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111th Pull conquered by 2011 team

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O D D - Y E A R P U L L E R S C E L E B R A T E V I C T O R Y - The 2 0 1 1 pull team jumps Into the Black River to celebrate their second consecutive win. See full picture spread on pages

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Christina VanderGrlend G U E S T W R I T E R

Sixty-seven minutes , 71 feet of rope and the odd year Pull

t eam achieved their 40th victory

in Pull history. O n Saturday, H o p e parents,

a lumni and s tudents swarmed

both banks of t he Black River to

watch the 111th Pull. The Pull is an event filled

with tradit ion. The first Pull o n record was held in 1898,

110 years ago. At that t ime, H o p e College was also a high

school. The Pull that year was

held be tween the sophomore class and a combinat ion of the

f r e shman class and the high

school seniors—or "As." Over t he next few years, the

Pull evolved f rom a s imple tug of war into the intense t radi t ion

it has become. By 1910, the

Pull, which was t h e n called the Tug, was very similar to Hope's

m o d e r n Pull. The Anchor descr ibed the Pull

in 1910: "Complete prepara t ions

had been previously made, and

when the tug s tar ted no one would venture any opinion as to the outcome. . .When the signal

was given the Freshmen gave a

uni ted pull, bu t their experienced o p p o n e n t s had established

themselves so firmly that one of the knots in the rope gave

way. W h e n the rope had again been tied the tug was renewed.

Nei ther side would yield. Each m a n had fortified himself to the

u tmost , only to find his s t rength equally matched . Finally, af ter

a long and cont inued pull,

the Freshmen th rough united heavings brought the Sophs foot

by foot." Over the next century, the

sophomore class won 63 pulls

compared to t he freshmen's 30. O d d year boasts 40 victories

to even year's 53. There have been four draws and four

cancellations, due to war and

even a flu epidemic in 1957. Af te r a Pull that lasted

that lasted three hours and 51 minutes . The Pull was called a

SEE PULL, PAGE 2

CIS engages students in global health discussion Kevin Soubly S E N I O R STAFF W R I T E R

H o p e College's Critical Is-

sues Symposium is now in its

26th year, and the 2008 session is t h e m e d "Global Health: From

Catas t rophe to Cure." The event

began with a keynote address o n Tuesday, and workshops run all

day Wednesday. According to Hope 's web-

site, t he annual sympos ium was founded in 1980 by Dr. G o r d o n

Van Wylen, fo rmer president of

H o p e College. The sympos ium is n o w headed by co-chairs Al-

f r edo Gonzalez, Hope 's associ-ate provost, and Derek Emerson,

Hope's ar ts coordinator, and a boa rd of selected faculty and

s tudent advisors.

"You cannot be a world citi-

zen unless you are also grappling with one of the major issues of

our time," Gonzales said, reflect-ing the essence behind Hope's official mission s ta tement of

"educating s tudents for lives

of leadership and service in a global society through academic and co-curricular programs of recognized excellence in the lib-

eral ar ts and in the context of the

historic Chris t ian faith." "Students need to under-

s tand that it is their responsibil-

ity to be educa ted abou t things

like this," Gonzales said. "And I hope that they are t h e n moved

in some way to take their H o p e educat ion and make a 'difference

in the world." The process of topic selec-

t ion begins with Hope's s tudents themselves nomina t ing different

topics, which the CIS commi t -

tee chooses and combines to fit wider topics and include more

issues. Opera t ing o n a m o d e s t

budget of near $30,000, Gonza-les and the rest of t he CIS com-

mit tee works m o s t of t he year to quickly establish a topic and

t h e n research and locate pos-

sible speakers. "A lot of CIS planning hap-

pens really early. Because the

speakers book so far in advance, we have to plan far in advance.

Next yea r s topic will probably be decided by the end of this se-

mesterf said Carolyn Cour tade ('09), o n e of the few s tudent

advisors on this year's CIS com-

mit tee. "The board is very open we

just t h row ideas a r o u n d and

talk abou t speakers we've seen or heard," Cour tade said. "It's a great sounding board of faculty

and staff - they really just want

to know what s tudents want to

learn about." J h i s year's keynote speakers

include Laurie Garre t t , Pulitzer Prize winning medical and bi-

ologist wri ter f r om N e w York, who is the only person to ever

have been awarded all th ree of the major awards for journal-

ism: the Peabody, t he Pulitzer,

and the Polk,

which she

w o n twice. Alsospeak-

ing are Dr. Pe-ter Okaalet ,

one of Time

M a g a z i n e ' s n a m e d "Glob-

al Health He-roes" for his

work in lead-ing faith com-munit ies in the battle against

HIV/AIDS; Jalaa' Abdelwahab, whose work focuses mainly on

planning and conduct ing inter-

cont inenta l house- to -house po-lio immuniza t ion campaigns as well as working on t ra ining and

evaluating systems to identify

possible polio cases; and many other field exper ts including

many H o p e alumni . Holding a breakout session

titled "Artistry and the Call to

66' You cannot be a

world citizen unless you are also grappling with one of the major issues of our time.

— A L F R E D O GONZALES

Social Action," will be Brad Cor-

rigan, stage n a m e Braddigan r

formerly of t he Amer ican inde-

penden t band Dispatch. He will also be concluding Hope's 2008

CIS with a Wednesday night concer t at the Knickerbocker

Theatre. "CIS can be someth ing really

cool on Hope's campus , and we're t rying to move to-

wards it being some-thing that s tudents

are excited about ev-ery year, ra ther t h a n

just it being a f ree day where they can

stay up really late on

Tuesday and sleep in o n Wednesday,"

Cour t ade said. "You really don ' t have to think about anything

else. You can go and listen just

for the sake of learning about stuff that occurs in our world

today - this isn't just someth ing

that is theoretical - these are things that are really going o n

right now!" W h a t sets H o p e College's CIS

apar t f r o m similar programs at o ther insti tutions, such as Cal-

vin College's January Series or the Nobel Peace Prize Forum at o ther Midwest colleges, is that

Hope has a clear schedule for the

entire day - there are no classes,

faculty or s tudent meet ings. "Very few inst i tut ions can

take off an entire academic day - this is a p r o g r a m solidly a imed

at engaging s tudents . Some o ther inst i tut ions have spon-

sors because they want to bring

business in, recrui t s tudents o r a variety of o ther reasons. But the

only reason we do it is because we want to be able to provide

the s tudents an oppor tuni ty to engage on this issue," Gonzales

said. Occur r ing across campus ,

the Hope College Critical Issues Symposium is open to any and

all, f ree of charge and without

any required registration. Past CIS events have covered

such topics as "From Auschwitz to Darfur : Genoc ide in the

Global Village, (2005)" "Putt ing Science In Its Place: Discovery

and Responsibility, .(2003)" "The Role of Media in American Cul-

ture, (1996)" "The Ques t for Jus-tice: Christ ian Voices, (1990)"

"Civil Right in the Uni ted States: The State of the Dream, (1984)"

and "The Conf igura t ion of Peace

in the Middle East, (1980)."

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

Thursday Oct 2. The Modern Philisophlcal Revolution: a Guide for the Perplexed Professor of politics at the Catholic

University of America. Dr. David

Walsch. wi l l give a philosophy dis-

course. Maas Audi tor ium, 3 p.m.

Friday Oct 3. Homecoming Hoedown Hay rides, campflre. hay-maze,

line dancing, and fire-side snacks.

