At the health care s u m m i t O b a m a said, "Almost all of the

long- te rm deficit and debt that

we face relates to the exploding

cost of Medica re and Medicaid." As more baby b o o m e r s s tar t

to reach the eligibility age of 65,

Medicare enrol lment is expected

to grow rapidly. The main poin ts of t he s u m m i t covered what to

do abou t Medicare and Medicaid

as well as wha t Washington is p lanning to do about t he

proposed insurance re form.

Wi th the health care s u m m i t

moving on to t he ques t ion of how changes to the system might

affect the rising budget deficit

and the federal debt , O b a m a , Vice President Biden and the

Democra t s say

that the plans

will lower debt . However,

R e p u b l i c a n s

are skeptical. According to

O b a m a , his

proposal would cost the coun t ry

$950 billion,

and it would cut

some spending

in Medicare . Despi te t he

costly price tag

the health care proposal comes with, O b a m a

says that t he heal th care proposal would reduce the deficit by $100

billion over a 10 year span.

Dur ing the summi t

proceedings, O b a m a asked Republicans to do some "soul

searching" to see if they had

absolutely any ideas and ways

o n h o w the United States

government could insure t he 30 million current ly un insured

Americans .

Republicans

66 A l m o s t all of t he

l o n g - t e r m defici t

a n d deb t t ha t w e

face re la tes t o t he

exp lod ing cos t of

M e d i c a r e a n d M e d -

icaid.

— PRESIDENT BARACK

O B A M A

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Although the

do no t have an idea o n how

to accomplish this, the latest

plan that the party has would

insure 3 million

u n i n s u r e d

Amer icans . W i t h

t he O b a m a

a d m i n i s t r a t i o n

and the Democra t s t rying

to push the $950 billion heal th care

plan through,

Republicans keep

the Democra t s away a year's

insisting that

need to t h row wor th of work and "start over."

At t he summi t , t he

Republicans at tacked the p res iden t s plan over cost and

the role that the government is

playing.

"We don't th ink that t he government should be in control

of all of this. W e want people to

be in control . And that at the end

of the day is the big difference," said Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.

Democra ts , on t he other hand, feel that in order for health care r e fo rm to occur,

the federal government needs control of health insurance

companies . To suppor t this, Sen.

Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said,

"The health insurance indus t ry is a shark that swims jus t below

the water, and you don't see t he

shark until you feel their teeth." Al though O b a m a ,

congressional Democra t s and

congressional Republicans say that they may have some

agreement when it comes

to select issues about health care reform, O b a m a and

congressional Democra t s want a

comprehensive heal th care plan, while t he Republicans, o n t he

other hand , prefer a s tep-by-step

approach.

With bipartisan effort, Senate passes jobs bill Eric Anderson C O - N A T I O N A L N E W S E D I T O R

Congress took a preliminary

step Feb. 24 toward easing the

nation's t roubling unemployment rate. With a vote of 70-28, the

Senate passed a $15 billion

jobs bill designed to create employment oppor tuni t ies and ease an ailing economy.

Thirteen Republicans were among the 70 senators who voted

in support of the bill in a rare

display of bipartisanship. The goal of the bill is to spur

job creation among employers who are wary of making new

hires in such an uncerta in

economic climate. A tax credit of 6.25 percent would be given to

any employer who hires someone

who has been unemployed for at least 60 days. That employer could

also receive additional benefits if

that person stays employed. While the passing of this bill

can be viewed as preliminary

legislative victory for President Obama's agenda, it should not

be looked at as a cure-all for the

economy. In remarks made after the bill

passed. Sen. Charles Schumer,

D-N.Y., said, "This package is not a panacea; i t s not going to solve

everything. But because we have a jobs agenda, not just a jobs bill,

we will keep at it and at it and at

it." The bill now moves to the

House. Some representatives

have already voiced concerns

about the cost of the measure,

among them Rep. Tom Coburn , R-Okla., who contends that the

final costs of the bill will outweigh

any job creation. Coburn said, "These kinds of

budget gimmicks would send any businessman to prison, but

in Washington it is c o m m o n

practice to hide the t rue costs

from taxpayers." This uneasiness was felt by

senators as well, specifically Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb. Nelson

argued that more spending was not the answer; they needed to

cont inue to rely on the st imulus bill to create jobs and spur the

economy. However, o ther Republican

senators and representatives have

come out in defense of the bill. Sen. Or r in Hatch, R-Utah, who

co-authored the bill along with Schumer, said, "The payroll tax

cu t that is the centerpiece of this

bill is a targeted, reasonable way to get employers hiring again.

This is a conservative approach to help put our economy back on

track th rough tax relief, not more

government spending." Looking ahead, the initial jobs

bill seems to be the first of many steps that Democratic leadership

will take to aid the economy, with a focus on areas that have

been hit particularly hard with

unemployment .

M A R C H 3 , 2 0 1 0 ARTS T H E A N C H O R 5

Wind ensemble concert draws 'Lord of the Rings' crowd FiAna RlvArA 1 — w h e r e Emily Sicard ('10) and more cheerful after sor Elena Rivera S T A F F W R I T E R

Music is one of the rare things in life that can touch all kinds of people. From off-key Journey karaoke to the magical Metropolitan Opera, music is a force that unites and inspires. The Hope College Wind Ensemble did just that in its Feb. 26 "Lord of the Rings" concert.

Directed by Dr. Gabe Southard, the ensemble played two pieces from the "Lord of the Rings" catalogue: Howard Shore's "Symphonic Suite" and Johan de Meij's Symphony No. 1.

Howard Shore, who won a Grammy for his orchestration of "LordoftheRings:The Fellowship of the Ring," created all the well-known musical cues from the "Lord of the Rings" movies.

Johan de Meij, on the other hand, wrote a five-movement piece as a tribute to the "Lord of the Rings" books in 1988. Most bands only play the first and fifth movements because.

Southard stated, "The

Emily Erica Long ('12) both had duets on the clarinet. The third movement began loud with percussion almost startling people out of their seats. The soprano saxophone expertly captured Gollum's instances of talking to himself, with quick notes and eerie sounding

chords. The fifth movement seemed

to be the most popular. Erin Johnson ('12), who plays trumpet, stated, "I really enjoyed playing the fifth movement of the de Meij symphony 'Hobbits,' because the piece is lighter and

some darker andmorethoughtfulmovements. The fifth movement also revisits some of the themes that were heard in the earlier movements as the symphony concludes, which I found interesting."

Faith DeVries ('13), who plays flute, stated, "This concert is probably our best one of the year. The Meij symphony is brilliant and captures all the emotion of 'Lord of the Rings' in the most spectacular way." Overall, the Hope College Wind Ensemble captured both the gravitas and the joy of "Lord of the Rings."

PHOTO BY HOLLY EVENHOUSE

W I N D E N S E M B L E — The concert relayed parts of the books and even characters to the audience through music.

GRAPHIC BY EMILY D A M M E R

as are inner three (movements)

devilishly complex." Johan de Meij's Symphony No. 1 clocked

around 50 minutes, with in each movement illustrating a key scene in the novels.

The five movements were

titled "Gandalf," "Lothlorien," "Gollum (Smeagol)," "Journey in the Dark" and "Hobbits."

