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The Off ic ial STude nT newSpaper Of calvin cOllege S ince 1907

calvin cOllegeDecembe r 9, 2011

Volume 106 - Issue 14

chimeSclubs.calvin.edu/chimes

Arbeit macht frei

On and on fallsSnow, gentle, bright

As marched I, man-child,

into squalls

That blackest night.

Bloated bellows split

Ears, the heat reminding

Dread in our freeing work

In that Forest ringing.

The animals cried too,

Gifts bringing no reposeTo the Name,

Blooming of a rose.

Nacht, as our flesh

Kept silence, you took

The place provided; push

Us into your Book.

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Ken Bratt, Classics Senate CornerQuestions you MAY have,

answers we DO have.

Every year students ask about some kind of online meal

counter that would help them keep track on the numberof meals left for the week. Why hasnt it happened?

The dining system is something Calvin purchasesfrom an outside vendor, CBORD. CBORD does nothave a Web interface to their database that wouldprovide the kind of information necessary. This is notsomething that CIT could do because they dont haveaccess to the underlying database.

Why cant students buy tickets for Calvin events or selecttheir seat online?

There is a on-line interface to the box office availableat http://www.calvin.edu/boxoffice/tickets/. The challengeis that this system is not hosted at Calvin but by thevendor that supplies the software that runs the BoxOffice ticketing system. If you look at the site, youll

notice three things: First, there is a service charge tobuy tickets online, just like at a movie theater; second,the only price available online is the public price, notthe discounted price for the Calvin community; andthird, only bank-issued credit or debit cards can be usedfor payment, not the Calvin miscellaneous charge. Thereason for the second and third items is that this web-site is hosted online and there is no connection to theCalvin ID system to validate that the purchaser is aCalvin student or to post the charge to student miscel-laneous accounts. So, students can purchase ticketsonline if they wish, but theyll have to pay a higherprice and a surcharge and wont be able to use theirmiscellaneous accounts for payment.

Kampus Safety Report

BY AMANDA ELLIOTT

Staff Writer

A week after Black Fridayon Dec. 1 and 2, students were

invited to do a little Christmasshopping at the seventh an-nual Fair Trade fair, Presentswith Presence.

While coffee is one of theproducts most often associat-ed with Fair Trade, the labelextends to other agriculture based products such as ap-parel and health products likecleansers. Sponsored by the social justice coalition, the fair hostedten vendors including GlobalGifts , Kenyan Jewelry andCrafts, Otavalito and PeruvianHandknit Creations.

On Thursday there was aconstant stream of people com-ing through the fair and somewere even skipping class to doso, said Heidi Mast, co-leaderof the SJC a student organizationthat seeks to foster active responseto social injustices and humanrights issues.

Fair Trade, a movement to-wards justice, transparency andenvironmental benefits, is an is-sue that the SJC continually rais-es awareness about on campus.

In a society fixated on con-sumption, the Fair Trade labelreminds people to think aboutwhere their products comefrom and who produced them.Fair Trade USA urges con-sumers to consider questionsl i k e What i f t he b ox o f chocolate you give to yourwife could help teach chil-dren in South America how

to read?Fair Trade is focused ontransparency and a respectfulrelationship between produc-ers and consumers. It helpsto create markets in develop-ing countries that benefit the

producers of goods rather thanexploit them. Some of theways that Fair Trade productsensure that producers are re-ceiving fair payment for thep r o d u c t s i n c l u d e l e s s e n -

ing the channels of distribu-

tion so that producers receivea larger share of the profit.Furthermore, under the Fair

Trade label, buyers sign a long-term commitment with pro-ducers, so that they can accu-rately invest in and producegoods based on the amounto f b us i ne s s the y r e ce i ve .Moreover, laborers are pro-

tected with the promise of safeworking conditions.

In order to use the Fair Tradelabel on products, companiesmust register with Fair TradeUSA to ensure that fair trade

practices are being upheld.

I think it is important torecognize when products lacka Fair Trade mark, this in

no way implies that social,environmental, labor and de-velopmental standards are ne-glected. There are high qual-ity products that meet and ex-ceed fair trade standards eventhough they are not Fair Trade

Campus Fair Trade sale promotes justicecertified, said Jesica Saunders,Calvin senior and Rowster NewAmerican Coffee associate.

Items marked as Fair Tradedo not have to be 100 percentfair trade, only 25 percent. For

some products, only certainingredients are Fair Trade. Forinstance, if ice cream containssugar that is Fair Trade, butthe milk and eggs were domes-tic, the product is still consid-ered Fair Trade. Products thatuse the Fair Trade Ingredientsmark means that 10 percent ofthe ingredients must be FairTrade certified.

Another thing to considerabout Fair Trade is that, while theproducers maintain high environ-mental standards, not all of theproducts are organic. TransfairUSA reported that 60 percentof Fair Trade coffee in Americais organic . Environmentalpractices used in making FairTrade goods include restrictingthe pesticides producers canuse and incorporating practicessuch as minimizing water usefor irrigation, according to SlateMagazine.

Weve lost touch with theability to consume justly, whichI think is actually a really beau-tiful and joyful opportunitywe have before us, said EmmaDeVries, co-leader of SJC.

Businesses hear when peopleadvocate for change. In 2005,one of the two coffee lines in thedining hall was designated withFair Trade coffee as a directresult of the efforts of SJC mem-bers, who convinced C alvinand Knollcrest dining about theimportance of switching their

coffee products. Furthermore,the Fish House only serves100 percent Fair Trade coffee.SJC members raise awareness by showing videos at the FishHouse and hosting events suchas this fair.

The Fair Trade fair last week offered the Calvin community a

chance to shop for Christmas gifts and promote fair practice.

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Thursday, 12/1

- After rece iv ing anony-mous calls reporting foggedcar windows, kampus safe-ty searched for a 1991 tealSaturn SL with suspicion oflewd behavior. The vehiclecould not be located due to arainstorm.

- Kampus safety preformeda s t ing operat ion on threedorms in an attempt to breakup the Adderall cartel that hasrisen to power over the pastfour years. Though severalstudents were detained by theGrand Rapids police, others jumped out of their second-and third-floor dorm room win-dows and fled into the forest.

Saturday, 12/3

- A student called dispatchcomp la i n i ng o f d i z z i ne s sa n d s p e e c h i m p a i r m e n t .After extensive questioning,the student offered to undergoa drug test and tested positivefor THC. Information on thestudent was turned over toCalvins most righteous office ofdub-dicial affairs.

-Kampus safety respondedto a sighting of a fox on campusne ar Commons Anne x . Astudent had tried to pet the fox,but it hid in the bushes. Uponarrival, kampus safety discov-ered it was a female student

f rom the Chimes s taf f in afox costume.

Sunday, 12/4- M i d m o r n i n g S u n d a y .

Earthworm epidemic. Pathslittered with shriveled corpsesof the tube-like victims.

Monday, 12/5- A s tude n t w as caugh t

dr ink ing rye whiskey andsmoking Lucky Str ikes inthe Kalsbeek residence hall.When questioned, the stu-dent referenced an obscureT V s h o w i n d e f e n s e o f her actions.

- Kampus safety incineratedan eco-friendly roof gardentended by the residents of theBe e t s -Ve e ns t r a Re s i de nceHal l af te r Knol lcres t s taf f complained about decreasedcafeteria turnout.

Tuesday, 12/6- Physical plant staff, who

had been repairing a sectionof floor tiles in the HiemengaHall basement, placed an ur-gent call to kampus safety.Af t e r e va luat i ng the s i t e ,k a m p u s s a f e t y o f f i c e r s brought in members of theGEO depar tment who de-te rmined that the remainsbelonged to a species of ear-ly hominid. Though the findw a s l o c a t e d d i r e c t l y b e -low their offices, no mem- bers of the religion facultywere consulted.

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3NEWSCHIMESDecember 9, 2011

BY RYAN DEVRIES

Staff Writer

In recent years, awareness ofsocial injustice and the need forcommunity engagement havegrown both within Christiancircles and in our culture at

large. One thinks of the cor-porate social responsibilitymovement in the latter half ofthe 20th century, during whichcorporations began to strivefor closer ties withtheir communitiesthrough programsincluding scholar-ship funds, envi-ronmental impactcampaigns and non-profit collaboration.Within churches,many congregantshave felt a calling tolocal volunteer pro-grams that address both the materialand spiritual needsof their neighbor-

hoods.D e s p i t e t he s e

largely positive de-velopments, somehave observed thatChristian commu-nity engagementefforts have triedto progress with-out first developinga biblically-basedphilosophical guideto action. To ad-dress this discrep-ancy, Grand RapidsActon Institute hasp a r t n e r e d w i t hKuyper College totranslate AbrahamKuypers writi ngs

on common grace from theDutch.As Actons program direc-

tor Dr. Stephen J. Grabill ob-served, Kuypers influenceon evangelicalism has beensignificant and this work oncommon grace is critically im-portant to ongoing evangelicalengagement of culture.