Tueslnk's Farm 8 p.m.-12 a.m. The

shutt le bus leaves f r om the DeWItt

f lagpole star t ing at 8 p.m.

Saturday Oct 4. Under the Sea Ball Haworth Center 8 :30 p.m. - 1 a.m.

Tickets $8 in advance and $ 1 0 at

the door.

I N B R I E F

H O P E S T U D E N T S P R O D U C E

A N D D I R E C T P L A Y

"On the Edge of the Knife:

Rape as a Tactic of War in the DRC," will be playing at Hope

this Friday and Sunday. After

. some,Hope, students heard Dr.

M u k v ^ g e , . a .gyneQolpg i^a t . the Panzi Hospital in the Demofctatic

Republic of Congo, tell his story

at a gfobal activism conference last April, they decided to act on

his request that they "tell others."

The students requested Amnesty

tioars p^miss ion to.access jearchnfdwr'o^e tfflplay

based on that r e s c S M M B B p l a y

will be performed Friday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Fried-

Hemenway Auditorium. Although

admission is free, a $5 donation

is recommened. All proceeds will go to the Panzi Hospital.

F O R U M O N F A I T H A N D

P O L I T I C S

Harderwyk Ministries will

host a forum on faith and politics

Saturday, Oct. 4 from 8-10 a.m.

Participants include U.S. Rep. Peter Hoekstra, Michigan Rep.

Bill Huizenga, Dr. David Ryden

of Hope College, and RCA Coordinator of Social Justice Earl

James. The event will include

a complimentary continental breakfast. Visit www.harderwyk.

com for more information.

N E W T E A C H I N G

A S S E S S M E N T

Hope College is replacing the

HCTA (Hope College Teaching Assessment) with a new form

SALT (Student Assessment of Learning and Teaching). The

new, improved form will include

questions about how each course contributes to the overall curriculum of Hope. Currently

only about 25 percent of students

fill out teaching assessments for their professors. Administration

needs at least 75 percent in order to obtain reliable data, so students

are highly encouraged to fill out the new SALT form at the end of

their courses.

Social justice groups collaborate Matt Oosterhouse C O P Y EDITOR

For the pas t two years, sever-

al H o p e College registered s tu-dent organizat ions (RSOs) have

been mee t ing together to plan a social justice alliance within t he

H o p e communi ty . These RSOs include Acting o n Aids, Am-

nesty International, Engineers Wi thou t Borders, Envi ronmen-

tal Issues Organizat ion, Habi ta t

for Humanity, H o p e for the Na-tions, InterVarsity Chris t ian Fel-

lowship, Justice League and the

Women ' s Issues Organiza t ion This year, two years of hard

work and planning have reached

f rui t ion result ing in a series of

p rograms and events co-hos ted by the RSOs that have an em-

phasis in social justice. With

some of the events coinciding with and in the vicinity of Criti-

cal Issues Symposium, this new

collaboration of RSOs is using

the m o n t h of Oc tobe r as its kick-off t ime and emphas is m o n t h

for social justice awareness and AIDS outreach.

O n e of the reasons behind this collaborative effort was to cre-

ate a network for the social jus-« tice RSOs that cross-pollinates

i at tendance and ideas, said Curt Wilson, Hope's InterVarsity Staff

member. "This is an a t tempt to pu t all

social just ice RSOs under one umbrella ra ther than have them

scat tered around," Wilson said.

Ano the r goal is to broadcas t

a central social justice voice and emphasis , while also mainta in-

ing the groups ' own distinct as-

pects and viewpoints of world

events and si tuations. A resul-tant pu rpose is bringing physi-

cal and spiritual needs together,

Wilson said.

"Some organizat ions tend to emphasize spiritual needs, whereas other organizations tend

to emphasize the physical needs,"

Wilson said. " W h e n it comes to social justice issues, you need to focus on spiritual needs as well

as the physical needs." The social justice RSOs are

p lanning several events for Oc-

tober that focus on social aware-ness and AIDS outreach. The play "On the Edge of the Knife,

Rape as a Tactic of War in the

DRC" will take place o n Oc t . 3 at 8 p.m. and Oc t . 5 at 3 p.m. in

the Mar tha Miller Cen te r Fried Hemenway Audi tor ium; The

Broken Bread Meal, an oppor tu -

nity for some to experience the meal that Wor ld Vision provides

for the hungry, will take place

on Oct . 16 in Phelps Dining Hall dur ing dinner t ime; A b a n d o n e d

Devotion: Conce r t of Prayer, a

t ime to come together and pray for world issues, will take place

o n Oct . 17; au thor Lisa Sharon Harpe r will be speaking about

issues su r round ing voters and

the Presidential election on Oct . 22; and the Hear t Raid will take place at Lemonjel los on Oct . 24.

Wilson is optimistic that this

social justice collaboration will be successful.

"It's easy for us at H o p e Col-lege to live within a bubble and

no t be aware of wha t goes on

outside of t he college. This m o n t h and these events will help

us to s tep outside of our bubble and engage the events of the real

world in a way that impacts h o w we live o n a day-to-day basis,"

Wilson said. "I th ink that H o p e

s tudents and the H o p e c o m m u -nity will benefi t f r om part ici-

pat ing and being challenged by

these events."

Hope Democrats promote the vote

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Gina Holder G R A P H I C EDITOR

O n Sept . 20 at 7 p .m. in t he

Kletz, H o p e D e m o c r a t s hos ted

a visit f r o m singer Will . i .am and ac t ress Ta tyana Ali th i s

week to p r o m o t e pres iden t ia l

c and ida t e Barack O b a m a . T h e O b a m a c a m p a i g n

is s end ing s u r r o g a t e s to

col leges a r o u n d the c o u n t r y to talk to s t u d e n t s a b o u t voter

reg is t ra t ion . Will . i .am and Ali

PHOTOS BY A N N GREEN

C E L E B R I T I E S S U P P O R T O B A M A - Taty ana Ali (left) speaks to an eager crowd of Hope College students about political activism. Will.1.am (above left) poses for a picture with Hope student RJ Casey (409) after endorsing Democratic candidate Barack Obama.

have recent ly b e e n t ravel l ing

t h r o u g h w e s t e r n Mich igan , mak ing s tops at G r a n d Valley

State Univers i ty and the G r a n d

Rapids Eas town Festival, a iming to regis ter vo te r s and

help boos t s u p p o r t for O b a m a .

W h e n w o r d of th i s sp r ead to H o p e D e m o c r a t s ' P res iden t

S h a n n o n Cra ig ('08), s h e

a r r a n g e d for H o p e to be o n e of

t he s tops . Cra ig was impres sed wi th

t he message they b r o a d c a s t e d

to s t u d e n t s . T h e t w o spoke br ief ly o n the i m p o r t a n c e of

reg i s te r ing to vo te a n d vot ing,

t h e n cha l lenged s t u d e n t s to regis ter at least five of their

f r i e n d s to vote .

T h e H o p e D e m o c r a t s are h o p i n g th i s even t will be an

eff ic ient m e a n s of increas ing voter awareness , bu t there 's no

real way to tell as of now.

"It's actual ly r a the r d i f f icu l t

to judge if we were ef fec t ive in accompl i sh ing w h a t we w a n t e d

b e c a u s e there ' s really n o way

for us to know w h o actual ly vo tes on Nov. 4," Craig said.

"However , t he re was lots of

exc i t emen t immedia te ly af ter t he even t and we did register

71, voters on c a m p u s and in d o w n t o w n Hol land a f t e r Will,

i .am and Tatyana Ali spoke."