The beginning of Howard Shore's "Symphonic Suite" was punctuated with bells and chimes, and as the piece went on, the percussion escalated. Gongs, symbols and many dissonant chords signified evil in the piece, as well as big drums that shook the floor of Dimnent Memorial Chapel. The saxophones stole

the show, perfectly punctuating the piece with a deep, mournful tone.

In Meij's Symphony No. 1, the sound was immense, filling the whole room. The music didn't ask for people's focus; it commanded.

The second movement was a flute and clarinet showcase

Hope's Visiting Writers Series welcomes poet Terrance Hayes March 9 Annelise Belmonte A R T S E D I T O R

Renowned poet Terrance Hayes will continue the Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series on Tues-day, March 9, at 7 p.m.

Hayes' most recent book of poetry, "Wind in a Box," was named by "Publishers Weekly" as one of the top 100 books pub-lished in 2006. His second book, "Hip Logic," was a 2001 Nation-al Poetry Series selection and "Muscular Music," his debut col-lection, received the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.

Hayes has received many

other awards, such as a Whiting Writers award, a Pushcart Prize, a Best American Poetry selec-tion and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a B.A. from Coker College in Hartsville, N.C., and an M.F.A. f rom the University of Pitts-burg's writing program.

Hayes writes, "There are re-curring explorations of iden-tity and culture in my work, and rather than deny my thematic obsessions, I work to change the

forms in which I voice them. I aspire to a poetic style that re-sists style."

His new work, he says, ex-plores "the ways community enriches the nuances of indi-viduality; the ways individuality enriches the nuances of commu-nity."

His upcoming collection of poems, "Lighthead," is expected to be published by Penguin in 2010, and some of the poems have already appeared maga-zines including the, American Poetry Review, Poetry and The New Yorker.

Poet Cornelius Eady has said of Hayes' work, "First, you'll marvel at his skill, his near-per-fect pitch, his disarming humor, his brilliant turns of phrase. Then you'll notice the grace, the ten-derness, the unblinking truth-telling just beneath his lines, the open and generous way he takes in our world."

In just one example of what Eady is talking about, here is an excerpt from "Snow," one of Hayes's poems: "This song is for my foe/the clean shaven, gray-suited, gray patron/of Hartford, the emperor of whiteness/blue

as a body made of snow." In addition to reading, Hayes

will also hold a master class about the sentimentality of po-etry entitled, "The Craft of Feel-ing" on Wednesday, March 10, from 9 a.m. to 10:20 a.m. in the Fried-Hemenway Auditorium of Martha Miller.

On CMU's English dept. website, Hayes writes, "I have read and conducted workshops in prisons, high schools and at various colleges throughout the country." The class, like the read-ing, is free of charge and open to the general public.

SlfEARWA.-KK Shearwater — 'The G o l d e n Arch ipe la -go ' Original ly f o u n d e d b y m e m b e r s of Ok-kerv i l River as a n outlet for so f t e r s o u n d s , in the 10 y e a r s s ince Shea rwa te r , h a v e b e c o m e a n i n d e p e n d e n t ent i ty in s ty le a n d p e r s o n n e l a n d a re n o w r e l e a s i n g their sixth a lbum. The m u s i c on " T h e G o l d e n A r c h i p e l a g o " is soph i s t i ca t ed a n d d r a m a t i c a n d cou ld eas i ly b e the s o u n d t r a c k to s o m e m a j o r m e l o d r a m a . At first s o m e p a r t s s e e m out of p l a c e a n d s loppy, bu t fu r the r l i s tens revea l a s u b t l e p u r p o s e f u l n e s s b e h i n d the ent i re p e r f o r -

m a n c e . -L.H.

S e a n Hayes — ^ u n Wolves Run' Sean Hayes ' sixth a l b u m is so l id spo t of Texas Blues with g r e a t i n s t rumen t s a n d h e a d - b o b b i n ' m e l o d i e s . His voca ls a re s tunningly similar to A m o s Lee's, e x c e p t Hayes has b e e n m a k i n g mus ic for m u c h longer . -A.M.

These album reviews are courtesy of WTHS music directors Paul Rice, Aaron Martin and Laura Hel-

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J i g ' Lately, mos t p e r f o r m e r s that a re a w a r d e d l a b e l s l ike " fo lksy" a n d " s i n g e r / s o n g w r i t e r " s o u n d like e i the r they ' r e p a y i n g t r ibu te to folk mus ic b y let-t ing its h u m b l e f o r m s a n d pa s to r a l lyr ics in fo rm the i r rock s o n g s , o r they ' r e softly s t r u m m i n g a so lo acous t ic gu i ta r a n d la tch ing to the g e n r e to s o u n d in teres t ing, bu t this y o u n g Afr ican Amer i -can s t r ing b a n d actually p l ay folk music . The b a n -jos a n d b o n e s p l ay 100-year-old t radi t ionals with p r o u d simplicity, inviting you into a r i ch musica l l a n d s c a p e that p r e d a t e s the mus ic indus t ry as w e

k n o w it. -P.R.

T h e Ruby Suns — T i g h t Soft ly'

The Ruby Suns s o u n d l ike they ' r e t ry ing to b e N e w Zea land ' s ve rs ion of e v e r y b i g A m e r i c a n ind ie b a n d of the last c o u p l e yea rs , a n d a l though m u c h of this a lbum's fuzzy p s y c h e d e l i a dr i f t s b y without b e i n g m u c h m o r e than p l ea san t , w h e n they d r e n c h voca ls a n d k e y b o a r d s in squ i shy r e v e r b they evoke Animal Collect ive, a n d the i r a r ena - s i zed d r u m s u n d e r h u g e n e w - w a v e vocal h o o k s r e s e m b l e Yeasayer ' s latest a lbum. The Ruby Suns don ' t have such a dist inct style, but they fol-low the cu r r en t ind ie t r e n d s well . -P.R.

6 T H E A N C H O R FEATURES M A R C H 3 , 2 0 1 0

M e i r c l h . 2 ( 0 1 ( 0 N a i t t i c o i n u a i l l

W c o m e i n i s 66 "I l o n g t o hear that you have dec la red an

i n d e p e n d e n c y , and by t he way, in t he n e w

c o d e of laws w h i c h I suppose it will be nec -

essary f o r you t o m a k e , / desire jou would

remember the ladies...

— A B I G A I L A D A M S , M A R C H 3 1 , 1 7 7 6

H i s t o r y

M o e t h 99

Alyssa Bar ig lan & Brennlgan Gi lson

S t a f f W r i t e r & F e a t u r e s Co-Ed i to r

Imagine a wor ld wi thou t w o m e n r ep resen ted in t ex tbooks , movies, magazines or anywhere else in society. Imag-

ine a wor ld w h e r e the re is inequali ty b e t w e e n w o m e n and m e n . Imagine a wor ld w h e r e w o m e n are s i lenced, living

in fear of stating thei r opinion. W h a t you ' r e imagining were some character is t ics of w o m e n ' s lives be fo re March

8, 1911 .This day m a r k e d the b i r th of Internat ional W o m e n ' s Day. It

s tar ted as a day to h o n o r the m o v e m e n t toward civil r ights for w o m e n .

