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OCTOBER 3. 2007 • SINCE 1887 S P E R A I N D E O " H O P E C O L L E G E • H O L L A N D . M I C H I G A N

Student Congress gears up for new academic year Kara Shetler G U E S T W R I T E R

Matthew Oosterhouse C A M P U S N E W S EDITOR

A new school year means

new represeniatives, leaders and

goals for Hope College's Student Congress. While executive board

members and representatives of

the sophomore, junior and senior

classes were elected last spring,

elections for dorm and cottage representatives took place on

Sept. 13 and 14. The new Student Congress

president. Jay Gibbs ( '09),

has goals for reevaluating and

strengthening various aspects of

the organization this year to make

its operations more effective. "This year. Student Congress

needs to do a little bit of remod-

eling and maintenance work / '

Gibbs said. "We've had a lot of programs that have been running

for a long time and need to be re-

vamped and need to be tailored

more to the whole student body." Gibbs has a clear vision for

how these changes will take

place. "My specific goals lie within

programming. As president, I

have a more managerial role in this congress and so my goal is to

see every program that comes out

of Student Congress is the best

that it can be and be tailored so

that Hope students want it and are interested in it," Gibbs said.

This is no small undertaking

considering the breadth and in-volvement of Student Congress

operations. According to the S E E CONGRESS, P A G E 10

SWEAT AND TEARS

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PHOTO BY DAVID MOORE

B R O T H E R S I N A R M S — Odd Year Pull t eam members, Andrew Napoli ( '11), le f t , Gabe Ruble ( 1 1 ) , and Isaac Bennet t ( '11), r ight, embrace in ce lebrat ion upon learn ing of the i r t eam 's v ictory over the Even Year

team. The Pull went the fu l l th ree hours w i th Odd Year w inn ing by 30 feet , 1 1 inches. See fu l l story on page 2.

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Line Dancing, Food, Hay Rides

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Transportation: 2 buses wiH shuttle every 1/2 hour

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1:00pm H o m e c o m i n g Parade around campus, then to Municipal Stadium

2 :00pm

Hope vs. A lma Footba l l Game

Holland Municipal Stadium

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H o m e c o m i n g Dance (semi-formal)

Swing Dancing til 11 Popular Hip Hop music after

Haworth Inn (connected to Cook Hall)

10:00am

Homecoming Worsh ip Service

Dimnent Chapel

Events set for Alumni Week Shannon Craig N A T I O N A L N E W S EDITOR

Homecoming is providing Hope

College students, faculty, staff and alumni with a "passport to the

world" this weekend, Oct. 5-7.

Highlights of the upcoming festivities include the 30th annual

Run-Walk, a parade, a football

game against Alma College, a student dance and a special

worship service Sunday morning. it is expected that hundreds

of alumni will travel back to Hope's campus for homecoming

weekend as, in conjunction with the weekend's events, the classes

of 1987, 1992, 1997 and 2002

will be holding their reunions. Student organizations

will decorate cars and create makeshift floats for the traditional

homecoming parade. The parade

will start at 13th Street and

College Avenue on Oct. 6 at 1 p.m. and wind its way through

campus until it reaches Holland

Municipal Stadium. Alma College will be at

Hope on Oct. 6 to chal lenge the Flying Dutchmen in the

Homecoming football game at 2 p.m. Half t ime festivit ies

will include the presentation

of the 12th annual "Favori te

Faculty/Staff Member Award," as well as the coronation of the

Homecoming king and queen. Theannualhomecomingdance

for students will be held Oct. 6 at the Haworth Inn and Conference

Center. The dance will feature a

live swing band from 8:30 p.m. until 11 p.m. Tickets cost S7 in

advance at the Student Union Desk and $ 10 at the door.

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Hope exchanges immigration stories Katie Harper G U E S T W R I T E R

Members of Hope College's campus community

have been using the past weeks to share in an im-

portant, yet often untold story. While this year 's Critical Issues Symposium on

Oct. 2-3 examines the issue of immigration, many

students, faculty and community members have

taken advantage of the weeks prior to the sympo-sium to learn more about the topic. Several events

recently offered on campus have served as prepara-

tion for the upcoming immigration discussion. From Sept. 20-27, the Knickerbocker Theatre

showed the award-winning film "Crossing Ari-

zona." The film depicts the struggles related to

the nearly 4,500 peo-

"Today's first

generation im-

migrants need

to attain what it

took European

immigrants sev-

eral generations

to achieve."

— Alejandro Portes,

sociologist

pie that illegally cross

Arizona's border each day. It examines the is-

sue through the eyes of

frustrated ranchers that have to clean up the

property damage often

associated with the il-legal traffic, humanitar-

ian groups working to

prevent the deadly bor-

der-crossing dangers, farmers that depend

on the illegal migrant

workers and the newly formed Minutemen that = = = = = = =

patrol the border. " 'Cross ing Arizona' examines the crisis through

the eyes of those directly affected by it," a Hope

College press release said. "It shows how we got

to where we are today." The film has been shown at the Knickerbocker

before, but was this year presented in conjunction

with the Critical Issues Symposium. Dan De Vivo, the film's director, and Mike Wilson, an activist

featured in the film, are participating in the sympo-

sium on Oct. 3.

Pre-symposium speaker spoke on second-generation immigrat ion

Campus and community members were also in-

vited to pre-symposium speaker Alejandro Fortes' presentation. His address entitled "Segmented

Assimilation: Prospects for the Immigrant Second Generation" was held on Tuesday, Sept. 25, at 4

p.m. in Maas Auditorium. Fortes is a Cuban native who became a U.S. citi-

zen in 1968. Today, he is a well-known sociologist

at Princeton University and the director of the Cen-

ter for Migration and Development. He has also

authored several prestigious articles and books. S E E C I S , P A G E 1 0

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

Thursday Oct. 4 Meijer Runs Sponsored by Student Congress Vans will run from DeWItt Flagpole to

Meijer on 16th Street 8 p.m. - 1 0 p.m.

Saturday Oct. 6 Relay For Life P a n c a k e Break-fa s t Sponsored by Chem Club. $5 for adults and $3 for children.

All proceeds go towards Chem Club's

contribution to Relay For Life.

10 a.m.

Monday Oct. 8 "Can I Kiss You?" Mike Domitrz

Knickerbocker Theatre. 7 p.m.-9 p.m.

I N B R I E F

DO YOU SEE ORANGE?

On Friday, Sept. 28, 160 Hope

students and faculty members wore orange T-shirts printed

with the word " O R P H A N " to

raise awareness of the HIV/

AIDS pandemic. The number of

volunteers on campus reflected the 5 percent of children in sub-

Saharan Africa who are AIDS

orphans. The "Do You See Orange?"

campaign was organized by

the Hope chapter of Acting on Aids, an organization supported

by World Vision that aims to

promote HIV/AIDS awareness

and activism on college campuses

nationwide. The event at Hope joined similar events at 36 other

campuses in conjunction with the

first-ever Acting on Aids National "Do You See Orange?" Week.

Several other events

accompanied the "Do You See

Orange?" campaign at Hope.

A team of 17 Hope students

participated in the Grand Rapids AIDS Walk on Saturday, and the

HIV/AIDS documentary "ACloser

Walk" was shown on Monday

afternoon in Dimnent Chapel.

CAMPUS MINISTRIES HOSTS LECTURE ON WAR

On Monday, Oct. 8, at 4 p.m.,

Hope College Campus Ministries

is sponsoring a lecture entitled "Augustine, The Just War Theory,

and The War On Terror" in Schaap

Science Center room 1019.

The lecture, given by Dr.

Jason Byassee, assistant editor of the Chicago-based magazine,

"The Christian Century," is part

of a series of "World Christian

Lectures" that Campus Ministries is sponsoring, in efforts to bring to

Hopethoughtfulandintellectually-

engaged perspectives that focus

on issues in the world faced by

Christians. Byassee will present his lecture

from the standpoint of Augustine,

a Christian theologian in the 4th

and 5th centuries who developed the Just War theory.

The lecture will focus on the issues surrounding Christians

going to war, the tensions between the authorities of the stale and

the church, the Just War theory's

effect on and application to the Iraq War, and the usefulness or

limitation of Augustine's theory

in the present day.

Legendary: Freshmen blast '10 Kevin Soubly STAFF W R I T E R

Alex Quick G U E S T W R I T E R

Matt Gosterhouse C A M P U S N E W S EDITOR

"ODD! YEAR! ODD! YEAR!

ODD! YEAR!" was the cry. bel-lowed by the surging crowd sur-

rounding the freshmen team at

Saturday's 110th Pull across Hol-

land's Black River. The mottled sunlight shown down through

the trees onto the Ml Pull team,

glistening off the sweat beaded on

the warriors' painted faces and il-luminating their eyes - some tired

and drained, others sparking with

fierce determination and pain.

Each member wore the Odd

Year uniform: boots, white jeans,

their trademark maroon and gold shirts, and a mohawk haircut.

Their bodies were painted with

war paint - accenting their facial

features and making their gri-

maces of pain ever so more grue-some. Their feet strained against

the wooden board at the foot of

their pit, which was itself painted

in yellow with the word: "WAR."

Heavily favored to lose - as in most years - the class of 2011

came out aiming to be not just the

average freshman team.

"We set the bar high, we worked

them real hard and they gave us everything. They cried in practice

- and that brought them together.

Today, they showed up as a team

and did what needed to be done.