Even and odd battle for rope over the river • PULL, f r o m page 1

tie. The next year, a t ime limit was implemented in which

judges may call the Pull a f ter

th ree h o u r s based on which t eam has gained more rope.

It is possible, in fact, for bo th t eams to gain rope as t he rope s t re tches dur ing the

compet i t ion . For example, in t he 1999 Pull, bo th sides gained

rope bu t the Sophomore class w o n with six feet m o r e gain than

the Freshmen. No t only may the rope stretch,

bu t it also may break. In 1974, the Pull was pos tponed until the

following M o n d a y after the rope

snapped over the Black River.

This year's Pull, however,

was wi thout complicat ion. Even

though it was 67 minutes in length, it was no t the shor tes t

Pull o n record. In 1956, the Pull lasted only two minu tes and

forty seconds. Still, Sa turdays Odd Year victory was clear in

just over an hour. The Pull is a t radi t ion unique

to Hope College. O n e Moraler

admi t ted that the Pull was o n e of the things that originally drew

her to Hope. However, not all H o p e s tudents were aware of the

Pull before experiencing it for

the first t ime. "My f r e shman year I was a

little f reaked out," one Even Year

suppor te r said. "I mean, I came

out to watch and had no idea why there were a whole bunch

of guys lying in pits pulling on a

rope." The Pull may is an unusual

t radi t ion bu t one that mos t of

H o p e college takes great pr ide in. Genera t ions of Hope college

s tudents have part icipated in Pull, taking par t in its

progression f rom the standing tug-of-war it s tar ted as into what

it has become. In Saturday's Pull, eighteen Pullers lay in pits on

bo th banks of t he Black River and eighteen Moralers knelt

next to the pits and passed on c o m m a n d s to their Pullers.

Despite the s t renuous nature of the training, the Pullers

and Moralers repor t that the

experience is well wor th the strain. "It's a pure adrenaline rush," one Odd year Moraler

said. With 40 t eammates

working together, the Pull gives part ic ipants a sense of

community . Dur ing their th ree weeks of training, the Pull t eams

spend almost all of their f ree t ime together f rom their seventy-five

hours of training to eating meals

together in Phelps. As one Puller stated, "For me .

Pull is a family. It's the best th ree

weeks of your life."

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United Nations

discusses ad-

dressing

African aid Rob Gulmond G U E S T W P R R E R

United Nat ions Secretary-Genera l Ban Ki-moon appealed

for increased aid for Afr ica dur-

ing a U.N. mee t ing in N e w York Sept. 22. He asked for count r ies

to band together in order to reach a goal of $78 billion of aid

toward Afr ica by 2015.

This proposal comes as t he world's economies struggle.

Congress is debat ing a $700 bil-

lion financial bailout and o the r countr ies are laboring with re-

lated economic misfor tune . The secretary general insisted

his appeal was small consider ing

the $267 billion that countr ies paid in agricultural subsidies.

"The cost of solving the food

crisis, addressing global w a r m -ing and pulling mill ions ou t of

ex t reme poverty in Afr ica looks

like good value." The U N . is t ry ing t o reach the

goals established in 2000, w h e n the Mi l lennium Declarat ion was

adopted . This is a pledge by

the internat ional c o m m u n i t y to "spare no effor t to free our fellow

men, w o m e n and children f r o m the abject and dehumaniz ing condi t ions of ex t reme poverty."

Wi th this pledge, a set of eight

goals were adopted, the Millen-

n i u m Development Goals, to be achieved by 2015.

Afr ica is no t on track to reach

these goals, according to Ban, bu t the goals "remain achiev-

able." The Mi l lennium Develop-

m e n t Goals Repor t publ ished by

the U.N., showed Africa's prog-

ress: Goal 1: Eradicate ex t reme

poverty and hunger. W i t h in-

creasing oil pr ices and failing

crops "little progress was m a d e in reducing ex t reme poverty in

sub-Saharan Africa." It's esti-mated that h igher food prices

will increase as many as 100 million into absolute poverty,

as sub-Saharan Afr ica is already "making the least progress in re-

ducing child malnutrit ion." Goal 2: Achieve universal

p r imary educat ion. Enrol lment in developing countr ies has

eclipsed 90 percent . The only

exception is in sub-Saharan Af-rica where it's reached 71 per-

cent . And "substantially more children of secondary school

age a t tend pr imary ra ther t h a n

secondary school." Goal 3: Promote gender

equality and empower w o m -en. O n average in developing

countr ies , 55 percent of the out-of-school populat ion is girls. Along with Oceania and West-

e rn Asia, sub-Saharan Africa has "the largest gender gap(s) in pri-mary enrollment." "In Western

and Centra l Africa. . . drought , food shortages, a rmed conflict,

SEE MILLENNIUM, PAGE 4

Japanese Prime Minister elected after resignation Alex Quick A D S M A N A G E R

Last week, t he Japanese Par-l iament, the Diet, elected a n e w

Pr ime Minister, Taro Aso. For mos t nations, this would be a

major event, bu t for the Japanese people it is becoming increas-

ingly less so. Last week's round of vot ing was the thi rd t ime the

Diet had convened to elect a

p r ime minis ter in two years. The latest round of par ty elec-

t ions was tr iggered last m o n t h when fo rmer Pr ime Minis ter

Yasuo Fukuda s tepped down cit-

ing increased unpopular i ty due to administrat ive gaffs, a poo r

economy and frustrations with the Diet 's opposi t ion-control led

uppe r house, according to t he

BBC. His predecessor, Shinzo Abe, resigned in September

2007, likewise, d u e to u n p o p u -

larity, that t ime brought on be-

cause of Japan's mili tary role in Afghanis tan, coupled wi th

health problems. I n Japan, t he p r ime minis ter

is e lected by the lower and uppe r

A P PHOTO BY LOUIS LANZANO

A N E W L E A D E R — Japa-nese Prime Minister Taro Aso speaks to the media follow-ing a meeting In New York on Sept. 25 .

houses of t he Diet, t he House of Representat ives, and the House

of Counci lors respectively. Both

houses hold an internal election to pu t for th nomina t ions for t he

posit ion, if the houses nomina t e different people; a joint commit -

tee of the Diet is called to select

the p r ime minister. This latter procedure was

invoked when the House of Representatives, domina ted by

the center-r ight Liberal Demo-cratic Party, pu t for th Taro Aso;

while the House of Councilors , controlled by the socially lib-

eral Democra t ic Party of Japan,

nomina t ed Ichiro Ozawa. Aso won after t h r ee rounds of vot-

ing. Aso is certainly a charac-

ter, politically speaking. He

has been called a charismatic leader who reaches ou t to and

is at tractive to younger citizens - Manga comics are some of

his favorite reading material . He

is Japan's first Catholic p r ime minister, and a fo rmer Olympic

sharp shooter. Politically he is a s taunch conservative, being a

s t rong suppor t e r of the nation's

defense against Nor th Korea. He is known for verbal misgivings;

he recently compared an oppo-sit ion party to the Nazis accord-

ing to C N N .

He may need this exuberance to mainta in the Liberal Demo-

crat 's political Dynasty, which s t re tches back to 1955, with only

a three-year in ter rupt ion in the mid nineties. Aso has assumed

the helm of a country that is go-ing th rough an economic down turn , and the helm of a party

that is having internal strife and

whose popular i ty is under 50 percent . Already, Aso has had

o n e of his major officials resign. The minister of t ranspor ta t ion

was removed f rom the cabinet after he called t he nation's larg-

est teachers union "a cancer,"

according to t he Internat ional Herald Tribune. The finance

minis ter said that the incident will give an impression that the

n e w government is already in

disarray. Aso will have to work hard

and quick to win over the Japa-

nese people if he does no t want o n e of his first acts to be calling

the election that ushers h im out of power. . . and he is already fac-

ing pressure to do so.