According to in te rna t iona lwomensday .com, it "is a global day celebra t -

ing the economic , political and social ach ievements of w o m e n past ,

p resen t and fu ture ." Whi l e t he re were m a r c h e s fo r w o m e n ' s equali ty

p r io r to 1911, on March 8 Internat ional W o m e n ' s Day was ce lebra ted

in many coun t r i e s across the w o r l d . As once said by First Lady Eleanor

Roosevel t , "You gain s t reng th , courage and conf idence by every exper i -

ence in which you really s top to look fear in the face." In terna t ional

W o m e n ' s Day has long given w o m e n the chance to speak u p w i t h o u t

fear and allowed t h e m to show the i r s t rength to the w o r l d .

International Women 's Day included rallies calling for equality be-

tween men and women — to allow women to work, vote, hold office

and so much more . The first International Women 's Day was believed

to b^ founded by Clara Zetkin, a German politician and a fighter for

women 's rights. This new holiday gave women the hope of living with

the same benefits as m e n .

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P h o t o f r o m LIFE M a g a z i n e

Fast-forward to the year 1978, when the course of history changed again for women. This year marked the beginning

o f W o m e n ' s History Week which was intended to coincide with International Women 's Day. This historical week occurs

the week of March 8 and is celebrated annually. While this

was a big advancement for women , many suppor ters didn' t

stop there.

In 1980, there were five women who didn' t believe that

women got enough credit for what they accomplished in

their lives. These five women had a c o m m o n idea of how to

raise awareness of past women 's achievements. Molly Mur-

phy MacGregor, Mary Ruthsdotter, Maria Cuevas, Paula

Hammet t and Bette Morgan started the National Women 's

History Project . In the beginning, this project used its

full force to persuade Congress to designate the month of

March as National Women 's History Month. According to a

website on women 's history, "The purpose o fWomen ' s His-

tory Month is to increase consciousness and knowledge of

women 's history — to take one month of the year to r emember the contributions of nota-

ble and ordinary women , in hopes that the day will soon come when it's impossible to teach or learn history without

remember ing these contributions." As stated on the organization's website "Today our aim is as clear and simple as it

was 25 years ago: to teach as many people as possible about women 's role in history."

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M A R C H 3 , 2 0 1 0 FEATURES T H E A N C H O R 7

The evident problem in the past was that women were looked down upon and this needed to change. N W H P suggests

that, "Girls had few role models. Girls and boys and many adults assumed women did nothing important .This perception

needed to be addressed." The website indicates that

every year, a new theme is chosen. The theme for this

Want to get involved?

WRITE ABOUT A WOMAN WHOYOU

THINK HAS BEEN INFLUENTIAL.

A professor, a guardian... a friend. Get

the word out about these women who have

changed you, and as a result, changed the

world.

year is "Wri t ing Women Back into History." Past themes

have included: "WomenTaking the Lead to Save our

Planet," f rom 2009, and "Women's Art: Women's Vi-

sion," from 2008.

The women 's history website stated that an approach

was being taken to reach "a multicultural women 's

history perspective by honoring women of diverse

cultural, ethnic, occupational, racial, class and re-

gional backgrounds." It allows a wide range of wom-

en's perspectives to be taken without focusing on any

one ethnicity.

As a positive result of the allowance of women in the work force, the amount of women workers has increased dramatically

over the years. According to the 2005 U.S. Census Bureau, the number of women (aged 16 and up) who were involved

with the work force in 2003 was 60 percent . In addition, the propor t ion of women (aged 16 and up) who held a "profes-

sional specialty or executive, administrative and managerial jobs" was 34 percent , compared to 30 percent of men . These

numbers show the increase in the amount of women working

in the United States. From having a low percentage of women

working over 50 years ago to having 60 percent in the work

force in 2003, women have attained a miraculous achievement

that was set in motion back during the early 1900s.

Women 's progress in society w o n ' t stop now. Women are still

climbing the corporate ladder and in society as well. With a

knowlejlge and awareness of the history behind National Wom-

en's History Month and its founders , we (both men and women

alike) can all learn that progress is possible.The National Mu-

seum o f W o m e n ' s History was founded in 1996 to celebrate

women's history and to raise awareness of just how far women

have come. According to the museum's website, it is "dedicated

to preserving, interpret ing and celebrating the diverse historic

contributions of women and integrating this rich heritage fully

into our nation's history." It is impor tant that we understand the

importance of National Women 's History Month and the ef-

forts that women made to be equal among men . It had a major

impact on women across the world . It was a landmark in our

history, and it will continue to be in the years to come.

This monumental and continuous change doesn't have to halt when it comes to campus

borders. Even today at Hope,you can take women's studies classes or talk about these sort

of issues with one of the professors.

Brilliant women inhabit Hope — on the sports field, in the dance studio, on the comput-

ers at the library, in the Pine Grove and in the offices.

&

Write about them. Share your stories. Keep supporting them to further the changes they

hope to bring on-campus and off-campus.

•For m o r e informat ion on National Wom-

en's History Month , visit nwhp.org.

8 T H E A N C H O R VOICES ) I O £

M A R C H 3 , 2 0 1 0

Musings on mutual misunderstandings

Emily West Co-Editor-in-Chief

Raise your hand if you're apathetic

What do I have to write to incite my peers? Just a few short years ago, the weekly Anchor was overflowing with letters f rom

students who were upset about where the world was headed, how the Christian church was changing, what governments were doing and how people were treating other people. No longer does this outcry happen. Blame it on busyness, fear or

laziness; 1 am going to blame it on apathy. Recently, when asked by an older Hope alum what the student body was like,

politically — as in conservative, moderate or liberal — I did not know how to answer. 1 think there is an interesting blend of the political spec t rum on campus. It is hard to

tell, though, because most voices are silent. I want to give us the benefit of the doubt. Are we afraid to disagree? We have seen

the church divorce itself over and over again. Are we afraid to offend? Maybe we are afraid of the baggage. If our perspective has been labeled liberal or judgmental and carries with it a myriad of other issues, then we may hesitate to allege ourselves.

But all of these fears are fabricated. There is no way we will know what our communi ty can sustain until we test it. I believe our relationships are bigger than this. I believe our communi ty is empathetic enough and intelligent enough to be

honest about the issues we are passionate about.

I see students wearing Toms and drinking fair-trade coffee. Is this a more quiet

way to protest poverty? I get excited thinking about what it could look like if we educated ourselves about

other people's situations. Does the tragedy in Haiti devastate you? Do something. Say something. There are global crises to spare: water, food, human trafficking, AIDS, rape, overpopulation, global warming, femicide and so many others.

Initially, I wondered if it is simply natural to care more about what happens in our own backyard, to our friends, family and acquaintances. But when there was controversy surrounding the GSF's invitation to Dust in Lance Black to speak on campus, I learned that even an issue on this campus does not hit close enough to home to provoke a response. The Anchor received several letters f rom faculty, parents and alumni. Very few student letters came, yet I overheard it being talked out: "Well, of course he shouldn't be allowed on campus. Did you know ... ?" and "I

cannot believe how homophobic this college is." Finally, I challenged one person I heard spouting off about "the gay issue." "Write

a letter to the editor about it," I suggested. The Anchor has not yet received this

student 's letter. Is the role of college students changing? Maybe we aren't meant to be the rebels,

raising our flags for peace and marching for justice. It would break my heart if this were true, because the t ru th of the matter is, college students have time and energy to care about what happens in the world. College students helped end the Vietnam

War and marched with Dr. King. Wha t else could we do?