Odd Year family, that's = = = = = =

what it's all

about," said

Matt Griffin

( '09), Odd

Year's an-

chor coach. As the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

clock ticked down to the final minutes, the pile

of excess rope behind the anchor of

the Odd Year team spoke of victory,

and the energized crowd sensed it.

The coaches began gathering at the

head of the line and became a wall

"In the end, I love my team

and they are my family!1

- Nick Vanderhovel ( 1 0 ) ,

Even Year Puller

NOT JUST ANY TUG-O-WAR t i ces leading up to Pull day.

of support for their team. And then

the call began again: "More rope!

More rope! More rope!" And so the coaches motioned to "HEAVE," the

moralers chanted the call, and the

pullers gathered their last ounces of

strength and pulled - once again. When the foghorn blew, sig-

naling the end of the three-hour

contest between classes. Odd Year

claimed victory with a final gain

of almost 31 feet - an astounding

371 hard-earned inches. Jeff DeYoung ('11), a Puller

on the Odd = = = = = Year team,

was en-

t h u s i a s t i c about the

team's vic-tory. "They

said we

couldn't do

it! (Even

Year) thought that they 'd just win

automatically - that 's just not

how it happens." Michelle Jule, mother Odd

Year puller Austin Jule, was just

as animated.

PHOTO BY KEVIN SOUBLY

— A Puller displays the bl isters the rope gave him in the prac-

"It was amazing and very spir-

itual. I didn't think the freshman had a chance, but I knew the guys

would give it their all."

"Congratulations brother, you

had a good team," said an un-known Pull observer, on the Even

Year side of the Black River, into

his cell phone to someone on the

opposite shore. The reality of the situation

had just set in moments before; the Odd Year freshmen had taken

more than 30 feet of rope from the Even Year sophomores. A wave

of heavy-heartedness flooded the ' 10 pits and sidelines upon the an-

nouncement of the results.

"Last night we talked about

the different shades of red," Pull Coach Matt McCabe ( '08) said to

pullers and moralers, announcing

the defeat. "Right now, I 'm wear-

ing a very, very brown shade of

red." Matt Van Oostenburg ( '10),

a puller on last year 's Even Year

team, expressed a sense of sym-

pathy for this year 's Even Year

Pull team.

"It hurts because we lost last year," Van Oostenburg said.

"They didn't get to experience the

joy of winning."

Despite the loss, the even-year team took pride in completing the

physically grueling contest of the

pull. Last year 's Pull was called

early due to medical concerns

about the health of the even-year

team. "Our 2010 Pull team came

a long way from last year," said Haleigh Heneveld ( '08), an Even Year Pull representative. "We

were on the rope for the full three

hours and that in itself is an ac-

complishment for all Pull teams in general... I have never been so

proud." Above the loss and the physi-

cal torment stood the relation-ships formed in the muddy pits

by the Black River.

"In the end," said Puller Nick

Vanderhovel ( '10) , "I love my team and they are my family and

win or lose, I 'm proud of what

we have come together and have

done in the past three weeks."

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Bridging the $1.75 billion gap Michigan Legislature narrowly avoids disastrous, prolonged shutdown Laura Stritzke G U E S T W R I T E R

Michigan's new fiscal year started

Monday, Oct. 1, and Michigan lawmakers reached a deal with Gov. Jennifer Granholm

barely in time to prevent a potentially disas-

trous statewide government shutdown.

In her Sept. 21 radio address Gov. Gran-holm said, "We need a comprehensive (bud-

get) solution by Oct. 1 when the new fiscal

year begins." Granholm stayed true to her demands,

ordering a full-government shutdown Oct. 1 at 12:01 a.m., when 35,000 government workers were threatened with temporary

layoffs. Crisis was averted when the state Senate

voted on tax cuts, which allowed a 30-day

extension of the current Michigan budget. Democratic Lt. Gov. John Cherry cast

the deciding vote of 20-19 at 4 a.m. The de-cision was then brought to Granholnfs of-

fice and all government services and func-

tions were reinstated. Among the changes voted for by the Sen-

ate are the expansion _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of the 6 percent sales

tax to various services

and to raise the 3.9

percent income tax rate to 4.35 percent.

These tax increases will generate $1.35 billion in additional = = = = =

revenue for Michigan. Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop

said that lawmakers were now going to be-

gin the task of cutting $435 million from

slate spending in order to fix a permanent

should eliminate the projected $1.75 billion

deficit. "This budget agreement is the right so-

lution for Michigan," Granholm said. "We

prevented massive cuts to public education, health care and

"This budget agreement is

the right solution for Michi-

gan:1

- G o v e r n o r Jenni fe r G r a n h o l m

public safety while

also making exten-sive government

reforms and pass-

ing new revenue." D e m o c r a t i c

leaders hailed the = decision as a "re-

sponsible compromise." Many Republi-

cans, however, noted the increased tax on

Michigan's already struggling workers, with a current unemployment rate of 7.4 percent

and the recent strike involving the United

2007-2008 state budget. These tax increases Auto Workers and General Motors Corp.

Ahmadinejad addresses U.N. Jon Parrish G U E S T W R I T E R

Amidst waves of protest, Ira-

nian President Mahmoud Ahma-

dinejad visited New York this week to address the United Na-

tions. Speaking before the Gen-

eral Assembly, Ahmadinejad denounced attempts by the U.N.

Security Council to place sanc-tions on his country, saying that

the nuclear issue in Iran is "now

closed." Ahmadinejad stated that all

monitoring of Iran's nuclear pro-

gram should be done "through its appropriate legal path." the Inter-

national Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agen-

cy. While Ahmadinejad did not

mention the United States by name, he criticized the actions of

"arrogant powers" that "exten-

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sively violate" human rights by

abducting persons and holding

"trials and secret punishments without any regard to due pro-

cess." Iran has been charged with

many of the human rights con-

cerns that Ahmadinejad raised. "The General Assembly is

the theater in which Ahmadine-jad and others perform" former

U.N. Ambassador John Bolton

said, according to the Associated Press. Bolton went on to describe

the United Nations as a "Twilight

Zone" that gives a platform to

"tinhorn dictators." In response to Ahmadinejad

taking the stage, the United Slates delegation is reported by the As-

sociated Press to have promptly walked out, leaving only a low-ranking note-taker to record his

statement. This was done "to send S E E COLUMBIA, P A G E 4

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CONTROVERSIAL SPEAKER- Iranian Presi-dent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves prior to speak ing dur ing the 62nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 25 . His s top at the U.N. was a part of his controversial vist to New York City.

U.S. firm Blackwater kills Iraqi civilians

Brian McLellan S E N I O R S T A F F W R I T E R

The founder of Blackwater USA, Erik Prince, testified Tuesday before a House

Committee on the accountability of private

security contracters in Iraq following a Sept. 16 shooting which killed 10 Iraqi civilians.

Prince is a Holland native and former Navy

SEAL. On Sept. 16, Blackwater, a private secu-

rity contracting firm, was escorting a United

Slates Stale Department diplomatic convoy

in Baghdad when it became involved in a firefight in Nisoor Square, located between

the Sunni neighborhoods of Mansour and

Yarmouk in Baghdad. The details of this battle are not known for

certain, but at least 10 Iraqis died in the fight-ing. The deaths of these people caused an

uproar among Iraqis and prompted the Iraqi

Interior Ministry to shut down Blackwaler 's

operations in Iraq. This suspension was not necessarily meant

to be permanent but was to remain in effect for some lime, pending an investigation into

the incident. U.S. Secretary of State Condo-

leezza Rice, in addition to offering her condo-lences for the lost lives, promised a "fair and

transparent" investigation so that "such acts

will not be repealed," stated the office of Iraqi

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. Blackwater claimed that the dead were

armed insurgents and had provoked the firm's employees into opening fire. "(Blackwater

employees) acted lawfully and appropriately

in response to a hostile attack. ... The Civil-ians' . . . were in fact armed enemies and Black-water personnel relumed defensive fire," said

an official Blackwater statement.

Iraqi officials wil l f i le charges

An Iraqi official disputed Blackwaler's state-

ment, claiming that the Iraqi government was in

possession of a videotape that showed Blackwater

employees opening fire unprovoked on Iraqi civil-ians. Testimonies of eyewitnesses were also gath-

ered by Iraqi investigators as evidence for the case. After reviewing the evidence presented to

them, investigators came to the conclusion that

Blackwater employees had been unprovoked in the Nisoor Square incident and that the case would

be sent forward to the Iraqi judicial system. According to Iraqi officials, formal charges

will be filed against the Blackwater employees

involved in the fighting. However, it is unclear how the men will be brought to trial, as Or-

der 17 from the Coalition Provisional Author-

ity grants private security contractors such as Blackwater immunity from Iraqi laws.

However, Iraqi government spokesman Ali

al-Dabbagh does not agree that private security contractors should have this immunity, staling

that "an Iraqi law should be implemented on

everybody. Now (that) Iraq is under a sover-eign government, they have the liberty to lake

any action and any steps against any security company as long as they are not complying

with the Iraqi regulations and the Iraqi laws." Whether the Blackwater employees in-

volved in the Nisoor Square incident are

brought to trial for their actions or not, the company has been allowed to resume its op-

erations within the borders of Iraq.

SENATE VOTES FOR MORE FUNDING FOR IRAQ WAR WASHINGTON (AP) —

Senate Democrats helped pass a

defense bill authorizing another $150 billion for the wars in Iraq

and Afghanistan. Monday's 92-3 vote comes as

the House planned to approve sepa-

rate legislation that requires Presi-

dent Bush to give Congress a plan for eventual troop withdrawals.The

developments underscored the dif-

ficulty facing Democrats in the Iraq debate: They lack the votes to pass

legislation ordering troops home

and are divided on whether to cut money for combat, despite a man-

date by supporters to end the war.