South Africa names new president Amanda Gemen tz A S S I S T A N T N A T I O N A L N E W S E D I T O R

The political si tuation in South Africa does no t seem to

be improving as of late. The president resigned o n Sept. 21, and he is being replaced wi th

ano the r m e m b e r of the ruling political par ty of the country, t he

Afr ican National Congress . President Thabo Mbeki was

asked to resign f r o m the office

he has held for t he last 10 years

by m e m b e r s of t he A N C , t he po-litical par ty he has belonged to since he was 14 years old. This

marks the end of an era, as Mbe-

ki was only t he second pres ident e lected democratical ly in South

Africa's history. Nelson M a n -

dela was the first. Mbeki's forced resignation

ends the long- running batt le be-tween h im and his chief political

rival, Jacob Zuma . Z u m a was

brought up on f raud charges in 2005, bu t they were dismissed.

Then, in the s u m m e r of 2007,

Z u m a again faced the s ame charges, and they were again

dismissed earlier this m o n t h . This t ime, t he judge b lamed Mbeki 's government for political

in terference, which s tar ted the hall rolling wi th the A N C t rying

to force him out of office. The

secretary-general of the A N C , Gwede Mantashe , admi ts that

they asked h im to leave the pres-idency before his t e r m was up.

Kgalema Mot l an the will be replacing Mbeki as the in ter im

president of South Africa. Mot-

lanthe is also the deputy presi-dent of the A N C , and was cho-

sen by South Africa's Par l iament to replace the outgoing presi-

dent . W h e n Mbeki resigned, 10 of

the minis ters on his Cabinet re-

signed with h im. H e urged t h e m to stay when he left, bu t they were

also asked by the A N C to leave

office. It is proof of the power

of o n e major political party; the A N C holds the large majori ty in

the Nat ional Assembly. After

the 10 ministers resigned, m o r e than a third of t he Cabinet was gone, leaving Mot l an the with

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the A N C , and he is already fa-vored to win the election in the

spring. Zuma defeated Mbeki for

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poverty, lack of birth registra-tion, child labor, and HIV and AIDS... prove to be especially devastating for girls."

Goal 4: Reduce child mor-tality. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest child mortality rates among all developing regions, accounting for "half the deaths of children under five in the de-

veloping world." Goal 5: Improve maternal

health. Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia accounted for 86 percent of the 500,000 women that died in 2005 during child-birth or in the six weeks after de-livery. "Little progress has been made in saving mothers' lives" and "accelerated improvements in all dimensions of reproduc-tive health care... are required to achieve the goal."

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS malaria and other diseases. Nearly 1.4 million people still die of AIDS in Africa each year. The increased insecticide-treat-ed net production has increased f rom 30 million to 90 million which has increased protection against malaria, but "overall in-secticide-treated net use falls short of global targets."

Goal 7: Ensure environmen-tal sustainability. Although im-provements have been made the

"number of species threatened with extinction is rising rapid-ly" and "fish stocks require im-proved fisheries management to reduce depletion." And in gen-eral, "the African region overall seems(s) to be especially vulner-able because of their high ex-posure to the effects of climate change."

Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development. "Development assistance will have to increase substantially to double aid to Africa by 2010."

Sha Zukang, the U N ' s under-secretary general for Economic and Social Affairs, says "a single intervention is unlikely to be sufficient." Instead, he calls for action from all levels of govern-ment across the world.

The MDGR shows that in-creased effort is needed to achieve all of the goals—any-thing from building schools to administering medicine to fund-ing insecticide-treated nets can

help. Ban states in the MDGR that,

"We have wasted opportunities and face additional challenges, making the task ahead more difficult." Countries need to work together to "make up lost ground." But Ban is optimistic in that the goals are achievable.

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T H E A N C H O R 5

/ Steve Talaga

SERIOUS TALENT- Talaga earns award for his Jazz piano abilit ies

Music instructor honored

Steve Talaga, an ins t ructor of

music at H o p e College, has been

n a m e d Jazz Music ian of the Year by the Wes t Michigan Jazz So-

ciety. In a feature in its May 2008

newsletter, the society descr ibed

h im as "The Bruce Lee of The Piano," not ing that "his hands

are like musical weapons." They

honored him wi th a banque t at Aquinas College where he is an

adjunct m e m b e r of the music

faculty. A m e m b e r of the H o p e fac-

ulty since 1999, he teaches jazz

piano, applied composi t ion and various jazz studies courses. In

June, Talaga, faculty colleague Brian Coyle and the s tudent

member s of the college's Jazz C h a m b e r Ensemble represented H o p e as par t ic ipants in "The Big

Hope," a global youth congress

held at Liverpool H o p e Universi-ty in Liverpool, England, dur ing

which he and Coyle taught a jazz

styles and history class each day. For the past several years he has

pe r fo rmed with the ou ts tanding

jazz quar t e t Mind 's Eye. Talaga has appeared with

numerous jazz groups and as a solo artist at jazz festivals and

clubs internationally, includ-ing a pe r fo rmance with Mind's

Eye at the Mon t r eux Jazz Festi-val in Switzerland. He has also

pe r fo rmed professionally with

such jazz luminar ies as Claudio Roditti, Bobby Shaw, Maria Sch-

neider, Dennis Di Blazio, Marvin Stamm, G u n n a r Mossblad, Clay

Jenkins and many more ta lented

jazz musicians.

'Pow Wow Portraits' De Pree art exhibit features vibrant and inspiring photography

Karle Luldens PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

Walking down the corridor of the De Pree Art Center this week,

one is welcomed by a new greeting

line of Native Americans proudly wearing the colorful regalia

of various Michigan tribes.

Their photographs will people the

walls throughout October as part

of the gallery's

latest exhibition, "Pow Wow Portraits.1

The show features p h o t o g r a p h e r

D o u g l a s

Elbinger's shots of dancers

from the 1993

American Indian Heritage Pow

Wow, hosted each

year by the Michigan State University.

According to art department chair Steve

Nelson, the images

display a classic fine-art photographic approach

whose- purpose is to

formally document its subject, rather than

provoke a reaction based on challenging lighting and composition. The

photographs read as warm and personal, offering a human

connection between the viewer

and the person depicted. The traveling exhibition

was first discovered by

professor Chuck Green of the psychology department, who

then recommended that the Art Center arrange to display the

works this fall in connection with the annual Anishnabek Nodin

Traditional Pow Wow hosted by

Hope College. "My understanding is that

these portraits are a deliberate echo of the late-19th, early-

20th century images in which

Indians posed for formal photo portraits," Green said. "The

photographer wanted to recapture that format, but with modem

people and modem regalia."

PHOTO BY HOLLY EVENHOUSE

H I S T O R I C G A R B - A Native Amer ican man f rom Wisconsin poses in t rad i t iona l garments .

Green has been living in Holland

for over 20 years, and has worked with a variety of local and regional

organizations dedicated to cross-

cultural learning and interaction. Even so, he remained largely

unaware of the current affairs of the area's Native American

population until recently.