Enti/y stopped shaving her legs in November and claims it feels amazing when her leg

hairs blow in the wind.

Parentheticalities

Kaili Doud Columnist [§

m

I Sliding off the Titanic has never

been this fun

Recently, 1 discovered the wonders of Crazy Bounce. Now, I would not consider myself to be a person of high energy (as made apparent

when 1 wrote about naps). Of course it's fun to venture around and jump a few fences, but when it comes to activities that require running around and being out of breath, I'm never too thrilled. Some of us are just meant for movie theaters. Or chairs.

And then Crazy Bounce happened. It occurred to me the minute we walked in the place that it was a bracelet-building

palace. Most of us, I 'm sure, went to bracelet-buildings when we were young: Chuck-E-Cheese, Peter Piper's and hospitals. It was true: $7 for a bracelet and the place was ours for an hour — along with around half of the populat ion of 5-year-olds in Holland. It was mostly theirs. Primary colors on the floor and the Titanic, property

of age 5. For whatever reason, I really had no idea what to expect of this place. "Incredible

inflatables," of course, but what in heaven's name does that entail? Many things, I was

to learn. Should I start with the Bungee Run? Or the Iron Man challenge? Perhaps

Gone Fishing? Five stars? Crazy Bounce? W h a t fun! Oh, but no. I shouldn't start with any of those. In fact, it would be blasphemous

to start there without mentioning what is rightfully first.

The water. Take note: Crazy Bounce has the most delicious water supply I have yet found in

the dear city of Holland. For the life of me, I just couldn't fa thom the majestic quality of it. After climbing several dozen inflatable ladders covered in the sock-prints of small children, sliding to my heart 's desire and getting the notorious Crazy Bounce elbow wound, it was t ime to rehydrate — and my, was I in for a surprise. This H 2 0 was so fantastic that I had to literally wait in line for the fountain. The lovely lady working at the lobby counter told us we were free to bring Igloo water coolers next

t ime and fill er up. I hope she was being serious. Everything included, I must say that Crazy Bounce made for a successful evening.

Exhilarating slides, a boxing ring and accidentally almost running over small children is a marvelous way to spend an hour. I even made a friend! His name is Noah. He is

5. His m o m mentally nicknamed me "babysitter." And so I would highly encourage you all to take a drive down to Felch Street and

fancy yourself to be 5 again. It's good for the soul, I 'm sure. Enjoy all things inflatable, make a friend and be sure to try the water. I mean, really, be sure. Maybe do that

first. Happy bouncing!

Kaili is grateful that Crazy Bounce does not have a ball pit. Ball pits tend to eat things

they aren't supposed to; inflatable slides are much friendlier.

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Three days

If you could do anything for three days, what would

it be? Depending on how you answer that question,

three days can become the most dreadful or most memorable time of your life. If somebody had asked m e that question a month ago, I don't think 1 would have thought of a journalism conference as a feasible

option. Why would 1 want to sit in a van for 10 hours and

go to a journalism conference in Minneapolis with six other people I don't know very well, only to ride in that same van for 10 more hours when I could spend three days in the Bahamas or at Disney World with my closest

friends and family? Because a lot can happen in three days, that's why. People can go f rom co-workers and editors to Amy,

Bethany, Emily, Eric, Jolene and Sunkyo. You can learn more about a person in a 10-hour car ride than you can f rom working on The Anchor with them all school year.

Our trip started out at 8 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 12. We hoped to solve all the world's problems by talking them through during our 10-hour ride. Those hopes were quickly dashed when, within an hour, we were all snoozing with iPod headphones blasting. Our first stop for gas perfectly correlated with lunch t ime at a Subway in Wisconsin, and yes, 1 did wonder if the pepper-jack cheese on my Italian BMT was real Wisconsin cheese.

Six more hours on possibly the bumpiest highways in America, yes, even worse than in Michigan, ended with our arrival at the Marr iot Convention Center in Minneapolis. To the 23rd and 26th floor we went; all the guys in one room; all the women in another.

Next was the first of many, shall we say, not so interesting speeches to come over the next few days. Then we got treated to an appetizer spectacular straight f rom heaven itself: mini-burgers, meatballs, mozzarella

sticks and chicken wings. After gorging ourselves and wandering aimlessly

through the skyway for a while, we decided we wanted to go somewhere we could watch the Olympics. Enter Applebee's, and our waitress, who was obviously having

a bad day, which we probably made worse by only ordering waters and four desserts for seven people.

Applebee's didn't do it for us, so we decided to just go back to the room and watch the opening ceremony. It was a good show until the emo lumberjacks came out and Riverdanced. If it wasn't for the "magic of television" as one of the old, boring guys who spoke near the end called it, our first night in Minneapolis wouldn't have been the same.

Breakout sessions and more speeches about Twitter, which was said approximately 67 t imes during just the sessions we went to, filled our morning and afternoon. Wha t to do our second night? Mall of America,

anybody? A 20-minute train ride later and we were there, the

mecca of shopping. Where do we want to go? Cries of Forever 21 fill the four-story atrium. Shouldn't we eat

first? Yeah, probably. Where? Oh, they have a Rainforest

Cafe? How about that? Whoa, it's way too expensive

here, let's just go to the food court. Little did we know that the food court looked out onto possibly the coolest amusement park ever, and I'm not talking a few little rides and maybe one roller coaster. No. This place was insane. We should still probably eat first though.

After a parade of Anchor staff members marched through the Panda Express line, we decided to check out the amusement park. Five dollars a ride? No thanks.

Let's get temporary tattoos instead. Four hands and one stomach were marked forever. Actually, more like three

days. Forever 21 beckoned. The guys obliged and we

eventually found it. More wandering afterwards led to possibly the best moment of the whole trip. We stop outside one store and almost fall down laughing. A sign in the window asks a very important and pressing question: "How's your sox life?"

No, that's not a typo. There was a store full of, you guessed it, socks. W e were also all witnesses to a revelation that night. Get ready for it. Eric, is, bi-soxual. He admit ted it. W h a t does being bi-soxual entail? Well, sometimes you wear socks that are the same, but sometimes you wear socks that are different. Seems as if many people may be bi-soxual without even knowing

it. At this point, the mall was starting to close so we

started walking back to the exit by the train station, s topping to go potty one last time. Big mistake. While

the girls are still busy, I sit in the other food court (yes there are two, and they are both huge) and notice one of the biggest abominations I have ever seen.

Some jokester decided to put this chicken place in the food court . Fine. Chicken is good anyway, so what's the problem? The problem is the name of the chicken restaurant. It pains me to even say it: Chik Wich. First of all, that's a stupid name. Second of all, it was clearly a rip-off of the best restaurant in the world, Chick-fil-A (Everybody in the car got a half hour rant about how great Chick-fil-A is, f rom yours truly. If you would like one, just ask. I'd be happy to anytime).

