04-19-1971 by Hope College Library

A N C H O R E D INSIDE

A man of letters' letters

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BULK RATE NON-PROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE

Hope for the earth

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The new opium war

No changes in housing

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The vessel of Christianity

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Permit No. 3 9 2

Departments react to 4 - 1 4

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" U p a tree"

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H O L L A N D . MICHIGAN 49423

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H o p e College, H o l l a n d , Michigan

April 19, 1971

Assembly proposal considered

Open hearing held on review by Lynn Jones T h e p r o p o s a l t o replace f a c u l t y review with review by a c o m m u n ity assembly was discussed at an open hearing T h u r s d a y . Four a d m i n i s t r a t o r s , 12 f a c u l t y m e m bers and ten s t u d e n t s a t t e n d e d the hearing. THE PROPOSAL w o u l d abolish review by t h e f a c u l t y c o m m i t tee of the w h o l e and s u b s t i t u t e review by a c o m m u n i t y assembly c o m p o s e d of t h e c o m b i n e d m e m bership of t h e A d m i n i s t r a t i v e A f f a i r s B o a r d , t h e A c a d e m i c Affairs Board and t h e C a m p u s Life Board. T h e p r e r e q u i s i t e for review of a policy decision will be a p e t i t i o n by at least 20 per cent of the f a c u l t y , 20 per cent of the s t u d e n t b o d y , or a r e q u e s t f r o m the a d m i n i s t r a t i o n by l e t t e r f r o m the p r e s i d e n t . T h e p e t i t i o n or request would have t o be received wihin throe weeks of t h e d a t e w h e n a policy decision is m a d e p u b l i c . T h e proposal s t a t e s t h a t , a f t e r three weeks, l t t h e policy a c t i o n t a k e n by t h e b o a r d is c o n s i d e r e d t o be a c c e p t e d by the s t u d e n t b o d y , f a c u l t y and a d m i n i s t r a t i o n . " THE ASSEMBLY w o u l d have the o p t i o n s of a c c e p t i n g , rejecting or referring back t o t h e policy board any policy legislations prese n t e d to it. T h u r s d a y ' s hearing was the result of A d A B a c t i o n on March 22. Discussion began with the c o n t e n t i o n that it is not d e m o c r a tic for a review c o m m i t t e e to

review a policy m a d e by some of its o w n m e m b e r s , since a n y policy u p for review would have originated in one of the m a j o r boards. Dean for A c a d e m i c A f f a i r s and c h a i r m a n of the m e e t i n g M o r r e t t e Rider a n s w e r e d t h a t since only one of the b o a r d s would have s p o n s o r e d t h e policy or proposal, its m e m b e r s w o u l d be in the m i n o r i t y and w o u l d not be able to f o r c e the p r o p o s a l t h r o u g h the assembly. JAY F O L K E R T , c h a i r m a n of the m a t h d e p a r t m e n t , asked w h a t the real p u r p o s e of the p r o p o s a l is. Rider replied that the basic p r o p o s a l was c o n c e i v e d f o u r years ago w h e n t h e r e was a desire to have a r e p r e s e n t a t i v e f o r m of governm e n t on c a m p u s . He said that having t h e e n t i r e f a c u l t y participate is not r e p r e s e n t a t i v e governm e n t . He said the s e c o n d p u r p o s e for t h e p r o p o s e d change was to allow t h e s t u d e n t s a voice in campus policy. F o l k e r t o b j e c t e d t o the basic design of t h e p r o p o s a l , stating that the Board of T r u s t e e s charges the f a c u l t y with the i m p l e m e n t a tion of the decisions of the Board, and that f a c u l t y s h o u l d have a say in the policy which they are e x p e c t e d to i m p l e m e n t . THE POINT was again rasied by J u d i t h Vickers, assistant professor of F r e n c h , that it is r e d u n d a n t f o r p e o p l e to review their o w n policy. Dr. R e e d y replied that in such cases, the decision w o u l d be m a d e by t h e o t h e r t w o b o a rd s , with the p r i m a r y board

Hope students to attend anti-war demonstration A m e e t i n g for s t u d e n t s interested in p a r t i c i p a t i n g in Saturd a y ' s anti-war d e m o n s t r a t i o n in W a s h i n g t o n D C. has been tentatively s c h e d u l e d for 9 : 3 0 tonight in W i n a n t s A u d i t o r i u m , Graves Hall. T h e m e e t i n g is being organized by a g r o u p of H o p e s t u d e n t s w h o h o p e to be able to provide inexpensive t r a n s p o r t a t i o n to and from Washington. T h e o r g a n i z e r s e s t i m a t e that at least 25 s t u d e n t s have already s t a t e d their i n t e n t i o n t o participate in the d e m o n s t r a t i o n . Saturday's mass p r o t e s t in Washington is part of the r e n e w e d c a m p a i g n to end t h e war being p l a n n e d by t h e S t u d e n t Mobilization C o m m i t t e e , t h e N a t i o n a l S t u d e n t A s s o c i a t i o n and t h e National A s s o c i a t i o n of S t u d e n t G o v e r n m e n t s . In a d d i t i o n t o the

d e m o n s t r a t i o n in W a s h i n g t o n , the n a t i o n a l o r g a n i z e r s are calling for a massive d e m o n s t r a t i o n in San F r a n c i s c o on S a t u r d a y . Plans are also being m a d e for a n a t i o n w i d e cessation of " b u s i n e s s as u s u a l " May 5. T h e May m o r a t o r i u m d a t e was selected to c o m m e m o r a t e the victims of the tragedies at Kent S t a t e University, J a c k s o n S t a t e and A u g u s t a . T h e anti-war leaders are urging s t u d e n t s to use May 5 as a day to lake the P e o p l e ' s Peace T r e a t y , which has been signed by t h e national s t u d e n t u n i o n s of S o u t h V i e t n a m , N o r t h V i e t n a m and the United S t a t e s , to their c o m m u n i ties. T h e t r e a t y , which has been signed t o d a t e by over 3 0 0 s t u d e n t e d i t o r s and s t u d e n t b o d y presidents, is being used as the focal p o i n t for this spring's anti-war activities.

providing e x p l a n a t i o n s and discussion. R o b e r t Vickers, c h a i r m a n of the art d e p a r t m e n t , replied that " s u c h a p r o c e d u r e should be t h o r o u g h l y spelled o u t b e f o r e o n e can vote on a p o l i c y , " and it had not been i n c l u d e d in the present proposal. F o l k e r t said, 4l If a representative f o r m of g o v e r n m e n t is desired, t h e Board of T r u s t e e s as an i m par t i al g r o u p can m a k e decisions o n its o w n and the whole idea of review can be d r o p p e d . " A s t u d e n t o b j e c t e d to this, c o n t e n d i n g t h a t it c o m p l e t e ly leaves o u t s t u d e n t o p i n i o n . RIDER S T A T E D , "We must discover w h e r e t h e responsibility for college policy i m p l e m e n t a t i o n lies. It is the Board of T r u s t e e s which u l t i m a t e l y votes on granting the degrees every year, and the administration makes recommend a t i o n s to the B o a r d , f r o m recomm e n d a t i o n s f r o m the faculty and the s t u d e n t - f a c u l t y b o a r d s , " he added. Dr. David Marker, c h a i r m a n of (continued on page 2, column 4)

T h e C a m p u s Life Board decided Friday t o refer a proposal to m o d i f y the present guest hours policy to an ad hoc c o m m i t t e e for s t u d y . THE PROPOSAL was drawn up and b r o u g h t t o the CLB by f r e s h m e n Blake Prichard and Ron S a n f o r d . It w o u l d a m e n d t h e present policy, which allows guest privileges only for a limited n u m b e r of h o u r s on w e e k e n d s and o n e w e e k d a y , t o allow each living unit t o d e c i d e by vote on its own guest h o u r s for each day of the week. T h e only limitation on the e x t e n t of the guest h o u r s is that they not infringe on the period b e t w e e n I a.m. and 9 a.m. T h e p r o p o s a l also stipulates that for a unit t o e x p a n d its h o u r s voting must be by secret ballot and the decision must be unanimous. THE R A T I O N A L E for the proposal states its f r a m e r s ' belief that " c o - e d u c a t i o n a l i n t e r a c t i o n is a vital part of the H o p e College community" and that "these n e e d s can be satisfied t h r o u g h the present h o u s i n g facilities." T h e present policy, it says, "is not functioning to satisfy these n e e d s . " T h e p r o p o s a l is i n t e n d e d to " e l i m i n a t e the difficulties of the present s y s t e m . " Prichard e l a b o r a t e d on the rationale early in t h e meeting. "We believe in the basic philosop h y of the p r e s e n t policy, but its biggest i m p e d i m e n t is its specif i c s , " he said. He explained that guest hours "are mostly on w e e k e n d s , so c o - e d u c a t i o n a l stud y i n g is p r e t t y m u c h e l i m i n a t e d , and the h o u r s are used mainly f o r s t u d y i n g . " T h e r e is a need f o r a m o r e balanced use of guest hours, he i n d i c a t e d . HE EMPHASIZED that t h e p r o p o s a l is designed " t o e x t e n d guest hours, n o t for the p u r p o s e of liberating t h e c a m p u s , but just t o m a k e t h e p r e s e n t policy w o r k . " S a n f o r d r e f e r r e d t o recently p r o p o s e d c h a n g e s in the housing set-up w h i c h w o u l d seek to diminish the sexual segregation which exists on c a m p u s , and said, "We c a m e t o the c o n c l u s i o n that the only way h o u s i n g will satisfy t h e need f o r m e a n i n g f u l i n t e r a c t i o n is t h r o u g h a g o o d guest p o l i c y . " Prichard a d d e d , "1 think this

proposal goes to the root of the p r o b l e m b e t t e r t h a n d o e s coed housing. We have to c u r e the disease, not t h e s y m p t o m s . " ASKED A B O U T the reasons for the s t i p u l a t i o n that u n i t s may e x p a n d their guest h o u r s only by u n a n i m o u s v o t e . Prichard said, " W e ' r e allowing for t h o s e who want their privacy p r o t e c t e d . If no u n a n i m o u s decision can be reached in a particular case, the u n i t ' s h o u r s will remain as they are now. N o o n e will be forced into s o m e t h i n g t h e y d o n ' t w a n t . " Jos Willems o b j e c t e d t o the s t i p u l a t i o n . " I n an e f f o r t to p r o t e c t the m i n o r i t y , you m a y be h u r t i n g the m a j o r i t y , " she said, and a d d e d , "If just two g u y s out of 4 0 in a m e n ' s living unit vote against the e x p a n s i o n of guest hours, the o t h e r 3 8 will f i n d out w h o they are, in spite of the secret ballot, and start pressuring them." PRICHARD responded by reiterating his belief t h a t the stipulation is necessary, but he expressed his h o p e that t h e CLB would do w h a t it t h o u g h t best. T h e discussion then c e n t e r e d on the e f f e c t that a d o p t i o n of the p r o p o s e d changes would have on the present guest policy as a result of ambiguities in the w o r d i n g of the p r o p o s a l . ASSISTANT p r o f e s s o r of English Dr. Elizabeth Reedy said that, in spite of P r i c h a r d ' s s t a t e m e n t t o the c o n t r a r y , t h e p r o p o s a l makes no specific provision for a reversion t o the present policy if a unit c a n n o t secure a u n a n i m o u s vote for expression of guest hours. "One student's negative vote could result in an e n t i r e unit having no guest h o u r s , " she said. Chaplain William Hillegonds, having g r o w n rather i m p a t i e n t with the e t e r n a l hassle o v e r guest policies, m a d e a m o t i o n that " e v e r y b o d y be required t o c o m e t o the college m a r r i e d . " He felt that this w o u l d e l i m i n a t e the problem of endless p r o p o s a l s , studies and c o m m i t t e e m a c h i n a tions. D E A N OF s t u d e n t s R o b e r t D e Y o u n g p o i n t e d out that the C L B ' s p r o p e r f u n c t i o n is t o act on the p r o p o s a l , n o t t o s t u d y its specifics. "We have a c o m m i t t e e set u p - the S t u d e n t C o n d u c t C o m m i t t e e - t h a t w e ' r e almost (continued

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History in the wings

The Knickerbocker Theatre by Tom Donia The crowds were dressed warmly t h a t night. Carriages rattled on t h e bricks of Eighth Street, c a r e f u l l y avoiding the tracks of the i n t e r u r b a n buses. THE P R E V I O U S day it had s n o w e d f o r the first time of the winter season, but the w e a t h e r c o u l d n ' t chill t h e e n t h u s i a s m of the h u n d r e d s of p e o p l e w h o were here for the big e v e n t - o p e n i n g night at the K n i c k e r b o c k e r Theater. F o r weeks t h e Holland City News had advertised the o p e n i n g of the t h e a t e r that was later to become the Holland T h e a t e r : " O p e n i n g Nov. 3, 1 9 1 1 , Frederick T h o m p s o n ' s p r o d u c t i o n of 'Bruster's Millions.' " T h e cast was f r o m the New Y o r k p r o d u c t i o n , w h e r e t h e s h o w ran for over a year. LOUIS KIMBALL, that "wellk n o w n and v e r s a t i l e " a c t o r , would play the title role of M o n t g o m e r y Bruster. T h e h e r o i n e was to be the " d a i n t y and t a l e n t e d " Grace Nile. T h e o p e n i n g of the t h e a t e r was such a big event not so m u c h because there were no o t h e r t h e a t e r s in H o l l a n d - t h e r e were - b u t because it had been delayed so long. THE IDEA FOR a t h e a t e r that could h a n d l e stage s h o w s began (continued on page I I , column 4)

Grand Opening KNICKERBOCKER THEATRE

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H o p e College anchor

AAB examines objectives

Required language studied by Ray Wells

WALKING DOWN C A N C E R â&#x20AC;&#x201D; H o p e s t u d e n t s display enthusiasm during the 20 mile hike Saturday to "Walk D o w n Cancer." T h e cancer hike, organized by Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity, was part of the effort H o p e s t u d e n t s m a d e to collect m o n e y for the American Cancer S o c i e t y .

T h e A c a d e m i c A f f a i r s Board discussed t h e f o r e i g n l a n g u a g e requirement Wednesday. T H E A A B D E C I D E D March 3 1 t o discuss especially p r o m i s i n g and t r o u b l e s o m e areas w i t h i n t h e p r o p o s e d c u r r i c u l u m revision. T h e b o a r d felt a discussion of t h e e n t i r e p r o p o s a l at this t i m e w o u l d lead t o n o a c t i o n . Dr. J o h n H o l l e n b a c h , c h a i r m a n of t h e English d e p a r t m e n t , o b served t h a t " e v e r y t i m e H o p e has e n t e r t a i n e d t h e t h o u g h t of a curriculum revision, t h e f o r e i g n language r e q u i r e m e n t has b e e n in t h e m i d d l e . T h e p r o b l e m c o m e s in isolating an o b j e c t i v e f o r t h e f o r eign language c o u r s e . When we really t r y t o s t u d y a l a n g u a g e , several o b j e c t i v e s get i n v o l v e d . " H O L L E N B A C H n o t e d o n e objective of f o r e i g n language s t u d y as t h a t of k n o w i n g a c u l t u r e , its p e o p l e , l i t e r a t u r e and a r t . In add i t i o n y o u have t h e o b j e c t i v e of teaching a student to c o m m u n i -

Activities announced

Earth Week begins today by M o l l y Gates H o p e f o r t h e Harth, H o p e ' s e n v i r o n m e n t a l a c t i o n g r o u p , is s p o n s o r i n g a series of l e c t u r e s a n d d i s c u s s i o n s on e n v i r o n m e n t a l prob l e m s this week as part of " E a r t h W e e k " activities. T H E E V E N T S O F the w e e k will be concluded Saturday, "Action D a y , " when Hope for the E a r t h will o r g a n i z e a litter cleanup c a m p a i g n on H o p e ' s c a m p u s . T h e g r o u p also h o p e s t o c l e a n u p a bird n e s t i n g site near Windmill Island. S t u d e n t s a r e asked t o m e e t in the Pine d r o v e f r o m 10 a . m . t o noon and f r o m 1 to 4 p.m. T h e series of t e a c h - i n activities o p e n s this e v e n i n g at 7 : 3 0 p . m . in K o l l e n l o u n g e w i t h a panel present a t i o n of e n v i r o n m e n t a l p r o b l e m s f o l l o w e d by an o p e n d i s c u s s i o n . Panel m e m b e r s are Dr. D o u g l a s H e e r e m a , a s s o c i a t e p r o f e s s o r of e c o n o m i c s ; Dr. E l d o n G r e i j , assist a n t p r o f e s s o r of b i o l o g y ; Dr. Gerhard Megow, p r o f e s s o r of G e r m a n ; a n d H o w a r d lams, ins t r u c t o r in s o c i o l o g y . T U E S D A Y ' S program focuses on industrial involvement with pollution. Representatives from Miles L a b o r a t o r y , P a d n o s , D o n nelly Mirrors, and J a c o b u s s e will p r e s e n t a p a n e l d i s c u s s i o n at 7 : 3 0 p . m . in t h e g e o l o g y lab, first f l o o r Voorhees. Dr. William F r e n c h , assistant p r o f e s s o r of g e o l o g y , will d i s c u s s L a k e M a c a t a w a at 3 : 4 5 p . m . W e d n e s d a y in 2 0 3 V a n R a a l t e . At 8 p . m . in t h e C o f f e e G r o u n d s , Dr. Francis Fike, associate professor of English, will e x a m i n e t h e relationship between ecology and religion. T H U R S D A Y , at 7 : 3 0 p . m . in K o l l e n l o u n g e , Dr. J e r r y D u s s e a u , assistant p r o f e s s o r in b i o l o g y . Dr. D o n a l d Williams, a s s o c i a t e p r o f e s sor in c h e m i s t r y , a n d m e m b e r s of H o p e f o r t h e E a r t h will p r e s e n t a p a n e l d i s c u s s i o n . T h e y will c o n sider w h a t c o n c e r n e d p e o p l e can d o and are d o i n g a b o u t e n v i r o n mental conditions. Mary Meade, founder and c h a i r m a n of t h e H o p e f o r t h e

c a t e in t h e l a n g u a g e w i t h a r e a s o n a b l e d e g r e e of skill. T h e issue involves t h e s e o b j e c t i v e s a n d , e v e n f u r t h e r , t h e possibility t h a t t h e s e o b j e c t i v e s might b e r e a c h e d w i t h something other than the current foreign language r e q u i r e m e n t , he said. Dr. Leslie B e a c h , p r o f e s s o r of p s y c h o l o g y , r e m a r k e d , "1 guess I still d o n ' t have clearly in m y m i n d w h y we s h o u l d have a f o r e i g n language r e q u i r e m e n t and w h a t t h e s e o b j e c t i v e s are. T h i s is bec a u s e any o b j e c t i v e s t a t e d or ref e r r e d t o brings t o m i n d o t h e r ways to accomplish them which sound better. " F o r e x a m p l e , " Beach w e n t o n , "it w o u l d s e e m i n t r i g u i n g f o r a foreign language teacher to put t o g e t h e r a s t i m u l a t i n g c o u r s e involving l e c t u r e s , p i c t u r e s , t a p e s a n d also t h e language of a p a r t i c u lar c o u n t r y . It w o u l d be m o r e of a d e m o n s t r a t i o n t o the s t u d e n t of t h e w a y of life of a n o t h e r p e o p l e . A m o r e a t t r a c t i v e way t o t u r n students on." " I N A S E N S E I go a l o n g w i t h t h i s , " H o l l e n b a c h replied, " h o w ever, I t h i n k this is o n l y p a r t . I start b y t h i n k i n g we are t r y i n g t o get a p e r s o n t o m o v e b e y o n d his l i m i t a t i o n s in a variety of w a y s . It is t o o b a d if in the p r o c e s s of ' l i b e r a t i o n ' he isn't c h a l l e n g e d t o m o v e b e y o n d his o w n l a n g u a g e . " Dr. H u b e r t Weller, c h a i r m a n of t h e f o r e i g n language d e p a r t m e n t , felt a s t u d e n t ' s foreign l a n g u a g e p r e p a r a t i o n in high s c h o o l was a p o o r gauge of a b i l i t y . " A t w o - y e a r p r o g r a m in high s c h o o l c o u l d mean anything f r o m zero to somet h i n g , " he s a i d . H e a d d e d t h a t " o n e - f i f t h of t h e p r e s e n t f r e s h m a n class is d e f i c i e n t in t h e t w o - y e a r