As a seminal figure of mod-ern Protestant thought, Kuyper(1837-1920) remained active inthe spiritual and public life ofthe Netherlands throughout

BY GRACE RUITER

Staff Writer

T hank s g i v i ng has comeand gone, and the Christmasseason has officially arrived.Traditions, from decoratingthe tree to lighting the Adventcandles, abound. For many,attending Calvins Lessonsand Carols service, which tookplace at LaGrave CRC lastSunday , has b e come onesuch tradition.

The service, a joint effort between the Campus Choirand Womens Chorale, differs

from typical choir concerts.It is a unique and importantopportunity for Calvin stu-dents to join with the greatercommuni ty in worship tomark the beginning of the Adventseason. Dr. Pearl Shangkuan,director of the Womens Chorale,said of the experience, We are blessed to participate in thiss e r v i ce t ha t , f o r many i nt h e c o m m u n i t y , s e t s t h etone for the i r Advent andChristmas celebration.

The sacred tone of this ser-vice often has a powerful emo-tional impact, but many repeat

The presidenal search commiee met mulple mes

last week. We are in the process of narrowing our

pool of candidates, and in that process are connually

encouraged by both the strength of our pool and the

unity of the commiee. We covet your prayers for

endurance, wisdom and peace for commiee members

in this busy me. We also ask your prayers for the

candidates, that they would be able to discern Gods

call on their lives with clarity, peace and joy.

We would also like to thank the Chimes staff for their

excellent leer in last weeks paper. Please rest assured

that we have taken those recommendaons seriously.We are confident that the next leader of Calvin will

represent the hopes of the colleges constuencies.

All your input has been extraordinarily valuable

in shaping this process. We thank you for your

faithfulness in prayer and your support for the

presidenal search. Please connue to keep us in your

prayers.

Kelly Larsen, student representave

[email protected]

attendees and choristers feltthis years service was espe-cially meaningful. Audiencemembers were visibly moved,some of them even tearing up.Womens Chorale member,Liz Hoeksema observed. Mydad cried. He didnt cry at mywedding.

The powerful emotional re-sponse may be attributed tothis years thematic return tothe original Christmas story.Third year Womens Choralemember, Abby Zwart, felt thatthe services focus on the origi-nal Christmas story as told bythe four gospels serves as a re-

minder of the true meaningof Christmas.

The service was moving,especially for the s ingers,said Tyler Slamkowski, a sopho-more in Campus Choir. Theexperience is unforgettable.

The music choice this year,which se t a more intense ,passionate, and even dark tone,i n c o n t r a s t t o t h e m o r eclassically hymn-like selec-tions of the past few years, alsomade this year a standout forsome. At several points inthe service, such as the end-ing of the song, Magnificat,

his lifetime. Kuyper wrote exten-sively on Christian theology withan emphasis on common grace,in hopes of developing a theologyfor the general public. He alsofounded the Free University ofAmsterdam in 1880. In additionto his academic accomplish-ments, Kuyper also remained ac-

tive in Dutch politics, serving asthe Netherlands prime ministerfrom 1901 to 1905.

To date, the translation projecthas produced the recently-released

Wisdom and Wonder: CommonGrace in Art and Science, aseries of chapters Kuyper in-tended for his larger three-vol-ume workCommon Grace. Thepartnership is also translatingall 1,700 pages of CommonGrace, the first volume ofwhich is due to be released in thefall of 2012.

In Wisdom and Wonder,Kuyper meditates on the relation-ship between Gods redeemingcreational agenda, culture anda Christian calling. Its publica-

tion will raise awareness andengagement of Kuypers work inanticipation of next years releaseof Common Grace.

O f t h i s p r o j e c t , F u l l e r Theological Seminary presi-dent Richard Mouw said, Theappearance on this treatise inEnglish translation is for me the

beginning of a larger dream cometrue. Kuypers writings on com-mon grace are much needed forsuch a time as this.

In November, Wisdom andWonde r w asreleased in SanFrancisco at anannual meetingof the EvangelicalTheologicalSociety, which isNorth Americaslargest evangeli-cal scholarly so-ciety and seeks tospread biblically-centered theologi-cal scholarship.

In conjunctionwith this recent

release, ChristianL i b e r t y P r e s sand the ActonInstitute are host-ing a launch eventf o r W i s d o mand Wonder onSaturday, Dec.1 0 , a t C a l v i nTheologicalSeminary. Dr.Vincent Bacote ofWheaton College,who wrote the books introduc-tion, will openthe event with abrief presentationon Kuyper. Thebooks transla-

tor, Nelson D. Kloosterman,a n d t h e s e m i n a r y s D r .Mike Wittmer will then joinBacote for a panel discussionof the book. Afterwards, atten-dants will have opportunities tochat with the panel participantsand purchase discounted cop-ies of Wisdom and Wonder.Anyone in the Calvin or larg-er Grand Rapids communitieswho shares an interest in eitherChristian social engagement orKuypers thought is encouragedto attend.

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PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH

COMMITTEEUPDATEthere was a palpable sense ofawe at Gods majesty. Wheneveryone joined together tosing Hark! The Herald AngelsSing! and Joy to the Worldthe true Christmas spirit wasdefinitely in the air as well.

Some attendees have beenenjoy ing that Chr is tmasspiri t at the Lessons andCarols service for a longtime. One woman remarkedafter the service that at-tending Lessons and Carolshas been one of her favoriteChr i s t mas t r ad i t i on f o r over 30 years, but there isalso a new generation just

discovering this tradition.One of the most poignantmoments in the service camewhen a little boy, inspired bythe music, walked up the aisleduring a song and began toconduct.

Lessons and Carols hasbeen a wonderful way forCalvin to bless the community,and celebrate the beginningof the Advent season formany years, and it appears thatwith the support of people likethat little boy, it will continueto be a special tradition inthe future.

Grand Rapids Acton Institute has partnered with

Kuyper College to translate Abraham Kuypers writings.

Acton translates Kuyper

Choirs worship with LaGrave

Choir and Chorales joint performance moves audience

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This place has created more impotent men

than any other college in human history.

-Professor Schultze, CAS

Everybody, all at once, say BOOB.

- Professor Ward, English

Subsound its like the eHarmony of elephant life.

- Professor Harper, physics

Thats what a bard is, a man who has the intelec-

tual breeze blowing through his beard.

- Professor Engbers, English

As we searched the archives for an interesting tidbit this week, we came

across a page from September 1972 with a hole. Someone had taken a scis-

sors and physically cut out a section of the page. In its place was a note read-

ing,

Believe it or not, I am all for freedom of speech, etc. but do you really feel

that a poem on sex (not described as the pleasurable experience God

made it to be) and another on expletives is a worthwhile acknowledge-

ment of our relationship to God? I realize that people swear and think

about sex but you, as editor, must also think if these subjects are relevant

and appropriate to the Calvin community ... Are these really the messag-

es we want to send to people? ... The college wishes students to grow in

their knowledge of various subjects but they wish for students to do this

while grounded in the Lord. I hope that you can see how inappropriate

those poems are in the light of the message they are sending to people.

Looks like someone decided to bowdlerize the Chimes archives.

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SCIENCE &

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Associated Press

A father who believes a

lack of bone marrow donorscontributed to his sons deathfrom leukemia says a federalcourt ruling allowing mostbone marrow donors to be paidwill save lives and drive downtreatment costs.

The appeals court ruledThursday that most bonemarrow donors can be paid,overturning the governmentsinterpretation of a decades-oldlaw making such compensa-tion a crime punishable by upto five years in prison.

In its ruling, the 9th U.S.Circuit Court of Appeals saida technological breakthroughmakes donating bone marrowa process nearly identical to

giving blood plasma.Its legal and common to pay plasma donors.Therefore, the court ruled,bone marrow donors undergo-ing the new procedure can bepaid as well and are exemptfrom a law making it a felonyto sell human organs for trans-plants.

The ruling comes after alawsuit was filed by lawyersat the nonprofit Institute forJustice. The group representsa coalition of patients, doctorsand MoreMarrowDonors.org, which is seeking to offerdonors $3,000 in the form ofa scholarship, housing allow-ance or gift to charity.

A plaintiff in the lawsuit,

Kumud Majumder, said his11-year-old son, Arya, died ofleukemia last April.

The family had resorted toan imperfect bone marrowdonor match in desperationbecause no perfect match wasavailable, the father said ata news conference outsidethe circuit courts Pasadenachambers

Aryas tragedy happened inpart because of a lack of bonemarrow donors, Majumdersaid. In the end, creatingmore and better bone marrowdonor matches through a sys-tem of modest compensationwill save the lives of patients,improve the lives of donors,

drive down the costs of treat-ment and improve the qualityof life of cancer patients as theybattle to survive.

The unanimous, three-judgepanel of the court did say it re-mains a felony to compensatedonors for undergoing an oldertransplant method, which ex-tracts the marrow from thedonors bones.

But the court said the newtechnology isnt covered by thelaw because actual bone mar-row isnt taken from the donor.Instead, specialized cells thatgrow into marrow are takenfrom a donors bloodstream,and its basically a blood dona-tion, not an organ transplant,the court said. It noted thattwo-thirds of bone marrowtransplants employ the newerprocess.

Tens of thousands of peoplewith leukemia, lymphoma andother blood diseases are savedeach year by such procedures.An estimated three thousandothers die waiting for dona-tions, which unlike simpleblood donations need to begenetically compatible.