"There is in fact a very large, very active, but very hidden

network of Native Americans in

Michigan," Green says. "Their cultural practices are rich and

extensive—during the summer

season, there are pow wows hosted in the region nearly every

weekend! But I simply didn't know about them until three

years ago, when Hope first started

hosting these pow wows." Green is currently preparing

for the fourth annual pow wow to be held at Hope. The

event began in 2005 on the

initiative of Dan Comelissen, a local Potowatomi leader

who approached the college on behalf of several local Native

American tribes including the

Pokagan band of Potowatomi, the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-

Wish, the Ojibwe and the

Odawa. "He told me that they

would like to offer this

pow wow to Hope and Holland as a gift of

reconciliation," Green

said. "I think of this pow wow as receiving

that gift, offered by the Native peoples of

the area." Asked whether

he has seen signs

of the community

benefitting from the events. Green

replies, "More than anything

I 've seen Hope

and Holland break down

the barriers

between 'our ' networks and

the Native networks. This

occurs at the

level where people

make contacts. Every time our social interactions begin to

overlap in little ways it 's a step in

the right direction." Meanwhile the art department

is excited to be offering an exhibition that connects so

intimately with these community-

building efforts. The reception will be held

in the De Pree Art Center Oct.

1 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. At 7 p.m. In Maas Auditorium,

Lorraine Shananaquet, who holds the traditional elder's

title of Water Bundle Carrier, will be presenting on this year 's

theme, "Honoring Water." All are welcome. Admission is

free.

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Anna Plllot STAFF W R I T E R

H o p e College dance got in-volved in t he communi ty by

holding Holland's first ever Tap Jam on Sept. 19. Hope's o w n Res-

ident Director and Tap dance in-

structor, Rosanne Barton-DeVr-ies organized the event. Dancers

s tar ted off timidly, bu t soon a great majori ty were jumping in eagerly, creat ing rhy thms and

dueling with the d rummer . Percussionist and artist, An-

drew Snyder, spoke to the g roup about the roots of rhythm and their differences in various m u -sic genres. DeVries added her in-

sight by stressed that the g roup was cont inuing a t radi t ion b o m from* tappers on the street. She

told the g roup h o w lucky they

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were to be a par t of this histor-ic, wor ld - renowned tradit ion.

Start ing - simply, t he group

fo rmed a circle

and began to improvise one at

a t ime. Wi th on-lookers keeping

t ime by clapping, the rhy thms

being passed a round became

more and more invigorating.

"It's so exciting to be in such an exuberant a tmosphere of

sound," Kari Burke ('09) said. This en thus iasm verged on

chaos as the entire g roup moved on to a game of "call and re-sponse" with percussionist Sny-der. The g roup struggled while

T H I S W E E K I N A R T

Tap Jam takes dancing to a whole new level t rying to tap the rhy thm set by Snyder. Articulat ing complex

rhy thms with her feet and exud-ing "cool," DeVr-ies s tepped in, a

perfect d e m o n -strat ion of why the tap p rogram

at H o p e is so

special. "She looks at

tap in a different way than I expect-

ed when I c ame in

as a f reshman. She incorpora tes no t only the feet bu t also the

rest of your body in the rhythm," Lindsay Roberts ('09) said.

Two more Tap Jams will be on the third Fridays of October and

November at 6 p.m. at the Hol-land Area Arts Council .

I t ' s so exc i t ing to be

in s u c h an e x u b e r a n t

a t m o s p h e r e o f sound .

— K A R I BURKE ( ' 0 9 )

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Wednesday Oct. 1 "Pow Wow Portraits" Photo exhibit by Douglas Elbinger

De Pree Art Gallery 9a.m. - 5p.m.

Braddlgan Concert In conjunction w i th the CIS

Knickerbocker 7:30 pm

Public: $10, Hope Community: $ 5

Thursday Oct. 2 "Second Class" Play by Brad Slalght

Also playing on Saturday, Oct. 4

and Wednesday-Saturday Oct 8 - 1 1

Main theater of DeWitt Center 8 p.m.

Friday Oct. 3 Orchestra and Symphonette Dimnent Chapel 7 :30 p.m.

SAC Movie "Wall-E" Vander Werf 102 8:00 & 10:30 p.m.

Saturday Oct. 4 Wind Symphony "Electoral Concert"

Dimnent Chapel 7:30 p.m.

SAC Movie -Wall-E" Vander Werf 102 8:00 & 10:30 p.m.

Monday Wind Symphony "Electoral Concert"

Dimnent Chapel

Tuesday Jazz Ensemble Dimnent Chapel

Oct. 6

7:30 p.m.

Oct. 7

7:30 p.m.

I N B R I E F

' U N S I G N E D ' C D A R T I S T S IN

C O N C E R T O C T . 2

The underg round music

scene in Hol land is exploding,

and a considerable a m o u n t of H o p e s tudents and alumni have

their hand in the honey pot . O n Thursday, Oc t . 2nd, a

concer t at Park Theater will

showcase local g roups featured o n the recently released compi-

lation CD, "Unsigned." The C D is a mix of unsigned lakeshore

art ists chosen by local business

owners Steve VanDommelen of the vinyl and C D shop. Full

Circle, and Bob Schulze of the hip optical and accessory store.

Globe Design and Vision. "We wanted to give art ists a

venue to get their music ou t and

p romote the local scene in gen-eral, whe ther that is art ists or

businesses," said Schulze. The concer t will feature the

locally popular indie-folk group.

They Were Thieves, which in-

cludes H o p e alumni, Jonah Ogles ('07) and Jonathon DeHaan ('07). Also playing at the concer t will

be cu r ren t H o p e s tudent , Travis Kingma ('09). O the r art ists to

play f rom the compilat ion will include Wallace Collective and

Jon Fegel. Each artist or group will be playing three to four

songs each. "It's always good for art ists to

gain exposure of their music, but this event is good for t he com-

munity, too," said Ogles. "People are going to be surpr ised at the

n u m b e r of quality groups in the

Holland area, I know I was." Doors for the show open at

7 p.m., bands begin at 7:30 p.m. Cost of admission is $5 with

Hope College ID, regular admis-sion is $6. Park Theater is locat-

ed on 248 S. River Avenue.

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Change for tradition's sake The great college love affair

There's something strange and won-derful about the way the world looks at us college students. We get into col-lege and suddenly find ourselves re-ceiving a steady stream of homemade cookies, care packages and dinners where there were none before. Parents want to take us to lunch, moms want to bake us cookies. The adults around us look at us .with a sort of misty-eyed ap-proval and give us their extra furniture. (This last one has happened to my roommates and me so many times this year that we now have enough extra furniture to furnish a large apartment).

It's the last phase in our entire lives when we will be universally encour-aged to live it up. It's the only phase in our entire lives when it's actually cool to be poor. Stories that start with "back in my college days" sound like Herculean myths. We are an age group that gets an uncanny amount of credit, not to mention free stuff. If you don't believe me, try to imagine yourself at 24. Can you see your parents and their friends chuckling fondly when you tell them you live off Ramen and spend all day Saturday sleeping?

Take another example: the popular Facebook group titled, "Enjoy it now because when you graduate its called alcoholism." It acknowledges the same fact - at our very worst, we col-lege kids are just <lfiguring out who we are." Sadly, although we will hardly be different at 24 then we were at 22, the world just won't see us in the same light. Culturally, the sympathy flow stops after graduation.