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P O L L U T I O N IN H O L L A N D - H o p e for the Earth, Hope's environmental a c t i o n g r o u p , is sponsoring "Earth W e e k " this w e e k to f o c u s a t t e n t i o n on e n v i r o n m e n t a l problems. Earth c o m m i t t e e , stressed t h e c o m b i n a t i o n of e d u c a t i o n a n d a c t i o n in t h e w e e k ' s activities. " E n v i r o n m e n t a l e d u c a t i o n is ext r e m e l y i m p o r t a n t , " she said, " a n d t h e r e is a l w a y s s o m e t h i n g new t o learn a b o u t this s u b j e c t . But, while w e are t a l k i n g a b o u t it, we m u s t m o v e a h e a d or it will never get d o n e . " HOPE'S E A R T H Week is part of a m o r e w i d e s p r e a d m o v e m e n t o r i g i n a t i n g in D e t r o i t . Miss Meade i n d i c a t e d t h a t it w a s a c o n t i n u a t i o n a n d f o l l o w - u p of last y e a r ' s E a r t h Day activities. T h e E a r t h Week p l a n s t y p i f y th> goals of t h e g r o u p . H o p e f o r the E a r t h a i m s t o p r o v i d e a c o o r d i n a t e d g r o u p e f f o r t t o exa m i n e a n d act o n e n v i r o n m e n t a l problems. T h e y h o p e to extend e n v i r o n m e n t a l a w a r e n e s s a n d provide a m e a n s f o r s t u d e n t involvem e n t . F o r m e d this s e m e s t e r , t h e g r o u p n o w n u m b e r s 20 and m e e t s i n f o r m a l l y every w e e k . Biologist D u s s e a u serves as u n o f f i c i a l advisor f o r t h e g r o u p . HOPE FOR THE E a r t h is c u r r e n t l y c o n c e r n e d with l i t t e r , lawn d e s t r u c t i o n a n d trash b u r n -

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ing m e t h o d s at H o p e . T h e y have s u c c e s s f u l l y c o m p l e t e d a campaign t o have n e w s p a p e r s a n d tin c a n s f r o m Saga r e c y c l e d . T h e f o o d service, m a i n t e n a n c e d e p a r t m e n t a n d b u s i n e s s o f f i c e will s o o n be w o r k i n g w i t h t h e P a d n o s Iron and Metal C o m p a n y t o c o m b a t this waste problem. Miss M e a d e i n d i c a t e d t h a t such an a r r a n g e m e n t w o u l d n o t only save money and benefit the e n v i r o n m e n t , b u t also c r e a t e a n e w s t u d e n t j o b as the p a p e r s and c a n s m u s t be s o r t e d and s m a s h e d m a n u a l l y b e f o r e t h e y can be p r o c e s s e d . She said t h a t r e c y c l i n g p r o j e c t w o u l d be in e f f e c t in the very near f u t u r e . HOPE FOR THE E a r t h has p r e p a r e d p u b l i c service advertisem e n t s f o r W T A S and local r a d i o stations concerning ecology and environmental action. T h e memb e r s also w r i t e l e t t e r s t o c o n g r e s s m e n and i n d u s t r y . Urging s t u d e n t i n v o l v e m e n t . Miss M e a d e c o m m e n t e d , " O u r generation gets angry at the e n v i r o n m e n t a l mess d u m p e d in o u r laps, b u t m o s t likely, earlier g e n e r a t i o n s d i d n ' t really k n o w w h a t t h e y w e r e d o i n g t o the e a r t h . We d o , so u n l e s s we actively cope with these problems, what can we possibly say t o o u r children? There will be no excuse."

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t h e C a m p u s Life B o a r d , p o i n t e d out that when the Board of Trustees has q u e s t i o n s on a p r o p o s a l , it calls t h e a d m i n i s tration and not the particular board or f a c u l t y . R i d e r t h e n stated that the administration, and n o t t h e f a c u l t y , is r e s p o n s i b l e in s o m e areas. F a c u l t y m e m b e r s are paid e m p l o y e e s of the college and t h e y e x e c u t e a j o b , he r e m a r k e d . THIS LED t o a discussion of t h e b o a r d s as p o l i c y - m a k e r s . D e a n of Students Robert DeYoung q u e s t i o n e d w h a t t h e roles of the v a r i o u s m e m b e r s of t h e c o m m u n i t y w e r e in regard t o policym a k i n g and s t a t e d t h a t if t h e b o a r d s are n o t p o l i c y - m a k i n g , they should be c h a n g e d . Dr. C o t t e r T h a r i n , c h a i r m a n of t h e g e o l o g y d e p a r t m e n t said t h a t t h e faculty h a n d b o o k specifies the b o a r d s as p o l i c y - m a k i n g . R i d e r s t a t e d t h a t t h e h a n d b o o k is n o t a legal d o c u m e n t . Myers pointed out that the f a c u l t y feels f r u s t r a t e d w h e n the Board of T r u s t e e s v e t o e s a p r o p o s al j u s t as s t u d e n t s m u s t feel frustrated when the faculty vetoes a p r o p o s a l d u r i n g f a c u l t y review. " T h e p u r p o s e of H o p e College is to exist as a c o m m u n i t y a n d the p r o p o s a l was w r i t t e n t o w a r d t h a t e n d , " he said. He m a i n t a i n e d t h a t the C o m m u n i t y A s s e m b l y is faculty review seen in a d i f f e r e n t light and t h a t t h e p r o p o s a l is n o t a radical d e p a r t u r e f r o m t h e f o r m e r proceedure. However, according to R o b e r t V i c k e r s , " I t is i n d e e d radical if t h r o u g h t h e c h a n g e

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language requirement f o r high school." AT THIS P O I N T , Weller o f f e r e d s o m e ideas of his d e p a r t m e n t f o r easing t h e f o r e i g n language r e q u i r e m e n t . At t h e p r e s e n t t i m e , n o s t u d e n t is a l l o w e d t o r e p e a t f o r c r e d i t a n y c o u r s e he has t a k e n in high s c h o o l , Weller said. "If a p e r s o n has had t w o y e a r s of a p a r t i c u l a r language in high s c h o o l , " he said, "yet fails the p l a c e m e n t test at H o p e , he s h o u l d be a l l o w e d t o t a k e t h e first-year c o u r s e of t h a t language at H o p e . " A n o t h e r idea was t o e l i m i n a t e t h e D and F grades. " I f a s t u d e n t d o e s n ' t get a C, n o t h i n g goes o n his t r a n s c r i p t . His o n l y p e n a l t y is t i m e and m o n e y , " Weller said. " W e realize t h a t an F is serious. It is 8 h o u r s of z e r o c r e d i t . Also, d u e to p r e s e n t s c h e d u l i n g , t h e failing student must hang around to take a n o t h e r crack at i t , " he a d d e d . S E V E R A L m e m b e r s of t h e b o a r d had negative r e a c t i o n s t o this idea. Dr. A r t h u r J e n t z , associate p r o f e s s o r of p h i l o s o p h y and c h a i r m a n of t h e b o a r d , called it a "bargain basement tactic" because s t u d e n t s w o u l d n ' t be overly penalized f o r t a k i n g a c o u r s e a n d n o t w o r k i n g at it. Beach a d d e d , " A D is c o l l e g e c r e d i t . T o d e n y a stud e n t D credit raises a serious question." J e n t z said, " I t seems l e a r n i n g a f o r e i g n l a n g u a g e can be a v a l u a b l e e x p e r i e n c e b u t s h o u l d it b e req u i r e d in t h e s a m e w a y f o r all s t u d e n t s in a liberal arts program9" T h i s W e d n e s d a y t h e A A B will c o n s i d e r r e p o r t s of t h e c u r r i c u l u m revision s u b c o m m i t t e e s a n d their r e s p e c t i v e ideas f o r h a n d l i n g t h e f o r e i g n language p r o b l e m .

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f a c u l t y m e m b e r s lose their v o t e s in t h e m a t t e r . " STUDENT PETER Orbeton said, " F a c u l t y m e m b e r s get their v o t e s w h e n t h e y vote f o r their r e p r e s e n t a t i v e on each b o a r d . " T h e p o i n t was t h e n raised t h a t the present c o m m u n i t y government had b e e n c o n s t r u c t e d o n a false m o d e l , b e c a u s e the university c o m m u n i t y is n o t really a d e m o c r a c y . It was felt t h a t t h e s c h o o l is not a d e m o c r a c y , b u t r a t h e r an o l i g a r c h y , f r o m the Board of T r u s t e e s o n d o w n t h r o u g h the administration to the faculty. Dr. R e e d y said, " T h i s s c h o o l has t r a d i t i o n a l l y w o r k e d o n a hierarchical s t r u c t u r e which had been a s s u m e d t o be m o d i f i e d by the e s t a b l i s h m e n t of c o m m u n i t y gove r n m e n t . " H o w e v e r , she suggested that t h e B o a r d s as p o l i c y - m a k e r s may b e a w a s t e of t i m e . T H A R I N F E L T t h a t t h e r e was no r e a s o n f o r t h e p r o p o s a l , t h a t it a d d e d n o t h i n g , b e c a u s e the faculty is g e n e r a l l y s y m p a t h e t i c to the students anyway. Rider agreed, stating " T h e r e have o n l y b e e n t h r e e or f o u r actions brought before the faculty review since the c o m m i t t e e structure w a s set u p . "

The symphonette plans to perform Tues. in Chapel The Hope College S y m p h o n e t t e , under the direction of Dr. Harrison R y k e r , will p e r f o r m its a n n u a l s p r i n g c o n c e r t T u e s d a y at 8 : 1 5 p . m . in D i m n e n t Chapel. I n c l u d e d in t h e p r o g r a m will be two favorite pieces for solo winds. J a m e s M o r e h o u s e will play t h e first m o v e m e n t from Richard Strauss' C o n c e r t o No. 1 for Horn and O r c h e s t r a , a n d J o s e p h M a x i m , a Hungarian clarinetist presently s t u d y i n g at H o p e , will p e r f o r m the " C o n c e r t i n o f o r C l a r i n e t " by t h e 1 9 t h C e n t u r y c o m p o s e r Carl Maria v o n W e b e r . The symphonette will also perform Joseph Haydn's " S y m p h o n y No. 8 6 " and Hendrik Andriessen's "Variations and F u g u e o n a t h e m e by K u h n a u . "

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Reactions on 4-1-4 heard by Gary Gray T h e Ad H o c C o m m i t t e e f o r C a l e n d a r Revision r e v i e w e d dep a r t m e n t a l reactions to the 4-1-4 proposal Wednesday. T H E A D M I N I S T R A T I V E Affairs B o a r d d e c i d e d M a r c h 15 t o distribute to the academic departm e n t s c o p i e s of t h e 4-1-4 p r o p o s a l f o r review a n d s u b s e q u e n t r e c o m mendations.

Discussion Wednesday centered around the department's written replies. F i f t e e n d e p a r t m e n t s a p proved the 4-1-4. F o u r o t h e r s f o u n d t h e bill in s o m e w a y u n s a t isfactory.

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ials f o r i n d i v i d u a l r e s e a r c h in a s p e c i f i c area w o u l d be e s p e c i a l l y prohibitive. T h e d e p a r t m e n t also p o i n t e d o u t t h e p o s s i b i l i t y of u n d e r m i n i n g i n t e r - d i s c i p l i n a r y s t u d i e s if s t u d e n t s w e r e o f f e r e d c o u r s e s in t h e o n e - m o n t h p e r i o d w h i c h are n o w adjunct to other science departments. Physics favored a quarter s y s t e m o r a 14-9-9 c a l e n d a r . F o r eign l a n g u a g e s also f a v o r e d t h e quarter system. THE RELIGION d e p a r t m e n t f a v o r s a t w o - s e m e s t e r plan w h i c h w o u l d e n d t h e first s e m e s t e r bef o r e C h r i s t m a s v a c a t i o n or a 1 4 - 1 4 - 1 4 . T h e d e p a r t m e n t of e d u c a t i o n a s k e d c o n s i d e r a t i o n of a 15- o p t i o n a l 4 - 1 5 or a 15-15 optional 6 calendar. Dr. M o r r e t t e R i d e r , d e a n f o r academic affairs, pointed out the failure of t h e q u a r t e r s y s t e m t o s a t i s f y a d m i n i s t r a t i o n s in m a n y s c h o o l s a n d also p o i n t e d t o t h e r e l u c t a n c e of m a n y s t u d e n t s t o b e f o r e . He has c o m p o s e d several t a k e as e l e c t i v e s t h e large b l o c k s f o r his j a z z o c t e t a n d his " H o l l e r of h o u r s o f f e r e d as u n i t s in t h e s e 5 " was c o m m i s s i o n e d b y t h e systems. Philadelphia C h a m b e r Orchestra MARSHALL Anstandig, Stua n d p r e m i e r e d at P h i l a d e l p h i a ' s d e n t Congress president, exA c a d e m y of Music in N o v e m b e r p l a i n e d t h a t he f o u n d m o s t s tu1967. d e n t s especially i n t e r e s t e d in a calendar reform which would end THE B A N D , u n d e r the d i r e c first s e m e s t e r b e f o r e C h r i s t m a s . t i o n of R o b e r t Cecil, will p r e s e n t A f t e r d i s c u s s i o n of t h e v a r i o u s several A m e r i c a n f a v o r i t e s . T h e proposals, Alvin VanderBush, r e p e r t o i r e will i n c l u d e William c h a i r m a n of t h e p o l i tical science Schuman's "Chester;" Robert d e p a r t m e n t , suggested c o n c e n t r a t B e n n e t t ' s " S u i t e of Old A m e r i c a n ing o n t h e 4-1-4 o r a t w o - s e m e s t e r Dances;" "Washington's Grand p l a n t h a t w o u l d e n d t h e first March, 1 7 8 4 " as a r r a n g e d by s e m e s t e r b e f o r e C h r i s t m a s vacaRichard F r a n k o G o l d m a n ; and tion. J o h n Philip S o u s a ' s " S t a r s a n d Dean Rider then suggested that Stripes Forever, 1896." the c o m m i t t e e recommend to the T h e c o n c e r t will c o n c l u d e w i t h A d A B t h e 4-1-4 or p o s s i b l y a a series of original j a z z c o m p o s s hifted two-semester program. itions created by Levitt. T h e b o a r d m a y n o w d ecide to THE C O N C E R T IS s p o n s o r e d hold faculty hearings or take b y t h e Phi Mu A l p h a S i n f o n i a , o t h e r a c t i o n on t h e p r o p o s a l . the national professional fraterR i d e r said. n i t y on H o p e ' s c a m p u s .

STRONGEST opposition came f r o m the physics and m a t h e m a t i c s departments. Mathematics expressed diffic u l t y in f i n d i n g c o u r s e s a p p r o p r i a t e f o r t h e c o n c e n t r a t e d s t u d y of the interim semester. The sequential n a t u r e of its p r o g r a m w o u l d limit m a n y s t u d e n t s t o o n l y o n e course from the present offering. T h e y felt t h a t in t h e m a j o r i t y of cases t h e s e s t u d i e s w o u l d n o t p r o v e especially v a l u a b l e . THE PHYSICS d e p a r t m e n t e x pressed c o n c e r n a b o u t t h e lack of t i m e p r o v i d e d f o r l a b o r a t o r y res e a r c h w i t h i n t h e m o n t h of c o n c e n t r a t e d s t u d y . It w a s n o t e d t h a t the time needed to secure mater-

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__ A M A T E U R T H E A T R E - A Western Michigan University theatre g r o u p . the G a z e b o Backstreet T h e a t r e , will be o n c a m p u s T u e s d a y and k W e d n e s d a y . S p o n s o r e d b y the Chaplain's O f f i c e , the g r o u p s e e k s to c o m m u n i c a t e the e x c i t e m e n t and urgency of being alive."

Amateur theatre troupe to be on campus Tues. T h e Gazebo Backstreet Thea t r e , a t r o u p e of 1 1 s t u d e n t s f r o m W e s t e r n M i c h i g a n U n i v e r s i t y , will be o n c a m p u s t o m o r r o w a n d Wednesday. T h e t r o u p e will a p p e a r t o m o r row at 8 p . m . in t h e J u l i a n a R o o m a n d at 9 : 3 0 p . m . in t h e C o f f e e G r o u n d s , a n d W e d n e s d a y at 9 : 3 0 a . m . in W i c h e r s A u d i t o r i u m . In a d d i t i o n , t h e t r o u p e will m a k e i n f o r m a l a p p e a r a n c e s in t h e P i n e G r o v e , t h e K l e t z a n d t h e l o b b y of V a n R a a l t e Hall W e d n e s d a y m o r n ing. T h e g r o u p ' s s t a t e d d e s i r e is " t o use d i f f e r e n t m o d e s of c r e a t i v e

e x p r e s s i o n t o reveal o u r c o n c e r n f o r ma'n's lack of p e r c e p t i o n in r e l a t i o n t o h i m s e l f , his b r o t h e r a n d his G o d . " F u r t h e r , t h e t r o u p e m e m b e r s say t h e y " a r e o n l y trying t o c o m m u n i c a t e t h e e x c i t e m e n t a n d u r g e n c y of b e i n g a l i v e . " T o get its m e s s a g e a c r o s s t h e Gazebo theatre e m p l o y s street t h e a t r e s t u n t s and longer d r a m a t i c p r o d u c t i o n s which they have written and which they direct. T h e g r o u p also i n c o r p o r a t e s a t w o piece b a n d , electric organ and d r u m s i n t o s o m e of its p r o d u c tions.