Democratic leaders say they will renew their fight when Con-

gress considers the money Bush

wants in war funding.

SUICIDE BOMBER ATTACK IN KABUL KABUL, Afghanistan (AP)

— A mother and her two chil-dren boarded a police bus only

seconds before a suicide bomb-

er detonated his payload inside, an attack that killed 13 police

and civilians Tuesday, the sec-

ond such bombing in Afghani-

stan's capital in four days, po-

lice and witnesses said. Four children were among

the 13 killed. Ten people were Wounded in

the attack.

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Ahmadinejad visits New York, speaks at Columbia • COLUMBIA, from page 3

him a powerful message" State

Department spokesman Gonzalo

Gallegos said. While the U.S. remains one of

the strongest opponents of the Ira-

nian nuclear program, many other countries voiced their concerns.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy

and German Chancellor Angela Merkel both spoke to the General

Assembly about the danger of

Iran acquiring nuclear weapons and threatened tougher sanctions

should Ahmadinejad continue his

ambitious nuclear policy.

So far, the Iranian president has defied two Security Coun-

cil resolutions demanding that

Iran suspend enrichment. While

these resolutions have increased sanctions on Iran and its nuclear

program, Ahmadinejad has made

it clear that he will not stop what he defines as a peaceful attempt

to provide nuclear power to his

country.

The U.S. and key European countries fear that, despite claims

to the contrary, Ahmadinejad 's

program is merely a smokescreen behind which Iran is attempt-

ing to obtain nuclear weapons. A third resolution with tougher

sanctions is currently being dis-

cussed and the U.S. has refused to take military action off the table if

Iran fails to comply.

Trip s p a r k s o u t r a g e

Ahmadinejad 's visit to the

United States has sparked outrage in New York and across the coun-

try. ' T h e Evil has Landed' ' ran

the front-page headline of New York's Daily News, highlighting

American hostility toward the

Iranian president, who has denied the existence of the Holocaust

and has said that Israel should be

"wiped off the map." Citing rea-

sons of security and construction. New York police also denied a

request by Ahmadinejad to visit

the World Trade Center site of the

Sept. 11 attacks. U.S. Secretary of

State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday that it would have been

a travesty for the president of a country that is known to sponsor

terrorism to visit the site.

C o l u m b i a Universi ty visit cr i t ic ized

Prior to the U.N. General

Assembly, Ahmadine jad was

invited to speak at Columbia University. In response to this

invitation, the institution has re-

ceived criticism f rom all sides. Columbia should not be ' 'roll-

ing out the red carpet for the

leader of a terrorist-sponsoring reg ime" said senator and presi-

dential candidate John McCain .

New York City Council speak-er Christine Quinn also urged Co-

lumbia to cancel Ahmadinejad 's

planned speech, citing that while

universities should be a forum for a healthy exchange of ideas, there

are limits. "An exchange of ideas should

not include state sponsored terror-

ism and hate speech. He can say whatever he wants on any street

comer, but should not be given

center stage at one of New York's most prestigious centers of higher

education," Quinn said, accord-

ing to Reuters. Despite allowing Ahmadinejad

to speak,

the presi-dent of Co-

lumbia Uni-versity Lee

B o l l i n g e r

pulled no

p u n c h e s when lead- -

ing the forum. In his introduction, Bol-

linger called the Iranian president

a "petty and cruel dictator" and said that denying the Holocaust

is either "brazenly provocative or

astonishingly uneducated."

"I feel the weight of the mod-em civilized world yearning to

express the revulsion at what you

"In Iran, we don't have homo-

sexuals like in your country"

— Iranian President

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

stand for," Bollinger said to loud applause of about 700 students,

many of whom were wearing

"Stop Ahmadinejad's Evil" T-

shirts. In his reply to a question about

the recent execution of two gay

men in his country, Ahmadinejad was reported as saying, "In Iran,

we don ' t

" have ho-

m o s e x u a l s like in your country."

T h i s

c o m m e n t

provoked a

= = = = = = ^ = strong re-

action from

the crowd, resulting in a mix of booing and laughter.

"This is a sick joke," said Scott

Long of Human Rights Watch as

reported in Reuters. Long went on to say that Iran

tortures gays and punishes homo-

sexuality between men with the death penalty.

Iraqi prime minister pans Senate partition proposal al-Maliki responds negatively to suggestion that Iraq be divided between Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds

Qassim Abdul- Zahra ASSOCIATED P R E S S W R I T E R

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's

prime minister told The Associ-ated Press on Friday that a U.S.

Senate proposal to split the coun-try into regions according to re-

ligious or ethnic divisions would

be a "catastrophe."

The Kurds in three northern

Iraqi provinces are running a vir-tually independent country within

Iraq, while nominally maintaining

relations with Baghdad. They sup-

port a formal division. But both Sunni and Shiite Muslims have

reacted with extreme opposition

to the U.S. Senate proposal.

The majority Shiites, who

would retain control of major oil revenues under a division of the

country, oppose the measure be-

cause if would diminish the ter-

ritorial integrity of Iraq, which they now control. Sunnis would

control an area with few if any oil

resources. Kurds have major oil

reserves in their territory.

The nonbinding Senate reso-

lution calls for Iraq to be divided

into federal regions under con-

trol of the three communities in a power-sharing agreement similar

to the one that ended the 1990s

war in Bosnia. Democrat presi- = = = = =

dential hope-

ful Sen. Joseph

Biden was a

prime sponsor of

the measure. "It is an Iraqi

affair dealing

with Iraqis," Prime Minister Nouri al-Ma-

liki told AP on a return flight to

Baghdad from New York where

he appeared at the U.N. General Assembly. "Iraqis are eager for

Iraq's unity. ... Dividing Iraq is a

problem, and a decision like that

would be a catastrophe." The comments were al-Mali-

ki 's first since the measure passed

the Senate on Wednesday.

• Iraq's constitution lays down

"Iraqis are eager for

Iraq's unity. "

- Nour i al-Maliki,

Iraqi Pr ime Minister

a federal system, al lowing Shi-

ites in the south, Kurds in the

north and Sunnis in the center

and west of the country to set up regions with considerable au-

tonomous powers. Never theless ,

ethnic and sectar-ian turmoil have

snarled hopes

of negotiating

such measures, especially given

deep divisions

on sharing the

country's vast oil

resources. Oil reserves and exist-

ing fields would fall mainly into the hands of Kurds and Shiites if

such a division were to occur.

So far there has been no agree-

ment on a broader sharing of those revenues, one of the several

U.S.-mandated benchmarks the

government has failed to push

through parliament. On Sept. 27, Iraqi Vice Presi-

dent Adel Abdul-Mahdi, a Shiite,

said decisions about Iraq must

remain in the hands of its citi-

zens. And a spokesman for radi-

cal Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr demanded the al-Maliki govern-

ment reject the proposal. "We demand the Iraqi govern-

ment to stand against such a proj-ect and to condemn it officially,"

said Liwa Semeism, the al-Sadr

spokesman. "Such a decision

does not represent the aspirations of all Iraqi people and it is con-

sidered an interference in Iraq's

internal affairs." A spokesman for Grand Aya-

tollah Ali al-Sistani, the Shiite

spiritual leader, dismissed the

proposal during a Friday sermon

in Karbala. "The division plan is against

Iraq's interests and against

peace in a united Iraq," Sheik

Abdul Mahdi al-Karbalaei told worshippers. "Any neighboring

country supporting this project

will pay the price of instability

in the region."

Nouri al-Mallki

Biden argues that the U.S. has

focused too much on trying to

prop up a strong, central unified

government in Baghdad. But it is unlikely the Bush ad-

ministration will alter its policies

on Iraq as a result of the resolu-

tion. Secretary of State Condo-leezza Rice said Tuesday that the

administration supports a federal

Iraq, but it is a "sensitive issue best left to the Iraqis to address at

their own pace."

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ARTS O C T O B E R 3 , 2 0 0 7 T H E A N C H O R 5 'Nothing left to lose' artist to give Hope performance Julie Kocsls GUEST W R I T E R

Mat Kearney, a Nashvi l le-

based s inger-songwri ter , will be

pe r fo rming this Monday, Oct . 8th

at 8 p.m. in Dimnen t Chapel .

Kearney released his first C D ,

"No th ing Left to L o s e " in April o f

2006. F r o m this C D he released

the title track "No th ing Lef t to

Lose , " wh ich gained immedi -

ate success and popularity. His

newly-re leased song "Unden i -

ab le" is currently on Bi l lboard ' s

Top 40 Char t s and V h l ' s Top 20

Coun tdown . In April of 2007,

one year a f te r re leas ing his debut

a lbum, he released an iTunes ex -

clusive EP. This EP consists of

four songs f rom "No th ing Lef t

to L o s e " that have been "str ipped

d o w n " to acoust ic form.

Kearney certainly has a style

all his own, mix ing h ip -hop beats,

p o p choruses , acoust ic fo lk and

even spoken verse. His lyrics are

also very m u c h an important part

of his music .

" W h e n I set out to write, I wan t

to wri te someth ing that will rip

your heart out and connect with

you. Great songs connect beyond

genre and s tyle ," Kearney said.

" M y artistic goal was to write

someth ing tha t ' s one hundred per-

cent real and true to m e and to this

world. I tried to touch on truths

that really connect with people

f rom every avenue of l ife."