The decision wont becomeofficial for at least 30 dayswhile the U.S. Departmentof Justice ponders what to do

next. The DOJ can ask the ap-peals court to reconsider the deci-sion or petition the U.S. SupremeCourt to take it.

DOJ spokesman CharlesMiller said the department isreviewing its options.

Advocates for paying donorssaid compensation will spur evenmore donations. Detractors arguethat donor compensation willexploit the poor to undergo riskymedical procedures to benefit thewealthy.

The National Marrow DonorProgram, the nonprofit that pro-vides transplants from volunteers,opposes payments.

We were surprised and puz-zled by the appellate courtsdecision regarding allowing com-pensation, said Michael Boo, theprograms chief strategy officer.The National Marrow Donor

Program is studying the decisionand assessing the impact. Wedo not anticipate the ruling willchange the NMDPs current poli-cies and practices.

The ruling overturns a lowercourt decision barring compen-sation for all bone marrow dona-tions.

At the heart of the courtsruling, which is sure to igniterenewed debate over paying medi-cal donors, are two processes fortransplanting bone marrow intopatients suffering from diseasesof the blood.

The first and older one isknown as aspiration and re-quires the donor to endure pain-ful and risky procedures thatrequire hospitalization and an-

esthesia. Long, thick needles areinserted into the cavities of thedonors hip bones to suck out thebone marrow. The court said thatprocess was still covered by theNational Organ Transplant Act,which explicitly prohibits payingdonors for their bone marrow.

The point of the ban on sell-ing organs is to protect peoplefrom ignoring the medical riskfor money, said Ar thur Caplan,a bioethicist with the Universityof Pennsylvania. Caplan said theruling Thursday may uninten-tionally support campaigns topay donors in other medical f ieldssuch as compensating women fortheir eggs.

The newer procedure, which

the court ruled exempt from theact, was developed about 20 yearsago and involves harvesting cellsfrom the bloodstream rather thanin bone.

Called apheresis, the pro-cedure requires the donor toundergo five days of drug injec-tions to stimulate production ofspecialized blood cells. Then thedonor sits in a recliner for severalhours while the blood is filteredthrough a machine that extractsthe specialized cells.

Congress could not have hadan intent to address the apheresismethod when it passed the stat-ute, because the method did notexist at that time, Judge AndrewKleinfeld wrote for the court.We construe bone marrow tomean the soft, fatty substancein bone cavities, as opposed toblood, which means the red liq-uid that flows through the bloodvessels.

Kleinfeld said it may be time toapply a new label to the process.

It may be that bone marrowtransplant is an anachronismthat will soon fade away, as pe-ripheral blood stem cell apheresisreplaces aspiration as the trans-plant technique, much as dial thephone is fading away now thattelephones do not have dials,Kleinfeld wrote.

BY JON HIELKEMA

Staff Writer

Alarmed health officials andmedical professionals have spreadthe word about bacterial infec-

tions becoming more resistantto traditional antibiotics. Fromtheir discovery early last cen-tury to the present, these drugshave saved countless lives fromdeath through infectious diseaseslike tuberculosis and typhoidfever.

Yet recent reports from theCenter for Disease Control dem-onstrate why resistance is be-coming a major problem. Over$1.1 billion is spent per year onunnecessary antibiotic treat-ment regimens. Use of antibiot-ics in farm animals costs evenmore and has also contributedto the development of these newstrains.

The result is worrying: E.coli infections are now seven

times less susceptible to antibioticdrugs.

With traditional agents, in-cluding former drugs of last re-sort, increasingly unable to copewith evolving strains, scientistshave been searching for alter-native methods of treatment.Some of them are designed asreplacements for traditional treat-ments.

One of those techniques iscalled phage therapy. This entailsthe use of bacteriophages, virusesthat attack bacteria, to kill offinfections.

Long used in parts of the Soviet

Union, phage therapy has somesupport in clinical trials. Thisincludes one study of 518 peoplewith staphylococcus infections.Through the administration ofphage therapy, a 75 to 100 percentcure rate was achieved.

However, this and many otherstudies in phage therapy lackedproper control tests, and there aresignificant questions of efficacyand safety.

According to the AmericanSociety for Microbiology, themain advantages of this therapyare the ability to specifically tar-get harmful as opposed to helpfulbacteria, that it does not createviral infections and is thus safe,and the viruses can be, withmodern genomics, modified tokeep pace with evolving bacterialpopulations.

Meanwhi le , the DefenseAdvanced Research ProjectsAgency has been funding the de-velopment of another alternativetechnique. The new antibiotic

agents are RNA or DNA strandson gold nanoparticles. They arearranged in a sphere, which al-lows them to enter cells in thiscase bacteria and flip geneticswitches on and off.

Trials in animals have shownthat they are highly effective atturning off a bacterial cells re-sistance to other antibiotics, andthey could also be used to turn offthe replication abilities of the cell,leading to the direct destructionof the infection.

The advantages of this ap-proach are many. For one, al-though bacteria will develop

resistances, the genetic natureof the therapy allows scientiststo tailor their properties to suitevolved strains.

In t e r e s t i ng ly, the t r e a t -ment could have an impactbeyond anti-bacterial treatment.

Scientists at DARPA are nowconsidering this approach tot reat cancer ce l ls as wel l .N a n o t e c h n o l o g i s t C h a dM i r k i n h a d t h i s t o s a yin an interview with NPR:[Its] a concept of switching offgenes or down-regulating genesso that you could adjust proteinleve ls and take e f fect ive lya disease or make it healthy,or, in the case of a cancer, selec-tively cause it to die.

He then notes that conven-tional treatments for cancer andbacteria are associated with al-lergic reactions and toxic sideeffects. These nanoparticles, onthe other hand go everywhere,but they cause no toxic side ef-fects, so they accumulate in a lot

of cells and you can selectivelygo after those cells based uponthe genetic differences in thosecells causing them to selectivelydie.

The arms race between re-sistant bacteria and antibioticdrugs and new a lternatives isbecoming a matter of increasingurgency.

With these new safe, thoughyet unproven techniques, thereis hope that humans will be ableto continue fighting bacterialinfections that, in 2005, killed19,000 people who were giventraditional antibiotics.

Scientists fight bacterial resistance Bone marrow for sale?Compensation for marrow could increase the num-

ber of donors and save thousands of lives annually.

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NATIONAL

AND WORLD NEWS

6To be honest, I didnt expect there to be any violations.

-Yegor Duda, Russian election p. 7

BY RACHEL HEKMAN

Staff Writer

Unlike most of the Occupymovements sweeping the country,Occupy Washington, D.C. hashad a largely cordial relationshipwith police. Occupiers in thecapitals McPherson Park havebeen present in several othercity parks since October withalmost no interaction with po-lice in contrast with the moreagitated branches of the move-ment, Occupy Wall Street andOccupy Seattle.

It comes as rather a surprise,then, that the D.C. protestorshad their first serious clash with

police this weekend.The situation arose when

residents of the Occupy tent vil-lage in McPherson Park startedbuilding a two-story structureto hold meetings in. A safetyinspector declared the constructunsafe; local police issued severalwarnings to take down the con-struct, as the movement did nothave a permit to build on publicland, and eventually set a one-hour deadline.

D.C. protestors refused to

stand down, and police moved inaround noon Sunday afternoon,beginning a standoff that lastednine hours as protestors climbedthe framework and refused to getdown. Though several protestorsgot down voluntarily, a few hadto be removed from the roof bypolice using a cherry picker. Thelast man to be removed report-edly took down his pants and uri-nated on the police officers thatarrested him.

By 9:30 p.m., the structurehad been dismantled and hauledaway, causing no damage to anyother Occupy property.

Altogether, about 20 peoplewere arrested with little incident,and police removed an American

flag removed fromthe structure.

Despite the ar-rests , however,relations betweenthe protesters andp o l i c e r e m a i namiable.

Other Occupymovements andpolice forces couldtake the i r cuesfrom Washington,D.C., whose pro-testors and policehave made it anunspoken rule to

compromise as much as possibleto avoid dangerous incidents likethose in other cities.

If the capitals police havebeen satisfied about lawmak-ers safety despite the unstablepotential of mass movements,Occupy D.C. must be doingsomething right.

At any rate, the protestorsarent planning on going any-where. As police made their lastarrest, other demonstrators begandecorating a large Christmas tree.

BY CONNOR STERCHI

Staff Writer

O n S a t u r d a y , D e c . 3 ,Republican presidential candi-date Herman Cain suspendedhis campaign amid allegationsof an extramaritalaffair. Cain hadbeen a frontrun-

ner of the GOPfield and oftentouted his vari-ous business ex-periences, suchas b e i ng CEOof GodfathersPizza, a radio hostand the chairmanof the FederalReserve Bank ofKansas City, Mo.

As of today,with a lot of prayerand soul-search-ing, I am suspend-ing my presiden-tial campaign,C a i n s a i d a tSaturdays rally in

Atlanta. Becauseof the continueddistractions, thecontinued hurtcaused on me andmy family, not because we arenot fighters, not because Im nota f ighter.