We made it back to the room, watched some more Olympics and went to bed.

Sunday we woke up, tried to go to Candyland only to find out it wasn't open and left before the awards ceremony (which turned out to be a good thing, considering we didn't win anything). Once again, we stopped at a different Subway in Wisconsin for lunch

when we needed gas. After stocking up on every candy on the face of the

earth, we set out for home ETA: 9:30 p.m. The next five or six hours were full of stories that are too long for this column. I've already written way too much and most of you probably already stopped reading.

Anyways, we learned that Upper Iowa University is actually in Rockford, III (co-editor in chief Karen Patterson's hometown. Wonder why she didn't go there instead?). Sunkyo is official, like Facebook. Jolene can no longer finish a giant jawbreaker in one day. Amy doesn't know how to pronounce Wayne Gretzky (she prefers Wayne Gwetzky). Bethany loves sports even more than 1 already do, especially high school. And our lovely co-editor-in-chief, Emily, has a lot of brilliant ideas about everything. If you can think of it, we probably covered

it on the drive home. Overall, it was a great trip. I'm very glad I signed

up to go, and even though we didn't win any awards at the Best of the Midwest conference, w e now constantly update our Twitters, are forced to pass AP tests during our meetings, and can tell everybody how we spent our

three days.

James is more than willing to make the trek to South Bend

with anybody who wants to indulge in the masterpiece

that is Chick-fil-A.

Quote for thought Kate Schrampfer

Columnist

The origin of old sayings

If you're ever visiting my house and you hear my dad preface a s tatement with the phrase "As my old boss Vic Turoski used to say," get ready. You are about to be blown away by one of the most insightful comments you have ever heard. Sort of. Maybe. Ok, maybe not. But you should listen anyway, because these quotes have become a legend in my household, and they'll probably give you a good laugh, if nothing else.

Usually intended to encourage, these quotes kept me grounded in reality with their hint of dry sarcasm. Oftentimes, I would come to my dad with exciting news of some feat I had accomplished, and he would respond with something like, "As my old boss Vic Turoski used to say, "That's one in a row!"* I never liked that one much; it trivialized whatever my accomplishment had been, but it also stirred me up a bit and made me want to prove that I could do more. I could do better; I could make it two in a row, then three, then four. Watch me dad. Take that, Vic Turoski.

Sometimes the source wouldn't come as a preface to a quote, but would instead be tagged on to the end. For example, my dad might offer this bit of advice:

"'You grow through adversity! as my old boss Vic Turoski used to say." Insightful? Yes. Encouraging? Sure. But as 1 got older, I started to wonder just

who this sage of wisdom was that my dad would so often quote. I think I met him at some point when I was very small. 1 don't remember. I have a

vague memory of stopping at his house on the way to the Fourth of July fireworks one year, but I can't really picture him. I know there were flowers outside his house: irises, maybe? And while I can remember that, all I can picture of the owner of the irises and of my dad's famous little quips is a faceless shadow, a form without definition. I didn't even know what his name really was until about middle school or high school. It could have been anything: Victor Oski, Vic Turoski, or Victoroski, as a last name. I had only heard it said, never written, and it was always slurred together.

Yet I feel as if I know him or at least know his personality. If we were to be introduced, 1 would go right up and shake his hand like I'd known him all my life. And then I start to wonder: Does he know the impact he's had? Does he know how his bits of advice have become legendary proverbs in the Schrampfer home? Probably not. But even so, I'm grateful to him. Through him I've gotten some stinging advice as well as laughter, and 1 can now quote him just as well as my dad.

So, Hope College, I leave you with one last quote: "As my dad's old boss Vic Turoski

used to say, "That's going to come to a screeching halt!"' And so this column did.

Kate is looking out her window and wondering about spring coming; how March came

in and how it will go out. Lion or lamb?

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International food fair brings exotic flavor to Hope

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I N T E R N A T I O N A L CUIS INE— Hope students line up to try Pain au Chocolat (mini croissants with white chocolate), one of the many di f ferent dishes served at the Internat ional Food Fair

held on Saturday, Feb. 27.

Chris Russ S T A F F W R I T E R

Hope Colleges International Food Fair is an annual event that has been taking place for more than 25 years. This years event attracted a number of Hope students, faculty members and a number of Holland area residents as well. The event took place Saturday, on Feb. 27, in the Maas Auditorium. From 6 to 8 p.m., those in at tendance sampled dishes f rom around the globe.

A number of tables were set up around the auditorium, and at each table two or three dishes that represented the cuisine of a specific culture were served. The food was distributed using a ticket system.

The cost for the first five tickets was $5, and each ticket after that cost 50 cents. These tickets could be exchanged for a sample f rom any table. Hope students had prepared and were serving dishes representing cultures as diverse as Sweden and Singapore.

The event was organized by both the International Relations Club and the Office

of International Education. One goal of this event, according to Joshua Roth (*13), is to "give the people of Holland an insight into different cultures."

Roth had prepared and was serving a Mexican dessert called flan, and next to him, another student was serving enchiladas. At the French table across the auditorium, Courtney Long ('12) was serving ratatouille dish, a traditional French dish consisting mostly of vegetables such as zucchini and tomatoes.

In addition to the ratatouille, the French table served miniaturized pieces of pain au chocolat, which is bread containing some amount of chocolate.

Holland resident Sib Kalkman, said she had heard about the event through the local newspaper. Another resident said that she had heard about the event f rom a friend who had attended a few years prior. Holland resident David Newton stated that the Food Fair was a good way to experience an "interesting combination of flavors that I wouldn't normally get a chance to try."

Habeeb Awad, Hope's

International Student Advisor in the Office of International Education, played a large role in running the event. He said, "The Food Fair is a Hope and a

Holland tradition." The Maas Auditorium

filled quickly with interested visitors eager to experience new cultures and tastes. With many

participating students dressed in cultural attire and with the smells of unfamiliar but intriguing food in the air, the food fair was a welcoming event.

J l e t t m t a t h e C d i t m a

A n o t h e r k i n d o f a c t i o n p o t e n t i a l

In neuroscience, messages that zip f rom nerve cell to nerve cell, t ransmitt ing the thoughts vital to our well being ("Hot!"), arc; called action

potential. At their fastest, these neurotransmissions can travel up to 120 meters per second, racing f rom each spindly cell tip to another.

I think of another type of action potential for Hope College: where, if the administration would listen to its s tudents as well as influential research conducted on modern education, Hope College would not only be a top-of-the-line institution but could also make a difference in the world.

Hope College has potential. W h e n I visited the college, I saw the students, so eager to learn and make their mark on the world. Students worked together on projects at VanWylen and others were devouring their readings at Lemonjello's. Little did I know what lay behind the curtain.. .

W h e n 1 stepped foot on Hope's campus that first semester of f reshman year, I still saw those students who were so ready and able to be movers and shakers in our society, but I realized something that I didn't see as an outsider during visit days. Until the students and administration agree, Hope College cannot be a great institution.

In his painting "The School of Athens," Raphael depicted Plato and Aristotle walking among a crowd of students, all actively

6 6 When students become too

focused on grades... they

lose sight of the big picture. — A V R I L W I E R S ( ' 1 0 )

engaged in conversation with their peers. This is, I believe, what education should be: s tudents gathered together to teach each other and to make a difference.