U n i v e r s i t y of W a s h i n g t o n . He s p e n t t w o y e a r s as a m e m b e r of D i z z y G i l l e s p i e ' s last big b a n d a c c o m p a n y i n g t h e m o n t h e i r t o u r s of the Middle East, South America and t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s . While s e r v i n g as t r o m b o n i s t in t h e R a d i o City Music Hall O r c h e s t r a h e f o r m e d his o w n j a z z o c t e t w h i c h n o w h a s f o u r highly a c c l a i m e d r e c o r d a l b u m s of his c o m p o s i t i o n s a n d a r r a n g e m e n t s t o its c r e d i t . His RCA Victor album " I n s i g h t " was s e l e c t e d as o n e of t h e t o p ten j a z z a l b u m s of 1 9 6 5 by t h e N e w Y o r k Times. L E V I T T IS AN e x p o n e n t of " h a p p y j a z z . " His sense of h u m o r and p l a y f u l spirit c o m e t h r o u g h loud and clear in b o t h his t r o m b o n e playing and c o m p o s i t i o n s . His " H o l l e r f o r H o p e " w a s c o m p o s e d especially f o r t h e H o p e College B a n d . " H o l l e r " r e f e r s t o calls s h o u t e d b e t w e e n field w o r k e r s a n d s u n g by b l u e s singers. T h e field h o l l e r l e n d s itself to L e v i t t ' s s t y l e a n d has p r o v i d e d h i m w i t h i n s p i r a t i o n

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Housing changes ruled out b y Bob R o o s T h e - D e a n of S t u d e n t ' s O f f i c e has d e c i d e d that c a m p u s h o u s i n g for the 1971-72 academic year will s h o w n o m a j o r c h a n g e s f r o m this y e a r . MICHAEL Gerrie, associate d e a n of s t u d e n t s , n a m e d t w o primary reasons for the decision. He said t h a t t h e a d m i n i s t r a t i o n feels it n e e d s " a c o n s i d e r a b l y b r o a d e r a m o u n t of f e e d b a c k f r o m s t u d e n t s o n t h i n g s t h e y ' d like t o see in h o u s i n g " b e f o r e it g o e s a h e a d with substantial changes. Also, he i n d i c a t e d t h a t t h e f r a t e r n i t y s i t u a t i o n has r e s o l v e d itself; t h e f r a t h o u s e s n o w a p p e a r "likely to be fully o c c u p i e d , " so t h a t it w o n ' t be e x p e d i e n t t o c o n v e r t a n y of t h e m i n t o o r d i n a r y m e n ' s o r w o m e n ' s r e s i d e n c e halls. W H A T IS N E E D E D as a p r e condition for major housing c h a n g e s , G e r r i e e x p l a i n e d , is a " a n o v e r v i e w of t h e h o u s i n g s i t u a t i o n so w e c a n d e t e r m i n e w h i c h d i r e c t i o n w e w a n t t o go w i t h i t . " T o this e n d , h e said, t h e D e a n of S t u d e n t s Office plans to form a c o m m i t t e e , c o m p o s e d m a i n l y of students, t o provide input on the s u b j e c t of w h a t s t u d e n t s w a n t in housing. He w e n t o n t o say t h a t , d u r i n g t h e c o m i n g y e a r , e f f o r t s in t h e area of h o u s i n g will b e d i r e c t e d toward t h e i m p r o v e m e n t of existing f a c i l i t i e s .

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REGARDING HOUSING for f r e s h m a n m e n , G e r r i e said t h e s i t u a t i o n will r e m a i n s u b s t a n t i a l l y t h e s a m e , w i t h K o l l e n Hall still t h e m a j o r u n i t . He i n d i c a t e d , h o w ever, t h a t h e is " i n v e s t i g a t i n g e x -

man and Spanish houses may change. " F O R T H E S E h o u s e s t o remain language houses, we must have s o m e e v i d e n c e t h a t t h e y ' r e b e i n g used as s u c h , " he said. H e d e c l a r e d t h a t he has sent a m e s sage t o t h e h e a d s of t h e l a n g u a g e departments requesting a meeting ^to d i s c u s s t h e s i t u a t i o n . T h e rule c o n c e r n i n g o f f - c a m p u s h o u s i n g , w h i c h says t h a t o n l y s e n i o r s m a y live o f f - c a m p u s u n l e s s special p e r m i s s i o n is g r a n t e d , will r e m a i n in e f f e c t n e x t y e a r , G e r r i e said. H o w e v e r , he i n d i c a t e d t h a t t h e D e a n of S t u d e n t s O f f i c e will be l o o k i n g i n t o t h e p o s s i b i l i t y of HE WENT ON TO say t h a t a p r o v iding some on-campus housr e d u c t i o n of t h e c a p a c i t y of cering f o r m a r r i e d s t u d e n t s a n d m a k tain c o t t a g e s may f o r c e s o m e ing a v a i l a b l e a g r e a t e r n u m b e r of u p p e r c l a s s m e n t o live in K o l l e n single r o o m s . Hall. G e r r i e d o e s n ' t b e l i e v e t h e A S K E D ABOUT the possibility e f f b e t will be very great in t h a t of an early start f o r c o n s t r u c t i o n respect. of t h e n e w s c i e n c e c e n t e r , G e r r i e Regarding specific changes for said, " I t ' s very u n l i k e l y t o b e g i n s p e c i f i c c o t t a g e s , G e r r i e said t h a t b e f o r e h e b r u a r y of n e x t y e a r , a n d Gibson may a c c o m m o d a t e men p r o b a b l y n o t u n t i l even l a t e r . " n e x t y e a r , a n d Beck will p r o b a b l y T h e s c i e n c e c e n t e r will e v e n t u b e c o m e a w o m e n ' s u n i t . He also ally require the destruction or i n d i c a t e d t h a t t h e r e is a p o s s i b i l i t y r e m o v a l of several c o t t a g e s . t h a t t h e s t a t u s of t h e m e n ' s Ger-

tensive repairs a n d c h a n g e s f o r t h e lounge and the b a s e m e n t . " A l t h o u g h n o a l t e r a t i o n s in t h e d o r m u n i t s are a n t i c i p a t e d , he said t h a t s o m e m i n o r c h a n g e s in the c o t t a g e s e t u p are b e i n g c o n s i d ered. " S o m e cottages have undesirable p h y s i c a l a r r a n g e m e n t s a n d other problems - for example, walk-through bathrooms, not e n o u g h hot water and overloaded e l e c t r i c a l c i r c u i t s , " he s t a t e d . T o alleviate such p r o b l e m s t h e a d m i n i s t r a t i o n plans t o c u t b a c k t h e n u m b e r of s t u d e n t s living in s o m e of t h e c o t t a g e s , he said.

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College does not apply for drug program funds H o p e College has n o t a p p l i e d for federal funds to establish a drug education program on camp u s d u e t o lack of s t u d e n t i n t e r est, according t o A n d y A t w o o d , c o - d i r e c t o r of s t u d e n t a c t i v i t i e s . T h e college was n o t i f i e d of t h e a v a i l a b i l i t y of f u n d s in a l e t t e r f r o m t h e D e p a r t m e n t of H e a l t h , Education, and Welfare dated M a r c h 11. T h e f u n d s w e r e available under the Drug Abuse E d u c a t i o n A c t of 1 9 7 0 . T h e bill p r o v i d e d f i n a n c i n g f o r drug education programs initiated, designed, and directed by students. Any recognized student c a m p u s o r g a n i z a t i o n or t h e college itself w a s eligible t o s u b m i t

proposals for a program. The deadline for presenting a proposal was Friday. A t w o o d stated that no stud e n t s , f a c u l t y m e m b e r s or a d m i n i s t r a t o r s e x p r e s s e d a n y i n t e r e s t in p r o p o s i n g a p r o g r a m t o his o f f i c e . T h e availability of t h e f e d e r a l f u n d s was a n n o u n c e d in an a r t i c l e p u b l i s h e d in the anchor M a r c h 2 9 . T h e lack of s u p p o r t s e e m s t o s h o w t h a t d r u g s are " n o t a big enough problem to enough stud e n t s , " A t w o o d s a i d . He a d d e d t h a t he h a d sent n o t e s t o R o b e r t D e Y o u n g , d e a n of s t u d e n t s , a n d Michael G e r r i e , a s s o c i a t e d e a n of students, concerning the drug program, but scheduling difficulties prevented meeting with the deans.

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H o p e College anchor

Reviewing the review The question of w h o should review t h e policies of Hope College was brought u p again at Thursday's open hearing on t h e proposal to replace f a c u l t y review by a c o m m u n i t y assembly. A t issue in the discussion was the very v al i di ty of the review capabilities of any campus member. It was p o i n t e d o u t t h a t review by the f a c u l t y invalidated t h e t h e o r y of c o m m u n i t y government under w h i c h the campus f u n c t i o n s . Faculty review negates the shared responsibilities inherent in that government. F u r t h e r m o r e , review by the proposed c o m m u n i t y assembly w o u l d not eliminate the potential for members of boards and committees t o review their o w n policies.

The assembly, made up of members of t h e boards and committees, w o u l d have t h e power to review policies w h i c h those members had just passed in their respective board and c o m m i t t e e seats. U l t i m a t e l y the discussion brought t o light the fact that all campus policy is finally determined by the Board o f Trustees, so that any review action taken is only a limited action subject to approval by the Trustees. The Faculty Handbook of Hope College states: "Since each member of the College c o m m u n i t y - students, f a c u l t y , administration, a l u m n i , trustees, and the church c o n s t i t u e n c y - has special insight and abilities that are valuable and necessary t o the attaining of this ideal, (i.e. a real c o m m u n i t y of scholars), it is desirable t h a t each member of the c o m m u n i t y accept a share in the f o r m a t i o n of some of t h e policies and the a d m i n i s t r a t i o n of some o f the College programs." Clearly this ideal is being prostituted b y the conventions of f a c u l t y review, com-

m u n i t y assembly review and Trustee veto power. The present hierarchal structure o f the Hope College " c o m m u n i t y " government simply does n o t allow all segments of the college t o become m e a n i n g f u l l y involved in p o l i c y decisions. O n the surface, the c o m m u n i t y assembly w i l l account for a broader involvement by a more representative segment of the campus in p o l i c y decisions. Y e t in no w a y will the i m p l e m e n t a t i o n of review by the c o m m u n i t y assembly eliminate t h e discrepancies between the ideal of c o m m u n i t y government and t h e actual w o r k i n g s of that government. The c o m m u n i t y government of Hope College w i l l c o n t i n u e t o f u n c t i o n as a hierarchal system. A c t i o n t a k e n by the boards w i l l be subject t o a review w h i c h in turn w i l l be subject to a Trustees' veto.

This review policy reflects the benefits sought by t h e supporters of t h e c o m m u n ity assembly without the drawbacks inherent in t h a t proposal. F u r t h e r m o r e , this review p o l i c y guarantees that the college's p o l i c y - m a k i n g boards do genuinely have p o l i c y - m a k i n g powers. A l l members of t h e college c o m m u n i t y w o u l d be represented, and all w o u l d share in " t h e f o r m a t i o n of some of the policies and the a d m i n i s t r a t i o n of some of t h e College programs."

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and h o l d o u t against t e m p t a t i o n all his life and never sin o n c e , o n l y t h e n c o u l d he b e p a r d o n e d a n d saved. Y e t , h o w m a n y p e o p l e h a v e o b e y e d all ten c o m m a n d m e n t s ? F o r t h e m o r e w e k n o w of G o d ' s laws, t h e c l e a r e r it b e c o m e s t h a t we a r e n ' t o b e y i n g t h e m ; His laws serve only t o m a k e us see t h a t w e are s i n n e r s . Y e t , C h r i s t i a n s are s a v e d . t 4 A n d r e m e m b e r t h a t if a n y o n e d o e s n ' t h a v e t h e Spirit of Christ living in h i m , he is n o t a C h r i s t i a n at all." "FOR IF YOU T E L L o t h e r s w i t h y o u r o w n m o u t h t h a t J e s u s C h r i s t is y o u r L o r d , and believe in y o u r o w n h e a r t t h a t G o d h a s raised H i m f r o m t h e d e a d , y o u will b e saved." " F o r G o d sent Christ J e s u s t o t a k e t h e p u n i s h m e n t f o r o u r sins a n d t o e n d all G o d ' s anger against us. H e used C h r i s t ' s b l o o d and o u r f a i t h as t h e m e a n s of saving us f r o m His w r a t h . In t h i s w a y He w a s being e n t i r e l y fair, even t h o u g h He did n o t p u n i s h t h o s e w h o s i n n e d in f o r m e r t i m e s . F o r h e was l o o k i n g f o r w a r d t o t h e t i m e w h e n Christ w o u l d c o m e a n d t a k e a w a y those sins." FOR T H O S E WHO d o n o t believe in C h r i s t , h o w can t h e y ever b e saved? f o r all have s i n n e d . A n d Isaiah says in a n o t h e r place t h a t e x c e p t f o r G o d ' s m e r c y all t h e J e w s w o u l d be d e s t r o y e d - all of t h e m . But t h e J e w s , w h o tried so h a r d t o get r i g h t with G o d b y k e e p i n g His laws, n e v e r s u c c e e d e d . Why n o t ? B e c a u s e t h e y w e r e t r y i n g t o be saved by k e e p i n g the law a n d being g o o d instead of b y d e p e n d i n g o n faith. T h e y have stumbled over the great s t u m b l i n g s t o n e . G o d w a r n e d t h e m of t h i s in t h e S c r i p t u r e s w h e n H e s a i d , " I have p u t a r o c k in t h e p a t h of t h e J e w s , and m a n y will s t u m b l e over H i m ( J e s u s ) . T h o s e w h o

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believe in l l i m will never be d i s a p p o i n t e d . " 1 a m n o t s a y i n g t h a t C h r i s t i a n s are t h e " c h o s e n " p e o p l e (we are not c h o s e n , we c h o s e ) b u t 1 a m saying t h a t all o t h e r s are d a m n e d . T h e y have sinned y e t their sins are n o t f o r g i v e n . We have s i n n e d , b u t J e s u s Christ in His k i n d n e s s freely t a k e s a w a y our sins. Praise t h e L o r d ! Linda Rosekrans

An Army answer 1 read w i t h great interest y o u r a r t i c l e concerning Louis Schakel's conflict with the U n i t e d S t a t e s , in p a r t i c u l a r the U.S. A r m y . Eleven m o n t h s ago I w a s i n d u c t e d i n t o t h e service of my c o u n t r y , against m y will, as a result of b e i n g p o l i t e l y asked t o leave H o p e College f o r failing t o c o n f o r m to t h e r e q u i r e m e n t t h a t 1 a t t e n d c h a p e l services. As it t u r n s o u t , being d r a f t e d w a s p r o b a b l y o n e of the best t h i n g s t h a t ever h a p p e n e d to me. 1 t o o was h e s i t a n t a b o u t t h e possibility of h a v i n g t o kill a n o t h e r h u m a n being, b u t 1 s t e p p e d f o r w a r d a n y w a y . Eight w e e k s of basic t r a i n i n g r e m o v e d any d o u b t s t h a t 1 may have h a d . N o w as 1 l o o k b a c k , m y l e a r n i n g to kill b e c o m e s c o m p a r a b l e t o t h o s e m a n y l o n g a f t e r n o o n f o o t b a l l practices d u r i n g w h i c h 1 c o n t i n u a l l y a s s a u l t e d a n o t h e r h u m a n b e i n g in an a t t e m p t t o win t h a t s t a r t i n g b e r t h . We learned h o w t o h u r t p e o p l e and a c c e p t being h u r t ourselves. It all b e c a m e p a r t of t h e g a m e . T h e A r m y is no d i f f e r e n t , i t ' s o n l y e x e c u t e d o n a larger scale. O n c e 1 decided to accept the fact that 1 was a p a r t of t h e A r m y , and w o u l d be f o r the c o m i n g t w o y e a r s , a l i t t l e m o t t o , " t h e A r m y t a k e s care of its o w n , " began t o apply to me. Q u i t e c o n t r a r y to p u b l i c o p i n i o n , t h e Army is n o t t h e stifling e x p e r i e n c e e v e r y o n e b e l i e v e s it t o be. In t h e past m o n t h s 1 h a v e g r o w n m o r e as a h u m a n being t h a n I e v e r i m a g i n e d p o s s i b l e . N e w ideas are c o n s t a n t l y i n t e r s e c t i n g with my life, f o r a c c e p t a n c e o r r e j e c t i o n , w h i c h e v e r 1 feel t h e y deserve. 1 have m o r e f r e e d o m of t h o u g h t t h a n 1 ever had as a s t u d e n t at H o p e College and h a v e b e e n able to use it t o e x p a n d my o w n ideals a n d beliefs. 1 c a n n o t c o n d e m n or c o n d o n e t h e d e c i s i o n t h a t L o u i s m a d e , only r e f l e c t w h a t has h a p p e n e d t o m e since I had t o m a k e t h e same d e c i s i o n . I have c o m e alive w i t h n e w goals a n d n e w d i r e c t i o n s , and m o s t of all, with new h o p e for the future. SP4 Charles DeJonge

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The question of review c o u l d be settled w i t h i n the present governmental structure of the college. The actions of a board could be subjected t o the review of t h e other t w o boards, thereby eliminating t h e potential overlap inherent in the c o m m u n i t y government proposal. A board member w o u l d n o t be forced to review a policy w h i c h his o w n board has made, and neither w o u l d the right of review be restricted t o a single member of t h e c o m m u n i t y , such as the f a c u l t y . Review could be called for by a 20 per-cent f a c u l t y , student or j o i n t f a c u l t y / student action.