The Cain cam-paign remained relatively steadyin the polls following a string ofsexual harassment allegations byfour women. But Cain startedto drop significantly in the pollswhen accusations of a prolonged

affair surfaced. On Monday, Nov.28, a fifth woman named GingerWhite stepped forward, allegingthat she had been involved in a13 year extramarital affair withCain. Cain acknowledged that heknew the woman and was friendswith her, but denied having an

affair. Alongside his wife Gloriaat a rally in Atlanta, Cain saidthe sexual harassment and the13-year affair allegations were un-true. Im at peace with my God,he said. Im at peace with my

wife, and she is at peace with me.After suspending his candidacy,Cain said that he would endorseone of the Republican candidates.

A Des Moines Register pollreleased on Dec. 3 showed Cainsnumbers were waning and thatsupport was trending towardGingrich. In an Octoberpoll, Cain was in the leadof the GOP pack with

23 percent, but in the re-cent poll he dropped to 8percent. The allegat ionsof an affair came on thesecond day of polling bythe Des Moines Register.Cains support went from12 percent down to 4 per-cent during the four daysof polling.

The suspens ion of Cains campaign maybode well for some of theother candidates, partic-ularly Newt Gingrich,M i c h e l e B a c h m a n nand Rick Santorum.Clearing that distractionout of the race might begood for Santorum. That

goes for Bachmann, too,said Craig Robinson, for-mer director of the IowaGOP, who now headsthe pol i t ical webs i teTheIowaRepublican.com.Thats the one thing theyhave to be banking on and thatis [that] their support is greaterthan what they are seeing inthese polls.

Although recent poll numbershave been favoring Gingrich, thefluidity of voters opinions inthis early stage of the race must be considered. The first thingthat jumped out at me is that

two-thirds [of those polled] saythey are still persuadable voters,which tells me its going to be awild ride for the next four weeks,said Matt Strawn, chairman ofthe Iowa Republican Party. Itstill doesnt seem that Iowa cau-cus voters are locked in.

M i t t R o m n e y , M i c h e l eBachmann, Rick Perry, HermanCain, and Newt Gingrich have allbeen frontrunners.

The other candidates, par-ticularly Tea Party-supportedBachmann and Ron Paul, haveattempted to court Cains con-servative supporters. People seethat Im the Tea Party candidate

in the race, said Bachmann.They saw Herman Cain as anoutsider, and they see my voicewill be the most ref lective of his.

Paul on the other hand, isconfident that Cains Tea Partysupporters will come to his side.The Tea Party was started dur-

ing the last campaignfour years ago with ourcampaign, he said.

The collapse of theCain campaign hascaused Gingrich, for-mer speaker of thehouse, to surge in thepolls. Romney has re-sponded with sharpercriticism of some ofGingrichs positions onillegal immigration andchild labor. I certainlydont agree with that,said Romney regardingGingrichs proposal tohelp children in pov-erty by giving themjobs to mop floors intheir schools.

Gingrich has parriedRomneys attacks by

espousing his conser-vatism. I dont claimto be the perfect candi-date, I just claim to bea lot more conservativethan Mitt Romney,said Gingrich on WSC

Radio in South Carolina. Wethink there has to be a solidconservative alternative to MittRomney Im the one candi-date who can bring togethernational-security conservativesand economic conservativesand social conservatives inorder to make sure we have aconservative nominee.

Bill would allow indefinite detainment

US citizens could be held without trial or a lawyer

Herman Cain leaves presidential race, Gingrich likely to benefit

Gingrich is surging in the polls following

Cains departure from the race.

FILE PHOTO

Cain suspended his campaign due to the

continued distractions and hurt to his family.

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A series of allegations of sexual harassment and extramarital affairs led up to the decision

DC clash oddly peaceful

The building erected by Occupy protesters.FILE PHOTO

BY JOSEPH MATHESON

Nat-World Co-Editor

The Senate passed a ver-sion of the National DefenseAuthorization Act on Dec. 1 bya 93-7 vote. One provision of thebill, which would allow the mili-tary to detain terrorist suspects,including American citizens,indefinitely, has been widely criti-cized and Obama has threatenedto veto the legislation.

The bill is sweeping legislationthat is enacted each year, detail-ing the budget of the Departmentof Defense. This year, it includes$662 billion worth of fundingto such places asthe wars in Iraq andAfghanistan, weap-ons systems and mili-tary personnel. It alsoincludes an amend-

ment that would addharsh sanctions to the Central Bankof Tehran.

The controversial part of thelegislation is a few parts that au-thorize military forces to detainterrorist suspects indefinitelywithout access to a lawyer ora trial. In fact, Section 1032would actually require militarycustody for any terrorist suspect,although American citizens areexempt from this requirement.The executive branch also wouldstill have the option of movingsuspects into civilian custody af-ter they entered military custody.

An amendment to the bill in-cluded a provision which formeda compromise. Senator DianneFeinstein, author of the amend-ment, said that it does not en-dorse either sides interpreta-

tion, but leaves it to the courtsto decide.

While the strength of the billsprovision for detainment is un-clear, the bill would still likelyprovide the option for the militaryto detain terrorist suspects, evenincluding American citizens onAmerican soil, without bail oraccess to a lawyer.

Proponents of the bill have sup-ported such a measure in orderto avoid situations such as theone that occurred with the un-derwear bomber, when the sus-pect who nearly blew up a planeflying from London to Detroitwas able to call for a lawyer andavoid interrogation.

In an interview with NPR,Senator Lindsey Graham said:Im just saying to any Americancitizen: if you want to help al-Qaeda, you do so at your ownperil. You can get killed in theprocess. You can get detainedindefinitely. And when yourebeing questioned and you sayto the interrogator, I want mylawyer, the interrogator wil l say,you dont have a right to a lawyerbecause youre a military threat.

Civil rights groups have fiercelyopposed the legislation. The billis a historic threat to Americancitizens and others, because itexpands and makes permanentthe authority of the president toorder the military to imprisonwithout charge or trial Americancitizens, argued Christopher

Anders, senior legislativecounsel for the ACLU.

The Obama administra-tion opposed the measure forslightly different reasons. Byignoring these non-partisanrecommendations, includingthe recommendations of thesecretary of defense, the direc-tor of the FBI, the director ofnational intelligence and theattorney general, the Senatehas engaged in political mi-cromanagement at the expenseof sensible national securitypolicy, said National SecurityCouncil spokesperson TommyVietor, referring to advice fromcounterterrorism experts from

both Republican andDemocratic adminis-trations that suggestthat the policy wouldactually restrict thepresidents ability to

detain and transferterrorist suspects.Critics of the provision have

argued that not only is it possi-bly unconstitutional, but that itis simply impractical, and thatcivilian criminal prosecutionhas proven more effective forhandling terrorist suspects onAmerican soil than militarycustody.

President Obama has threat-ened to veto the provision, butthe bill passed with such a largemajority in the Democrat-controlled Senate that it ispossible that the veto couldbe overturned by a two-thirdsmajority vote. Currently, acommittee is working to re-solve the Senate version of theNDAA with a House versionalready passed.

You can get killed in the process. You can get

detained indefinitely.

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by paulina heule

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On Monday, observers con-firmed that the results of Russiasparliamentary elec-tions were tarnishedby fraudulent ballotstuffing and a lack oftransparency. Withhis handheld cam-era, Yegor Duda, a33-year-old volunteerelection observer,caught a man sitting

at a desk furtivelychecking off ballots.Mr. Dudas videowas only one of themany videos that havebeen released sinceSundays elections,and after being up-loaded on YouTube,it spread with fervoracross the nation.Another video dem-onstrated the ink inpens supplied in vot-ing booths at one poll-ing place on Sundaywas easily erasable;yet another showedpackets of ballots ap-parently just removedfrom the ballot box,stacked neatly, oneon top of the other, anindication that theywere inserted togeth-er, not individual ly,all reading, UnitedRussia. These viralvideos are a relatively new meth-od of combating the fight againstcorruption against the lack oftransparency in Russian elec-tions, and are exposing Russiamore than ever.

To be honest, I didnt expectthere to be any violations. I hopedthere wouldnt be, Mr. Duda,

a new election observer, saidin a brief telephone interview.I now understand better whatgoes on there. And as long as Ithink it will be useful, I will con-tinue to tell people about what

is happening.Mr. Duda is one of a growing

group of freelance election ob-servers in Russia, who, with thehelp of hand-held cameras andsmartphones, have been relativelysuccessful at revealing falsifiedvoting practices.

Several days after the clip was

released, a major demonstra-tion of as many as 5,000 peopleoccurred in central Moscow.Several hundred were arrested,including two major oppositionleaders. The youthful protestors

gathered around Chistye PrudyBoulevard before police dispersedthem shouting, Russia withoutPutin! and Putin is a thief.

Valentin Gorbunov, the headof the Moscow City ElectionsCommission announced thatRussian investigators had openeda case into ballot tampering by

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Syrias ruling regime agreed onMonday to allow Arab Leagueobservers into the country, butonly if the Arab League removesits sanctions on Syria and adoptsseveral amendments the Leaguehad previously rejected.