A song of which Kearney is

proud is "Breathe In Breathe Out ,"

which he describes in his online

journal as "one of the best songs I

have written in a long t ime."

"Brea the In, Breathe O u t " can

be heard on his M y S p a c e page

a long with his v ideo for "Un-

den iab le" and t w o o ther songs,

"No th ing Lef t to L o s e " and "Girl

A m e r i c a . "

Tickets are $ 2 0 for the general

public and $10 for s tudents with

a Hope Col lege I.D. Tickets for

the show are avai lable onl ine at

HopeTickets .com and by phone

at 616-395-7890 .

All eyes on

(I ran into them

there), and I

was thinking,

/ 1 played that

with the orches-

tra back at the Uni-

versi ty o f Illinois and

here I am sitting with m y

s tudents w h o are the same

age as 1 was . Not only that,

but the pianist w a s pe r fo rming

a S c h u m a n n p iano concer to and

I had d o n e that as a young per-

son and have taught it m a n y t imes.

I could kind o f see m y whole l ife

s t retching before me whi le si t t ing next to

these young people , and knowing that I had

pe r fo rmed all this mus ic back then. I t ' s very

mov ing . I t ' s very special .

Dalcroze

Kat ie Bennet t A R T S E o r r o R

Q l W h a t is this I hear about you leading the

h o m e c o m i n g parade on Sa turday?

A : ( laughs) Well yes I 'm the g rand marshal .

T h e y ' r e honor ing m e I guess for all those

years o f service to Hope College. Forty-f ive

of them! A lot of wa te r has passed under the

br idge in those years .

Q z I bet! W h a t are your responsibil i t ies as

grand marsha l?

A L Waving and smi l ing ( laughs) . My par tner

Chris is going to sit in the front seat and Mar-

cella Mascor ro wil l sit in the back with me.

S h e ' s been a c lose f r iend of ours all her life.

Q l So 45 years ago you started leaching at

Hope. Did you a lways want to teach here?

What made you decide to come to Hope?

A I Well I ' l l tell you there w e r e a f ew possi-

bilities af ter I comple ted m y mas te r ' s at Yale.

I had applied for a Fulbright, but that did not

work out. And then I w a s applying to the

Universi ty of Nigeria at the N e w York off ice ,

and then Hope College. And i t 's interesting

that the j o b descript ions were the same: Pia-

no teaching, class p iano teaching, and theory

teaching.

Q t N o w you a lmost pursued oboe instead

of p iano?

A I I played both instruments th rough college.

To this day when I hear beaut i fu l o b o e playing

it really touches a very sensi t ive part of m e and

I have a great yearning for it. Lis tening to the

Dvorak N e w World S y m p h o n y done so wel l

by your West Shore S y m p h o n y last Saturday

night with that beaut i ful English horn solo,

w a s just so touching and moving . And I sat

there with Chris and Sam and Isaac and Lisa,

. . .Charles Ascnbrenner

Piano prof reflects back on years well spent ^ (I ran into them degree as w e know it today. I bel ieve our first

• there), and I generat ion graduated in 1970 with Bache lo r ' s

r VVAQ thlnkino of Mus ic degrees. It was one of the reasons

perhaps w h y I wanted to stay here. The de-

par tment w a s g r o w i n g and becoming more

profess ional in a sense. So then of course in

' 7 1 , 1 wen t on sabbat ical and then y o u ' r e kind

of hooked. You have tenure, and then here

you are 45 years later. I love the co l lege I

love the area w h e r e w e are. and watching the

changes occur not on ly in the col lege and in

the mus ic depar tment but in Holland.

* ! Rhapsodies in Blue V

Q : Was it last year or the year be fo re that

you pe r fo rmed " R h a p s o d y in B l u e " with the

orches t ra?

A t I think that w a s the spr ing of '06 . Tha t

w a s the second t ime in recent years, but I have

revived it a lmost every decade ( laughs) . I first

d id it with (orchestra conductor ) Moret te Rid-

er w h e n he w a s doing a television series on

mus ic for public television, and that w a s in

the late 60s . I t ' s one of m y most played piec-

es. I ' ve also m a d e o ther appearances with the

orchestra. I pe r fo rmed = the Mende l s sohn G

minor , the Bee thoven

G major , the Gershwin

concerto, which w a s a

lot o f fun .

^ Q ! Is there any chance

that you ' l l still pe r fo rm

with the orchestra af ter this year?

A t I d o n ' t know, you ' l l have to talk to Mr.

Pi ippo!

Q t S o m e of your s tudents want to know:

what is your favori te color?

A I You m e a n they don ' t know that it 's blue?!

But not orange unfor tunate ly! So will 1 be

wear ing an orange and blue tie on Sa turday?

I d o n ' t think so.

Q t What animal would you be?

A : What would I be? Oh m y goodness . Well

m a y b e a koala. Someth ing cuddly.

Q l Which is your favori te graduat ing class

of all t ime?

A t Well this one of course! ( laughs) Every

year is a favori te class it 's very interesting

h o w that goes, and you deve lop very special

re lat ionships with students and y o u ' r e sad

to see them go and yet another crop of stu-

dents comes a long and fills their shoes. And

you think oh I ' l l never have another s tudent

as good as this s tudent , and then low and be-

hold, you do. It 's impossible to pick a favor-

ite class.

Q : You also teach Dalcroze eurhythmics-

w h e n did you in t roduce this course?

A t It w a s about 1975 before 1 started intro-

duc ing it here at Hope . It wasn ' t a lways a

self-contained course .

Back then, I s imply in-

tegrated it into mus ic

theory. Eurhy thmies is

the s tudy of express ive,

and I stress express ive,

musical rhythm through = = = = =

body movement . And I

c a n ' t think of a bet ter w a y to present mus ic on

all levels. So m u c h of our mus ic teaching is

geared to the reading o f music , to reading the

symbol on the printed page.

Q t What is it like teaching both music stu-

dents and dance s tudents eurhythmies?

A t I like to expla in it this way : w e ' r e all in-

volved with cutting up space and t ime. Danc-

ers are mov ing in space and they need to real ize

the rhythmic implicat ions of movement . And

m a n y of them need to learn rhythmic notat ion,

whereas music s tudents c o m e with t raining

and rhythmic notation but without unders tand-

ing of the feel ing behind the notation. So i t 's

interesting to have both types of s tudents in

the class together. T h e dancers of course can

mode l good movemen t for the mus ic s tudents ,

which is desirable. And the mus ic s tudents are

m o r e skillftil at reading rhythmic notat ion, so

it works out qui te satisfactorily.

Q t H o w has the music depar tment changed

over the years?

A t A big quest ion. When I c a m e to Hope Col-

lege all those years ago, it w a s strictly a Bach-

elor of Arts degree. S tudents could get majors ,

you could have an educat ion ma jo r in mus ic

but it w a s n ' t a Bache lor ' s of Mus ic Educat ion

"I could kind ojsee my whole

life stretching before me... It's

very moving. It's very special.'

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

Wednesday

Ballet Club Dow. 8 p.m. -10 :00 p.m.

Nykerk Women 's Rally Dimnent, 9 p.m.

1 0 / 3

1 0 / 4 Thursday

MENC Meet ing Nykerk 100, 5:30 p.m. Jim DeBoer

will lead a discussion on the chang-

ing voices of elementary and middle school students.

Friday 1 0 / 5

Campus movie, "Ratatoul l le" VanderWerf 102, 7 p.m.. 9:30 p.m.,

12 a.m. $2.

Symphonet te concert Dimnent, 7:30 p.m. Admission is free.

"The Nina Variat ions" DeWitt studio Theatre. 8 p.m., 9:30 p.m. $4 for students.

10/6 Saturday

Homecoming Parade 1 p.m.

Campus movie. "Ratatoull le'" VanderWerf 102, 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m..

12 a.m. $2.

Sunday 1 0 / 7

Campus movie, "Ratatoul l le" VanderWerf 102. 7 p.m.. 9:30 p.m..

12 a.m. $2.

Monday 1 0 / 8

Mat Kearney and Meiko concert Dimnent, 8 p.m. $10 for students.

Tickets available at Devos Ticket

Center. Doors open 7:30 p.m.

I N B R I E F

S Y M P H O N E T T E O P E N S N E W

C O N C E R T S E A S O N FRIDAY

Gaber ie l Johnson GUEST W R I T E R

A f t e r a ve ry success fu l Eu-

ropean tour this pas t spr ing, the

S y m p h o n e t t e Orches t ra has re-

tu rned , eager to kick o f f thei r

n e w concer t season .

T h e o rches t r a has r ece ived

t w o o u t s t a n d i n g r e v i e w s f r o m

G e r m a n M u n i c h n e w s p a p e r s

a n d is a l r e a d y p l a n n i n g fo r

the i r next sp r ing tou r of the eas t

coas t , i nc lud ing s tops in P e n n -

sy lvan ia , O h i o , N e w J e r s e y and

N e w York.

The i r first concert is set for this

Friday, Oct. 5, 7 :30 p.m. at D im-

nent Chapel . The program will

open with the "Over tu re to the

Pirates of Penzance , " by Gilbert

and Sull ivan. The Concer t will

a lso include works f r o m " S y m -

phony no. 2 " by Franz Schuber t

and " C h o r e o g r a p h y " for Str ing

Orches t ra by Dello Joio.

When asked about favorite piec-

es and memor ies spent conduct ing

the orchestra, Conductor Richard

Piippo said that every piece and

every memory made with the or-

chestra was his favorite.