The students should strive not only to learn f rom their professors, but also learn f rom one another, compiling a shared consciousness that can open us up to further discussions.

First, education must

challenge all i n t e l l i g e n c e levels and appease all l e a r n i n g styles. It is very difficult to remain active in a class that offers no challenges, especially where the material is not in my area of interest. Teachers should strive to get to know students on a personal level, deciphering aspirations.

From this foundation, professors can point out areas where students may have their curiosity piqued. Furthermore, all s tudents do not learn alike. Some students may enjoy playing the role of a sponge, absorbing all the material in an hour-long lecture, but other s tudents prefer to complete laboratory or mindwalk experiments.

Students are not cookie cut; they require different methods in order to learn.

Second, modern education

should put less emphasis on grades and more on the application of material, integrating more experiential learning. I remember the material covered in my biology classes much better than I recall the information passed on to m e by my French classes, due to the way the material is presented: In biology class, we take notes in lecture but have an opportuni ty to see concepts in the lab, whereas every single one of my French classes has been taught in exactly the same way: by doing the reading, answering questions, and then going over the questions we answered

during class. W h i c h

c o u r s e would you rather take, a biology c o u r s e where you got knee deep in the 9 5

information or a French class where you were experience dejd vu on a regular basis while trying not to fall asleep on your notebook?

In the same way that physicians must constantly be reading medical journals to stay on top of their game, teachers should be rewriting their techniques, constantly optimizing learning.

W h e n students become too focused on grades and that three-digit figure that "makes or breaks their future success" (I refer here, of course to the GPA), they lose sight of the big picture: the material they are learning.

Students may be able to cram the night before an exam,

but even a few days after the fact, they cannot carry on an intelligent conversation about the concepts they have learned.

If s tudents were faced more of ten with essay tests which forced them to use theories and ideas to craft a response, they would be much more adept at using their knowledge every day instead of as show stoppers at cocktail parties.

Thirdly, a liberal arts education should teach people to find that natural sense of inquiry and use it for all it is worth. Too often in science I encounter s tudents who pick research topics simply to play into the professor s favors. My first year at the University of Michigan, my independent research group chose to focus algae solely because it was the specialty of our professor.

I got lucky with the project; whereas the rest of my group was dragging their feet, I fell in love with the microscopic stained glass (many species of algae have a shell to protect them from harsh conditions).

I spent many an af ternoon looking through our samples under the microscope, determining different species type. I began asking more and more questions, pondering more experiment options.

The independent research ignited my interest but, more importantly, I learned how to think for myself as a scientist.

The role of critical thinking should not be undervalued; at Bowling Green State University, one of my biology professors teaches a critical thinking course that is required for all freshmen.

What a radical idea! At Hope, students are still

striving to mesh with their professors' ideas in class or

the ideas of the administration regarding questions of faith.

These are the three major roadblocks to a Utopian education, the type of education that, with a little bit of change (which seems to be a scary word around here, change), Hope College could very well attain.

It becomes a matter of looking not at what the alumni are willing to pay for or what the administration would like to see, but looking towards the things for which the students yearn.

I am longing for an open-minded campus where I am willing to express myself fully, free to ask questions that may or may not have a school-sanctioned answer. I want to connect with my professors and my fellow students, approach things f rom all sides, appreciating both similarities and differences. Most of all, I want to live my education in my quotidian.

As an educational institution, Hope College shows promise. We succeedatprovidinganeducation f rom many perspectives through our diverse general education courses. However, in order to truly thrive, the students and administration need to agree on just what it is that s tudents should get in the Hope College education package.

In neuroscience, an action potential is a message zooming through our very being. In Hope College, i t s a possibility: the potential to act in a way that moves the world to a better place, graduate by graduate, if we can keep on improving our ideology and methodology. After all, 120 meters per second

is no small feat.

-Avri l Wiers. Class of 2010

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Women's lacrosse improves through practice Jake Bajema S E N I O R S T A F F W R I T E R

The Hope College women's

lacrosse t eam is working harder

than ever to improve. C o m i n g off a season that included just a

couple of wins, the Flying Dutch are de te rmined to make this

season a better one. To make this happen, the

w o m e n knew that they had to start with a more r igorous

practice schedule. "Losing showed us that , in

compar ison to the club t eams in

our area, we needed to s tep it up a notch," Elizabeth Burks ('12)

said. "This year we pract ice more

frequently for longer durat ions

of time." This season the team has

almost tr ipled its practice t ime.

Last season, the practice schedule involved just two hours

of turf t ime and one hou r of

condi t ioning a week. This year t he t eam has

increased their turf t ime to six

hours a week with an hour of

condit ioning. "Although the small t ime

c o m m i t m e n t was convenient

for many girls, it was obvious on

game days that t he other t eams

were put t ing in more time," Jamie Benjamin ('12) said.

Addit ional turf t ime has allowed the t eam to change h o w

it practices. "This year we're focusing our

pract ices on learning how to play

the field as a team," Burks said. "We haven't completely tossed

aside basic skills, bu t we spend

more of our t ime scr immaging .

O u r ability

to increase s c r i m m a g e

t ime in

par t s tems f rom longer

and more f r e q u e n t

practices."

T h e ability to

s c r i m m a g e more has

a lot to do

with the matur i ty of

this year's roster. Last year's t eam included

a lot of newcomers and first-t imers which created a bigger

learning curve. "Last season, a large g roup

of our players were playing

lacrosse for the first time," Burks said. "Whi le we have some

beginner players, the majori ty of our players this year are

experienced." With this added playing t ime

and experience, the w o m e n are looking forward to the season

ahead as well as the oppor tun i ty to play in the new Van Andel

Stadium. The new

s t a d i u m will give

the t eam a

home-f ie ld

a d v a n t a g e with t he

g a m e s b e i n g played on

turf. This

w o r k s out well

with the

G R A P H I C BY EMILY D A M M E R

p r e s e a s o n

i n d o o r p r a c t i c e s

at the Soccer Stop, which also

has turf. "This year we will have

adequa te playing space for our

h o m e s games," Benjamin said.

"Our field we played o n last year had uneven lines and was unsafe

to play on, thus, we only had a couple of h o m e games. Having

a brand new field will allow us to have more games here in the

fu ture , which would be great for the development of our

program." The team is also looking

forward to taking advantage of the "turf effect." Wi th turf comes

the ability for bounce shots,

which can be a huge change of

pace for visiting goalies not used

to the turf condi t ions . In the future, the w o m e n

are striving to make women's lacrosse a varsity spor t at Hope.

It current ly s tands as a club

sport , but the w o m e n hope their added efforts will make women's

lacrosse the 11 th women's varsity

spor t at Hope. "This year we have all s tepped

it up in efforts to s tar t t reat ing women's lacrosse like a varsity

spor t , our long t e r m goal,"

Benjamin said. "We are put t ing all of our past experiences

together to develop new plays

and strategies o n the field that will hopeful ly surprise our

o p p o n e n t s this season."