The Arab League refused the

terms.This latest exchange is yet

another piece in the failing nego-tiations regarding the Syrian con-flict, conducted between the ArabLeague and Syrian PresidentBashar al-Assads regime.

The Arab League is at temptingto mediate the conflict, which isin its ninth month of bloodshed.The countrys government hassuppressed Arab Spring-inspiredprotests calling for reform, claim-ing over 4,000 lives and detainingover 14,000 people in the process.

However, Syria foreign min-istry spokesman Jihad Makissitold reporters that Syria is indeedcommitted to those reforms.Diplomacy is an art, he said.

We delivered our best, and webelieve that such an offer cannot be rejected. We are so keen onsolving everything within theArab framework, but again, weneed to be realistic about the trueintentions out there.

He cited the regimes recentdecisions to release some prison-ers and withdraw some troopsas evidence of this commitment.

However, the regime showslittle sign of actual ly alleviatingits crackdown. Governmentsecurity forces killed 12 peopleon Monday, and the military per-formed large-scale exercises lastweekend that, according to theWashington Post, were intendedto warn the international com-munity against interfering in the

Syrian conflict.Syrian Foreign Minister Walid

al-Moallem wrote a letter to ArabLeague Secretary General Nabilel-Arabi on Monday, declaringthat in exchange for allowing theproposed mix of military and ci-vilian observers into the country,the regime would consider all theLeagues resolutions on Syriavoid, according to the state-runSANA news service.

In response, el-Arabi toldCNN, The Syrians acceptanceof the protocol does not mean thatwe will suspend the sanctions.

The Arab League imposedthe sanctions after Syria failed toend the regimes crackdown onprotestors by Nov. 25, a dead linethe League set. Syria has violateda number of similar Arab Leaguedeadlines in recent months.

The Leagues sanctions includea ban on dealing with the Syriancentral bank, a freeze on govern-ment assets and a t ravel ban on 19Syrian officials.

T he Uni t e d S ta t e s , theEuropean Union and Turkeyhave also imposed sanctionsof their own. Together, these

measures are predicted to signifi-cantly harm Syrias economy andweaken the regimes authority.

Last weekend, the Arab Leagueplanned further sanctions, an-ticipating that Syria would notmeet its most recent deadline ofSunday, Dec. 4. These measuresinclude banning all weapon ship-ments into Syria, reducing flightsin and out of the country by halfand freezing the assets of evenmore regime officials.

In addition to allowing ArabLeague observers, the Leaguealso calls for Syria to cease gov-ernment attacks on protesters,release political prisoners andallow journalists, rights groups,and other observers entrance intothe country.

by lauren de haan

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F r e n c h P r i m e M i n i s t e r Nicholas Sarkozy met withGerman Chancellor AngelaMerkel on Monday in Paris todiscuss a plan to increase budgetdiscipline within the EuropeanUnion.

The two major leaders in the

eurozone will intro-duce this new pact tothe other members ofthe European Unionduring a summit inBrussels on Thursdayand Friday. The plancalls for amendmentsto the treaties thatgovern the EuropeanUnion.

Europe has recentlybeen struggling witha series of countriesfacing bankr uptcy.This new plan seeksto stabilize the Euro by enforcing stricterlaws regarding indi-vidual countries finances as well

as providing automatic sanctionsagainst countries who violatefirmer rules on deficits. It alsomakes Europe into a more in-tegrated political and economicconfederation, making it easierfor EU regulators to challengebudget policies of other membernations.

We want to make sure that theimbalances that led to the situa-tion in the eurozone today cannothappen again, therefore we wanta new treaty, to make clear to thepeoples of Europe that things can-not continue as they are, Sarkozytold a joint news conference.

The two heads of state met onMonday with a warm embracedespite an often touchy relation-ship. Chancellor Merkel stated

that the eurozone must imposesweeping changes to the way theydeal with finances. We wantstructural changes that go beyondagreements, she said.

Sarkosy and Merkel are takinga fairly large risk in introducinga new treaty. There is always arisk that the 17 countries that arepart of the eurozone will becomefurther divided from the 27 coun-tries that make up the European

Union. Part of the new changes

would subordinate all economiesto technocrats in Brussels. Thisis a change that many countrieswho are not part of the eurozonewill not likely warmly embrace.

The hope in Sarkozy andMerkel coming together is thatthey will be able to persuade theEuropean Central Bank to sup-port their plan and encourageother countries to raise money onbond markets while still protect-ing weaker economies like Greeceand Italy. This package showsthat we are absolutely determinedto keep the euro as a stable cur-rency and as an important con-tributor to European stability,said Merkel.

An agreement between the twocountries did not come without its

compromises. Merkel wantedall oversight of national bud-gets to be done in Brussels andthe European Court of Justiceto have the power to veto bud-gets and send them back tonational parliaments to review.Sarkozy did not want to giveany committee that muchpower over an elected parlia-ment. They agreed that thecourt would have a lesser role

in dealing with na-tional governmentsfinances.

The Europeancourt wont be ableto check every bud-get, but rather ruleon whether the debt brake anchored innational law hasbeen implemented insuch a way that it ad-heres to the Stabilityand Growth Pact,Merkel said.

Merkel is alsobacking down onher call for more pri-

vate sector involve-ment, something that France

is strongly against.One thing that the two coun-tries automatically agreed onwas their rejection of euro bonds. These bonds wouldmake the debts of some coun-tries such as Greece into a col-lective debt between all coun-tries in the eurozone. Sarkozyfirmly rejected the idea sayingit is not at all a solution inthis crisis. He stated thatFrance and Germany wouldnot even consider taking onother countries debts withouthaving control over the money.

The crisis requires an extracommitment towards unityand a Europe that will not re-peat the mistakes of the past,said Sarkozy.

League rejects Syrian conditions Sarkozy and Merkel discuss crisis plans

Russian election brought under public scrutiny as fraud is revealedthe head at Polling Place No.2501, where the episode occurred,Russian news agencies reported.

Election monitors from theOrganization for Security andCooperation in Europe also ob-

served blatant fraud. While themonitors declined to any defi-nite conclusions, their reportclearly eluded that the vote steal-ing might have spared PrimeMinister Vladimir V. PutinsUnited Russia party from aneven larger loss than it officiallyreceived. With 99.9 percent of bal-

lots processed, election officialssaid that United Russia had won238 seats in Parliament, or about53 percent, from 315 seats or 70percent now. The CommunistParty won 92 seats; Just Russia,

a social democraticparty, won 64 seatsand the nationalLiberal DemocraticParty won 56 seats.

In her commentso n t h e R u s s i a nelection, Secretaryof S ta t e Hi l l a r yRodham Clinton

condemned whatshe called trou-bling practices be-fore and during thevote in Russia. TheRussian people, likepeople everywhere,deserve the right tohave their voicesheard and their votescounted.

Agreeably, thist e ns i on has l e f tan uneasy feelingin the air for all ofthe political leadersin Russia. Voters,mai n ly the ne wmiddle class andcity dwellers, havesent a loud, thoughambiguous, mes-sage. Demandingc h a n g e w i t h o u tovertly endorsing aspecific direction,many are leaningtowards the ever-fa-

miliar and always well-organizedCommunists.

This new political stratumwants change, said SergeiMarkov, a Duma deputy andUnited Russia member, butthey didnt decide what kindthe y w an t . T he y have nopolitical champions.

A member of Russias Communist party openly declares his disapproval of the election results, along with a big crowd.File photo

Merkel and Sarkozy met Tuesday to lay out plans.File photo

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The Uses, Misusesand Abuses of Music

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Free admissionwww.calvin.edu/january

KRISTI POTTER

Director of January Series

I am really pleased with howthe series came together this year.The fact that by January we will

be heavy into the election yearwas definitely on my mind aswe pulled together the list of pre-senters. We knew we wanted oneperson who could talk about whatwill be happening in the newsin January having to do withpolitics and the presidential elec-tion. David Gergen was chosen

because of his extensive experi-ence serving under both politicalparties for four presidents and hiscontinued work as a television

analyst. He will be able to giveus bipartisan insights into theObama administration and thedivided Congress, and latest inelection news. We added MichaelGerson to the schedule to take adifferent approach with his topicReligion and Politics in a NewEra. Taking into account, howdoes civility play into politicsduring this election year?

The rest of the series is veryeclectic, touching on all kinds oftopics that are worth discussing.

Sherry Turkle will talk abouthow technology affects us as hu-mans. As a professor at MIT, sheis a cheerleading for all kinds ofnew technology, but as a licensedpsychologist she asks importantquestions about what technologydoes to us living in an alwayson, always connected digitalculture.

Turkle was one speaker thatwe have been trying to get foryears, in fact she was on the list

of possible speakers when JuneHamersma was running the se-ries. She was the person to havespeak 15 years ago when the inter-net was brand new and she is sti llthe person to get. Im thrilledwe finally have her on our list.

John Varineaus addition toour lineup came out of a dis-cussion with the Grand RapidsSymphony to partner in Januarywith a speaker that would comple-ment their Jan. 6 and 7 concert,Cinematic Shostakovich. Theconcert will include the film TheBattleship Potemkin, which isone of the greatest propagandafilms ever made. Our desire wasto have a speaker talk about howmusic can be used to inspire forgood and for bad. An example ofthis is how music is used to sellproducts and ideas. We realizedthat Varineau was actually theperfect fit for this presentationand since we always have oneCalvin College faculty person onour lineup he was able to fill thisrole as well.