T h e Symphone t t e will be per-

forming three to four more con-

certs on campus and plans to play

of f campus this year as they have

in previous years .

"The Symphone t t e perfor-

mances o f fe r a wonder fu l diver-

sion f rom everyday l ife," Pi ippo

said.

The concert is f r ee and open to

the public.

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In pursuit of knowledge m a v

Evelyn Daniel

A moral question When you think about the immigration

debate, what first comes to mind? Is it an

image of politicians attempting to win votes?

Is it a complaint about Congress ' failure to

act or the lack of adequate law enforcement?

Is it ever morality — religion?

In February 2006, Cardinal Roger

Mahoney of the Catholic Archdiocese of Los

Angeles spurred intense controversy and made

national headlines when he announced that

he would encourage Catholics in his diocese

to ignore provisions of immigration bill HR

4437, if the legislation was ever passed.

The bill, which passed in the House

but failed in the Senate, would have made

it a criminal act to of fer any assistance to

immigrants who were in the United States

illegally, among other provisions. As the

cardinal interpreted it, this would prohibit

anyone from offering immigrants food,

clothing or shelter without asking for

documentation of their citizenship status.

When asked about encouraging civil

disobedience among Catholics, Mahoney told

CNN, "We give aid and assistance to anyone

in need. We have never, ever been required

to ask people for documentation before we

feed the hungry, clothe the naked or visit the

prisoners or sick. And we ' re not about to start

now. That 's just crazy. To say that someone

who helps give someone medical care is

committ ing a felony is ludicrous, because it

is not going to resolve any of the immigration

issues before us at all ."

The documentary "Crossing Arizona,"

shown in the Knickerbocker Theatre last week,

offers a depiction of the thousand or more

immigrants estimated to have died crossing

the Southern border since the mid '90s.

As author Byrd Baylor said in the film,

"I don ' t believe in the death penalty for

anything, so I certainly don' t believe in the

death penalty for trying to walk across the

desert to look for better life for your family."

Anyone who writes off the immigration

issue as merely political would be sorely

mistaken. It is saturated with intensely

personal moral questions, the answers to

which are critical to our individual identities.

How, for example, will w e balance the

need to maintain security and rule of law

in our society with the biblical command to

love our neighbors? When do w e allow our

religious views to dictate how w e vote or

how we govern, and when do w e keep church

and state distinctly separate, even in our own

minds? When, as in Mahoney ' s case, is civil

disobedience justif ied?

I fear that on Thursday, it will be tempting

to walk away from CIS unchanged. Many

of us will go listen to the speakers and

panelists. But af ter it's over, how many of

us will actually take a stand? Will any of us

be confident enough in our opinions to take

action — to seriously begin to take part in the

debate in the ftiture?

Immigration is indeed a societal problem

that requires immediate government

attention. Nonetheless, if we as individuals

overlook its significance as a moral dilemma

by making it the government 's problem rather

than our own, this entire symposium could be

considered a failure.

By the time this newspaper hits the stands,

nearly all of this year ' s CIS will be over. The

outcome of the immigration debate, however,

remains critical for Hope College, for Holland,

for Michigan and for the entire United States.

We are a nation defined by our people — by

our immigrants — many of whom come in

search of freedom and opportunity. What

kind of a people do w e want to become?

Evelyn was amused to learn this week

that an Illinois middle school banned hug-

ging. The principal was concerned that

excessive hugging led students to be late for

classes and caused crowding in hallways.

L E T T E R S T O T H E E D I T O R S

Students should show more community To the E d i t o r s :

I 'd like to see students out of their dorm

rooms, out of their busy-as-heck lives, away

from all of the meetings and activities, out

of their residence halls, to see them all meet

each other in DeWitt. You know, the Stu-

dent Center which is far from being the stu-

dents ' center. T h e situation right n o w feels

unfair. I 've attended Hope for three years

and barely know people from m y own class

outside of the humanities departments. I

know a handftil of athletes. I 've met nurs-

ing students more regularly off campus, in

other towns, than on campus. Three years!

T h e c a m p u s feels d ivided. It isn ' t in-

tent ional ly cl ique-ish, but it is — by your

category, by y o u r dorm and gender , by

sorority and fraternity, by your academ-

ics and activities, by everything. It beg ins

w h e n y o u ' r e put into Kollen or Wyck-

off . Van Vleck or Dyks t ra and con t inues

when you go to your first class. It figures

into w h o m you sit with in Phelps for three

years and the people you go (or d o n ' t go)

to H o m e c o m i n g with and s tays this w a y

until you graduate .

I feel no community outside m y close cir-

cle of friends. It gets harder and harder just to

meet them on a day-to-day basis unless we

make plans to do something grand. Where

I hang out regularly change each semester,

following whoever I know best. There 's no

continuity. It just doesn' t do it for me.

Eve ryone needs a place, a g roup of

people they visit, see, hang out with on

a m o r e casual , in formal basis . A g r o u p of

people that you spend s o m e t ime jus t talk-

ing with. Hav ing fiin with. Unorganized ,

unhindered and unplanned fun . Imag ine a

night at the bar, jus t wi thout the beer and

the bel l igerence o r a party wi thout be ing

illegal or s tupid. Tha t doesn ' t m e a n that

these people you know aren ' t impor tant

to you , that you d o n ' t care about them.

Far f r o m it. They check up on you.

You ' l l be missed , whether you want to

be or not . You m a y or m a y not keep in

touch with these people fo rever but you

w o n ' t forget each other. You d o n ' t have

to agree , jus t respect e n o u g h to talk. Ev-

e ryone is included and eve ryone has the

choice to not part icipate. Otherwise it is

oppress ion. I t ' s a bunch of people inter-

ested in each o ther for the sake of each

other, ra ther than by some specific point-

ed interest, wh ich can get ugly. Think

Democra t /Republ ican , or any such binary

on campus .

We c a n ' t talk to each other if w e don ' t

know each other, and w e d o n ' t k n o w each

other if w e never mee t each other. If w e

never talk to each other, no mean ingfu l

d ia logue happens and wi thout that , noth-

ing changes . Th i s is part of the fabric that

m a k e s our bubble .

There ' s a s t igma around having ac-

quaintances or casual friends here. Every-

thing has to be so serious. You ' re ostracized

f rom certain groups if you hang out with

Attack on Nativity Church unknown to many To t h e E d i t o r s :

April 2, 2002: Israel is invading Beth-

lehem, Israeli tanks are l ining up on the

outskir ts of the city and Israeli soldiers

gather ammuni t ion to start an o f fens ive

attack against the city of Be th lehem. At

the s a m e t ime, Palest inian paramil i tary

g roups are prepar ing for an invasion: burn-

ing tires, c losing roads and posi t ioning

themse lves in mul t ip le locat ions a round

town. M o m e n t s be fo re Israel started its

invasion, the Palest inian Police; A r m y ;

and paramil i tary g roups f rom Hamas ,

DFLP, and Fateh were coordinat ing their

de fense points and posi t ioned a rmed men

in f ront of the important bui ldings, one of

wh ich w a s the Nat ivi ty Church .

T h e Israeli force enters the city f rom

multiple points, fac ing heavy resistance,

but with the air support they are not im-

peded. They kill anyone w h o crosses their

path; children, women and elderly were

a m o n g the dead according to an Amnes ty

and T h e Palestinian Academy Society for

the Study of International Affairs count. An

Israeli tank reached the Nativity Church ;

the gunner pointed at the church to destroy

the bell tower and then boom! A Hamas

soldier destroyed the tank; of the 40 Mus-

lim militia men that fought for the church,

only 13 lived; men armed with anti-tank

R P G s and light a rms fights a squadron of

tanks with geographical help.

T h e priests inside the church convinced

the surviving men to take re fuge for the

sake of their lives. T h e priest had thought

that Israel would respect the church ' s

premises and thus gave them refuge. How-

ever, the Israeli soldiers and c o m m a n d e r

do not respect Christianity and started their

assault against Christianity at that point.

They bombarded and shoot at the church

for the upcoming month, nonstop.

Outside, the church was being destroyed

under the eyes of the silent world and the

help of the United States, while inside the

13 protected the church from being robbed

or violated by the other 200 refugees. Later

the Vatican, after pulling a lot of strings,

evacuated the 13 to Cyprus in an effort to

end the besiegement of the church.

Watching these events unroll on T V

coverage, as a Palestinian Christian

shocked me; Israel bluntly attacks Chris-

the wrong people or do the wrong things.

It 's not explicit, the group jus t stops hang-

ing out with you , stops calling you. There

are people that have lost entire groups of

fr iends this way. Everything is so personal,

and it 's not the w a y it should be.

But w e ' r e all too busy, and Hope

m a k e s sure you d o n ' t have t ime to ta lk

to the person next to you. We ' r e cast into

roles, w e ' r e pressured to be someth ing

more , get your n a m e on a commit tee , a

roster, anyth ing . W e ' r e stressed, w e don ' t

s leep, w e worry more about miss ing class

than learning. We replaced c o m m u n i t y

wi th Facebook . We breathe, but w e d o n ' t

all live. We can ' t jus t be ourselves .

C ' m o n guys . Eight hundred people in

each class , 3 ,000 people in the col lege,

and w e c a n ' t have fun ask s o m e ques-

t ions? Let ' s meet together, somewhere

public , and have a communi ty . N o t this

condi t ional f r iendship stuff.

— David Lee ( ' 0 8 )

tianity — besides re- invading Palestine

( therefore breaking every peace accord).