Men's tennis looks to freshmen for strength James Nichols A S S I S T A N T S P O R T S E D I T O R

O n e out of three. In baseball, a batt ing average

like this will get you in the Hall

of Fame. In tennis, o n e win in three matches isn't that great.

Unfor tunate ly for the men's

tennis team, this is where they s tood after the UW-Whi t ewa te r

Invitational held Feb. 12-13.

The Flying Du tchmen had a chance to improve its record at the h o m e opener Friday night

against Case Western Reserve.

Things didn't go the way they

wanted. The n u m b e r o n e and two

singles were the only Flying D u t c h m e n able to defeat a

Spartan. The other seven matches fell in favor of Case

Western . Coach Steve G o r n o had high

hopes coming into Friday night's

match. "Case Western is ranked 15th

in our region and is a very good

team," G o r n o said. "However, I think we match up well with

them and it should be a very

competi t ive match. W e might be able to pull off a victory."

Captain Michael Gar land (' 10) had similar thoughts , adding, "If we go ou t and play like we know

we can, then I believe that we can come out with a win."

Both m e n ended up being

wrong, bu t not all hope is lost for t he team. With only three

re turning let ter-winners and

six f r e shmen on the roster, the Flying Du tchmen have a young team this year.

They also have six more

indoor matches , five matches

dur ing spring break and nine

more matches after that to

improve their

record. "The big

ma tches on our schedule always

s tar t wi th Calvin,"

G o r n o said. "We haven't beat

Calvin twice in

the same season in the last five

years, and we are looking to change

that trend." The Flying

D u t c h m e n don't play the Knights for another six weeks.

In the mean time, all of the

indoor matches are against non-conference teams, and all of the

spring break matches are against teams f r o m various o the r states.

Before H o p e plays Calvin, they host reigning MIAA

champion Kalamazoo College in

Dewit t Tennis Center on April 13, a mere four days before the

Calvin match. "Kalamazoo is very s t rong

and the favorite to win the MIAA again this season," G o r n o said.

"If our young team cont inues to work hard and improve every

day, I would expect us to battle th rough the MIAA season and

have a good chance to compe te with every t eam on our schedule,

including Kalamazoo." W h e n asked which matches

were impor tan t to the success of the Flying Du tchmen in t he

MIAA, Garland had the same train of thought .

"Obviously, there are some

66 We haven ' t beat

Calvin twice in the

same season in the

last five years, and

we are looking to

change that trend.

— COACH STEVE

G O R N O

matches that we are looking fo rward to more than others ,

such as Kalamazoo and Calvin,"

Gar land said. A n u m b e r of

matches before

Calvin and Kalamazoo give

the young Flying

D u t c h m e n a chance to

improve. Wi th

the youngest

team in recent history, Gar land

and G o r n o are looking to their

n e w recrui ts to

s tep up and win matches. "As the season goes on,

we will be relying more and

more o n them," Gar land said. "I believe that they will rise to

the challenge and accept their

responsibilities." G o r n o is looking to two

fo rmer high school s tate

champions to lead the g roup of f reshmen. Bobby Cawood

('13) plays n u m b e r two singles and n u m b e r one doubles with

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the other captain )ohn Gardne r

('10). Gabe Casher ('13) plays

n u m b e r two doubles for the

Flying Du tchmen . "(Cawood) is a t r emendous

athlete whose greatest a t t r ibute is his de te rmina t ion and

unwillingness to give up on

any shot or any point," G o r n o said. "(Casher) is playing very

well and has worked his way

into the varsity l ineup. He is an

ou ts tanding doubles player and will definitely con t r ibu te to our

success." Next on the schedule for

H o p e is a double-header in

Oberl in, Ohio, on March 6. The first match is against Ober l in

College at 8:30 a.m. The second

is against Grove City, Pa., at 12

p.m. The M I A A por t ion of the

schedule begins after spr ing break on April 7 at Trine. This,

however, can't come fast enough for G o r n o and the rest of the

team. "We never set our sights on

anything less than a conference

championship," G o r n o said.

T H I S W E E K I N S P O R T S

Thursday Men's Lacrosse at Davenport at 5 :30 p.m.

March 4

Upcoming Schedu le Saturday. March 6 Wednesday, Apr i l 7

al Oberlin (Ohlo)al 8:30 a m at Trine al 11:30 a.m.

and 12 p.m.

Friday - Saturday, Apri l 9 - 1 0

Friday, March 1 2 GLCA Tournament at Kenyon & Denlson,

w. Grand Rapids CO al 3 p.m. and Ohio.

vs. Davenport al 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Apri l 1 3

Wednesday, March 17 vs. Kalamazoo College at 4 p.m.

vs. Aquinas at 4 p.m.

Spring Break Matches held In Hilton Head. Saturday, Apr i l 17

S.C. from March 22-26. al Calvin College at 2 p.m.

Saturday March 6 Men's Tennis at Oberl in (Ohio) a t 8 :30 a .m. and

1 2 p.m.

Men's Lacrosse vs. Indiana University at Eastern Michi-

gan University.

Tuesday March 9

Women's Lacrosse at Calvin at 5 :30 p .m.

I N B R I E F

HOCKEY LOSES ONLY FIFTH GAME OF SEASON

The Flying D u t c h m e n suf-fered only their fifth loss of t he

season Saturday when they lost

to Saginaw Valley State Univer-sity 5-2 in the Championsh ip

game of the Michigan Collegiate

Hockey Conference . Dan Bolt ('10) and Chris Kunnen ('12)

scored the two goals for the Fly-

ing Dutchmen . Sean LaDouce ('13) had 27 saves on 32 shots

in goal. The hockey t eam n o w

travels to Ft. Myers, Fla., for t he Amer ican Collegiate Hockey As-

sociation national t o u r n a m e n t

f rom March 10-13. The Flying Du tchmen are the n u m b e r - o n e

seed in the Nor th Region.

TRACK TEAMS FINISH FIRST AND SECOND AT MIAA MEET

The men's track t eam finished

in first place on Saturday at t he

first ever Indoor Invitational at Trine. The Flying D u t c h m e n

finished with 110 points, a mere

half point ahead of Calvin, who finished with 109.5. C a m e r o n

Lampkin ('11) finished first in

the 60-meter dash. The w o m -en's track team came in second

with 127 points . Calvin had 199 points. Kate Nelson ('12) fin-

ished first in the one-mi le run,

almost th ree seconds ahead of the second-place runne r f r o m

Calvin.

WOMEN'S TENNIS FALLS TO FERRIS STATE

The women's tennis t eam

lost 8 -1 to Ferris State on Satur-day in Big Rapids. Number two doubles Katherine Garcia ('11)

and Nicole Spagnuolo (*11) were the only Flying Dutch to win

a match , defeat ing their oppo-

nents 9-7.

MIAA PLAYERS 0FTHE WEEK

Men s Basketball

Peter Bunn Junior

Guard

Women's Basketball

Carrie Snikkers

Junior Center

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Weekend wins give basketball teams NCAA berth Four-point victory continues NCAA chase

Jake Bajema S E N I O R S T A F F W R I T E R

With three victories in four days, the Hope College men's basketball team will get the chance to compete in this year's NCAA Division III tournament .

This will be the Flying Dutchmen's fifth straight year in the national tournament .