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J e s u s Christ is o u r S a v i o r ; C h r i s t i a n f a i t h is right and ail o t h e r religious beliefs are wrong. What a h a r s h s t a t e m e n t - y e t 1 am a C h r i s t i a n a n d I d o believe it. IN T H E B E G I N N I N G , t h e r e was G o d . If you d o n ' t believe in G o d , t h e first e o m m a n d m e n t is b r o k e n and y o u have s i n n e d . H o w e v e r , o b e y i n g t h e first c o m m a n d m e n t is n o t e n o u g h ; t h e r e are n i n e l e f t , all of w h i c h are t o be o b e y e d . F o r Moses w r o t e t h a t it" a p e r s o n e o u l d be p e r f e c t l y g o o d

War league by Art B u c h w a l d It h a d t o c o m e s o o n e r o r l a t e r . A g r o u p of solid c i t i z e n s h a s o r g a n i z e d t h e War A n t i d e f a m a t i o n L e a g u e . T h e p r e s i d e n t of t h e league, C. B e n n e t t N e y p a l m , t o l d m e , " E v e r y o n e is bad m o u t h i n g war j u s t b e cause of V i e t n a m . T h e r e is n o r e a s o n t o b e against all w a r s j u s t b e c a u s e V i e t n a m gave war a b a d n a m e . " " W h o is r e s p o n s i b l e f o r t h i s ? " I a s k e d . "THE N E W S P A P E R S A N D t h e television n e t w o r k s . T h e y o n l y tell y o u t h e b a d t h i n g s t h a t h a v e t a k e n place in t h e V i e t n a m e s e w a r . All t h e y ever talk a b o u t is c a s u a l t y figures, b o d y c o u n t s , m a s s a c r e s , war c r i m e s , b o m b i n g a n d P X s c a n d a l s . N o w o n d e r m o s t p e o p l e have t u r n e d off o n war." " H o w d o e s t h e league p r o p o s e t o c o m bat this i n s i d i o u s c a m p a i g n ? " " W e ' r e going t o p o i n t o u t t h a t p e o p l e s h o u l d n ' t b l a m e all w a r s b e c a u s e of w h a t t h e y ' v e read a b o u t V i e t n a m . T h e r e are g o o d wars a n d bad w a r s . J u s t b e c a u s e t h i s o n e w e n t s o u r is n o r e a s o n f o r p e o p l e t o say 'We d o n ' t w a n t a n y m o r e w a r . ' " "1 imagine y o u will p i c k e t , t o o ? " I s a i d . "WE'RE GOING TO GO f u r t h e r t h a n t h a t . We're going t o pay visits t o e d i t o r s ' o f f i c e s and n e t w o r k p r o d u c e r s , a n d w e ' r e g o i n g t o get t h e m t o s t o p m e n t i o n i n g t h e V i e t n a m e s e war a l t o g e t h e r . " " W h a t if t h e y r e f u s e t o d o i t ? " " W e ' l l j u s t tell t h e m w e k n o w w h e r e t h e i r kids go t o s c h o o l . " " Y o u g u y s play r o u g h , " I said. " T H A T ISN'T A L L WE'RE going t o d o . If a n y p e o p l e plan t o p r o d u c e a m o v i e a b o u t the Vietnamese war, we're going t o m a k e t h e m sign a p a c t s a y i n g t h e y w o n ' t

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m e n t i o n t h e w o r d ' V i e t n a m ' in t h e p i c t u r e . " W e also are g o i n g t o h a v e script approval t o m a k e s u r e t h a t t h e r e is n o t h i n g in t h e film t h a t m i g h t o f f e n d p e o p l e w h o m a k e t h e i r living f r o m w a r . A n d w e ' r e going t o d e m a n d t h a t all p r o c e e d s f r o m t h e p r e m i e r e of t h e f i l m go t o t h e MilitaryI n d u s t r i a l C o m p l e x Ulcer F o u n d a t i o n . " " D o y o u believe t h e m o v i e c o m p a n i e s will give in t o y o u r d e m a n d s ? " " T h e y b e t t e r , o r w e ' l l t h r o w t e a r gas in J o h n Wayne's dressing r o o m . " " Y o u p e o p l e are really u p t i g h t . " "WHY S H O U L D ' T WE BE? E v e r y w h e r e y o u go, y o u h e a r p e o p l e k n o c k i n g w a r . T h e y b l a m e w a r f o r u n e m p l o y m e n t , high prices, b a d h o u s i n g , c r i m e a n d t h e g e n e r a tion gap. S o m e b o d y ' s g o t t o s t a n d up a n d say ' y o u ' v e g o n e far e n o u g h . ' T h e n e x t t i m e y o u s t a r t k n o c k i n g w a r , we'll p u t a land m i n e in y o u r rose b u s h e s . " "That should make people think twice," 1 said. "ALL THE WAR Antidefamation L e a g u e is t r y i n g t o d o , " said N e y p a l m , "is t o k e e p p e o p l e f r o m p u t t i n g all w a r s in t h e s a m e bag. E a c h w a r s h o u l d b e j u d g e d o n its o w n m e r i t s . A m e r i c a has h a d s o m e g r e a t wars in t h e p a s t . T h e r e w a s t h e War of 1 8 1 2 , t h e Civil War, t h e S p a n i s h - A m e r i c a n War, t h e M e x i c a n War a n d World War I. N o w t h o s e w e r e w a r s t h a t w e c o u l d all be p r o u d o f . J u s t b e c a u s e t h e V i e t n a m e s e war d i d n ' t t u r n o u t t h e w a y we all d r e a m e d it w o u l d d o e s n ' t m e a n w a r is n o t g o o d . " " W h a t d o e s it m e a n ? " " I t m e a n s t h e n e x t t i m e w e have a w a r , everyone has to try h a r d e r . " C o p y r i g h t 1 9 7 1 , Los Angeles T i m e s

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e. e. cummings: the honest confrontation of life Editor's n o t e : T h i s w e e k ' s anchor review is w r i t t e n by c r i t i q u e s e d i t o r Kay Hubbard. She reviews Selected Letters of E. E. Cummings, edited by F. W. D u p e e and George Stade. (Harcourt, Bruce & World, $ 8 . 9 5 ) . E. E. C u m ^ l i n g s , l e t t e r s reveal a p r o f o u n d l y intelligent, sensitive man struggling with the disappointments and celebrating the possibilities of life. He c o r r e s p o n d e d w i t h s o m e of t h e m o s t e x c i t i n g p e o p l e of his l i f e t i m e i n c l u d i n g M a r i a n n e M o o r e , William C a r l o s Williams, A r c h i b a l d MacLeish and Ezra P o u n d . But some of his m o s t i n t e r e s t i n g l e t t e r s are t o s t r a n g e r s . PEOPLE W E R E a l w a y s w r i t i n g to Cummings asking him to i n t e r p r e t his o w n p o e m s . T o o n e correspondent w h o asked him to interpret "chas sing," Cummings replies, " w h a t a p i t y I ' m n o t a 'critic', w h o can 'explain' the p o e m s which puzzle y o u . " He t h e n goes o n t o talk a b o u t t h e i m a g e s in t h e p o e m , b e i n g c a r e f u l t o e x p l a i n t h i n g s in t h e m o s t e l e m e n t a r y of t e r m s . T h e t o n e of t h e l e t t e r is g e n t l e , a n d C u m m i n g s ends by chiding himself for p r e s u m i n g t o be s u p e r i o r . Many other l e t t e r s are in response to requests for Cumm i n g s ' critical o p i n i o n of m a n u s c r i p t s and f o r s u g g e s t i o n s o n h o w o n e learns t o w r i t e p o e t r y . Bec a u s e C u m m i n g s b r o k e so m a n y literary c o n v e n t i o n s , strangers often t h o u g h t t h a t h e c a r e d little f o r respectable g r a m m a r and s y n t a x . T o one such person C u m m i n g s suggests, " w h y n o t learn t o w r i t e E n g l i s h ? I t ' s o n e of t h e m o s t b e a u t i f u l l a n g u a g e s . .. . t r y i n g t o write poetry b e f o r e y o u ' v e learned all t h e r e is t o learn a b o u t w r i t i n g is like t a c k l i n g t h e i n t e g r a l calculus without understanding arithmetic. "IT'S E V E N MORE like t r y i n g to build yourself a house f r o m the

r i d g e p o l e d o w n ; i n s t e a d of l a y i n g the f o u n d a t i o n s f i r s t a n d t h e n erecting a structure on them, s t o r y b y s t o r y . . . t h e r e m u s t be s o m e o n e at y o u r c o l l e g e w h o t e a c h e s English C o m p o s i t i o n . If y o u t a k e t h i s l e t t e r t o h i m , he'll be glad ( I ' m s u r e ) t o h e l p y o u . " O n e series of l e t t e r s , w r i t t e n t o his p a r e n t s , tell of his e x p e r i e n c e s in World War I. C u m m i n g s ' describes the Atlantic crossing, a m b u l a n c e d u t y a n d his g r o w i n g d i s i l l u s i o n m e n t w i t h w a r . H e refers t o " t h e A m e r i c a n s - w h o are the m o s t a b h o r r e n t h u m a n tripe ever spilled f r o m t h e s w i l l c a n . " T h e d a y s s p e n t in a F r e n c h c o n c e n t r a t i o n c a m p on u n f o u n d ed c h a r g e s are h a r d l y m e n t i o n e d at all. T h e l e t t e r s t o his m o t h e r are f u l l of h o p e e v e n t h o u g h h e sees t h e d e s p a i r all a r o u n d h i m , r e a s s u r i n g h e r t h a t his c a p t o r s c a n n o t and will n o t d e s t r o y h i m .

...trying to write poetry before you Ve learned all there is about writing is like tackling the integral calculus without understanding arithmetic.

saying, " Y o u have (unlike m a n y l e a r n e d ' c r i t i c s ' of this o b l o q u y flattery u n w o r l d ) a gift: appreciat i o n . Y o u feel a n d y o u e x p r e s s y o u r feeling. T h a t ' s m i r a c u l o u s . " T h e last l e t t e r t o Miss M o o r e in t h e v o l u m e is t e n d e r and h o n e s t l y a p p r e c i a t i v e in a very p e r s o n a l way. MANY OTHER relationships are t r a c e d t h r o u g h t h e l e t t e r s . Perhaps the correspondence with E z r a P o u n d is t h e m o s t i n t e r e s ting. T h e t w o p o e t s had a r u n n i n g game. The letters from Cummings are o b s c u r e , s a t i r i c a l , t e a s i n g a n d f u n n y . O n e of P o u n d ' s r e s p o n s e s would give comfort to any s t u d e n t troubled by the difficulty in u n d e r s t a n d i n g his w r i t i n g : " s o my letter's obscure? Tiens. Can't c o m p a r e w i t h y o u r last, I imag i n e . " A v o l u m e of b o t h sides of the correspondence would be interesting.

THE L E T T E R S t o his f a t h e r are less t e n d e r ; t h e t o n e is m o r e o n e of r e p o r t i n g t h a n r e f l e c t i n g . But even his r e p o r t i n g s h o w s g r e a t sensitivity t o t h e b r u t a l i z i n g eff e c t s of w a r . " T h i s is a p e r f e c t l y p a t r i o t i c c o m m u n i t y . Little children m o u t h the blood-thirstilyi n s p i r i n g w o r d s of ' o v e r t h e r e , over t h e r e ' s o w h a t are y o u d o i n g t o w i n t h e w a r ' e t c ad infin-. M o o v i e s [sic] s h o w reels w h e r e ex-soldiers about-to-committ r a i t e r y are s o m o v e d b y t h e patriotic appeal of b a b i e s in nightgowns that they weep bitter tears-and go out to kill Mexicans!" A f t e r C u m m i n g s returned to A m e r i c a h e b e g a n his c o r r e s p o n d e n c e w i t h s o m e of t h e m o s t e x c i t i n g l i t e r a r y f i g u r e s of his time. The letters t o Marianne M o o r e reveal a g r o w i n g m u t u a l r e s p e c t a n d a f f e c t i o n . T h e first l e t t e r in t h e series is an a l m o s t i m p e r s o n a l o f f e r t o w r i t e a piece for her a b o u t theater. Later C u m m i n g s c o m p l i m e n t s h e r by

T h e r e c e n t single " W o o d s t o c k " f r o m t h e L P Later That Same Year b y M a t t h e w s S o u t h e r n C o m f o r t is a g o o d r e p r e s e n t a t i o n of t h e s t y l e t h r o u g h o u t t h e a l b u m . It is a s t y l e w h i c h h a s its r o o t s s o m e w h e r e in c o u n t r y , f o l k o r even bluegrass music, but is a d a p t e d to m o r e p o p u l a r tastes. Having a mild passion for c o u n try and bluegrass music I particularly e n j o y t h e s o u n d of t h i s group. I'm surprised that a British g r o u p p i c k e d u p a s o u n d I've always considered to be purely American. P r o o f of t h e c o u n t r y f l a v o r is in t h e i n s t r u m e n t s u s e d : f o l k ins t e a d of e l e c t r i c g u i t a r s ; steel guit a r ; a n d even a b a n j o lead in t h e c u t " M a r e , T a k e Me H o m e . " M a n y of t h e o t h e r c u t s are e n h a n c e d by a liberal use of v i b e s , as in t h e s o n g " S i l v i e , " w h i c h also p o i n t s o u t t h e s o f t , f o l k q u a l i t y of t h e vocals. T h e h a r m o n i z a t i o n might be c o m p a r e d t o t h a t of C r o s b y , Stills, N a s h a n d Y o u n g . It w o r k s in M a t t h e w s S o u t h e r n C o m f o r t ' s music to successfully convey a free, relaxing a t m o s p h e r e .

C U M M I N G S SAW himself in a p o s i t i o n of g r e a t a m b i g u i t y . H o w ever, his p e r s o n a l s t r u g g l e s t o c o m e t o grips w i t h t h e p a r a d o x e s of m o d e r n life are n o t tragic. He d o e s n o t ask f o r p i t y . O n e is moved to admire the man who could write: "it's good to hear y o u ' v e o u t g r o w n y o u r 'great dep r e s s i o n s . ' I've t h e very g r e a t h o n o u r • to inform you that y o u ' r e w a y a h e a d of m e ! . . .conc e r n i n g u n c e r t a i n i t y (alias insecurity or whatever most people f e a r ) I r a t h e r i m a g i n e t h a t insof a r a s an artist is w o r t h his

s p i r i t u a l salt h e can never get enough. O n l y w h e n C o l u m b u s is in t h e m i d d l e of n o w h e r e d o t h e m e m bers of his c r e w invariably ( & , f r o m m y v i e w p o i n t , r i g h t l y ! ) stage a m u t i n y and t h r e a t e n himself w i t h at least s e v e n t e e n k i n d s of s u p e r d e a t h . . . b u t w h o ' d care t o not discover America by mistake?"

German diplomat will present talk Thurs. afternoon D r . J u r g e n K a l k b r e n n e r , cultural a t t a c h e of t h e G e r m a n e m b a s s y , will p r e s e n t a p u b l i c l e c t u r e on " C h a n c e l l o r B r a n d t a n d G e r many's Re-orientation Towards t h e E a s t " T h u r s d a y at 3 : 3 0 p . m . in G r a v e s 102. Kalkbrenner's appearance is b e i n g s p o n s o r e d by the G e r m a n H o n o r a r y F r a t e r n i t y , Delta Phi Alpha. The G e r m a n official holds a law d e g r e e f r o m t h e U n i v e r s i t y of Kiel, a n d s t u d i e d A m e r i c a n law at t h e U n i v e r s i t y of W a s h i n g t o n in Seattle before he entered the Germ a n f o r e i g n service in 1 9 5 5 . H e h a s served in East A f r i c a a n d T u r k e y , a n d in Brussels w i t h t h e G e r m a n s t a f f of t h e E u r o p e a n Economic Community.

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peeopd peview E d i t o r ' s N o t e ; T h i s week's W T A S record review is w r i t t e n by " P a r k B e n c h . " He reviews Later That Same Year b y Matthews S o u t h e r n C o m f o r t on Decca Records.

B e c a u s e t h e l e t t e r s are a r r a n g e d c h r o n o l o g i c a l l y , it is o f t e n difficult for the reader t o u n d e r s t a n d t h e d e v e l o p m e n t of v a r i o u s relationships; but the arrangement has t h e a d v a n t a g e of s h o w i n g t h e g r o w t h a n d d e v e l o p m e n t of C u m m i n g s ' ideas. T H E BOOK A L S O i n c l u d e s p i c t u r e s of C u m m i n g s a n d s o m e of his c o r r e s p o n d e n t s , b u t t h e m o s t f a s c i n a t i n g p i c t u r e s are t h o s e of C u m m i n g s ' drawings and manus c r i p t s . T h e visual i n t e r p r e t a t i o n of his o w n p o e t r y f o r m s an i n t e r e s t i n g side-light t o t h e l e t t e r s . T h e l e t t e r s reveal C u m m i n g s as a m a n w h o c o u l d c e l e b r a t e his h u m a n l i m i t a t i o n s a n d fears. C u m m i n g s gave s o m e t h i n g of himself in his l e t t e r s , a n d t h e p e r s o n a l w a r m t h of t h e b o o k m a k e s it t o u c h i n g if n o t i m p e l l i n g r e a d i n g .

Instrumental breaks notably r o u n d o u t a w e l l - h a n d l e d triple balance with the lead vocals and h a r m o n i z a t i o n . " W o o d s t o c k " has o n e of t h e s e b r e a k s , a n d several m o r e are s t r a t e g i c a l l y p l a c e d w i t h in t h e r e c o r d . T h e t r a n s i t i o n i n t o t h e m is in n o w a y a w k w a r d , r a t h e r it a d d s a f e e l i n g of d r i f t i n g

It is n o t n e w s t h a t t h e f o r e i g n l a n g u a g e r e q u i r e m e n t is t h e req u i r e m e n t H o p e s t u d e n t s have the m o s t c o n t e m p t f o r . N e i t h e r is it n e w s t h a t H o p e is n o t u n i q u e among liberal arts colleges t h r o u g h o u t t h e n a t i o n . T h e result is t h a t at H o p e as well as at m a n y o t h e r colleges a n d u n i v e r s i t i e s t h e r e is a m o v e m e n t t o e l i m i n a t e the foreign language requirement f r o m t h e liberal a r t s d e g r e e p r o gram. IT IS I N T E R E S T I N G t o n o t e that not only students favor the e l i m i n a t i o n of t h e f o r e i g n language r e q u i r e m e n t . M a n y e d u c a t o r s feel t h a t it is n e i t h e r n e c e s s a r y n o r d e s i r a b l e t h a t t o d a y ' s s t u d e n t s fulfill t h e s a m e r e q u i r e m e n t s t h e y did y e s t e r d a y f o r t h e s a m e degrees. F o r m a n y of t h o s e e d u c a tors the foreign language requirem e n t is high o n t h e list of d i s p e n a b l e c o m p o n e n t s of t h e liberal degree. I w o u l d like t o t a k e issue w i t h those desiring t o eliminate the foreign requirement on two points.

along with the song rather than just l i s t e n i n g . N a m e d a f t e r t h e lead singer, Ian M a t t h e w s , M a t t h e w s S o u t h e r n C o m f o r t is a m a g n i f i c e n t l y a p r o p o s title f o r t h e g r o u p t h a t ' c r e a t e d this a l b u m . It has a t a s t e fully applied s o u t h e r n flavor, and t h e c o m f o r t i n g s o u n d w o u l d be e n j o y a b l e as t h e last t h i n g h e a r d b e f o r e falling a s l e e p .