Yet the most disturbing part is the so-called

Christian world standing silent and letting

the Nativity Church face this barbaric ter-

rorist attack, doing nothing at all. Further-

more , the American government shocked

everyone by sending free gifts to Israel

using your tax dollars - smart guided mis-

siles to send into the church.

N o w a d a y s it is annoy ing , wear i some

and f rus t ra t ing that Amer i cans have no

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O C T O B E R 3 , 2 0 0 7 VOICES T H E A N C H O R 9

Where the wind still blows

Stephen Cupery

Remember when you.. . R e m e m b e r w h e n you s tood no tal ler

than your o w n kitchen table and had to

peer longingly up the heights of giants?

R e m e m b e r w h e n the backyard tree w a s not

an object to manicure or graceful ly m o w

around, but a soar ing novel ty of c l imbable

branches and h ideaway niches? R e m e m b e r

w h e n y o u r broken jous t ing stick or injured

fist left you red-handed in the fight of the

century behind that overrun di lapidated

b a m or schoolyard al leyway. R e m e m b e r

when you . . . wel l , I could probably go on

endlessly. S o m e days those long-forgot ten

memor ies swirl back from s tagnant past

ages as 1 s top mid-s t r ide to observe a

certain ch i ld ' s luxurious f r eedom of

adventure and exci tement . Adventure

such that you were t ransported into the

s torybook pages of D e f o e ' s ' 'Robinson

Crusoe , " Verne 's "Ten Thousand Leagues

under the S e a " or pe rhaps S tevenson ' s

"Treasure Is land." M y personal favori te for

emula t ing the characters o f and imagined

scenes with brother and ne ighborhood

cohort was, with no contest , Mark Twain ' s

"Huck leber ry F inn . " This tale in part icular

seemed a lways to elicit a thoroughly real

complex ion of exper iences relatable with

and deemed wor thy fo r reproduc ing in our

backyard creek.

Even though w e may still have a m e m o r y

of our youth , is it too much to suppose that

most of us have forgotten how to return

there on a whim into terri tories bordered

by wonder , curiosity and unl imited play?

W h e n 1 cross pa ths incidental ly with

kids rambl ing outs ide in pursuit of n e w

discovery and unhindered explorat ion, the

appeal to t ranscend these adult conf ines by

learning anew what m a y have been already

seen, heard or touched resonates s t rongly

in m y sub-conscious .

To be a ch i ld aga in i s n ' t j u s t a fu t i l e

a t t empt at c o n j u r i n g up a sense of

nos ta lg ic s e n t i m e n t a l i s m . I t ' s an abi l i ty

to v i ew p e r s p e c t i v e s d i f f e r e n t l y - ups ide -

d o w n , b y each e x a m i n e d ang le or even

f r o m w i t h i n . I ask myse l f s o m e t i m e s if

re f lec ted w o n d e r has b e c o m e so e lus ive

n o w a d a y s b e c a u s e o u r a t t en t ion is c a u g h t

in a c o n t a g i o u s m e n t a l i t y of s u p p l i e d

i n f o r m a t i o n . You see , w o n d e r o f t e n

e v a d e s de f in i t ion p rec i s e ly b e c a u s e it

is the h igh poin t of a w a r e n e s s b e y o n d

l anguage .

Maybe it 's not exact ly a comfor t ing

indulgence to feel ourselves, our identities,

our whole purposefu l exis tence called

into quest ion. But , this fear aside, there 's

no deny ing w e are still caught t ransfixed

at odd moments by the as tonishment of

a painting, the intr icacies of a season ' s

change , forest shadows , taste or any vivid

d isp lacement . In such m o m e n t s w e see

how habit and famil iar i ty have c logged

our direct awareness and muff led our

spontaneity. It is as if w e cannot a f ford the

luxury of get t ing lost, and yet, get t ing lost

in m o m e n t s of wonde r is, perversely, wha t

w e mos t value.

Stephen shouldn't be the first to admit he

still avidly skips stones, jumps in leaf piles,

frolics in mountain meadows or rolls down

hills.

From the inside out

Ashley DeVecht

More to the Pull?

Maybe. People of ten ask me w h y I tried out fo r

the Pull. They think I ' m crazy for devot ing

20-odd hours a week to pract ice and for

spending m y hard-earned cash on supplies .

They th ink i t 's r id iculous that I ' ve become

obsessed with odd number s and gotten rid

of a lmost all o f m y red clothing. Maybe

they ' r e right. Maybe I a m crazy.

1 tried out for the Pull m y f r e shman year

because I d idn ' t think I could do it. By

the looks of me , mos t people wou ld think

I ' m a natural athlete — I ' ve got long legs

for running and I ' m the perfect height fo r

sports like basketbal l or volleyball . But

looks can be deceiving.

At my fifth grade field day I was so excited

to run the 500-meter relay that as soon as

the whistle blew I fell flat on my face . . . in

front of every other fifth grader in the district.

Maybe that left a permanent scar, or maybe I

just wasn ' t cut out to be an athlete.

W h e n I arr ived at Pull pract ice on the

first day a f r iend I had k n o w n s ince midd le

school looked at me in shock and asked,

"Ash ley? W h a t are you doing he re?" I

dec ided then and there that I w a s going

to prove to mysel f , to m y fr iends, and to

anyone else that 1 was capab le of more than

I, or they, expected .

Pract ices were hard . . . I had never run

that m u c h in m y life. I hated c o m i n g h o m e

dirty every day, and I wasn ' t s leeping more

than five hours every night. M y f r iendships

w e r e going d o w n the drain. Yes, there

w e r e m o m e n t s I cons idered quit t ing. But

I wasn ' t a quit ter; if I gave up I would jus t

be conf i rming m y worst fear about myse l f

—tha t I d idn ' t have what it takes.

On Pull day m y f r e shman year I w a s

jus t wai t ing for it all to be d o n e — I jus t

wanted to survive. As w e marched to the

pits the banners read, "Th i s is War," and

" W e l c o m e to the Trenches . " I felt like a

Greek god prepar ing for battle.

Maybe I ' m being a little melodramat ic .

Maybe compar ing Pull to war is polit ically

incorrect and offens ive . But I ' v e never

sweat or bled for m y country. I ' ve never

s tood bes ide m y fe l low Amer i cans and

upheld the honor of our nat ion. I ' ve never

fough t to the death for Amer ica .

So for m e . Pull is the c losest I ' ve ever

gotten to war. And sure, the w a r w e fight

on Pull day i sn ' t a w a r against terrorism o r

c o m m u n i s m or the axis of evil. I k n o w I

wou ldn ' t have the strength or courage to

fight that batt le — and 1 wou ldn ' t deserve

the honor to do so even if I could.

Af te r t w o years as an '09 mora ler I think

I finally get it. T h e war w e rage on Pull

day is against our o w n wills . T h e batt le w e

fight is m o m e n t o u s not because winning

means a bonfi re celebrat ion af te rward ,

but because the ou tcome def ines our self-

image. Th i s battle d raws out the valued

virtues of our character : perseverance,

honor, and kinship.

I love this war. I love being a part o f

something so much greater than m e — m y

'09 Pull family and the Odd Year Pullers and

moralers that have come before me. I love

leaving every ounce of energy on the rope,

knowing that I fought to the finish. I love

the glory of swimming in the Black River,

m y teammates surrounding m e in complete

euphoria — heroes, legends of our era.

So m a y b e I am a bit crazy, taking this

whole Pull tradit ion too far. But anyone

w h o has ever scored a touchdown, k icked

a goal or won a tournament unders tands in

their o w n way. Maybe, jus t maybe , w e ' r e

all a little crazy.

Ashley would like to dedicate this article

to the Pull paticipants — odd and even

alike. May the tradition live on.

Brian Straw

Budget brinksmanship On Monday morn ing , Mich igan ' s

government shut down. It w a s n ' t for long,

but it shut down. T h e shutdown, had it

lasted, would have left 35 ,000 Mich igan

workers unemployed . It wou ld have meant

that 100,000 low- income households

wouldn ' t get their child care subsidies. It

would have af fec ted the l - in -7 Michigan

residents w h o need Medicaid . It would

mean the 90 percent of the state pol ice

force would be kept of f the streets.

I w a s c o n f u s e d at first. I kept a s k i n g

m y s e l f , h o w cou ld the " r e s p o n s i b l e

a d u l t s " that w e send to L a n s i n g a l low the

s ta te to go w i t h o u t a b u d g e t ? T h e s la te

wr i t e s and i m p l e m e n t s a budge t eve ry

year . T h e b u d g e t is a l w a y s requ i red

b e f o r e Oc t . I . Th i s yea r the b u d g e t a l m o s t

d i d n ' t get done .

W h y ? B e c a u s e po l i t i c i ans in Lans ing

w e r e d o i n g w h a t po l i t i c i ans do bes t ;

p l ay ing pol i t ica l g a m e s . T h o u g h Gov.

G r a n h o l m first a d d r e s s e d the $1 .75

b i l l ion def ici t that the s ta te w a s f a c i n g

th is sp r ing , the Leg i s l a tu re s i m p l y

b o u n c e d unrea l i s t i c b u d g e t so lu t ions

b a c k and for th unti l M o n d a y .

G r a n h o l m set an initial b u d g e t d e a d l i n e

of Ju ly I. T h i s is because a l though

the s t a t e ' s b u d g e t does not need to be

c o m p l e t e unti l Oct . 1, s choo l s ac ross the

s ta te are r equ i red to have the i r b u d g e t s

by J u l y 1. T h e s e s choo l s re ly on s ta te

f u n d i n g to s tay af loat .