The Dutchmen started the quest for another NCAA berth at home versus Trine University.

The Dutchmen had played Trine just four days earlier to end the regular season with a 58-53 victory.

The first round match-up wasn't much different as the Dutchmen pulled out a 66-61 victory. The victory continued Hope's perfection in the first round of the MIAA tournament standing now at

14-0. The scene changed as Hope traveled

to Calvin for a semi-final game against Adrian. The Dutchmen looked to get revenge on Adrian, who spoiled the chance that Hope had at a regular season

conference title. The Dutchmen got its revenge behind

Peter Bunn's ('11) game-high 19 points. Also in double figures were Will Bowser (11) and Andy Venema (11), who scored 15 and 10, respectively.

- With Calvin squeaking out a victory late in the game versus Olivet, it set up a fifth straight Hope-Calvin MIAA

PETER B U N N S H O W - Bunn ( '11) (below) led the Flying Dutchmen wi th 24 points In a 78-74 vic-

tory against the Knights on Saturday.

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tournament championship game. About this matchup, point guard

David Krombeen (12) said: "Win or go home. That's it. We can end their season or they can end ours. It's pretty simple. You're playing for your whole season - forty minutes for everything you've

worked for." This was the fourth meeting between

the two teams this year. Hope won two of the three meetings this year, but no game was more important than this. A crowd of more than 3,600 came out to Van Noord Arena to watch "The Rivalry."

The game couldn't have started much better for the Dutchmen. Through the first 10 minutes of the contest, Hope led by 14 with a score of 27-13. The Knights stormed back with 10 unanswered

points. "That's classic Hope-Calvin,"

Krombeen said. "No lead is big enough. You know when you make a run, Calvin is going make a run right back. That is just the nature of the rivalry, so as a team, we have to stay poised and controlled and understand what we have to do to stop their run and start one of our own."

Calvin continued its run into the second half, grabbing a lead of seven with

just over nine minutes left. Leading the charge for the Knights was

John Mantel, who was nearly unstoppable, scoring 29 points and snagging nine rebounds. Hope battled back in the

hostile environment , thanks to some 3-pointers by Ty Tanis (11) and

Bowser. It wasn't until the two-

minute mark that Hope finally tied the game again, when Venema hit a jumper to even the score at 72-72.

The final two minutes saw Bunn at the free throw line. He scored the final six points for the Dutchmen, goinga perfect 6 for 6 f rom the line and locking up a berth in the NCAA Tournament with a 78-74 victory. Bunn went a stellar 12-13 f rom the line for the game and led the Dutchmen with 24 points.

"Peter is ice cold, man," saidKrombeen."Hemakes things happen when he has the ball at important times. He is an incredible free throw shooter too, so we know when it's on the line and the ball is in Peter's hands, we feel

c o m f o r t a b l e , and I think he does, too ."

The next opponent for the Dutchmen is St. Norbert , Wis. The game will be played at U W Stevens-Point. This marks the 21st time in school history that the Dutchmen will compete in the NCAA tournament .

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Flying Dutch collect third win over Calvin

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Hope College's women's basketball team entered MIAA tournament play last Tuesday, coming off a hard-earned win against Adrian on Feb. 20.

The Flying Dutch, who had defeated 22 of their previous 23 opponents by an average of 31.7 points per game, squeaked out a 58-56 victory over the Bulldogs in the last minute of play.

Tuesday, however, was a different story.

The Dutch started the MIAA Tournament against Alma with a 13-0 run in the first five and a half minutes of play to establish a solid lead, and they never looked back. Hope led by no less than 11 points for the rest of the game and easily ended Alma's season, 76-52.

"We had a really good practice (Monday)," head coach Brian Morehouse said. "We didn't stick to a lot of the stuff we normally do (on Feb. 20), but we had a really good shoot around and were absolutely focused on the start."

"It's a blast out there," Carrie Snikkers (11) said. "Today was a really good warm-up game for the tournaments."

Snikkers led the team in points and rebounds on Tuesday, contributing 15 to the scoreboard and pulling down eight rebounds.

The women also defeated Alma in the battle of the boards, grabbing 51 rebounds to Alma's 35.

"I thought that we competed hard

tonight," Morehouse said. Adrian also won on Tuesday, defeating

Trine 62-57, which set up a Thursday rematch of the Feb. 20 game in the MIAA

semifinals. Hope pulled ahead early and defeated

Adrian for the second time in six days. Even though the Dutch had an easier time containing the Bulldogs in the third meeting of the season, particularly in the second half when the visitors were limited to 6 of 32 shots f rom the field for a chilly 18.8 percent, the difference in play still

made Adrian a difficult opponent . "They're a tough matchup for us,"

Morehouse said. "We hurt them inside, but they hur t us with putting four ball-

handlers on the floor." "Their transition game is a little

difficult for us to contain," Philana Greene (10) said. "You've got a bunch of guards sprinting down the court instead of 6'2"

6'3" players." Though Greene was not aware of

it going into Thursdays game against Adrian, she set the Hope College record for steals in a single season with 10:07 left to play, making her third steal of the night and 90th in the '09-10 season, breaking an 11-year-old record set by Tara Hosford ('99). Greene also became the 11th Hope women's basketball player to score 1,000 or more points during her career, netting her 1,001st point five

minutes into the game. "She's a great player, certainly one of

the best players to ever pull on a Hope College uniform," Morehouse said of

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RECORD SETTER— Philana Greene ('10) broke the record for most steals in a season (90) and be-came the 11 th Lady Dutch to score 1,000 points.

Greene. "She's a huge difference maker all over the court."

"She's been a really good role model for me on and off the court," Liz Ellis (13) said. "She shows what qualities a good

leader has." Thursday's victory over Adrian

combined with Calvin's 90-71 win over St. Mary's on the same day set up the third rivalry showdown between Hope and Calvin of the '09-10 season.

On Saturday, in f ront of a DeVos Fieldhouse crowd of 2,565, the Flying Dutch triumphedl Jdver the Knights for the third time this season, 68-49.

Though neither team put points on the scoreboard for the first two minutes of play, Ellis hit a 3-pointer which was soon followed by a jumper f rom Greene in the third minute to give Hope an early lead. Calvin responded and led by four with just under six minutes in the half.

"They came out playing hard," Greene said, "probably the hardest I've seen since last year at their place."

Hope regained the lead less than three minutes later and maintained it through the end of the game to gain the tournament title and an automatic bid into the NCAA tournament .

Though only one Calvin player had experience in a MIAA tournament final game, the team still knew what kind of offensive threat Calvin freshman Carissa Verkaik possessed. Verkaik averaged 18.4 points per game heading into the tournament finals, but was held to 12 on Saturday, less than she scored in both previous meetings.

"We've played them before, so obviously we know who the big players are," Meredith Kussmaul (13) said. "I had to work hard to shut (Verkaik) down."

Hope will now enter the NCAA tournament for the fifth consecutive year, where each game has the potential to end the t eams season. After the close call at Adrian on Feb. 20, coach Morehouse knows the Flying Dutch are ready for the national tournament .

"I honestly felt like (the Adrian) game refocused us," Morehouse said. "I think we have improved a ton since last

Saturday."