As much as I love cookies and the

Katie Bennett Co-Editor-in-Chie

completely undeserved amount of credit and understanding we get, I am not okay with the idea of finishing up 4<the best years of my life" this year before graduation. It would be weird if I went around constantly remember-ing all the fun I had as a 5-year old, immortalizing my messy crayon art and bicycle with training wheels. In the same way, it's weirdly pessimistic to put college on a pedestal above all other periods in life. What about being 30? What about getting really good at your job? What about being able to buy things? What about raising kids? What about those phases?

To those of you seniors reading this, I call for a refusal to fall into the "college days" trap to which so many before us have succumbed. We're still in it, so we can acknowledge honestly that college isn't a vast promised land of perfection with free beer. College is just life at the time—full of ups and downs and generally lacking cash.

To those of you who are underclass-men I urge you to enjoy it! It's a great time. But it's not the best time life has to offer. The best is still to come.

(College is, however, the best time life has to offer for getting free food, so take advantage of that while you can. Seriously. Get your hungry face on.)

Katie urges all college students to try Ramen noodles without the little msg packet. Just strain them and add a little soy sauce. So much better!

Myths, tricks and train wrecks Erika English

Falling Hats

In life we wear many hats. We also find ourselves with many people, sometimes just for a season, sometimes by choice, and sometimes it just happens. The strange thing is what these hats say about us and who we surround ourselves with. And while there are some hats we only wear for other people, some of the most interesting ones are the ones we wear for ourselves.

What if you were to "google" yourself? There is a romantic comedy novel that tells the story of a girl who looks herself up on the internet and finds a whole website devot-ed to her. The site raved about her attributes, her style, her composure, and soon enough she began to believe it. Humble celebrities (oxymoron?) always warn you not to read your own press, but is there something truth-telling about how you are received? What if all we are made of in the eyes of others is just rumor? At what point do people choose to abandon gossip for truth or vice versa? Sometimes falsehood is attractive, but can't the truth be stranger than fiction?

Sometimes it's all about what style some-one is wearing, but if the hat you think you wear is not what is seen, what good is it? People's descriptions of themselves on the online social network of Facebook are price-less. For some, their autobiographical infor-mation is right on, for others, it's not even close. How do you ever tell someone that they are not who they think they are?

A father once explained to his daughter the concept of the mirror, a concept the teen-age girl thought she understood well enough. He said that when you look in the mirror you trust it to show who you are on the outside, but that it is not the only thing you place this trust in. Friends, family, even perfect strang-ers hold up mirrors every day. The only

problem is that some people want you to see yourself as ugly, or out of place, or just plain ordinary. They distort the mirrors they hold up, making you too fat or too skinny, or too awkward for words. You begin to believe what you see and, sometimes, you begin to live up to your label. The father's point was this: be careful what mirrors you trust to tell you who you are; you may just become the lies that you see.

If the mirror idea is true, which one do we go to? Who tells you what is in fashion about yourself? It seems silly to have to tell some-one to abandon the mirrors that only distort reality, but for some it can be all they know. The mirrors around them perpetuate insecu-rities, abusive relationships and cliques until the person holds onto the hat they are told to wear, even if deep down they know it is not

who they really are. There's something beautiful about fall

fashion magazines. Not only are the cloth-ing styles different but the scenery and col-ors change in them as well. As the weather changes, things get just a bit cozier and a lit-tle less flashy. Some call it introspective, as if with the cool wind of autumn people have more time to think. But maybe that's when it happens. The right breeze comes along, and the next thing you know one of the hats you've been balancing has blown off. Then you look in the mirror and who do you see?

Maybe you. Erika English loves hats, as all the wom-

en in her family do, but she would like to thank her father for the inspiration for this

column.

Because I care Matt Oosterhouse

Where has greed gotten us?

On Jan. 2, 2009, I can just about guar-antee you that two of the words making Lake Superior State University's annual list of overused words and phrases will be the words "bailout" and "sub-prime." This autumn, these two words have become household terms—much like the names Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan have been for the past year or two.

Over the past month, the U.S. govern-ment has provided bailouts to the failing financial institutions of American Insur-ance Group, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. On the surface, the companies failed due to bad bets with mortgages and bad loans;

underneath the surface, the companies es-sentially failed because they were greedy

and desired more wealth. This is where greed has gotten us: the

economic situation of our country is in a downturn partly due to the risky, bad loans. The jobless rates are increasing steadily. The dollar no longer commands the strength overseas as it once did. Oil prices are higher than they should be. The

list goes on. This summer, I was asked by my mother

whether I would like to be really wealthy someday. My initial answer was yes, be-cause I would like to be able to give lim-itlessly to the needy. But when thought about it more, I decided that I would not want such a burden as wealth, for it has the potential to lead to greed. Greed and care-* less wealth can corrupt even the most sin-cere hearts, for greed is a voracious animal with a bottomless stomach and an over-stimulated hypothalamus (the part of the brain that controls hunger). Money never satisfies. Only God can, and I trust him to always meet my financial needs (George

Meuller, anyone?). Enter Gandalf the Grey. Gandalf, in

Lord of the Rings, adamantly refused great power and strength when he refused to take the One Ring from Frodo, for Gandalf real-ized that he would initially use the ring for good, but he foresaw that he would even-tually and ultimately use the ring for evil (as he would slowly succumb to the evil

imbedded in it). From such a wise character of Gandalf,

we can definitely learn some things about greed. First, we must realize greed's ca-pability to infiltrate our lives in the most innocent, good-seeking manner. Second, we must learn to master control over our desires by separating wants from needs and establishing a firm moral and ethical base for ourselves. (Gandalf knew what he wanted—to take the ring— but restrained because it was an immoral thing and it

wasn't a need) The third thing is political. The up-

coming U.S. presidential election will de-termine whether or not America rises out of the ashes of the ruins created by Wall

Street. It is a critical time for our country and we need leaders who are willing to not let the excessive greed of others ruin mil-lions of lives.

Therefore, when you vote, it would be prudent for you to choose the candidate who has the character and willingness to talk tough to the money grubbing self-serv-ing politicians, to the covetous irresponsi-ble CEOs of the financial sector, and to the blood-thirsty guttersnipes at the sub-prime financial institutions who are insatiable in their lust for wealth and pleasure. It is highly important that you vote for the can-didate who is not afraid to stand up when others are standing down and tackle greed when he sees it. Maybe, just maybe, tack-ling greed in our own lives and in the finan-cial sectors will help get America back to where she was before. I say this because I

care, and so should you. Come Nov 4 (or earlier if you are ab-

sentee balloting). Matt challenges you to be informed, prepared and ready to vote. Advice for the day: Trust God to meet your needs so that you can avoid greed.

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Freshwater is clearly an issue To the Editors:

I have been asked to respond to the re-cent Anchor article on water insecurities and consumption. I feel that the article was very appropriate in mentioning the concerns of water, which are not so much felt by many of the Midwest natives. Living in the Great Lakes region, freshwater is all we know.

The thing to consider, however, is that our water usage effects even those that are not just a stone's throw away from a seem-ingly endless supply of usable water. Al-though freshwater supplies are becoming more and more limited in many areas of the world, the quality of the freshwater is also a concern. Pollutants in the often limited wa-ter supply only make life that much more difficult for those that already struggle to

get water. With that in mind I feel that freshwater

issues should continue to be addressed. As a member of the Phelps Scholars Program 1 have also joined up with the Holland Pow Wow Committee, which is stressing the concerns of water insecurities and con-

sumption this year. % The theme this year for the pow wow is "Honoring the Water." This means that there will be discussions at the pow wow led by Garry Lee, the Michigan State Con-servationist, and information and displays by local conservation agencies all day.