Calvin partners with the GrandRapids Symphony in many ways,and we are pleased to do so againwith Varineaus presentation.And anyone who knows himknows that he will easily captivateour audience for his given hour.

Pedro Noguera will talk aboutthe important issue of education,in particular the ways schoolsare influenced by social and eco-nomic conditions.

Joel Salatin will share histhoughts on small farms, localfood systems and the right toopt out of the conventional foodparadigm. His latest book Folks,

This Aint Normal discusseshow far removed we are from thesimple, sustainable joy that comesfrom living close to the land andthe people we love.

We always choose a topic thatteaches us about a part of theworld many of us are not familiarwith. This year, Edith Mirantewill introduce us to what is hap-pening in Burma, a country thathas been in and out of the newsover the years, especially whenAung San Suu Kyi was releasedfrom years of house arrest, and yetso many of us dont understandthis countrys story.

Ralph Edmond will give usfirsthand insights into what ishappening in Haiti and howhe is determined to make a dif-ference in his country through

business opportunities and men-toring. Did you know that freeaid can actually hurt Haitiseconomy?

Reza Aslan will give us insightinto the Arab Spring and thenew generation of youth that arestanding up for their rights andfreedoms. What does this meanfor the future of democracy in theMiddle East and what will be theeconomic and political effect onthe rest of the world?

Eric Metaxas will talk abouthis New York Times bestsellerBonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr,Prophet, Spy, the story of a truehero that is full of life lessonsfor the 21st century. He has ledan eclectic career writing forVeggie Tales, Chuck ColsonsBreakpoint and The New YorkTimes and authoring two ma-

jor biographies and numerous

childrens books. He is sure toentertain.

Deborah Lew is a Broadwayactress and Calvin graduate whowill share her stories and musicfrom her life on the stage. Sheplayed Belle in Beauty and theBeast on Broadway.

Jennifer Pharr Davis just setthe world record in August forthe fastest thru-hike with sup-port on the Appalachian Trail

by completing the 2,181 miles in46 days, 11 hours and 20 min-utes. Amongst a lineup of heaviertopics she will be able to inspireus to live healthy lives and enjoythe beauty of creation, which will

be a refreshing break in the series.Gabe Lyons is the author of

The Next Christians: The GoodNews About the End of ChristianAmerica, an important book inthe conversation about the role ofthe church and Christians in so-ciety, and it gives insight into thehopes and aspirations of the nextgeneration of Christian leaders.

N.T. Wright returns for thefourth time to close our serieson Jan. 24. He will stay to par-ticipate in the Symposium onWorship that will take placeon Calvins campus the rest ofthat week. Wright is an all-timefavorite of the January Seriesover our years and has receivedthe most hits on our website forpeople tuning in to recordings ofour past presentations. He is cer-tainly the superstar of the seriesif there is one, although I thinkevery speaker on the series is asuperstar. Hes the perfect personto help us wrap up the celebrationof 25 years of the January Series.

Win Prizes for Attending the January Series 2012Win $10 Bonus Bucks for Johnnys a total of 10 prizes will be given!

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J-series promises wide variety this yearABBY ZWART

Editor in Chief

For those of you who dontknow (freshmen or anyone liv-ing under a rock), the JanuarySeries is an institution at CalvinsCollege. Some of you are juniorsor seniors and have never at-tended a January Series lecture

because you think its boring orpointless. Thats fine. Your loss.But if youve never been, let meuse this space to encourage you.And trust me, once you go, youll

be a repeat attender.My favorite thing about the

January Series is the variety ofspeakers it brings. Last year weheard from scientists, people withautism, priests, musicians, radiopresenters, educators, natural-ists, athletes and activists, just toname a few. This year well addBroadway performers, theolo-gians, farmers and adventurers.

Theres a speaker for every major,every age, and every profession.Some speakers are obscure, butothers are well known. Th is yearsguests include former Bishopof Durham N.T. Wright, reli-gion writer Reza Aslan, farmerand environmental activist JoelSalarin and MIT sociologistSherry Turkle.

While different speakers ap-peal to different people, Ill giveyou a little insight into two of myfavorite sessions from last year.

Temple Grandin is an animalscientist and advocate for animalrights. She also has autism andis vocal on behalf of that commu-nity. She spoke about her work asa designer of humane slaughter-houses and on her perspective onthe world as a high-functioningwoman with autism. The mostinteresting part of her speech forme something I stil l rememberto this day was her explana-tion of how most people think

in words and phrases, while shethinks in pictures.

Another memorable presenta-tion was the Ensemble Galileiwith NPRs Neal Conan and LilyKnight. The collection of stringinstruments and flutes, combinedwith black and white photographsof early American natives, settlersand soldiers provided a fitting

backdrop to the poetry and proseof some of Americas greatestwriters.

Heres the thing about theJanuary Series: It makes you feelsmart. While going to a lectureduring your lunch break doesnt

jump off the page as a super excit-ing thing to do, you are bound tolearn something from any presen-tation you attend.

Its really a condensed versionof Calvins liberal arts standard.Spend an hour in the CFAC everyday and youll suddenly have alittle bit of knowledge about awhole lot of things.

(Dont forget to get your passport stamped.)

Pedro Noguera

Deborah Lew

Reza Aslan

Sherry Turkle

Jennifer Pharr Davis For additional information on the January Series, go to http://www.calvin.edu/january/Check out January Series on Facebook

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ENTERTAINMENT

10 If [Mark Lugo] was the person who was removing these paintings, he wasnt do-ing it for financial gain.

-James Montgomery, Mark Lugo charged, pg. 11

BY JONATHAN HIELKEMA

Staff writer

The Grammy nominationswere just announced. While I,like so many Kanye fans, chafe

at the exclusion of My BeautifulDark Twisted Fantasy from theAlbum of the Year nominationlist, I recognize that award showsare basically self-congratulatorycostume pageants for industrypros.

This list, however, is deadlyserious. In honor of the impend-ing holiday season, with thesombre celebration of the wintersolstice andthe advent ofthe comingyear of apoc-alypse , hu-manity needst o d e f i n ei t s greates tworks of art.Sadly, while

the Grammyswi l l indeedcover muchof the musicallandscape invapid praise,they will missout on someessentialw ork s tha tne e d to b erecognized. Igive you theLost GrammyCategories(read as Junoif you hail from Canada) and thewinners for this year, decided bya secret committee of govern-ment agents who elected me their

scribe.Best Radiohead Album of theYear: The King of Limbs

This was a difficult choice tomake for the committee, mostlybecause many members wantedThe Bends to win for somereason. They just murmuredsomething about how JohnnyGreenwood used to play guitar

before grudgingly signing theirballots. The King of Limbs wonin the end because of its sonicdepth and mix of abstract andfunky rhythmic songs combinedwith more straightforward butequally abstract melodic pieces

like Codex. Its earnest senti-ments and technical i nnovationpluck your heartstrings and tickleyour imagination.

Best Noise Album of the Year:IIDespite what you mightthink, that t i t le is no typo.Psychedelic noise band ThePsychic Paramount released analbum called II (pronouncedtwo) this year, and those play-

ing it could be heard several statesaway. Combining guitar virtuos-ity with a devil-may-care attitudeabout hearing loss and shattered

glass, this band taps into some-thing both primal and cosmic.Blandest Rock Album of the

Year: Nothing is WrongI wondered about the sanity

of the committee on voting thisway. Clearly, there is nothingbland about Dawes. Its almost anoutrage. This typical rock bandplays typical rock songs about

interesting subjects like friedchicken, mashed potatoes andLos Angeles. Just look at theiralbum cover, which manages toevoke Rushs Moving Picturesand demonstrates the fact thatthey have a drummer. Nothing

could be more original.Best Obscenely ExpensiveR e i s s u e A l b u m : S M i L ESessions

Nirvana, U2, Pink Floyd, andThe Smashing Pumpkins were allimmortalized with fan-exploitingreissues and box sets this year.Kudos to them and their re-cord companies. However, thisreissue of an album that never

officially cameout i s vas t ly b e t t e r t h a nNevermindor AchtungBaby in thisreviewersmi nd. Br i anWilson stoodat the brink of

rock and rollstransformationf r o m b l u e s yyouth mus icto respectable,progressive artform. Had henot implodedin a lurid tem-pest of drugs,perfectionismand technicallimitations, thisalbum wouldmerely be a re-issue and not a

five-disc, $100 studio sessionretrospective. Makes one sus-pect some kind of conspiracy,if you think about it irrationally

enough.I think that wi ll leave us plentyprepared. With the list complete,all that is left is to carve it intoblank marble tablets and leave itin a Martian-friendly location sothey will know forevermore whatwe thought was worth listeningto. No nobler or more virtuoustask exists, my friends.

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Some quality albums were inevitably overlooked and will not

receive Grammy-level recognition.

Lost Grammy categories explored

Though the green grass ofCommons Lawns might say oth-erwise, Christmas is in the air.The Chimes staff has been mak-ing merry all evening, and nowits time for us to share some ofour favorite Christmas things.