F i r s t , t h e p r o c e s s of l e a r n i n g a l a n g u a g e is i n t r i c a t e and m y s t i f y ing. N o o t h e r p r o c e s s c o m e s b o t h so n a t u r a l l y w h e n w e are l e a r n i n g our native language and with such d i f f i c u l t y w h e n w e are l e a r n i n g a f o r e i g n l a n g u a g e . T h i s fact d e m o n strates h o w f u n d a m e n t a l language is t o t h e t h o u g h t p r o c e s s . L a n g u age n o t o n l y d e t e r m i n e s h o w w e t h i n k , b u t to a c e r t a i n e x t e n t w h a t we t h i n k . ANYONE undertaking to c o m p l e t e a BA d e g r e e will b e required to d o scholarly work

b o t h in p u r s u i t of t h e d e g r e e a n d l a t e r in g r a d u a t e s t u d y , p r o f e s sional t r a i n i n g o r a c a r e e r . In order to do scholarly work one m u s t h a v e t o t a l c o m m a n d of his native language. F o r most H o p e s t u d e n t s English will b e t h e prim a r y m o d e of e x p r e s s i o n of t h e i r thoughts, research, discoveries, contracts, convictions, propositions, etc. H o w c a n o n e h o p e t o d o scholarly w o r k in t h e English l a n g u a g e w i t h o u t t o t a l c o m m a n d of t h e English l a n g u a g e , w i t h o u t a c o m p l e t e u n d e r s t a n d i n g of t h a t language? A n d h o w is u n d e r s t a n d i n g possible without contrast and c o m p a r i s o n ? We u n d e r s t a n d light b e c a u s e of d a r k n e s s , p l e a s u r e bec a u s e of p a i n , fast b e c a u s e of s l o w , w e a k b e c a u s e of s t r o n g . H o w c a n o n e u n d e r s t a n d English and h o w t h o u g h t s are f o r m e d , i n d e e d , h o w t h e w o r l d is t r a n s f o r m e d by that language, unless o n e c o m p a r e s it w i t h t h e t h o u g h t s a n d visions d e t e r m i n e d b y a n o t h e r language? N O O N E WITH A BA is expected to k n o w everything. An u n d e r s t a n d i n g of t h e n a t u r e a n d f u n c t i o n of l a n g u a g e , h o w e v e r , is so f u n d a m e n t a l t o t h e e d u c a t i o n a l process and to the c o m m u n i c a t i o n skills e x p e c t e d of t h e liberally educated person, that eliminating the foreign language requirement is c u t t i n g a w a y p a r t of t h e h e a r t of t h e liberal d e g r e e p r o g r a m . Secondly, the movement to e l i m i n a t e t h e f o r e i g n l a n g u a g e req u i r e m e n t is j u s t o n e f o r m of t h e anti-intellectualism rampant in

modern education. Relevance and u t i l i t y are t h e o n l y c r i t e r i a t h e a n t i - i n t e l l e c t u a l s w o u l d use t o j u d g e t h e v a l u e of a n y c o u r s e , r e q u i r e m e n t or degree program. T h e goal is t o l i b e r a t e t h e s t u d e n t f r o m all ties w i t h t h e l o n g ago a n d far a w a y so h e c a n deal w i t h t h e p r o b l e m s of h e r e a n d n o w . IT IS S T R A N G E t h a t t h e antiintellectuals should t u r n their s c o r n on liberal e d u c a t i o n , since liberal e d u c a t i o n is t h e o n l y e d u c a t i o n r e l e v a n t t o all of m a n ' s problems here and now, long ago and far a w a y , a n d in t h e f u t u r e . T h e goal of liberal e d u c a t i o n is that there be no problem to which the liberally educated person c o u l d n o t i n t e l l i g e n t l y a d d r e s s his concern. In o r d e r f o r liberal e d u c a t i o n t o r e a c h this goal t h e s t u d e n t a n d e d u c a t o r m u s t b e willing t o s u b mit t o t h e s t r i c t e s t d i s c i p l i n e . T h e y must not submit to the current fad, n o m a t t e r how app e a l i n g t h a t f a d m a y b e . Liberal e d u c a t i o n has s t o o d t h e c r u c i a l test of t i m e a n d t o s u b m i t t o current assaults on the relevancy of liberal e d u c a t i o n w o u l d b e t o a d m i t o u r lack of c o n v i c t i o n a n d c o u r a g e to a c h i e v e t h e p r o v e n goals of liberal e d u c a t i o n . O N E WHO C H O O S E S liberal e d u c a t i o n c h o o s e s n o easy t a s k . He c h o o s e s t o go b e y o n d specialization, b e y o n d provinciality, bey o n d i m m e d i a c y . T h e p r o p e r res p o n s e t o t h e c u r r e n t t r e n d is n o t r e t r e a t t o t h e s e c u r i t y of i n s t a n t popularity, but disciplined pursuit of t h e lasting v a l u e of liberal education.

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The New Opium. War: the Editor's Note: The following article has been made available to subscribers of College Press Service prior to its release nationally because of CPS's involvement in the story's inception. Michael Aldrich, Adam Bennion, Joan Medlin and Peter Scott assisted the authors. Sandwiched between the President's State of the World message, in which he announced an all-out campaign to halt the world's opium traffic, the Laotian invasion, and this spring's growing anti-war protests, the story is an explosive one. Senator George McGovern and Representative Ronald Dellums are both pressing for hearings in Congress on the U.S. government's complicity w i t h world opium trade, and details on these and other subsequent developments will follow in other stories. by Frank Browning and Banning Garrett ''Mr. President, t h e specter of heroin addiction is haunting nearly every c o m m u n i t y in this n a t i o n . " With these urgent words. S e n a t o r Vance H a r t k e s p o k e up on March 2 in s u p p o r t of a resolution on d r u g c o n t r o l being considered in t h e U.S. Senate. Estimating that there are 5 0 0 , 0 0 0 heroin addicts in the U.S., he p o i n t e d o u t t h a t nearly 20 per cent of t h e m are teenagers. T h e concern of H a r t k e and others is n o t misplaced. Heroin has b e c o m e the m a j o r killer of y o u n g people between 18 and 35, o u t p a c i n g death f r o m accidents, suicides or cancer. It has also b e c o m e a m a j o r cause of crime: to sustain their habits, addicts in the U.S. spend m o r e than $15 million a day, half of it coming f r o m t h e 55 per cent of crime in the cities which t h e y c o m m i t and the annual $2.5 billion w o r t h of goods t h e y steal. ONCE SAFELY isolated as part of t h e destructive funkiness of t h e black g h e t t o , heroin has suddenly spread o u t into Middle America, b e c o m i n g as much a part of suburbia as the S a t u r d a y barbecue. This has gained it t h e a t t e n t i o n it otherwise never w o u l d have had. President Nixon himself says it is spreading with " p a n d e m i c virulence." People are b e c o m i n g aware t h a t teenagers are s h o o t i n g up at lunchtime in schools and returning t o classrooms t o nod t h e day away. But w h a t t h e y d o n ' t k n o w - a n d w h a t no one is telling them—is that neither the volcanic e r u p t i o n of addiction in this c o u n t r y n o r the crimes it causes w o u l d be possible w i t h o u t t h e age-old international trade in o p i u m ( f r o m which heroin is derived), or that heroin a d d i c t i o n - l i k e inflation, u n e m p l o y m e n t , and most of the o t h e r chaotic forces in American society t o d a y - i s directly related to t h e U.S. war in I n d o c h i n a . THE CONNECTION b e t w e e n war and o p i u m in Asia is as old as e m p i r e itself. But t h e relationship has never been so s y m b i o t i c , so intricate in its n e t w o r k s and so vast in its implications. Never b e f o r e has the trail of tragedy been so clearly marked as in t h e present phase of U.S. involvem e n t in S o u t h e a s t Asia. For the international t r a f f i c in o p i u m has expanded in l o c k s t e p with t h e e x p a n d i n g U.S. military presence there, just as heroin has stalked the same y o u n g people in U.S. high schools w h o will also be called on t o fight t h a t war. T h e ironies t h a t have J

a c c o m p a n i e d the war in V i e t n a m since its onset are m o r e poignant than before. At the very m o m e n t that public officials are wringing their hands over the heroin problem, Washington's own Cold War crusade, replete with clandestine activities that would

seem far-fetched even in a spy novel, c o n t i n u e s t o play a m a j o r role in a process t h a t has already r e r o u t e d t h e o p i u m t r a f f i c f r o m the Middle East to S o u t h e a s t Asia and is every day opening new channels for its shipm e n t t o the U.S. At the same time the g o v e r n m e n t starts crash programs to rehabilitate drug users a m o n g its y o u n g people, the y o u n g soldiers it is sending t o V i e t n a m are getting h o o k e d and dying of overdoses at the rate of o n e a d a y . WHILE THE President is declaring war on narcotics and on crime in t h e streets, he is widening t h e war in Laos, whose principal p r o d u c t is o p i u m and which has n o w b e c o m e the f u n n e l for nearly half the world's supply of the narcotic, for which t h e U.S. is the chief c o n s u m e r . T h e r e would have been a bloodthirsty logic behind the expansion of the war into Laos if the t h r u s t had been to seize supply centers of o p i u m the c o m m u n i s t s were hoarding u p to spread like a deadly virus into the free world. But t h e communists did n o t control t h e o p i u m there: processing and d i s t r i b u t i o n were already in t h e hands of t h e free w o r l d . Who are t h e principals of this new o p i u m war? T h e u b i q u i t o u s CIA, w h o s e role in getting t h e U.S. into V i e t n a m is well k n o w n b u t w h o s e pivotal position in t h e o p i u m trade is n o t ; and a rogue's gallery of organizations and people—from an opium army subsidized by the Nationalist Chinese to such familiar names as M a d a m e Nhu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky—who are the creations of U.S. policy in t h a t part of the w o r l d . T h e story of o p i u m in S o u t h e a s t Asia is a strange one at every t u r n . But t h e conclusion is k n o w n in advance: this war has c o m e h o m e a g a i n - i n a silky grey p o w d e r t h a t goes f r o m a syringe into A m e r i c a ' s mainline. THE CIA POPPIES Most of t h e o p i u m in S o u t h e a s t Asia is grown in a region k n o w n as the " F e r t i l e Triangle," an area covering n o r t h w e s t e r n Burma, northern T h a i l a n d , and Laos. It is a m o u n t a i n o u s jungle inhabited by tigers, elephants, and some of the most p o i s o n o u s snakes in t h e w o r l d . T h e source of the o p i u m t h a t shares the area with these exotic animals is the p o p p y , and t h e main growers are the Meo hill tribespeople w h o inhabit t h e region. T h e Meo men c h o p back the forests in t h e w e t season so t h a t t h e crop can b e planted in August and S e p t e m b e r . POPPIES PRODUCE red, white or purple blossoms between January and March, and when the blossom withers, an egg-sized pod is left. The w o m e n harvest the crop and make a

small incision in t h e p o d with a three-bladed knife. T h e p o d e x u d e s a white latex-like s u b s t a n c e which is left to a c c u m u l a t e and t h i c k e n f o r a day or t w o . T h e n it is carefully gathered, boiled t o r e m o v e gross impurities, and t h e sticky substance is rolled i n t o balls weighing several p o u n d s . A fraction of t h e o p i u m remains t o be s m o k e d by the villagers, b u t m o s t is sold in n e a r b y rendezvous with t h e local smugglers. It is the Meos' only cash crop. T h e hill tribe growers can collect as m u c h as $50 per kilo, paid in gold, silver, various c o m m o d i t i e s , or local currency. T h e same kilo will bring $ 2 0 0 in Saigon and $ 2 0 0 0 in San Francisco. T h e r e are h u n d r e d s of r o u t e s , and certainly as m a n y m e t h o d s of transp o r t by which t h e smugglers ship o p i u m - s o m e of it already refined into h e r o i n - t h r o u g h and o u t of Southeast Asia. But t h e r e are three m a j o r n e t w o r k s . S o m e of t h e o p i u m f r o m Burma and n o r t h e r n Thailand moves into B a n g k o k , t h e n to Singapore and H o n g Kong, t h e n via military aircraft, either directly or through Taiwan to t h e United States. T h e second, and p r o b a b l y m a j o r , r o u t e is f r o m Burma or Laos t o Saigon or t o ocean d r o p s in t h e Gulf of Siam; t h e n it goes either t h r o u g h t h e Middle East and Marseille t o t h e U.S. or t h r o u g h H o n g Kong and Singapore t o t h e West Coast. A final r o u t e runs directly f r o m o u t p o s t s held by Nationalist Chinese t r o o p s in Thailand to Taiwan and t h e n t o t h e U.S. by a variety of means. ONE OF THE most successful of the o p i u m e n t r e p r e n e u r s w h o travel these routes, a Time r e p o r t e r w r o t e in 1967, is Chan Chi-foo, a halfChinese, half-Burmese m o d e r n - d a y warlord w h o might have stepped o u t of a Joseph Conrad a d v e n t u r e y a r n . Chan is a soft-spoken, mildm a n n e r e d m a n in his late thirties w h o , it is said, is totally ruthless. He has t r e m e n d o u s k n o w l e d g e of t h e geography and people of n o r t h western B u f m a and is said to move easily a m o n g them, conversing in several dialects. Yet he is also able to deal c o m f o r t a b l y with b a n k e r s and o t h e r businessmen w h o f i n a n c e his operations f r o m such centers as Bangkok and Vientiane. Under C h a n C h i - f o o ' s c o m m a n d are f r o m 1 0 0 0 - 2 0 0 0 wellarmed m e n , with t h e f e u d a l heirarchy spreading d o w n t o e n c o m p a s s a n o t h e r 3 0 0 0 hill t r i b e s m e n , porters, h u n t e r s and o p i u m growers w h o pay him fealty and w h o m he regards a b o u t t h e same as t h e m o r e t h a n 500 small mules he uses for t r a n s p o r t . MOVING THE opium from Burma to Thailand or Laos is a big and d a n g e r o u s o p e r a t i o n . O n e of C h a n ' s caravans, says o n e awe-struck observer, m a y stretch in single file for well over a mile and m a y include 2 0 0 mules, 2 0 0 porters, 2 0 0 cooks and camp a t t e n d a n t s , a n d a b o u t 4 0 0 armed guards. Such a caravan can easily carry 15 to 20 t o n s of o p i u m w o r t h nearly a million dollars w h e n delivered t o t h e s y n d i c a t e m e n in Laos or T h a i l a n d . To get his caravans to market, however, Chan must pay a price, for the crucial part of his route is heavily patrolled not by Thais or Laotians but by nomadic Nationalist Chinese

or K u o m i n g t a n g ( K M T ) t r o o p s . Still s u p p o r t e d b y t h e ruling KMT or T a i w a n , Generalissimo Chiang KaiS h e k ' s 93rd Division c o n t r o l s a m a j o r part of t h e o p i u m f l o w i n g o u t of B u r m a and T h a i l a n d . ROVING B A N D S of m e r c e n a r y b a n d i t s , t h e y fled t o n o r t h e r n B u r m a in 1 9 4 9 as C h i a n g ' s armies were being r o u t e d o n t h e Chinese mainland, and have m a i n t a i n e d t h e m selves since by b u y i n g o p i u m f r o m t h e n e a r b y M e o t r i b e s m e n which t h e y t h e n resell, or by exacting tribute payments from entrepreneurs

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andal of U.S. involvement complete: Carl Strock reported in the January 30 Far Eastern Economic Review, "Over the years eight journalists, including myself, have slipped into Long Cheng and have seen American crews loading T - 2 8 bombers while armed CIA agents chatted with uniformed Thai soldiers and piles of raw opium stood for sale in the market (a kilo for $52). It's old hat by now, b u t the U.S. embassy press attache and the director of USAID's training center was denied clearance to visit the mountain r e d o u b t . " The CIA not only protects the opium in Long Cheng and various other pick-up points, but also gives clearance and protection to opium-laden aircraft PEOPLES REPUBLIC flying out. OF CHINA FOR SOME TIME, the primary middle-men in the opium traffic had OTHERS IN THE Lao elite and been elements of the Corsican Mafia, government own refineries. There are identified in a 1966 United Nations NORTH VIETNAM cookers for heroin in Vientiane, two report as a pivotal organization in • HANOI blocks f r o m the King's residence; near the flow of narcotics. In a part of the Luang Prabang; on Khong Island in i Neua] world where transportation is a f the Mekong River on the Laomajor problem and where air transCambodian border; and one recently GULF OF TONKIN port is a solution, the Corsicans were JARS built by Kouprasith Abhay (head of able to parley their vintage World War the military region around Vientiane, II airplanes (called the " b u t t e r f l y but also f r o m the powerful Abhay f l e e t " or according to " P o p " Buell, In the summer of 1967 Chan family of Khong Island) at Phou U.S. citizen-at-large in the area, "Air Chi-foo set out f r o m Burma through Khao Khouai, just north of VienO p i u m " ) into a position of control. the KMT's territory with 300 men tiane. But as the Laotian civil war intensiand 200 packhorses carrying nine Other Lords of the Trade are fied in the period following 1963, it tons of opium, with no intention of Prince Boun O u m of Southern Laos, became increasingly difficult for the paying the usual fee of $ 8 0 , 0 0 0 [9 Khe and the Sananikone family, called Sanh Corsicans to operate, and the Meos protection m o n e y . But troops cut . Hue \% Savannakhet the "Rockefellers of Laos." Phoui started to have trouble getting their off the group near the Laotian village Da Nang^ Sananikone, the clan patriarch, of Ban Houei Sai in an ambush that crop out of the hills in safety. LAOS headed a U.S.-backed coup in 1959 The vacuum that was created was turned into a pitched battle. Neither and is presently President of the group, however, had c o u n t e d on the quickly filled by the Royal Lao Air • Paks« National Assembly. involvement of the kingpin of the Force, which began to use helicopters • Dak To TWO OTHER Sananikones are area's opium trade; the CIA-backed and planes donated by the U.S. not • Kontum deputies in the Assembly, two are Khong only for fighting the Pathet Lao, b u t Royal Lao G o v e r n m e n t Army and • Pleiku generals (one is Chief of Staff for also for flying opium out f r o m Air Force, under the c o m m a n d of Qui Nhon( \ Rathikoune), one is Minister of i r airstrips pockmarking the Laotian General Ouane R a t h i k o u n e . Public Works, and a host of others hills. This arrangement was more are to be found at lower levels of the politically advantageous than prior • CAMBODIA H E A R I N G OF T H E skirmish, the political, military and civil service Nha Trang ones, for it consolidated the interests general pulled his armed forces out structure. And the Sananikones' of all the anti-communist parties. The of the Plain of Jars in northeastern airline, Veha A k h a t , leases planes • PHNOM P E N H ^j T • SOUTH VIETNAM enfranchisement of the Lao elite Laos where they were supposed to and pilots f r o m Taiwan for paragave it more of an incentive to carry be fighting the Pathet Lao guerrillas, military operations which lend themon the war Dulles had committed and engaged t w o companies and his Saigon selves easily to commerce with the U.S. to back; the safe transport entire air force in a battle of opium-growing tribespeople. But the of the Meos' opium by an ideologiextermination against b o t h sides. TO HONG KONG opium trade is popular with the rest cally sanctioned network increased The result was nearly 30 KMT and of the elite, w h o rent RLG aircraft the incentive of these CIA-equipped Burmese dead and a half-ton windfall or create fly-by-night airlines (such and trained tribesmen to fight the of o p i u m for the Royal Lao as Laos Air Charter or Lao United Pathet Lao. T h e U.S. got parties t h a t Government. Prim* Opium Orowl Airlines) to d o their own direct would cooperate with its foreign Etovatlon Ov«r 2 0 0 0 FL In a m o m e n t of revealing frankOpium Trad* Root** dealing. policy not only for political reasons, ness shortly after the battle, General Control of the opium trade has but on more solid economic grounds. R a t h i k o u n e , far f r o m denying the not always been in the hands of the Opium was the economic cement role t h a t opium played, told several RAMPARTS / CPS Lao elite, although the U.S. has been binding all the parties together much backwater R&R for the weary KMT, reporters t h a t the o p i u m trade was at least peripherally involved in w h o more closely than anti-communism flying its helicopters f r o m hilltop to " n o t bad for Laos." The trade the beneficiaries were since John could. hilltop to pick up the Chinese (and provides cash incomc for the Meo Foster Dulles's f a m o u s 1954 comthe Establishment reporter w h o hill tribes, he argued, w h o would mitment to maintain an anti-comAS THIS relationship has maotherwise be penniless and t h e r e f o r e supplied this i n f o r m a t i o n ) f o r organmunist Laos. T h e major source of tured, Long Cheng has become a a threat to Laos' political stability. ized basketball t o u r n a m e n t s . opium in Laos has always been the major collection point for opium He also argued that the trade gives Meo growers, w h o were selected grown in Laos. CIA protege General Although the KMT t r o o p s are the Lao elite (which includes governby the CIA as its counterinsurgency Vang Pao, former officer for the o f t e n referred to as ' ' r e m n a n t s , " ment officials) a chance to accumubulwark against the Pathet Lao French colonial army and now head they are n o t just debris left behind late capital to ultimately invest in guerrillas. of the Meo counterinsurgents, uses by history. T h e y are in fact an legitimate enterprises, thus building his U.S.-supplied helicopters and THE MEOS' MOUNTAIN bastion important link in American and up Laos's e c o n o m y . But if these STOL (short-take-off-and-landing) is Long Cheng, a secret base 80 miles Taiwan policy toward C o m m u n i s t rationalizations seemed weak, far less aircraft to collect the opium f r o m northeast of Vientiane, built by the convincing was the general's asserChina. N o t only does Chiang Kaithe surrounding area. It is unloaded CIA during the 1962 Geneva AcShek maintain direct c o n t a c t with tion t h a t , since he is in total control and stored in hutches in Long Cheng. cords period. By 1964 Long Cheng's of the trade now, when the time his old 9 3 r d , b u t fresh recruits are Some of it is sold there and flown population was nearly 50,000, comcomes to p u t an end t o it he will frequently sent to maintain a t r o o p o u t in Royal Laotian Government prised largely or refugees w h o had level of f r o m 5000 to 7 0 0 0 m e n , simply p u t an end to it. C-47 s to Saigon or the Gulf of Siam come to escape the war and w h o IT IS UNLIKELY t h a t Rathiaccording to a top-ranking foreign or the South China sea, where it is were kept busy growing poppies in aid official in the U.S. g o v e r n m e n t . k o u n e , one of the chief warlords of d r o p p e d to waiting fishing boats. the hills surrounding the base. the o p i u m d y n a s t y , will decide to A n d , as the New York Times has Some of the opium is flown t o T h e secrecy surrounding Long end t h e trade soon. Right outside the noted, Chiang Kai-Shek's son, Chian Vientiane, where it is sold to Chinese Cheng has hidden the trade f r o m Chin-Kuo, is widely believed t o b e in village of Ban Houei Sai, hidden in (continued on next page) reporters. But security has n o t been charge of the KMT operations f r o m the jungle, are several of his refinerJUST LAST YEAR a reporter who was at Chieng Mai, Thailand, saw Thai troops and American advisors as well as military supplies provided by the Taiwan government. T h e Taiwan government , he n o t e d , maintains an information office there and regularly accompanies the KMT t r o o p s on their forays into China to proselytize a m o n g the peasants of Yunnan province. These sorties are coordinated by the CIA (which is feverishly active if not wholly successful in this area), and the United States even provides its own