If you wou ld expec t that once a

dead l ine passed , as the July I dead l ine

d id , l a w m a k e r s wou ld rea l ize they had

to focus on get t ing a workab le proposa l ,

you wou ld be wrong . Fo l lowing the Ju ly

I dead l ine Republ ican l a w m a k e r s in the

s tale Sena te dec ided that a t w o - w e e k

vaca t ion wou ld be nice .

A s w e entered Augus t and l awmakers

realized that they had t w o months to fix the

budget , a couple of proposa ls were bandied

about . Democra t s wanted to raise the

income take to ear l ier levels of 4.6 percent

f r o m the current 3.9 percent . This would

a l low all s ta te- funded activities to cont inue

unabated. Republ icans countered with

their proposal to cut $1.75 billion f r o m

the state budget .

Of course, both s ides realized they

wou ld have to compromise to find the

proper end result, right? Apparent ly not.

Though reports in early Augus t suggest that

party leadership on both s ides had c o m e to

a deal. Republ ican leadership backed away

f r o m it at the beginning of September .

In p lace of the bipart isan deal, the

Republican proposal of $1 .75 billion in

cuts came back. These cuts are truly awe-

inspiring. They would result in losing a

$290 mil l ion increase to K-12 educat ion.

Unde r the Republ ican proposal , a $35

million increase would not be given to

Mich igan ' s col leges and universit ies. An

addit ional $71 million in increases would

be wi thheld from communi ty colleges

across the state. T h e s e increases were

barely enough to keep up with inflation.

In a state that is suf fe r ing f rom a loss of

manufac tu r ing jobs , it is prepos terous to

think of cut t ing educat ion.

Finally, a f t e r taking the ma jo r i ty o f the

year d i scuss ing wha t the budget w a s go ing

to look like, a deal w a s s t ruck . It w a s

imp lemen ted in the p re -dawn hour s of Oct .

1. Mich igan has a weak e c o n o m y and the

worst u n e m p l o y m e n t ra tes in the count ry

and o u r l awmake r s play with a potential

g o v e r n m e n t shu tdown . Mich igan needs

o u r l a w m a k e r s to help spark the economy.

Instead those legis la tors threaten to

shut it d o w n . Brian Straw is a senior political science

and philosophy major. When not absorbed in

political blogs or arguin the purpose of the

federal government with Professor Polet, Brian

enjoys cooking, ploying raquetball and watch-

ing the West Wing with his girlfriend.,

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Student Congress plans for new academic year • CONGRESS, from page 1

Student Congress websi te , the or-

ganization is divided into a num-

ber of task force groups that deal

with different campus issues. Fur-

thennore , at least one Congress

m e m b e r sits on each of about 20

govern ing commit tees that advise

the president of the college on

different topics.

More successful program de-

velopment first requires closer re-

lationships between representatives

and constituents before anything is

discussed in a committee meeting.

"This year, an emphasis will be

placed on making sure that every

representative is in touch with the

people they represent." Gibbs said.

Already, Student Congress has

been developing and implement-

ing immediate plans. Sarah Mejia,

Student Congress vice president,

hopes that some current Congress

goals will soon become a reality.

"We are remodel ing the stu-

dent organization area in DeWitt

with new carpet, paint ings and

paint and also t rying to get four

more plasma screen T V s for

Cook, Phelps and the (Student

Union Desk) ," Mejia said. "An-

other (goal) is to set up a memo-

ONGRESS

PHOTO BY JEFF VREDENBURG

V I S I B L E R E P R E S E N T A T I O N — S tudent Congress pres ident , Jay Gibbs ( '09), works In his of-

f ice in t he Dewi t t Center. This year, Gibbs is p lac ing an emphas is on s t rong c o m m u n i c a t i o n .

rial fo r s tudents w h o have died

whi le at Hope . "

One issue that will g a m e r the

attention of Student Congress

this year is the developing role

of Hope ' s new mascot character,

"Du tch . " Accord ing to the web-

site of the Mascot Character Proj-

ect and a college press release,

this new representat ion of the

official Flying Dutchman mascot

was developed through the e f for t s

of a Student Congress commit tee

beginning in early 2005. The new

character was introduced at a pep

rally last winter.

While the mascot project has

been met with some opposition on

different fronts and for different

reasons, the next step to take amid

the conflicting views is forward.

"At this point ," said Gibbs ,

" the mascot is here, w e ' v e spent

a lot of money on it, and how we

got it is irrelevant. N o w it be-

comes a quest ion of s tewardship.

How can w e best use it to serve

Hope Col lege?"

Dutch is expected to be an as-

set at var ious c a m p u s events as

well as athletic compet i t ions .

" T h e mascot is a program that

has a lot of benefits, especially in

a public relations sense, for Hope

Col lege ," G ibbs said.

According to Gibbs, other ath-

letic support groups such as the

Dew Crew and the cheerleading

squad do not need to feel threatened

by the new role created by Dutch.

"We are working very closely

with these other groups so that we

form a unique role for Dutch," he

said. "It would not be right for us

to put him in the place of some-

one else, and there shouldn ' t be

anyone feel ing that there ' s any

danger of that ."

For more information and Con-

gress meeting minutes, students

can access the website at www.

hope.edu/student/congress.

Hope shares immigration stories through different methods • CIS, from page 1

"We wanted him to be one of

our C I S keynote speakers, but he

was not able to c o m e on those

days ," said Sympos ium Co-Cha i r

Derek Emerson. "However , he is

such an important voice in this

discussion that w e asked h im to

c o m e earlier and help build the

base for future discussions ."

Portes ' talk was based on the

recent Children of Immigrants

Longitudinal Study. The study

examined the assimilat ion and

adaptation process of children

w h o immigrated to the U.S. at a

young age or w h o have at least

one fore ign-bom parent.

Portes addressed the issue of

downwards assimilat ion, or the

negat ive paths on which many

children of immigrants find

themselves . Accord ing to the

study, Mexican immigrants in

Ca l i fomia are most affected by

d o w n w a r d s assimilat ion. Of ten ,

second-generat ion immigrants

have higher high school drop-

out. teen pregnancy and unem-

ployment rates. Portes b lamed

the U.S. labor market for part of

the d o w n w a r d s assimilat ion.

"The U.S. labor market has

changed f rom a pyramid to an

hour g lass ." Portes said. "To-

day ' s first-generation immigrants

need to attain what it took Euro-

pean immigrants several genera-

tions to achieve."

With the recent surge in immi-

gration levels, Portes argued that

second-genera t ion immigrants

have a significant a f fec t on the

ent ire Amer ican society.

Students, staff and facul ty

members have also been invited

to share their personal ized immi-

gration stories over the past few

weeks . Sixteen videotaped im-

migration stories of Hope com-

muni ty members are available

onl ine at the C I S website.

" T h e purpose of videotap-

ing the immigrat ion stories of

members of the c a m p u s com-

muni ty was to m a k e us all more

aware of the diversi ty or origins

that we have here on c a m p u s

and the exper iences that some

of us or our famil ies have had in

coming to and adjus t ing to the

United Slates ," said Prof. Chris-

tine Swain , a CIS commit tee

member . Swain said that many

people on c a m p u s are unaware of

the cultural heritage present on

campus , .

Professor Gloria Tseng pro-

vided her immigrat ion story on-

line and shared the diff icult ies of

starting school in the U.S. with

minimal knowledge of the Eng-

lish language.

" In sharing my past . 1 am

opening mysel f up to the Hope

communi ty and taking part in it,

not crusading for a cause ," Tseng

said. "Students like stories, and I

am shar ing part of m e with Hope

s tudents ."

Barbara Rubio ( ' 0 9 ) shared

her immigrat ion story onl ine as

well. Rubio said that her parents

immigrated to the United States

f rom Chile and integrated Chil-

ean culture into her upbringing.

She was glad for the opportunity

to tell her immigrat ion story.

"Divers i ty is all around us ,"

Rubio said. " F r o m students to

faculty and staff, w e all have a

story to tell ."

To view the immigration sto-

ries, visit www.hope.edu/cis.

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SPORTS OCTOBER 3, 2 0 0 7

T H E A N C H O R 11

Fab four golfers take last stand T H I S W E E K I N S P O R T S

Nick Hlnkle S P O R T S EDITOR

With putters in hand, four

f r iends practice on the put t ing

green whi le jok ing and laughing.

An onlooker would not real ize

they were preparing for a M1AA

tournament like they have done

so many t imes before .

Seniors T o m m y Yamaoka,

Ryan Sheet , Matt Lapham and

Steve Mart indale have been the

core of the Hope Col lege m e n ' s

go l f team since they were fresh-

men, helping the team win three

M I A A championsh ips and earn

t w o N C A A appearances . Cur-

rently, the team is five s t rokes

ahead of Ol ivet Col lege for the

M I A A title with one tournament

remaining.

Last season Hope w o n the

M I A A by 70 shots though the

t eam has struggled this year.

"Las t year w e were set t ing re-

cords almost every t o u m a m e n C

Mart indale said. "We c a m e in

this year and thought w e would

automatical ly take the confer -

ence. We needed to adjust our

at t i tude."

In addi t ion to s o m e possible

preseason overconf idence , the

t eam has not been able to put

together four solid scores on the

s a m e day.