Theres really no way to catego-rize these, so just keep readingfor some laughs and holidaytraditions that will make you allwarm and fuzzy inside.

Jess Koster (Sports): EveryChristmas, my brother and I geta childrens book from our auntand uncle, and we read it aroundthe dinner table.

Josh Yonker (Sports): Everyyear my family listens to FrankSinatra while we put up theChristmas tree and decoratecookies.

John Kloosterman (Op-Ed):Best Christmas movie SantaClaus Conquers the Martians.The Martian kids watch Santaon TV and are really jealous, sothey go and steal him and bring

him back to Mars. Then Santabeats a bunch of bad guys andbrings them joy.

Josh Ngenda (copy editor):The Grinch. The cartoon ver-sion is really good.

Andrew Steiner (head copyeditor): Eggnog. Thats all Imgoing to say.

David Ryou (World News): Idont have a lot of traditions, butwe do eat a lot of rice if thatcounts as a cultural tradition.

Joseph Matheson (NationalNews): We always have rum balls.Theyre like, vanilla wafers andrum and other stuff. Really good.

Elizabeth Steiner (CampusNews): Drunken karaoke with myaunt shes the one thats drunk.And playing these homemadeChristmas bells my uncle madeout of steel pipes.

Colleen Keehl (A&E): The

song Red Ribbon Foxes by AFine Frenzy, the movie WhiteChristmas, and going on mid-night snow walks.

Michelle Ratering (A&E): Ilove waking up to the smell ofmy mom baking cookies and thesounds of John Teshs RomanticChristmas on the radio.

Allison Schepers (SciTech):My favorite Christmas movie isLove Actually, favorite carolis Hark the Herald Angels Singand my favorite Christmas candyis chocolate peanut clusters. Myfavorite tradition is that my dadwould always read us The PolarExpress on Christmas Eve whenwe were young.

Katie Hall (Features): Mydad got me a carton of cigarettes

and he said Smoke up Johnny!But really, my favorite part ofChristmas is Jackson spreadingmilk all over his almost nakedbody. We were putting up the treeand he thought it was Christmasso he got out the milk and cook-ies for Santa. Things got a littlemessy.

Jackson Hall (Features): Thatmilk incident wasnt like, lastyear or anything. I was prettyyoung. My favorite memory isevery year my father telling mea different way Santa died. Alsomaking poisonous drinks to putout for Santa.

BY JACALYN DEN HAAN

Staff Writer

Imagine a world / Whereyour every move matters /Welcome to that world.

This is the message ofNew Yorks new street signsin a nutshell. The city hasrecently upped the ante onsignage, putting warningsinto verse and turning signsinto pieces of art.

There are 12 different de-signs, each warning pedes-trians, cyclists and motoristsrespectively to be mindful ofthose around them and touse their heads while on theroad. Each design is accom-panied by a haiku. Thesehaikus are either printedbeneath the sign or embed-ded into a code and can beready by scanning the codeinto a smartphone.

Each of the 12 signs

w a s c r e a t e d b y J o h nMorse. He was commis-sioned to do so by the NewYork City Department ofTransportation. As an artist,he is very enthusiastic aboutthe project. If you say topeople, Walk, Dont walk or,Look both ways if you cantweak it just a bit and poetrydoes that the device givesthese simple words power,he says.

The purpose behind the newstreet signs is to get people toactually look at street signs andtake safety seriously. New York

is a very busy city, bustling notjust with people and cars but alsowith flashing lights and colours.Consequently, street signs areoften ignored in favour of look-ing at more interesting things like billboards and advertisements.

The new signs are able to competewith the craziness.

The NYCDT takes this proj-ect very seriously. All of thesigns were placed at intersectionswhere many accidents occur.Although the signs are some-what sarcastic, they all conveyimportant safety messages andare meant to be taken seriouslywhile also entertaining.

These signs have received

Haiku street signs encourage pedestrian safetyChristmas with the editors

BY MADELINE TRACY

Staff Writer

How many of you have

b ough t t i ck e t s th roughTicketmaster and begrudg-ingly accepted the processingfee that goes with it? Weveall done this, or turned toother sites like StubHub orCraigslist just to avoid the feethat supposedly pays for theconvenience of buying ticketsonline.

Well, for those of youwho angrily pressed accept,I am happy to tell you thatTicketmaster will soon bepaying you back, at least some-what.

A class action lawsuit filedon Oct. 21, 2003, in responseto these unfair processing feeshas finally found closure, andTicketmaster is being requiredto pay back its customers fromthe last decade because thecompany never stated on itswebsite that the processing feeswere purely for profit.

Therefore, if you have usedTicketmaster between Oct. 21,1999, and Oct. 19, 2011, you areentitled to a $1.50 credit perticket for up to 17 orders.

Also, the court case againstTicketmaster included docu-ments that showed UPSs de-livery price for the expeditedshipping of the tickets wasalso deceptive.

This subclass of the suit statesthat if you had UPS deliver thetickets, you are entitled to an ad-ditional $5 credit per ticket.

Credits are issued in the form

of vouchers, which can be re-deemed two at a time.The public has four years to

redeem their entitled compensa-tion; after that point no refundswill be allowed. Ticket purchas-ers will receive email notifica-tion that they are eligible for therefund.

Depending on how many cus-tomers come forward to claimtheir refund, Ticketmaster couldbe out a lot of cash. Ticketmasterhas also announced that if cus-tomers claim less than $11.25million, they will donate the restto charity.

In addition to these refunds,the counsel is seeking $16,500,000in attorney fees and $20,000 forthe two plaintiffs who broughtthe case forward. They are alsolooking to increase the refund, asthey dont believe $1.50 is enoughcompensation for the customersfrustrations.

But dont get too excited yet.Credits wont be issued untilApril 15, 2012, or at least 30 daysbefore the final approval of thesettlement, which is scheduledfor May 29, 2012.

Ticketmaster wont be forced tostop charging the processing fees,they are simply required to dis-close on the site that Ticketmasteris profiting from the fees.

mixed reactions. According tosome, they are cute, efficient,and add a lot to the city. Somehave been critical of the poemsthemselves, arguing that they areslightly morbid. One of the poemsin question says, Oncoming cars

rush / Each a 3-ton bullet /And you, f lesh and bone.A few of poems are very

clever and encourage one tothink of potential safety haz-ards Too averse to risk / Tochance the lottery, yet / Stepsinto traffic. Others are justodd Car stops near bikelane / Cyclist entering raffle/ Unwanted door pr ize.

T he ne w s i gns havesparked a sudden interestin haiku among the public.Many people have suddenlybegun to write verse in thesimple 5/7/5 syllable formatand put it online.

Beneath NPRs article onthe signs on their website(Haiku Traffic Signs Bring

Poetry to NYC Streets), manypeople have commented,adding their own haikus.More are posted on YahooNews. Some are in response

to the idea (A man in the road/ Became man under my car /While I read Haiku). Peoplehave also created their own safetyhaikus.

Morse is very happy about thenew signs and peoples reactionsto them: Theres just a plethoraof haiku coming out. Its so excit-ing. With the creation of thesesigns, people are being encour-aged to write their own poetry.

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The case against Ticketmaster involved charges due to the

deceptive service and delivery fees. The company is being

forced to refund portions of each ticket since Oct. 19, 1999.

Twelve different haiku signs now colorfully

and creatively dot the streets of NYC.

Ticketmaster sued, loses caseCompany forced to credit customers for the past decade

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BY JOVIANUS ALDEN HARTOPO

Staff Writer

The proverb he who stealsan egg will steal an ox bestdescribes the life of 31-year-oldMark Lugo, the man accusedof stealing six pieces of art afterspending over four months in jail

for the theft of a Picasso from aSan Francisco Gallery.Pleading not gui lty, charges of

grand larceny and criminal pos-session of stolen property werefiled following a police raid onLugos Hoboken apartment inwhich 19 pieces of art totaling avalue of $500,000 were discov-ered. According to authorities,Lugo allegedly made off with apainting at both the Carlyle Hotelin Manhattan and the ChambersHotel in Midtown through stuff-ing both in a tote bag before hop-ping onto a taxi. The paintingstolen from the latter has beenvalued at $350,000, though itsexact value remains disputed.

Titled Composition withMechanical Elements, the art-

work was created by FernandLeger, a French painter and sculp-tor. Known for capturing theessence of modern life, Legersideas acted as an inspiration formany pop artists positioninghimself as a forerunner of popart. Among others, Lugo wasalso accused of stealing a group offive works by South Korean-bornartist Mie Yim. Together titled

Pastel on Board, each piece wasestimated to being worth around$1,800. The Lehmann MaupinGallery descr ibes Yims works ashazy, colorful pastel drawingsdepict[ing] stuffed bears, bunnies,and other creatures in disconcert-ing situations and environments.

The painting in which Lugowas indicted for was essentially a

1965 work of the famous Picassotitled Tete de Femme (Head ofa Woman) from the WeinsteinGallery in San Francisco.Other than the alleged, Lugohas also been suspected of an-other New York art heist of a$30,000 Picasso from the WilliamBennett Gallery.