As the article in the Anchor coinciden-tally relates to the theme of this year's pow wow 1 felt that all who are interested in the water issues may like to know about the op-portunities to learn from those that have in-vested their lives in the issues that so many

of us overlook. Nicholas Powers (M2)

Defining adulthood as more than age To the Editors:

I was pondering Amanda Gementz's thoughts on adulthood (9/17/08 "From the Iriside Out"). 1 sense the phrase "being an adult" has a lot of connotations. Pursuing it requires that we know what it is.

Perhaps adulthood is defined as an age. Not likely. We all know some folks grow up way before that, and some way after it. Perhaps financial inviduality (paying rent, bills, food, recreation, all on a limited pay-check)? Voting responsibly? Having options

available? Making decisions on more than a whim?

1 know a whole lot of significantly aged people that haven't met these criteria. Must

be something else. Test out my definition of being an adult.

Does it work for you? 1 believe adulthood is accepting and embracing today's burdens or hassles for tomorrow's reward. No more

selfish "gi 'mee" or "I want it my way, now!" of a child. How does this work with the con-cepts of managing money, raising children, holding down a job? Mostly, it seems to work. As a counter-example, in light of the recent beaucoup-bucks government bailout of Fannie Me and Freddie Mac, I suspect some investment managers were not adults.

In the community o f i Christian college like Hope, I 'd be surprised if nobody saw the similarity this definition has to the Gos-pel message. In some loose analogy, maybe adulthood is where Christian theology and uplifting Christian songs and your inter-per-sonal relationships start catying the burdens of real life. Sort of where "rubber meets the road." Rather than riding in the comfort of others' vehicles, it's when a person's car is assembled enough to start the drive.

Dr. Brian Mork

Shuttle bus love To the Editors:

As the semester picks up and everyone is starting to feel more time crunches, is there a better way to catch up on some me-time besides drinking, pre-marital sex and avoid-ing chapel? All the well-known study cen-ters like the Library, Martha Miller Center, and the Science Center Atrium are fiill of people more studious than you.

So where does a fun-loving Hope student go to kick back in a healthy and Christian manner? Well, as a matter of fact, Hope's new transportation system, the shuttle bus, offers great alternatives to unhealthy relax-ation techniques.

This untapped resource has several things going for it - plus, you would probably be alone on it, or only with people you want to hang out with (unless they stand you up). What could be more fun than a movie night on the shuttle bus? ("Moulin Rouge" any-body?). Or if your roommate is blasting U2

while you're trying to sleep, grab your pil-low and blanket and hop on at the flagpole! Have an awkward prospective student? Take them on an awkward bus ride to show them campus hot spots - Graves Hall (currently missing a roof!). Chapel (where we raise the roofl), and DeWitt (try to climb on this roof1.).

Collectively, students could make Thurs-day night at 8 a singles night. With the stop-light dance so far away, this could be the perfect way to meet that special someone for Homecoming, or dare I say, "Ring by

Spring?" Already dating? No problem, what better

way to impress your date then taking her out on the shuttle bus; you'd be alone. And best of all, at least to our knowledge, there aren't any parietals - that's right, 12:01 in Kollen, you know where to go.

Jon Andreas VanDenend ( '10) Gray Arthur Emerson ( '10)

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From the inside out Chris Lewis

Senior Staff Writer

Summer Dream Job

As I watched the live production of one of The Golf Channel's most popu-lar shows, "The Golf Central," 1 began to shake my head in disbelief. How was I an intern at The Golf Channel, one of the most watched cable sports networks in the world? What have I done to deserve such an honor? Was this actually happening or was I dreaming? Should I just pinch myself to wake up'from such a crazy dream'? However, this was not a dream, even though I look back on my experiences from this past summer and still have trouble

believing what I did. Even from the beginning of high school I knew there was one goal I want-

ed to accomplish in my life—to work for a major golf company. When I came to college, I began to believe that I really could reach my goal with a lot of hard work and a little bit of luck. Last December, I began to research for summer internships; 1 had just completed a marketing internship in down-town Chicago and I felt very confident about my ability to secure an intern-

ship with a large organization. After watching The Golf Channel one night during the Christmas break, I

began to think to myself, if there is one job you could have, what would it be? If there is one place you could work for, .where would it be? Immediately, I knew the answer—The Golf Channel! The Golf Channel is my favorite cable television network and has been a company that I have wanted to work for the past few years. I made myself a promise that night that I would eventually have some sort of job with the The Golf Channel before I died. Now that 1 made the promise, 1 knew I could not break it. If I did, was the point of the

promise to begin with? The next day I filled out an internship application form for The Golf Chan-

nel for the summer of 2008.1 emailed my resume to The Golf Channel's hu-man resources department. And then.. ..nothing. Not a thing. I waited for one month and then two months. Finally, in March, I received an e-mail from The Golf Channel asking if I was still interested in the internship.

Was I interested?! Of course I was interested. This was one of my life goals after all! A week later I had an interview with The Golf Channel's pro-motions manager. You would think that this interview was the most nerve-racking experience of my'life. But it wasn't. In fact, exactly the opposite is true. The entire interview felt natural and lasted for over an hour, which is unheard of for phone interviews. 1 knew that the interview went well, but I had to remember the facts: hundreds upon hundreds of college students from around the country were applying for the internship. Many of the students attended top-notch Ivy League schools. I had no chance, or so I thought.

In the middle of May I was very disappointed. I did not have an internship, let alone a job and I was beginning to freak out. I needed to find something to do during the summer! One day I decided I was going to drive around the Metro Detroit area (which is where I live) in search of internships. I woke up early that morning to prepare for the day of driving. However, when I opened my Hope mail account, I found an e-mail of acceptance from The Golf Chan-nel. I, Chris Lewis, a student at Hope College, was chosen to intern in the marketing department of The Golf Channel's world headquarters in Orlando, Florida!! I was chosen out of hundreds of students? Me? I could not believe

my dream had come true. My summer in Orlando will always be one of the most memorable sum-

mers of my life. Orlando is bustling with activity all day and every day, as it is known as the "Tourist Capital of the World." Not only was I able to experience life in one of the largest cities in the nation, I was also able to live out my dream at The Golf Channel. The Golf Channel provided me with op-portunities that I could not have anywhere else. I was able to watch the live production of some of The Golf Channel's television shows and also write articles that were published on golfchannel.com. Looking back I do not have any regrets about my summer whatsoever, but I do have advice for everyone

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imagined. Chris is excited for his last year of college, but is a little unsure of what

will happen once he leaves Hope. Who isn't though ?

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

Wednesday Oct. 1 Women's Soccer vs. Trine at 4 p.m.

Friday Oct. 3 Women's Volleyball vs. Olivet at 6:30 p.m.

Saturday Oct. 4

Football vs. Trine at 2 p.m.

Women's Soccer vs. St. Mary's at Noon

Men's Soccer vs. Adrian at 2 p.m.

Tuesday Oct. 7 Women's Golf Hope Invitational at 1 p.m.

Women's Soccer vs. Olivet at 4 p.m.

I N B R I E F

M E N ' S G O L F

The men's golf t eam has

mainta ined a steady hold for

second place in the MIAA. In

their last two tou rnamen t s , they have placed third and second, re-

spectively. Steve Strock (10) was

a medalist a f ter tying the Zoll-ner G C record of 68 s trokes at

the f i f th MIAA Jamboree. Wi th

three conference t o u r n a m e n t s left in the season, the Flying

D u t c h m e n are looking to catch

f r o n t - r u n n e r Olivet and claim their sixth consecut ive confer-

ence championsh ip .