his position as chief of the Taiwan secret police. THE KMT ARE tolerated by the Thais for several reasons: they have helped in the counter insurgency efforts of the Thai and U.S. governments against the hill tribespeople in Thailand; they have aided the training and recruiting of Burmese guerilla armies for the CIA; and they o f f e r a payoff to the Border Patrol Police (BPP), and through t h e m t o the second most p o w e r f u l man in Thailand, Minister of the Interior Gen, Prapasx Charusathira. The BPP were trained in the '50s by the CIA and now are financed and advised by AID and are flown f r o m border village to border village by Air America. The BPP act as middlemen in the opium trade between the KMT in the r e m o t e regions of Thailand and the Chinese merchants in Bangkok. These relationships, of course, are flexible and changing, with each group wanting to maximize profits and minimize antagonisms and dangers. But the established routes vary, and sometimes doublecrosses are intentional.

ies—called "cookers"—which manufacture crude m o r p h i n e (which is refined into heroin at a later transport point) under the supervision of professional pharmacists imported f r o m Bangkok. R a t h i k o u n e also has " c o o k e r s " in the nearby villages of Ban Khwan, Phan Phung and Ban Khueng (the latter for opium grown by the Yao tribe). Most of the opium he procures comes f r o m Burma in the caravans such as Chan Chi-foo's; the rest comes f r o m Thailand or f r om the hill tribespeople (Meo and Yao) in the area near Ban Houei Sai. R a t h i k o u n e flies the dope f r o m the Ban Houei Sai area to Luang Prabang, the Royalist capital, in helicopters given the United States military aid program.

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The New Opium War m e r c h a n t s w h o then fly it t o Saigon or to the ocean drops. O n e of Vang Pao's main sources of t r a n s p o r t , since t h e RLG Air F o r c e is not under his control, is the CIA-created Xieng K h o u a n g Airline, which is still supervised by an American, t h o u g h it is scheduled soon to be turned over c o m p l e t e l y to Van Pao's men. T h e airline's two C-47s (which can carry a m a x i m u m of 4 0 0 0 p o u n d s ) arc used only for t r a n s p o r t to Vientiane. Prior to Nixon's blitzkreig in Laos, the opium trade was b o o m i n g . Production had grown rapidly since the early '50s to a level of 175-200 t o n s a year, with 4 0 0 of t h e 6 0 0 t o n s p r o d u c e d in Burma, and 5 0 - 1 0 0 t o n s of that grown in Thailand, passing t h r o u g h Laotian territory. But if the o p i u m has been an El D o r a d o for t h e Corsicans, the Lao elite, t h e CIA and others, it has been a nemesis for t h e Meo tribesmen. F o r in b e c o m i n g a pawn in the larger strategy of the U.S., the Meos have seen the army virtually wiped o u t , with the average age of recruits now 15 years, and their populations reduced from 4 0 0 , 0 0 0 to 2 0 0 , 0 0 0 . T h e Meos' reward for CIA service, in o t h e r words, has been their d e s t r u c t i o n as a people. M A D A M E NHU A N D PREMIER KY: PUSHERS Both the complexity and the finality of the opium web which c o n n e c t s Burma, Thailand, Laos and S o u t h Vietnam stretch t h e imagination. So bizarre is t h e o p i u m network and so pervasive t h e t r a f f i c that were it to appear in an Ian Fleming plot we would pass it off as t o r t u r i n g the credibility of thriller fiction. But t h e trade is real and the net has entangled g o v e r n m e n t s bey o n d the steaming jungle of Indochina. In 1962, for instance, an o p i u m smuggling scandal s t u n n e d the entire Canadian Parliament. It was in March of the year t h a t Prime Minister Diefenbaker c o n f i r m e d rumors that nine Canadian m e m b e r s of the immaculate United Nations International C o n t r o l Commission had been caught carrying o p i u m f r o m Vientiane to t h e international markets in Saigon on UN planes. T H E R O U T E , FROM Laos to Saigon has long been o n e of the well-established routes of t h e heroino p i u m trade. In August 1967, a C-47 transport plane carrying two-and-ahalf tons of o p i u m and some gold was forced d o w n near Da Lat, S o u t h Vietnam, by American gunners when the pilot failed to i n d e n t i f y himself. T h e plane and its percious cargo, reportedly owned by General Rathik o u n e ' s wife, were destined for a Chinese opium m e r c h a n t and piloted by a fo rm er KMT pilot, L.G. Chao. Whatever their ownership, t h e doperunning planes usually land at Tan Son N h u t airbase, where t h e y are met in a r e m o t e part of t h e airport with the p r o t e c t i o n of airport police. A considerable part of t h e o p i u m and heroin remains in Saigon, where it is sold directly to U.S. t r o o p s or distributed to U.S. bases t h r o u g h o u t the Vietnamese countryside. O n e GI w h o returned t o t h e states an addict was August Schultz. He's off the needle now, b u t h o w he got on is m o s t revealing. Explaining t h a t he was " c o m p l e t e l y straight, even a right-winger" b e f o r e he w e n t into

the A r m y , August told R A M P A R T S h o w he fell into the heroin trap: " I t was a regular day last April ( 1 9 7 0 ) and 1 had just walked into this b u n k e r and there were these guys shooting up. I said the t h e m , 'What are y o u guys doing?' Believe it or not, I really d i d n ' t k n o w . T h e y explained to me and asked me if I wanted to try it. I said s u r e . " P R O B A B L Y A fifth of the men in his unit have at least tried j u n k , August says. But the big thing, as his b u d d y R o n n i e M c S h e f f r e y adds, was that most of the officers in his c o m p a n y , including t h e MPs, knew a b o u t it. M c S h e f f r e y saw MPs in his own division (6th Battalion, 31st I n f a n t r y , 9th Division) at Tan An shoot up, just as he says they saw him. Me and his buddies even watched the unit's sergeant-major receive p a y o f f s at a nearby whorehouse where every kind of drug imaginable was available. An article by Kansas City newsp a p e r w o m a n Gloria Emerson inserted into the Congressional Record by Senator Stuart S y m i n g t o n on March 10 said: " I n a brigade headquarters at Long Binh, there were reports that heroin use in t h e unit had risen to 20 per cent...'You can salute an officer with y o u r right hand and t a k e a " h i t " (of heroin) in y o u r left,' an enlisted man f r o m New York told me.... Along the 15-mile Bien Hoa highway r u n n i n g north t o Saigon f r o m Long Binh, heroin can be purchased at any of a dozen conspicuous places within a f e w minutes, and was by this reporter, for three dollars a vial." ADDING GLAMOUR to t h e labyrinthine intrigue of V i e t n a m ' s opium trade t h r o u g h o u t the late 1950's and early 6 0 ' s was the f a m o u s Madame N h u , the Dragon Lady of Saigon. M a d a m e Nhu was in a position to be very likely coordinator for t h e entire domestic o p i u m trade in V i e t n a m ; yet so great is t h e power she still wields from t h e palatial exile in Paris that she has intimidated one American publisher and kept him f r o m publishing the story. In his b o o k , Mr. Pop, Don Schlanche, f o r m e r editor of Horizon and f o r m e r managing editor of the Saturday Evening Post, recounts t h e following interchange on the Plain of Jars during August 1 9 6 0 between Edgar " P o p " Buell—the Indiana farmer w h o left his h o m e to w o r k with the Meo tribespeople— and a local r e s t a u r a n t e u r : ...Buell drove with Albert ( F o u r e ) to Phong Savan and watched f r o m the side of t h e airstrip as a m o d e r n twin-engined plane t o o k on a huge load of o p i u m . Beneath the wing, talking heatedly with the plane's Corsican pilot, was a slender w o m a n dressed in long white silk pants and aod'aiy t h e side-slit, high-necked gown of Vietnam. Her b o d y was exquisitely f o r m e d , and her darkly beautiful face wore a clear expression of a u t h o r i t y . Even Buell could see that she was Vietnamese, n o t Lao. " Z A T , " SAID Foure, "is ze grande m a d a m e of o p i u m f r o m Saigon." Edgar never learned her name, b u t he recognized t h e u n f o r gettable face and figure when t h e picture of an i m p o r t a n t S o u t h Vietnamese politician appeared m o n t h s later in an American news magazine.

Though Schlanche's publisher, David McKay Co., refused t o publish her n a m e f o r fear of reprisals, the u n f o r g e t t a b l e face was t h a t of Madame N h u . But Saigon's o p i u m trade is not new. Its history stretches back t o 1949, when the French a p p o i n t e d f o r m e r Vietnamese E m p e r o r Bao Dai as chief of state. Bao Dai b r o u g h t with him as chief of police Bay Vien, the undisputed leader of Saigon's criminal u n d e r g r o u n d , which controlled not only t h e gambling and narcotics trade in Saigon but also the i m p o r t a n t Chinese s u b u r b of C h o l o n . Bao Dai and Bay Vien held power until they were displaced a f t e r the 1954 Geneva Ac c ords by Ngo Dinh Nhu, Dicm's b r o t h e r . Nhu had gained p r o m i n e n c e in Vietnam as an organizer of a Catholic trade union m o v e m e n t modeled after the French Force Ouvriere, which the CIA had helped supply in the 1940s to break France's c o m m u n i s t d o c k w o r k e r s ' u n i o n , the CGT. AT F I R S T NHU feigned s u p p o r t for Bay Vien and Bao Dai, b u t by the end of 1955 he had taken control of the Saigon secret police and, t h e r e b y , the city's o p i u m and heroin trade as well. Just as the N h u s were consolidating their own power, a little-known figure entered the Diem military apparatus, a man w h o t h r o u g h t h e years would carefully e x t e n d his control over t h e air force and end up eventually heir not only to the S o u t h Vietnamese g o v e r n m e n t b u t to t h e o p i u m and heroin t r a d e as well. T h a t man was Nguyen Cao Ky, w h o had just returned f r o m Algeria to t a k e charge of the S o u t h Vietnamese air t r a n s p o r t ' s C 4 7 cargo planes. At w h a t particular point in t i m e Ky b e c a m e involved with the N h u s in the o p i u m trade is n o t k n o w n , b u t by t h e end of the '50s he was c u t t i n g quite a figure in Saigon's elite circles. In an interview with R A M P A R T S , retired Marine Corps Colonel (and a u t h o r of the b o o k Betrayal) William Corson described Ky's life in t h e late 1950s in the following fashion: " K y of course was a colonel in t h e Air Force back t h e n and he used to have these glittering cocktail parties at the t o p of the Caravelle (Hotel) in Saigon. He laid o u t a fantastic spread, which was all very interesting because t h e a m o u n t of m o n e y he made as a soldier was m a y b e $ 2 5 t o $ 3 0 a m o n t h and he d i d n ' t have any o t h e r outside i n c o m e . " T H E F I R S T R E A L light shed on the possible sources of Ky's extracurricular income came only in the spring of 1968, when S e n a t o r Ernest G r u e n i n g revealed t h a t f o u r years earlier Ky had been in the e m p l o y of t h e CIA's " O p e r a t i o n H a y l i f t , " a program which flew S o u t h Vietnamese agents " i n t o N o r t h Vietnam for t h e purpose of sabotage, such as blowing up railroads, bridges, e t c . " More i m p o r t a n t , Ky was fired, Gruening's sources claimed, for having been caught smuggling o p i u m f r o m Laos back into Saigon. Significantly, Ky and his flight crews were replaced by Nationalist Chinese Air Force pilots. Neither t h e CIA, t h e Pentagon, nor t h e State D e p a r t m e n t ever denied Ky w o r k e d o n Operation Haylift. Nor did they d e n y t h a t he had smuggled o p i u m back into Saigon. However, a U.S. embassy spokesman categorically denied Ky was ever fired f r o m " a n y position by any e l e m e n t of t h e U.S. G o v e r n m e n t f o r o p i u m smuggling or f o r any o t h e r reason." When Ky came to power in F e b r u a r y 1965, m o s t

observers s u p p o s e d he h a d relinquished participation in t h e o p i u m t r a f f i c (although it was " c o m m o n k n o w l e d g e " t h a t M a d a m e Ky had replaced M a d a m e N h u as Saigon's Dragon Lady and dealt in o p i u m directly with Prince Boun O u m in S o u t h e r n Laos). However, a high Saigon military official to w h o m Ky at o n e time offered a place in t h e o p i u m t r a f f i c says Ky c o n t i n u e d to carry loads ranging f r o m 2 0 0 0 p o u n d s t o 2 0 0 0 kilos of o p i u m f r o m Pleiku t o Saigon in the spring of 1965 a f t e r he had assumed power and a f t e r O p e r a t i o n Haylift had been discontinued. Those runs included regular p i c k u p s near Dak T o , Kon T u n , and Pleiku. Since then there has been no indication t h a t Ky has in any way altered the t r a n s p o r t . Corson, w h o returned to Vietnam in 1965, observed t h a t Ky's involvement in the trade had b e c o m e so r o u t i n e t h a t it had lost almost all its a d v e n t u r e and intrigue. GENOCIDE A N D H E R O I N With gross returns f r o m the Indochina t r a f f i c running a n y w h e r e from $ 2 5 0 to $ 5 0 0 million per year, opium is o n e of the kingpins of Southeast Asian C o m m e r c e . Indochina has n o t always had such an enviable position. Historically most of the w o r l d ' s supply of o p i u m and heroin came through well-established routes f r o m T u r k e y , Iran and China. Then it was refined in chemical kitchens and w a r e h o u s e factories in Marseille. T H E M E D I T E R R A N E A N trade was controlled by the Corsican Mafia (which itself has long been related to such American crime lords as Lucky Luciano, w h o f u n n e l e d a certain a m o u n t of d o p e i n t o t h e black ghettoes). But high officials in the narcotics c o n t r o l division of the Canadian g o v e r n m e n t , and in Interpol, t h e International Police Agency, c o n f i r m that since World War 11-and paralleling U.S. e x p a n s i o n in the P a c i f i c - t h e r e has been a major redirection in t h e sources and routing of the w o r l d w i d e o p i u m traffic. According to the United Nations Commission on Drugs and Narcotics, since at least 1966, 80 per cent of the world's 1200 t o n s of illicit o p i u m has come f r o m S o u t h e a s t Asia— directly contradicting m o s t official U.S. claims t h a t the primary sources are Middle Eastern. In 1966, Interpol's f o r m e r Secretary General Jean Nepote told investigators from A r t h u r D. Little Research Institute (then under a c o n t r a c t t o t h e U.S. Government Crime Commission) that the Fertile Triangle was a principal production center of opium. And last year an Iranian government official told a United Nations seminar on narcotics c o n t r o l that 83 per cent of t h e w o r l d ' s illegal supply originated in t h e Fertile T r i a n g l e - t h e area w h e r e o p i u m is controlled by the U.S.-supplied troops of Laos and Nationalist China. IT IS O D D T H A T t h e U.S. government, with t h e m o s t massive intelligence a p p a r a t u s in history could miss this innovation. But though it may seem to be an amazing oversight, w h a t has h a p p e n e d is that Richard N i x o n and t h e makers of America's Asian policy have completely blanked Indochina o u t of the world narcotics trade. N o t even J o e Stalin's removal of T r o t s k y f r o m the Russian history b o o k s parallels this historical r e c o n s t r u c t i o n .