While it is surprising that Lugo

was able to simply take valuablepaintings and leave, Robert K.Wittman, a former FBI investi-gator for national art stated thatWhile artworks can be equippedwith electronic tags that soundalerts when theyre moved, somegalleries dont use the technol-ogy because they sell works andchange their exhibits frequently.

Mark Lugo charged for second time with theft of New York artworkPaintings were not the only

thing that Lugo made off with.He also stole three bottles ofChateau Petrus Pomerol worth atotal of $6,000 were stolen fromGarys Wine and Marketplace inWayne, NJ.

Facing a maximum sentenceof 15 years each for two of themost serious charges, Lugo has

also been revealed by his lawyer,James Montgomery to have aproblem more serious than amere affinity for masterpieces.To reporters Montgomery stated,I think time will show that Mr.Lugo is someone who has beenstruggling with particular diffi-culties and went through a verydifficult six week to two monthperiod.

Montgomery has also pointedout that Lugo cannot be classifiedas a professional art thief as thepaintings were freely displayedin Lugos home. If he was theperson who was removing thesepaintings, he wasnt doing it for fi-nancial gain, said Montgomery.

However Wittman assertedthat most art thieves sell or try

to sell what they snatch, but a fewhave stolen to enhance their owncollections sometimes forbragging rights.

According to the Manhattandistrict attorneys office, furtherinvestigation is ongoing in regardto the status of four pieces, includ-ing a Picasso, which is believedto have been taken from NewYork gal leries.

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BY DAVID GREENDONNER

Staff Writer

Yet, like everyone else, I am

acutely conscious sometimes ofmy own isolation even in themidst of people, and I often giveup hope of ever being able tocommunicate with them, writesChristy Brown, Irish author andpainter.

Brown was born inDublin in 1932, the10th of 22 children 13 of which survived toadulthood. Christy wasdifferent, however. Hewas born with cerebralpalsy, and was left withonly the ability to moveone of his legs.

Browns s tory i sknown because he wenton to write about it. In

1954 he published anautobiography titledMy Left Foot, andin 1989, the book wasadapted into a film ofthe same name.

My Left Foot, thefilm, is directed by JimSheridan, and starsDaniel Day-Lewis andBrenda Fricker. It tellsthe story of Brownslife from his birth toshortly after the publi-cation of his first book.More than anything,Sheridans adaptationwrestles with questionsof understanding andidentity questionsthat prove to stretch be-yond Christy Brownsp ar t i cu lar c i r cum-stance, though theymay be asked mostreadily from his perspective.

The film opens with a shot ofa foot. The foot pulls a recordfrom a shelf, places the record ona turntable, sets the needle andis met with an operatic bellow.White cars arrive and pick upChristy (Day-Lewis), now in histwenties, along with his family.They are taken to what appearsto be a royal estate, where Christyis separated from his mother

(Fricker) and siblings to awaithis entrance into the dinnerroom. A woman named Marylooks after him on the meantime.He offers her a copy of his book,

My Left Foot, and she beginsreading sending the scene intoa flashback that will constitutethe majority of the film.

Despite Christys conditionand the practices of the time, the

Browns decide to raise the boyon their own along with theirother children. As he grows, itsclear that Christy is unable toarticulate himself short of ges-turing with his foot or utteringundirected sounds. Despite hisefforts to reveal otherwise, heis largely thought by his familyand community to be mentallyincapable. Thus, very little isexpected of Christy in his young

life, especially from his father,who maybe more than anyone refuses to acknowledge hissons ful l value.

In time, however, Christy

shows his family that he is notonly intelligent, but talented. Hebegins to paint using only his footand gets quite good. He is even-tually visited by a doctor (FionaShaw) who offers him speech les-

sons, through whichshe believes Christywill be able to learnto communicate histhoughts and feelingsmore clearly.

The lessons are help-ful, but as Christysmeans of expressionbecome more devel-oped, he begins to re-veal his nonphysicalafflictions and frustra-tions. What we go on

to see of Christy turnsinto a back-and-forthbetween these new-vehicled demons andthe good-hearted soulwe met in his youth.

The film resoundswith messages of fami-ly, loyalty and recogni-tion, and as a result, isdense with powerful,touching moments.Most of these mo-ments are the productof Day-Lewis inspir-ing performance asChristy, which asis typical of his per-formances leavesthe actor unrecogniz-able under the maskof his character. Its nowonder that the role brought Day-Lewisthe Academy Award

for Best Actor.My Left Foot is rated R for

language, but is by no means unfitfor most audiences. The film isbeautiful, compelling, and asBrowns own words invoke astory about everyone as muchas it is about one man. If yourelooking, you can find My LeftFoot and other great DVDsin the Cayvan Media Center ofHekman Library.

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My Left Foot is inspiring, compelling

Lugo displayed the stolen masterpieces around his home instead of selling them to others.

BY JESS KOSTER

Sports Co- Editor

Last Wednesday night, Iwent to the Ready Set concertat the Intersection in down-town Grand Rapids. ParadiseFears was the first opening band and I was thoroughlyimpressed by them. ParadiseFears is an up and coming poprock band from a small town inSouth Dakota.

According to Sam Miller,lead vocalist, Its been an en-tirely self taught process...witha very steep learning curve.Weve had to teach ourselveshow to promote, how to bookshows, how to tour, how torecord, everything, but it givesus a veryunique ap-proach,

because inour area,what weredoing is sounprece-dented thatwe haventfallen vic-t i m t h egeneric,cookie-cuttercareerpath, andinsteadweve re-ceived a tremendous amount ofsupport from our home town.

Paradise Fears is made upof six extremely talented mu-sicians. Sam Miller offers hisgreat vocal abilities to themix. Cole Andre and JordanMerrigan are very talentedwith the guitar and backupvocals. Michael Walker chimesin with the piano while MarcusSand and Lucas Zimmermanadd rhythm with the bass gui-tar and drums. The memberscame together in high schooland decided to forgo a yearof college to see if they couldactually make it as a band. Iwould say that they are wellon their way to doing just that.

They sang some of their

own music while also coveringsome other popular music suchas Stacys Mom by Fountains ofWayne. Miller also sang SuperBass by Nikki Minaj leadinginto their own song Last Breathe.They brought a lot of energy tothe stage. I was impressed by thefact that they were able to do theirentire set without use of in-earmonitors and still sound amazingthrough all their songs. If I hadnot seen that they did not havein-ear monitors, I would haveguessed that they did.

After the show, I immediatelywent to their merchandise tableand bought Paradise Fears al-bums Make Them Believe andYours Truly. After buying theCDs, my friend and I were able totrack down Miller for a quick pic-

ture beforehe was rec-ognized by

the rest ofthe fans andmobbed forpictures andautographs.Since buy-i n g t h e s eC D s t h esongs havebeen on re-peat on mycomputerand iPod.My person-al favoriteso f f Y o u r

Truly are More Than Lust, LastBreath, and Yours Truly. FromMake Them Believe, I love HearMe Out and Sanctuary. Thesesongs are very easy to listen toand are very catchy. I have foundmyself humming the songs evenwithout the music playing.

The band is currently touringthe country with the SummerSet, Downtown Fiction, Plug InStereo, and headliner the ReadySet. Paradise Fears will be inChicago on February 1 and inPontiac, Michigan on February3. They will be touring with TheSummer Set, The Cab, He is We,and Days Difference. I wouldhighly suggest trying to get toeither one of these concerts orperhaps even both.

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Paradise Fears impressive

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Being here two years ago and getting so close adds a little extra fuel.

-Brad Heethuis, Soccer team

BY MARK ZYLSTRA

Staff Writer

History sometimes repeats

itself. That was the harsh real-ity for Calvins mens soccerteam on Saturday night at theNCAA D-III final four in SanAntonio, Texas. The Knightsseason ended with a 2 -1 defeat toOhio Wesleyan in the nationalchampionship game, a scene alltoo familiar for the Knights asthey fell one step short of thenational title on the same pitch in2009. That squad lost 2-0 in the fi-nal to D-III powerhouse MessiahCollege. This years team cameeven closer tonational glory,suf fe r ing anagonizing one-goal defeat.

Calvin didenjoy an amaz-

ing run to cap-ture nationalrunner-up hon-ors , though.Three times inNCAA tour-nament playthe Kn i gh t spushed to thebrink of defeat.They won theiropening roundmatch againstCarthage bys c o r i n g t h egames onlygoal late in thesecond hal f .Then, in sec-t i o n a l p l a y

in Redlands,Calif., they de-feated the hostsin a penal tykick shootout.Perhaps evenmore remarkable was Calvinswin in the sectional final overTexas-Tyler. They were down aplayer and a goal late in the game,but tied it and found a goldengoal early in the second OT topunch their ticket to the final four.

But Calvin was not done yet:They took on the Red Dragonsfrom Oneonta State in the na-tional semi-finals. The Knightsrecovered beautifully from anearly 1-0 deficit. The Dragonsscored in the seventh minute,but Calvin responded within

four minutes with a goal fromsenior Brad Heethuis. Heethuisput home a rifle off a cross fromfreshman Sean Broekhuizen. Notsatisfied with the equalized score,Calvin proceeded to bang homet