" T h e bo t tom line is w e need to

win tournaments and w e a re not

S m muc mu

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F O U R F R I E N D S — Sen io rs ( l e f t t o r igh t ) Steve M a r t i n d a l e , Tommy Yamaoka , Ryan Sheets

and M a t t L a p h a m h a n g ou t d u r i n g p r a c t i c e in p r e p a r a t i o n for t h e i r f i na l MIAA t o u r n a m e n t .

doing tha t , " Yamaoka said. " N o

one is scoring; w e are j u s t p laying

med ioc re golf ."

Hope will play its final tour-

nament on Oct . 6 at the Zol lner

Go l f Course at 1 p.m.

"It (Zollner) is fair ly easy but

(we) still need to play well to

shoot the number s , " Lapham said.

" I t is a key tournament for us. N o

lead is really safe ."

, In addi t ion to thei r exper ience .

they have bonded on and of f the

course, which has buil t trust over

the years .

"The re is defini tely t rust ,"

Lapham said. "I feel like when I

am not playing m y best someone

can pick up the s lack."

Travel ing to and f r o m tourna-

ments and trips such as the t e a m ' s

tour of Scot land this s u m m e r have

provided plenty of t ime for the se-

niors to get to k n o w each other.

" N o doub t w e feel comfor t -

able a round each other ," Sheets

said. " I t is a lmost like w e are

brothers ."

Look ing back at their four

years at Hope , the players will re-

m e m b e r winn ing with teamates ,

but their f r iendships created will

probably be the mos t valuable.

"Gol f is only four years but

our relat ionships will last a long

t ime," Yamaoka said.

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Saturday, October 6 lOam-Noon

Schaap Science Center Atrium

Wednesday

Men's Soccer Away vs. Tri-State at 4 p.m.

Oct. 3

Thursday Oct. 4

Volleyball Away vs. St. Mary s at 6:30 p.m.

Friday Oct. 5

Volleyball ^ Illinois Wesleyan Inv.

Women 's Golf MIAA Championships at Bedford Valley

Golf Course at 1 p.m.

Saturday Oct. 6

Volleyball Illinois Wesleyan Inv.

Men's Golf MIAA tournament at Zollner Golf

Course at 1 p.m.

Women 's Golf MIAA Championships at Bedford Valley

Golf Course at 9 a.m.

Men's Soccer Home vs. Alma at 2 p.m.

Women 's Soccer

Away vs. St. Mary's at noon

I N B R I E F

W O M E N ' S GOLF

T h e Hope Col lege w o m e n ' s

golf team w o n the Hope Invita-

tional on Tuesday. Cass ie Sneller

(MO) led the team shoot ing an

80.

Other H o p e scores includ-

ed Julie Hoogerhyde ( ' 08 ) 87,

Cass ie Hidebrandt ( ' 0 8 ) 94, Kat ie

Blodget t ( ' I I ) 90, Clare Hubbard

( M l ) 97, Jori N i e m a n n ( M l ) 87

and Brit tany Posma ( ' 09 ) 97.

M E N ' S GOLF

T h e Hope Col lege m e n ' s golf

team moved into first p lace in the

M I A A on Oct . I with a 301. T h e

Du tchmen are five s t rokes ahead

of Ol ivet Col lege with one con-

fe rence tournament remaining.

Matt Lapham ( ' 08 ) led H o p e

scores with a 73, which puts h im

into a tie for seasonal medal is t

honors . Other Hope scores in-

c luded T o m m y Yamaoka ( ' 08 )

75, Don Schol ten ( ' 09 ) 75, S teve

Mart indale ( ' 08 ) 78 and Ryan

Shee ts ( ' 0 8 ) 79.

W O M E N ' S SOCCER

T h e H o p e Col lege w o m e n ' s

soccer team won against Tri-State

on Tuesday 6-1. Hope has a con-

ference record of 2-1 and an over-

all record of 6-6.

T h e Dutch w o m e n will play at

Saint M a r y ' s Col lege on Oct. 6 at

noon .

M I A A PLAYERS O F THE WEEK F R O M HOPE COLLEGE

Footbal l :

Chr is B o w e n

Senior kicker

M e n ' s Soccer :

Dan Tresslar

Senior midfielder

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Hope football returns to winning form Flying Dutchmen win first conference game against Albion; anticipate Homecoming matchup with Alma College

Gordie Fall STAFF W R I T E R

After three losses, Hope Col-lege's football team rebounded at

Albion College last Saturday to

break multiple losing streaks.

The team won its first game of

the season, a 42-35 win at Albion, improving to 1-3 while starting

conference play at 1-0. The win

at Albion marked the first Hope

football road victory at that school

since 1982. The 42-35 win was the highest-

scoring game in matchup history

and was senior tailback David

Booko's season debut, which he

celebrated with three touchdowns

and 197 rushing yards. This win seems to establish

the pattern since last year, where

Hope lost every non-conference

game before running the table for its conference schedule. Com-

ing up next week, Hope will host

Alma College at Holland Munici-

pal Stadium. Like Hope, Alma is

1-3 and coming off a conference

win. When asked how he felt about

coming back, Booko said, "It was

a great experience, and always great to have a game like that

(statistically), especially my first

game back." He added, " I 've just been itch-

ing to get back out and play some ball. A lot of things went well for

me, my offensive line blocked

great, and they opened up a lot of

holes to make my job easy."

Hope is now 1-3 and at full

strength heading into this week's

conference home opener. "Everybody was excited to

get the whole team back," Booko

said, adding that "the best thing to do is just put those non-confer-

ence games behind us."

This year 's team "feels like it 's very similar to last year, the tem-

po of practice has been great, and

it 's a really great group of guys,"

Booko said.

This Saturday for its home-

coming game Hope will play

Alma College on Saturday at 2 p.m. Last season, the Dutchmen

defeated Alma away 49-43 in

overtime.

PHOTO BY ALEX QUICK

U P FOR G R A B S — Hope's Jack Kiefer ( '08) a t tempts a re-cept ion in the Central Iowa game.

30th annual Homecoming run/walk set for Saturday Grace Denny GUEST W R I T E R

For the 30th consecutive year,

Hope College is hosting its annu-

al Homecoming Run/Walk. Free

to faculty, staff and students, the

event hopes to attract a large

crowd. This event will be held on Sat-

urday, Oct. 6 in conjunction with

this year ' s Homecoming festivi-

ties. A Health Fair will

be going on in the De-

Vos Fieldhouse from

8:30 to 10:30 a.m. and will focus on educat-

ing people about diet

and nutrition, exer-

cise and decreasing

stress. The 5k run

around Windmill

Island and the 2-mile walk

around the

B u y s

A t h -

letic Complex will begin at 10

a.m. and students, faculty and

staff are able to register for this

event for free. Participants will

be awarded prizes based on how

close their finishing lime is to the time they predicted in advance.

Hope Col-

lege kine-s i o 1 o g y

p r o f e s s o r and head

coach of

H o p e ' s

men's bas-

ketball team Glenn Van Wi-

eren has been the

d i r e c t o r

of the

e v e n t

s i n c e

t h e b e g i n -

ning. "It started

as an out-

growth of

Hope 's Health Dynamics pro-

gram and used to be

held at the Dow Cen-

ter," Van Wieren said. "The purpose of the

event is to promote

wellness and health to our com-

munity in a way that's positive." Van Wieren also notes that the

Annual Homecoming Run/Walk

has seen many changes over the

past 30 years. In the past, biking

and swimming were include. At one point, around 1,200 to 1,500

people were able to compete. Now, due to safety reasons

and an ef-

fort with •

the Hol-land Police

D e p a r t -

ment, the

event only

consists of

a run and walk and

hopes to at-tract 400 to = = = = =

500 people. "It represents who we are,"

Van Wieren said. "I t ' s an awe-

some event on campus. It 's been

a really nice thing for Homecom-ing and a lot of alumni get in-

volved." Another staff member. Pro-

fessor Deb Swanson, is getting

involved in the event as well. Swanson has been leading an

FYS class this semester called

"Walk the Walk," and she and

"The purpose of the event

is to promote wellness and

health to our community in a

way that's positive.91

- Glenn Van W i e r e n ,

Kinesiology professor, coach

her students lake walks together

when the weather is nice. Swan-

son is encouraging the students in the class to do the race and

notes that Hope College's well-

ness program is also encouraging

the staff and their families to get

involved. "1 am looking forward to do-

ing an activity outside of class

with slu-

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ d e n t s , "

S w a n s o n

said. She is

also ex-

cited to see all of

the alumni

p a r t i c i p a -

tion, and = = = = = her daugh-

ter 's Girl Scout troop will be handing out

snacks as well. On the impact that the event

has on the community and the

campus Swanson said, "It con-tinues to tell students that part of

being a well-rounded student is

being physically active." She also believes that this

event is something that is need-

ed. "Walk to stay healthy," Swan-

son said. "It is a good lesson to

learn and something that you can

do all your life." Lots of students are plan-

ning to get involved in the event

as well. Members of the men's basketball team will be running

the race in addition to a run-ning group led by Blair Williams

('10). " I 'm really excited in seeing

who all comes out to compete for

it," Williams said. To get ready for the event Wil-

liams, along with several other

students, are getting together and running after class three days a

week. They have been working

on speed and also longer endur-

ance jogging.

"It 's been a really good expe-rience and it 's helped me to feel

connected to people I 'm going to

be running with," Jaynie Lunger

( '10) said. For a lot of the students it will

be their first 5k race. Registration can be done in ad-

vance through the DeVos Field-

house ticket office or also before

9 a.m. on the day of the event. Showers and locker rooms will

be available in the DeVos Field-

house to participants and refresh-

ments will be provided as well.

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