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In his recent State of the World address, Richard Nixon dealt directly with the international narcotics traffic. "Narcotics addiction has been spreading with p a n d e m i c virulence," he said, adding t h a t " t h i s affliction is spreading rapidly and w i t h o u t the slightest respect for national boundaries." What is needed is "an integrated attack on the d e m a n d for (narcotics), the supply of them, and their movement across international borders. ...We have," he says, " w o r k ed closely with a large n u m b e r of governments, particularly Turkey, Trance and Mexico, to try to stop

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strongest p r o p o n e n t s of the Nationalist Chinese cause. IN 1954, CHIANG Kai-Shek formed the Asian People's Anti-Communist League (APACL), which was to become one of the vital links between the China Lobby and the Taiwan G o v e r n m e n t , (it was also in that year that Nixon urged U.S. troops to be sent into Indochina following the French d e f e a t at Dien Bien-Pho—a proposal which failed because of the lack of public support for such policy following the Korean War). As soon as the APACL was formed, Chiang a n n o u n c e d that it

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gence and Research. Cline, controversial CIA station chief in Taiwan w h o helped organize KMT forays into Communist China, in 1962 p r o m o t e d Nixon's old project of a Bay of Pigs invasion of China. Within a m o n t h of Cline's recent a p p o i n t m e n t , the resumption of pilotlcss Intelligence flights over mainland China was approved. The entire cast of the China Lobby has relied on one magic corporation, the same corporation established just after World War II by General Claire Chcnnault as Civil Air T r a n s p o r t and renamed in the 195()s Air America. Carrier of not only men

U.S. H E L I C O P T E R S MOVING ARVN T R O O P S INTO L A O S - " 7 7 ; m would have been bloodthirsty logic behind the expansion of the war into Laos if the thrust had been to seize supply centers of opium the communists were hoarding up to spread like a deadly virus into the free world. But the communists did not control the opium there, processing and distribution were already in the hands of the free world. " (AP wire photo) the illicit p r o d u c t i o n and smuggling had established "close c o n t a c t " with three American politicians -the most of narcotics." (emphasis added) IT IS NO ACCIDENT that Nixon important of w h o m was Vice Presihas ignored the real sources ot dent Richard Nixon. Over the years the China Lobby narcotics trade abroad and by so doing has effectively precluded any has continued to spring to N i x o n ' s possibility of being able to deal with support. It was Madame Chcnnault, heroin at h o m e . It is he more than co-chairman in 1968 of Women tor a n y o n e else w h o has underwritten Nixon-Agnew Advisory C o m m i t t e e , t h a t trade through the policies he has who helped raise a quarter ot a f o r m u l a t e d , the alliances he has million dollars for the campaign; it forged, and most recently the politic- was she w h o just b e f o r e the election al a p p o i n t m e n t s he has made. For entered into an elaborate set of Richard N i x o n ' s rise to power has arrangements to sabotage a White been intricately interwoven with the House peace plan. Within 30 hours plan. South rise of p r o p o n e n t s of have been in or of the a n n o u n c e d near political power off and on since Vietnam President Thieu rejected the new negotiations it p r o p o s e d - a 1950. A m o n g the most notable m e m b e r s rejection Madame Chcnnault had of the "China L o b b y " are Madame helped arrange as a last-minute blow Anna Chcnnault, whose husband. to Hubert H u m p h r e y and the DemoGeneral Claire C h c n n a u l t , f o u n d e d crats. IT IS NOT ONLY his debts, associaAir America; columnist Joe Alsop; FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover; tions and sympathies to the China f o r m e r California Senator William Lobby which have linked Nixon with K n o w l a n d ; and Ray Cline, currently Kuomingtang machinations in IndoChief of Intelligence for the State china and helped plunge the U.S. deepD e p a r t m e n t . T h e y and such compat- er into the morass there. One ot his riots as the late Time magazine most i m p o r t a n t foreign policy appublisher Henry Luce and his widow, p o i n t m e n t s since taking office has Congresswoman Claire Boothe Luce, t)ecn the reassignment of Ray Cline as have been some of the c o u n t r y ' s State D e p a r t m e n t Director of Intelli-

and personnel for all of Southeast Asia, but also of the policies that have turned Indochina into the third bloodiest battlefield in American history. Air America's chief contract is with the American Central Intelligence Agency. AIR AMERICA brings Brahmin Bostonians and wealthy Wall Streeters w h o are the China Lobby together with some of the most powerful men in Nationalist China's financial history. One of its principal services has been to fly in support for the " r e m n a n t " 93rd Division of the KMT, the " o p i u m a r m y " in Burma; another has been as a major carrier of opium itself. Air America flies through all of the Laotian and Vietnamese opium pick-up points, for aside f r o m the private " b u t t e r f l y fleet" and various military transports. Air American is the " o f f i c i a l " airline. A 25-year-old black man recently returned f r om Indochina told RAMPARTS of going to Vietnam in 1968 as an adventurer, hoping to get in on the d o p e business. But he f o u n d that the business was all controlled by a "group like the Mafia. It was tight and there wasn't J

any room for m e . " T h e only way he could make it in the d o p e trade, he says, was to go to work for Air America as a mechanic. He f o u n d that "there was plenty of dope in L a o s - l o t s of crystals (heroin) all over the place." Air America was the only way to get in on it. WHAT HAS T A K E N place in Indochina is more than a flurry of corruption a m o n g select dramatis personae in America's great Asian Drama. The fact that Meo tribesmen have been nearly wiped out, that the Corsican Mafia's Air O p i u m has been supplanted by the CIA's Air America, that Nationalist Chinese soldiers operate as narcotics bandits, that such architects of U.S. democracy for the East as the Nhus and Vice President Ky have been dope runners—these are only the bizarre cameo roles in a larger tragedy that involves nothing less than the uprooting of what had been the opium trade for decades—through the ^traditional' lotus-land of the Middle Mast into Western Europe—and the substitution of another network, whose shape is parallel to that of the U.S. presence in Southeast Asia. The ecology ot narcotics has been disrupted and remade to coincide with the structure of America's Asia strategy—the stealthy conquest of a continent to serve the interests of the likes of the China Lobby. The shift in the international opium traffic is also a m e t a p h o r tor what has happened in Southeast Asia itself. As the U.S. has settled in there, its presence radiating a nimbus of genocide and corruption, armadas of airplanes have come to smash the land and lives of a helpless people; mercenary armies have been trained by the U.S.; and boundaries reflecting the U.S. desires have been established, along with houses ot commerce and petty criminality in the American image. ONE O F THE upshots has been that the opium trade has been svstcmati/ed, given U.S. technological expertise and a shipping and transportation network as pervasive as the U.S. presence itselt. The piratical Corsican transporters have been replaced by pragmatic technocrats carrying out their jobs with deadly accuracy. Unimpeded by boundaries, scruples or customs agents, and nurtured by the free flow of military personnel through the capitals of the Orient, the United States h a s - a s a reflex of its warfare in I n d o c h i n a - b u i l t up a support system for the trade in narcotics that is unparalleled in modern history. The U.S. went on a holy war to stamp out c o m m u n i s m and to protect its Asian markets, and it brought h o m e heroin. IT IS A FITTING trade-off, one that characterizes the moral quality of the U.S. involvement. This ugly war keeps coming home, each manifestation more terrifying than the last; h o m e to the streets of the teeming urban ghettos and the lonely suburban isthmus where in the last year the number of teenage heroin addicts has taken a q u a n t u m leap forward. Heroin has now become the newest affliction of affluent America of mothers in Westport, Connecticut, w h o only wanted to die when they traced track-marks on their daughters' elegant arms; or of fathers in Cicero, Illinois, speechless in outrage when their conscripted sons came back f r o m the war bringing home a bloodstained needle as their only lasting souvenir. ©RAMPARTS, 1971, reprinted by College Press Service by permission of publisher.

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The Church: an unsinkable ship of the line Editor's Note: T h i s week's anchor the plastic c u l t u r e a n d its d e v o t e d essay is w r i t t e n b y senior English f o l l o w e r s . H o w e v e r , w h e n we g o major William Schutter. He replies witch-hunting after the hypocrites to Bob Blanton's c o l u m n in the ' w e may f i n d that we have t o pay March 29 anchor entitled " G o d , the price b y k i n d l i n g s o m e of o u r Jesus and John G u e s t . " best f r i e n d s with t h e s a m e f l a m e . Activists a n d f a n a t i c i s t s are n o t by William Schutter exactly k n o w n for their tolerance. H o w will we q u e n c h the f l a m e s 1 e n c o u r a g e a n y o n e w h o is of the p a r a n o i a w h i c h surely m u s t reading this essay t o reread B o b be f a n n e d i n t o full h e a t o n c e w e Blanton's contribution to the recognize t h a t no m a t t e r w h o we March 29 anchor, e n t i t l e d " G o d , put in c h a r g e of o u r e c o n o m i c , Jesus and John G u e s t , " which e d u c a t i o n a l , p o l i t i c a l , and o t h e r begs a r e p l y . c u l t u r a l i n s t i t u t i o n s t h e r e will b e NOW IT SO h a p p e n e d t h a t at no way t o even r e m o t e l y g u a r a n t h e t i m e t h a t I read his c o l u m n I tee a n y t h i n g b u t t h e p e c u l i a r was s t r u c k by t h e similar way in w h i m s of w h o e v e r is in p o w e r , which a n u m b e r of t h e s t u d e n t s "The People" notwithstanding. a n d f a c u l t y at H o p e c o m f o r t a b l y T h e y t o o p l a y f o l l o w the l e a d e r . dismiss f o r t h e m s e l v e s t h e p r e s e n t D E C I D I N G T H A T we are solreality of Christ a f t e r s u b j e c t i n g idly b e h i n d the likes of B e r t r a n d the C h u r c h to t h e b o m b a r d m e n t Russell w h e n he w r o t e , " W h a t t h e of their i n t e l l e c t u a l ships of t h e world n e e d s is not d o g m a b u t an line. a t t i t u d e of s c i e n t i f i c i n q u i r y c o m It is u n f o r t u n a t e t h a t all of bined w i t h a belief t h a t t o r t u r e of C h r i s t e n d o m s h o u l d be called t o millions is n o t d e s i r a b l e w h e t h e r the f l o o r by critics w h o see o n l y inf licte d b y Stalin or by a D i e t y t h e s t a t u s q u o d i m e n s i o n of s o m e imagined in the l i k e n e s s of t h e of its m e m b e r s . But at the s a m e believer," he promises nothing by t i m e I d o not m e a n t o say t h a t way of r e v i e w , let a l o n e c o n t r o l , Bob and o t h e r s are n o t j u s t i f i e d in over a s c i e n t i f i c m e n t a l i t y (if 1 a m p o i n t i n g their f i n g e r s at the sinnot s t r e t c h i n g his w o r d s ) w h i c h riddled h u l k of w h a t m u s t n e e d s has b e e n j u s t as c a p a b l e of f a s h be s o m e t i m e s e m b a r r a s s i n g l y deioning t h e i n s t r u m e n t s t h a t can f e n d e d as t h e C h u r c h todav. p r o d u c e m o n g o l o i d s as it has b e e n LITTLE W O N D E R t h a t t h o s e c a p a b l e of f a s h i o n i n g the i n s t r u w h o are o u t r a g e d by an a p a t h y ments that prevent t h e m . breeding Establishment suckled P o s s i b l y , it is n o t d o g m a t i c t o with t h o r o u g h - g o i n g Western presay t h a t w e are t h e o n l y p e o p l e j u d i c e s are o n l y t o o h a p p y t o w h o are r e s p o n s i b l e f o r t o r t u r e . T h a t is o u r i n v e n t i o n . T h i s s t u twist their s w o r d s i n t o t h e idols of

d e n t is c e r t a i n t h a t if he w e r e t o try h a r d e n o u g h he w o u l d be able t o f i n d a s k e l e t o n in every c l o s e t , and a F r a n k e n s t e i n in every laboratory. B U T MY p a r a n o i a has s t o p p e d with C h r i s t , a n d 1 t r u s t t h a t I am still t h i n k i n g . 1 d o n o t wish the reader t o think that a security b l a n k e t J e s u s is m y k i n d of substit u t e f o r the caliber of d a r i n g , vision, toil, a n d s a c r i f i c e w h i c h have at so m a n y t i m e s t h r o u g h o u t history been invaluable contribut i o n s r e g a r d l e s s of t h e p r o b l e m s i n c u r r e d . Is it d o g m a t i c t o insist t h a t t h e r e will a l w a y s be r o o m f o r sacrifice? If 1 a m g u i l t y of c o v e t i n g riches, t h e n 1 a m far m o r e g u i l t y of loving J e s u s C h r i s t . If 1 am guilty of b i g o t r y , t h e n 1 a m far m o r e g u i l t y of t h e n e e d t o have all

men a n d w o m e n r e c o n c i l e d t o His F a t h e r . If 1 am o n l y going t o k e e p S u n d a y s c h o o l images in m y mind of what Guest called " t h o s e perma-pressed r o b e s , " t h e n 1 will have weak r e a s o n s i n d e e d f o r any sort of c o n v i c t i o n a b o u t C h r i s t at all. Y E T I S A Y t h a t 1 am weak w h e n 1 say t h a t it is G o d ' s Love on a c r o s s , and r a d i a n t in an E a s t e r m o r n i n g , w h i c h b r i n g s me new life a n d a new u n d e r s t a n d i n g . T h a t is a gift 1 d a r e n o t r e f u s e and I a m a n x i o u s t o p r e s e r v e it for o t h e r s . I also c o n f e s s t h a t 1 may not be a l o n e w i t h my p r o b l e m . 1 d o n o t t h i n k t h a t all t h e ships of t h e line w h i c h can be m u s t e r e d m a k e even t h e r u d e s t g o u g e in the f e e t , wrists, a n d side of w h a t the C h u r c h of Believers w i t n e s s e s to as t h e p o w e r of G o d . We d i d not m e r e l y receive t h e f i g u r e of a Christ as an e x e m p l a r y m o d e l , but as t h e f u l f i l l m e n t of G o d ' s p r o m ise f o r m a n ' s e t e r n a l life, s o m e t h i n g t h a t s t a r t s right n o w . O u r " h a t e - i n s " a n d " d e a t h - i n s " only i l l u s t r a t e o u r divisive m i n d s and hearts.

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WE H A V E a p r i d e w h i c h is even s u f f i c i e n t e n o u g h t o ignore the p e r s i s t e n c e of a G o d w h o is foolish e n o u g h t o c o n t i n u e caring a b o u t us. We r e f u s e t o a c c e p t what has b e e n given t o us. We persist in l e t t i n g sin eat ulcers i n t o our f l e s h , a n d in l e t t i n g d e a t h o v e r - s h a d o w t h e u l t i m a t e f a c t s in our lives. Make no m i s t a k e . It is we w h o d e t e r m i n e this f o r ourselves a n d f o r o t h e r s . It is n o t my i n t e n t t o c o n d e m n Bob f o r t h a t p a r t i c u l a r article of his even t h o u g h 1 t h i n k t h a t he has largely missed t h e p o i n t of f r u i t f u l c r i t i c i s m . As in so m a n y of t h e o t h e r great religions of the w o r l d , it is n o t p r u d e n t t o pluck c i t a t i o n s f r o m their c o n t e x t s in the Bible and t h e n t o t r a n s p l a n t them into foster wombs, expecting t h e c h i l d r e n t o be flesh and b l o o d relatives t o t h e m o t h e r s w h o b o r e t h e m . We n e e d t o be i n s t r u c t e d a n d t o g r o w in that ability as well as a n y o t h e r . IT IS MY i n t e n t t o a f f i r m o u r r e s p o n s i b i l i t y f o r each o t h e r , o n e which is h a r d l y i m a g i n a b l e a p a r t f r o m G o d ' s r e v e l a t i o n t o m a n in C h r i s t , let a l o n e realizable in concrete a c t i o n . F o r e x a m p l e , we have t o be t a u g h t m e r c y and c o m p a s s i o n t o be m e r c i f u l and c o m p a s s i o n a t e . T o be t a u g h t o n e must be willing. G o d never f o r c e s Himself i n t o s o m e o n e ' s life. I appeal to what J o h n Guest a t t e m p t e d . He a c c e p t e d t h e challenge t o go t o an u n f a m i l i a r c a m p u s f o r several d a y s in t h e h o p e that his message a b o u t J e s u s might be f o u n d a c c e p t a b l e by some w h o need to hear and to grow in u n i o n w i t h C h r i s t . He m e a n t t o share j o y a n d r e n e w a l t o t h o s e in n e e d . He gave i n f o r m a tion a b o u t the successes of " T h e P i t t s b u r g h E x p e r i m e n t . " He did not m e a n to emphasize what Jesus Christ has in c o m m o n w i t h o t h e r great religious figures of the world, but rather what Jesus Christ as the f u l f i l l m e n t of h i s t o r y m e a n s t o each o n e of us. I H O P E T H A T 1 am n o t being d o g m a t i c a n d / o r s e l f - r i g h t e o u s by asking t h e r e a d e r of this essay t o i n q u i r e of s o m e of t h e C h r i s t i a n s o n this c a m p u s as t o w h a t it m e a n s t o love G o d w i t h all of o n e ' s h e a r t a n d soul a n d m i n d , and t o love o n e ' s n e i g h b o r as o n e ' s self. We m i g h t learn m u c h as a c o m m u n i t y . T h e y are m u t u a l a s p e c t s a n d p o s s i b l y t h e y will bring s o m e of t h o s e " C h r i s t i a n s " o u t of h i d i n g .

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Faculty wives open store she and fellow-faculty wife Marilynn T a m m i are o p e n i n g a h a n d i c r a f t s s h o p , w h i c h will h o p e fully p r o v i d e " a n a l t e r n a t i v e to the plastic w o r l d w e ' r e all living in," according to the enthusiastic owners. T H E S H O P , K N O W N as " U p a T r e e , " is l o c a t e d a b o v e Fris' at 30!/2 W. 8 t h St., and will have its grand o p e n i n g t o n i g h t f r o m 7-9 p.m. in a freshly p a i n t e d d e c o r of blues a n d greens, visitors will be exposed to exclusively handc r a f t e d p o t t e r y , weaving, t o y s , c l o t h i n g , glass, j e w e l r y , candles, etc. Mrs. T a m m i and Mrs. S m i t h claim t h e y were p r o m p t e d t o fit the w o r l d of business i n t o their already busy roles of wives and m o t h e r s for t w o m a i n reasons.