W O M E N ' S G O L F

The women's golf t eam holds

third place in the MIAA, trailing second place Saint Mary's Col-

lege by a single stroke. The t eam

took third in an M I A A Jamboree

on Sept. 20 led by Megan Schol-ten (12) who shot a 79. They

will head to Calvin College to-

day for another MIAA Jamboree

at 1 p.m.

F O O T B A L L

The football t eam looks to

obta in their first win of the 2008

season as they take o n Trine in t he H o m e c o m i n g game this Sat-

urday. Over the weekend the

D u t c h m e n fell to W h e a t o n Col-

lege 47-7.

Hope soccer: mid-season success Women hit stride after rough start Karen Patterson ASSISTANT S P O R T S EDITOR

Af te r a rough s ta r t to t he season, the women ' s soccer

t e a m has b o u n c e d back, go ing 5 - 1 in their last six games .

A l m o s t ha l fway t h r o u g h the

2008 season, t he t e a m is 6 -4 wi th t he M I A A season ahead of

t h e m . The t eam o p e n e d the M I A A

season aga ins t con fe rence rival

Calvin College, bu t w a s (mable to keep their w i n n i n g s t reak

alive, falling 5-0. The t e a m will

next face Tr ine and St. Mary 's , t w o t eams tha t they previously

de fea ted in p re - con fe rence

play. W h i l e s o m e would choose

to focus on the loss to Calvin,

t he Flying Du tch are mov ing

fo rward , looking to d o m i n a t e

in the confe rence . "Games against Calvin are

always big, bu t every con fe rence

g a m e is big," H e a d coach Leigh Sears said. "Beating Calvin

m e a n s no th ing if we can ' t bea t

the o t h e r t e a m s in t he MIAA." O n e advantage that t he t e a m

will have as they m o v e in to t he

s e c o n d pa r t of t he season is

exper ience and d e p t h . "A great th ing abou t our t e a m is h o w

ta len ted o u r players are; o u r b e n c h is deep , so we can pull

players off and pu t t h e m in,

k n o w i n g tha t they ' l l play tough and smart," co -cap ta in Kirs ten

K a u f m a n n ( 1 0 ) said.

In add i t ion to a s t r o n g bench , the t e a m h a s m a n y s t r o n g

leaders . The Flying Du tch have

had two players n a m e d as Player of the Week . Ellen Molenaa r

('09) was n a m e d as the M I A A

Defens ive Player of t he W e e k

the week of Sept . 15 for her

e f fo r t s in wins against O h i o N o r t h e r n and Farmingdale .

The fol lowing week All ison Van

Beek ('09) w a s n a m e d as t he Offens ive Player of the Week

af ter scor ing th ree goals in two

victor ies . , N o w tha t t he t e a m h a s

m o v e d into con fe rence play,

each g a m e b e c o m e s key in mov ing o n e s t ep closer to an

M I A A championsh ip . W i t h

t w o u p c o m i n g h o m e games ,

t he Flying Du tch h o p e to m o v e ahead in the s t and ings and lead

the confe rence .

Men remain undefeated through eight games

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As the men's soccer t eam heads toward the second half

of the season they cont inue to uphold their winn ing s tandards .

Af te r eight games the t eam remains undefea ted , and with

the M I A A season underway they

hope to con t inue the t rend. > "The t eam cont inues to build

u p o n every game," John Herber t (10 ) said. "If we cont inue to

c o m e ou t s t rong we will con t inue

to improve." The t e a m is cu r ren t ly r a n k e d

2 0 t h in the na t i on accord ing to

N C A A . c o m . They faced two

M I A A o p p o n e n t s last week . O n Sept . 20 they de fea ted

Ka lamazoo in the i r first g a m e of t he M I A A season . Trai l ing

late in t he s e c o n d half they c a m e up wi th two quick

goals to cap tu re t he win 2-1. H e r b e r t believes tha t t he focus

a n d dr ive tha t t h e y have b e e n w o r k i n g o n were key to w ins

like Ka lamazoo . "The coaches have been

emphas iz ing giving that extra

little bit," He rbe r t said. "We have been delivering by staying

tough th rough the whole game."

Over the weekend the t e a m

con t inued their winning ways defeat ing Olivet 2-1 on Sept. 27.

The wins have pu t H o p e o n top

of the M I A A standings . Key to last weeks wins was

Jack Abe ('09) who was n a m e d M I A A player of the week wi th a

goal in each of last week's games. Abe a t t r ibutes the team's success

to a collaborative effort . "Everyone that sets foot

o n the field has been s tepping up," Abe said. "It is our t eam

as a whole that is bringing the success, everyone is o n the same

page and working hard."

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PHOTO BY A N N GREEN

A I M I N G H I G H — Hope varsity volleyball player Cassldy Bulthuls ( '11) lines up a serve against Trine University. The team Is currently ranked 15th In the nation and has a record of 16-3. This past weekend they went 4-0 In Iowa, bringing their winning streak to 10 straight matches, Including a win over fifth ranked Carthage In three sets.

Runners aim for national stage Karen Patterson A S S I S T A N T S P O R T S EDITOR

The men's and women's

cross count ry teams have been working hard all season and have

been giving top per formances

at mee t s th roughou t the season this year. Over the weekend both

t eams took second place at the

MIAA Jamboree behind Calvin

College. O n the men's side, Calvin

showed that there is a reason that they're ranked second in the

country, bu t H o p e also showed

that Calvin isn't the only s t rong t eam in the conference.

"1 th ink we showed that we are

a dominan t second team in the conference," Paul Vandervelde

('09) said. "We did not run as well as we can; I think that we

are a bet ter t eam than the mee t showed and that we can be a lot

closer to Calvin in the future." Even though the team was

not as happy with their overall performance, o n e key stand out

was Kevin Hagan (11) . "Kevin had a great day," Rob

Bailey ('09) said. "Some of our

f ront guys struggled and Kevin was able to help make up that

difference. It really makes a

difference to have people like that

w h o step up when it's needed." O n e thing that the t eam

member s ment ioned as an area

for improvement was staying

moving faster as a pack. Another

aspect was staying focused and s t rong th roughout a race, not

just the first and last mile. As the t eam looks to the

coming weekend, they have the Pre-National Invitational

in Hanover, Ind. There will be

multiple nationally ranked teams at the mee t and the Du tchmen are confident that they have what

it takes to prove themselves. "I believe that we're capable

of beat ing many of them and showing the selection commit tee

that we are a national-caliber team," Vandervelde said.

Sent iments were similar on the women's side. As with

the men, Calvin won by a large

margin, but H o p e gave a s trong second place per formance .

"I think for the conditions that

we had in that race we did our

best," Kate Freshour ('09) said. The w o m e n also have similar

long- te rm goals for their team:

try to break up Calvin's packs

and run together as a united team. Another advantage that the

Flying Dutch will have headed into the weekend is a full team.

"We were missing some impor tan t runners and o thers

really helped to fill their spaces,"

Sarah Multer ('09) said. "We're a young team and a lot

of the top five are f reshmen, so

it's definitely a sign of things to come," Mul ter added. "Calvin has

showed their strength and we realize that they'll be difficult to

knock off, but we're a solid team,

too." Each t eam has been giving

s t rong performances and looks to continue as they move into the second half of the season. As the

season turns a corner, the cross country teams hope to power

ahead and show the region that they are a s trong force and will

not be pushed aside.