CLB sends visitation proposal to committee (continued from page I ) t o r p e d o i n g by d o i n g t h i s , " he said. He e x p l a i n e d t h a t S t u d e n t C o n d u c t is s u p p o s e d t o s t u d y p r o p o s a l s in detail a n d m a k e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s t o the C L B . P R I C H A R D a n d S a n f o r d expressed their feeling t h a t the p r o p o s a l , if s u b m i t t e d t o a s t u d y c o m m i t t e e , w o u l d get bogged d o w n and w o u l d not be passed in time. In r e s p o n s e t o D e Y o u n g ' s c o n c e r n , associate p r o f e s s o r of p h y sical e d u c a t i o n Russell De V e t t e m o v e d t h a t t h e p r o p o s a l go t o t h e Student Conduct C o m m i t t e e for s t u d y and c l a r i f i c a t i o n . H o w e v e r , Miss Willems p o i n t e d o u t t h a t t h e c o m m i t t e e had n o t m e t all year, and that t w o of t h e t h r e e s t u d e n t m e m b e r s w e r e u n k n o w n a n d had p r o b a b l y n o t even been a p p o i n t -

ed. Hillegonds n o t e d t h a t the third s t u d e n t is not p r e s e n t l y at school. IN VIEW O F these c o n d i t i o n s , the m o t i o n was d e f e a t e d . I n s t e a d , an ad h o c c o m m i t t e e was f o r m e d with De V e t t e as c h a i r m a n and a m e m b e r s h i p c o m p o s e d of Brian Koop, Miss Willems, Prichard and S a n f o r d . T h e c o m m i t t e e was i n s t r u c t e d t o r e w r i t e the guest h o u r s policy in a c l e a r e r f o r m and r e t u r n it a f t e r t w o w e e k s . Dr. David Marker, C L B chairm a n , t h e n read a p r o p o s a l , presented b y t h e p r e s i d e n t of t h e Blue Key H o n o r a r y S o c i e t y , t h a t Blue Key b e abolished and that s o m e other means for recognizing a c h i e v e m e n t by seniors be established. T h e p r o p o s a l was r e f e r r e d to t h e E x t r a - c u r r i c u l a r Activites C o m m i t t e e for s t u d y .

First, t h e y h o p e t o r e g e n e r a t e an interest in articles w h i c h w e r e f o r m e d by h u m a n h a n d s , and t o a f f o r d to the c o m m u n i t y t h e c h o i c e of being able t o buy such items if t h e y so desire. S E C O N D L Y , T H E Y want to p r o v i d e a selling-place for t h e m a n y creative p e o p l e t h e y have c o m e t o k n o w in H o l l a n d and at Hope. " U p a T r e e " is an a t t e m p t to i n c o r p o r a t e "a new h u m a n i s m " into t h e basic p r o c e s s of b u y i n g , e x p l a i n e d Mrs. S m i t h . " H o p e f u l l y , a visit t o o u r s h o p will be an i n t i m a t e t h i n g which d o e s not end with s i m p l y b u y i n g an article. We want t o get p e o p l e e x c i t e d a b o u t h a n d - m a d e things, get t h e m to start asking q u e s t i o n s , and perhaps even get involved in (his sort of t h i n g t h e m s e l v e s , " s h e c o n t i n ued. ALTHOUGH slightly a p p r e hensive a b o u t t h e s u c c e s s of this t y p e of s h o p in t h e Holland c o m m u n i t y , the o w n e r s h o p e t o " g e n t l y e d u c a t e " all t h o s e w h o e n t e r their d o o r s t o a p p r e c i a t e the q u a l i t y and u n i q u e n e s s of their r e a s o n a b l y priced wares. The owners encourage any i n t e r e s t e d s t u d e n t s t o bring h a n d c r a f t e d i t e m s to t h e m f o r conside r a t i o n . " W e are n o t r u n n i n g a charity organization," explained Mrs. S m i t h , " b u t we are trying to r e t u r n as m u c h m o n e y as possible to t h e c r a f t s m e n . " T h e c o - o w n e r s have p e r s u a d e d Mr. Fris t o take d o w n his n e o n sign so t h e y can p l a n t f l o w e r s in the w i n d o - b o x and h a n g out a Hag or b a l l o o n to i n d i c a t e w h e n t h e y ' r e o p e n . Until this is a c c o m p lished, h o w e v e r , o n e m a y refer to a s c h e d u l e almost as u n i q u e as the s h o p itself: M o n d a y nights, f r o m 7-9, T u e s d a y , T h u r s d a y and Saturday a f t e r n o o n s f r o m 1-5, and F r i d a y s f r o m 1-9 p.m.

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with T i e m a n Slagh. He was a c o n t r a c t o r and b u i l d e r , and also m a n a g e d t h e old Idea T h e a t e r , w h i c h h o s t e d s u c h diverse events as w e e k l y wrestling m e e t s and c o n c e r t s by the Wagner C h o r u s . Construction of the Knickerb o c k e r T h e a t e r began in t h e fall of 1 9 1 0 . It was a b o u t t o be c o m p l e t e d w h e n m i s f o r t u n e s t r u c k . In late F e b r u a r y , 1911, Slagh was installing t h e electric sign t h a t a n n o u n ced coming event s w h e n he d r o p p e d 28 feet t o his d e a t h . T h e c r a s h i n g sign also injured an assistant. T H E BUILDING r e m a i n e d vacant f o r several m o n t h s until Slagh's p a r t n e r , Arend Smith, d e c i d e d t o t u r n m a n a g e m e n t of t h e t h e a t e r over to Mr. J. C. Agnew. F o r their p a r t , t h e townsp e o p l e s h o w e d s u p p o r t by promising t o p u r c h a s e t i c k e t s for the first s h o w . T h e n e w s p a p e r c o n t i n ually b o o s t e d t h e idea in its e d i t o r i a l s . Wrote t h e City News: " T h e o p e n i n g of the new t h e a t e r will fill a long felt w a n t in this city. It will a f f o r d a m u s e m e n t for m a n y p e o p l e w h o are n o w practically w i t h o u t it.* H a n d l e d properly t h e t h e a t e r will be a valuable asset t o the city. T h e building itself is o n e of t h e finest of its kind in the s t a t e . " N E V E R T H E L E S S there was o p p o s i t i o n t o t h e plan for adding a vaudeville t h e a t e r t o the comm u n i t y ' s a t t r a c t i o n s . " T h e r e were p e o p l e w h o w o u l d not go anyw h e r e near t h e t h e a t e r , " recalled Mr. G . V a n Z o e r e n , " m o s t l y Christian R e f o r m e d p e o p l e . " He a d d e d , " T h e n there were t h o s e w h o w o u l d go t o G r a n d R a p i d s t o the t h e a t e r , but not here. You had t h o s e k i n d , t o o . " T H E N E W S P A P E R tried hard to c o n v i n c e its r e a d e r s that the w o r d " t h e a t e r " was not a synon y m f o r " s i n . " It w r o t e : "We are assured by the m a n a g e r s that the finest kind of t h e a t r i c a l entert a i n m e n t will be given d u r i n g the c o m i n g w i n t e r . It is p l a n n e d to have o n l y g o o d clean p e r f o r m ances, b o t h vaudeville and plays. Wholesome performances cannot fail t o please and delight t h e most r e f i n e d citizens of Holland...(as)

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will be seen in the Knickerbocker theater." T h e p a p e r even w e n t f u r t h e r in its s u p p o r t in an e d i t o r i a l e n t i t l e d " T h e a t e r vs. L i q u o r " : " W e are sure t h a t w h e n y o u n g m e n have s o m e t h i n g else m o r e w o r t h w h i l e t o d o t h e y can get along w i t h o u t liquor. We k n o w t h a t the right sort of a t h e a t e r can f u r n i s h t h e thing." BUT A L L T H A T was h i s t o r y , for o p e n i n g night had arrived. T h e a u d i e n c e was impressed by t h e building as t h e y walked d o w n t h e c e n t e r aisle t o their seats. T h e o r c h e s t r a was in the o r c h e s t r a pit, ready t o begin t h e o v e r t u r e . T h e n , singing, d a n c i n g , laughter at t h e antics as Bruster tried t o s p e n d a million dollar i n h e r i t a n c e in o n e year. As t h e y w a l k e d o u t , t h e p e o p l e were saying t h a t it was well w o r t h the $1 they had s p e n t f o r t i c k e t s . IMMEDIATELY the t h e a t e r began t o b o o k a d d i t i o n a l perf o r m a n c e s f r o m the vaudeville circuit. T h e m a r q u i s s h o w e d that next week t h e r e w o u l d be six big a t t r a c t i o n s each night: 1. Moving Pictures 2. C r a c k e r Jack 4, c o m e d y quartette 3. Lahl Cecil & Stevins, comedy s k e t c h , " B u s t e d A s p i r a t i o n s " 4. Hy G r e e n w a y , c o m e d y talkking, juggling and C a r t o o n i s t 5. Mr. and Mrs. Little Alright, J a p a n e s e novelty 6. Moving P i c t u r e s T h e r e were t w o shows n i g h t l y , and Wednesday and Saturday matinees after school. Admission; l0-20-30c. T H E T H E A T E R a t t r a c t e d people from all over. Resorters staying at t h e impressive Macatawa Park h o t e l , visitors t o t h e imposing W a u k a z o o Inn, f r i e n d s w h o w o u l d t a k e the two-railed interurban from Grand Rapids (only $.65 r o u n d trip) and m a n y of t h e 4 0 0 s t u d e n t s at H o p e College regularly p a t r o n i z e d the Knickerbocker. Finally, vaudeville f a d e d away and t h e m o v i e s t o o k over. T h e y o u n g t h e a t e r was sold to the Carley A m u s e m e n t Co. in 1926, and s o m e years later the building, by n o w t h e Holland T h e a t e r , b e c a m e part of t h e gigantic B u t t e r f i e l d chain of theaters.

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by Eileen Verduin " T e c h n o l o g y h a s t a k e n us far e n o u g h - p e o p l e have lost a sense of q u a l i t y " d e c l a r e d t h e y o u n g woman, emphatically pushing a s t r a n d of b l o n d hair f r o m her eyes and settling back i n t o an a n t i q u e sofa w h i c h was s o m e h o w m a d e to fit i n t o a r o o m literally o v e r f l o w ing with c u r i o s , c a m p s c u l p t u r e , p o p art o b j e c t s and c h i l d r e n ' s toys. T H E S P E A K E R is not o n e of the " n e w g r o o v e r s " w h o are springing u p on H o p e ' s c a m p u s almost as fast as t h e t u l i p s - s h e is J o y c e S m i t h , a f a c u l t y w i f e and a m o t h e r w h o in t h e past few years has b e c o m e a w e l l - k n o w n p e r s o n ality t o m a n y s t u d e n t s . Whereas last s p r i n g Mrs. S m i t h was out s h o o t i n g films, this y e a r

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Thinclads take second in meet by Peter Orbeton H o p e t r a c k m e n d a s h e d t o seco n d p l a c e in t h e t r i a n g u l a r m e e t held S a t u r d a y at V a n R a a l t e Field while G r a n d R a p i d s J u n i o r College s p r i n t e d t o first a n d S p r i n g A r b o r a m b l e d t o t h i r d . T h e final score w a s J C 108, H o p e 4 7 , and Spring A r b o r 26. G R A N D RAPIDS d o m i n a t e d t h e m e e t w i t h twelve first place f i n i s h e s , while H o p e h a d t h r e e . Chris G o u y d b r o u g h t h o m e t h e gold in t w o e v e n t s in w i n n i n g t h e 2 2 0 y a r d d a s h in 2 2 . 9 a n d t o o k t h e 100 y a r d dash in 10 flat. Cliff H a v e r d i n k t r i u m p h e d in t h e 4 4 0 y a r d d a s h in 5 1 . 4 f o r H o p e ' s o n l y first p l a c e . H E A D I N G F O R H O M E - C e n t e r fielder J o h n Pink runs hard as he ro unds third heading for h o m e during H o p e ' s 12-0 win over Spring Arbor at V a n R a a l t e Saturday. T h e victory was the D u t c h ' s first at h o m e this season.

Baseball squad bombs hapless Spring Arbor by Mark Van Oostenburg

O ' C o n n e r p i t c h e d t h e first t h r e e innings, Eriks the middle t w o and N o r d s t r o m h u r l e d t h e final t w o f r a m e s . E r i k s was t h e w i n n i n g p i t c h e r , w h i l e R o b Rest was t h e s t a r t e r a n d loser f o r S p r i n g A r b o r . M a r t y S n o a p led H o p e ' s h i t t i n g a t t a c k w i t h t h r e e hits i n c l u d i n g a double. T h e D u t c h also t u r n e d in s o m e fine d e f e n s i v e p l a y s . J i m L a m e r and B o b L a m e r p l a y e d well at third base a n d s h o r t s t o p , a n d Snoap and T i m Fritz collaborated f o r a s h a r p first t o s h o r t t o first double-play. H o p e will travel t o Ferris S t a t e College f o r a g a m e W e d n e s d a y afternoon. After meeting Aquinas n e x t S a t u r d a y a f t e r n o o n at h o m e , t h e D u t c h will o p e n their M I A A season against K a l a m a z o o College o n t h e 2 8 t h of April.

The Hope College baseball t e a m rolled t o a 12-0 r o u t of Spring Arbor here Saturday aftern o o n . T h e win was t h e first f o r t h e D u t c h at h o m e this s e a s o n . T h e D u t c h s t r u c k early w i t h t h r e e r u n s in t h e first inning. T h e y were a i d e d by t h r e e w a l k s , t w o wild p i t c h e s , a n d t w o S p r i n g Arbor errors. Hope erupted for nine r u n s in t h e f o u r t h i n n i n g t o d e c i d e t h e g a m e . Brad L y o n s , Jim L a m e r a n d B o b L a m e r k n o c k e d in t w o r u n s e a c h in t h e f o u r t h inning. Bill O ' C o n n e r , Lon E r i k s a n d Dick N o r d s t r o m c o m b i n e d f o r a s u p e r b five-hit s h u t - o u t . P e r h a p s t h e b r i g h t e s t s p o t of t h e p i t c h i n g p e r f o r m a n c e s w a s t h a t t h e r e was n o t a single b a s e - o n - b a l l s issued.

B o t h of H o p e ' s relay t e a m s t o o k s e c o n d places. T h e 4 4 0 y a r d relay t e a m of C h e t Fvers, G o u y d , Bob L u y e n d y k , and Haverdink was t i m e d at 4 3 . 5 , w h i l e t h e o n e mile relay t e a m of Evers, Haverd i n k , Neil D e P a l i o , a n d G r e g Daniels c l o c k e d a 3 : 3 0 . Daniels also t u r n e d in 4 : 2 6 . 9 in t h e mile f o r s e c o n d place and D e P a o l i ran t h e 4 4 0 y a r d dash in 5 3 . 7 f o r a f o u r t h place. IN F I E L D E V E N T S , G e o r g e B e n n e t h a r p o o n e d a t h i r d p l a c e in t h e j a v e l i n w i t h a toss of 1 54 f t . 4 in. in the long j u m p , Barry Brugger leaped to second place w i t h 2 1 f t . 7 % in. a n d Evers p o u n ced i n t o t h e pit f o r t h i r d place w i t h 19 f t . 1 1 % in. In t h e p o l e v a u l t , b o t h Craig B l e c k l e y a n d D u t c h N y b o e r cleared t h e b a r at 12 ft. a n d o n t h e rule of f e w e r misses, B l e c k l e y took t h i r d place a n d Nyboer fourth. Gene Haulenbeek took f o u r t h place in the high j u m p w i t h a leap of 5 f t . 6 in. IN T H E T R I P L E j u m p , Evers f i n i s h e d in t h i r d place w i t h a 3 9 f t . 2,/2 in. j u m p and Steve V a n Pelt

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Computer nears saturation D u r i n g M a r c h t h e IBM 1 1 3 0 c o m p u t e r on c a m p u s operated for 193 h o u r s , a n e w r e c o r d . THE C O M P U T E R c e n t e r s t a f f now works ten hours a day to keep the c o m p u t e r running. Kenneth Vink, Director of D a t a Processing, says that c o m p u t e r t i m e is n o w close t o s a t u r a t i o n and t h a t facilities will have t o be e n l a r g e d if t h e c o m p u t e r c e n t e r is t o k e e p u p w i t h d e m a n d in t h e future. W h e t h e r a n y n e w f u n d s will be available t o t h e c o m p u t e r c e n t e r is

not yet known. Some other c a p i t a l i n v e s t m e n t s t h a t ha ve b e e n p r o p o s e d are a d d i t i o n a l l a n g u a g e laboratory facilities, e q u i p m e n t for the t h e a t r e and remodeling the basement of Kollen Hall to accommodate the communications d e p a r t m e n t . ACCORDING TO Clarence H a n d l o g t e n , College T r e a s u r e r a n d Business M a n a g e r , m o n e y f o r any of t h e s e p r o j e c t s d e p e n d s o n s t u d e n t e n r o l l m e n t f o r next y e a r and o n g i f t s t o t h e college.

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Several possibilities e x i s t f o r e x p a n s i o n of t h e c o m p u t e r c e n t e r , all of w h i c h w o u l d be e x p e n s i v e . H o n e y w e l l p r o p o s e s t o sell the college a m a c h i n e similar to, b u t faster than, the one now o w n e d . T h i s m a c h i n e w o u l d cost b e t w e e n $3,000 and $4,000 a m o n t h . THE C O L L E G E c o u l d also b u y a n o t h e r IBM 1 1 3 0 w i t h s l o w e r , and t h u s c h e a p e r , a c c e s s o r i e s t h a n the o n e now o w n e d and operate two computers. O n e o t h e r a l t e r n a t i v e is t o b u y t i m e o n a large P D P c o m p u t e r . A time-sharing operation would allow m u c h v e r s a t i l i t y , b u t w o u l d cost at least $ 8 , 0 0 0 a m o n t h . T h i s is m o r e t h a n t h e c o m p u t e r center's present annual budget. Such a m a c h i n e w o u l d a l l o w several s t u d e n t s t o s i m u l t a n e o u s l y use the c o m p u t e r at r e m o t e t e r m i n a l s , a service n o t n o w o f f e r e d . U N F O R T U N A T E L Y , t h e cost of a n e w m a c h i n e is o n l y p a r t of the cost of e x p a n d i n g facilities. More r o o m , air c o n d i t i o n i n g , s t a f f and p o w e r m u s t also b e c o n s i d ered.

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A R O U N D â&#x20AC;&#x201D; S o p h o m o r e C h e t Evers of t h e H o p e track t e a m extra d i s t a n c e in the l o n g j u m p at Van Raalte field Saturday. thin-clads f i n i s h e d s e c o n d in a tri-angular m e e t w i t h Spring Grand Rapids Junior College.

t h r e e - s t e p p e d his w a y t o f o u r t h w i t h a 3 8 f t . 5 in. e f f o r t . In o t h e r r u n n i n g e v e n t s . R i c k S c h a a p c a p t u r e d t w o s e c o n d places w i t h a 15.6 c l o c k i n g in t h e 120 y a r d high h u r d l e s a n d a 5 7 . 1 r u n in t h e 4 4 0 y a r d i n t e r m e d i a t e h u r d l e s . In the 8 8 0 y a r d r u n , Marty Stark snared f o u r t h place w i t h a t i m e of 2 : 0 8 . 7 .

Del G r e g o r y a n d F r e d H o f f e r t , b o t h f r o m JC, w e r e t h e m e e t ' s outstanding performers. Gregory c a p t u r e d a first in b o t h t h e t r i p l e j u m p a n d the l o n g j u m p , s e c o n d in t h e high j u m p a n d f o u r t h in t h e 2 2 0 yard dash. H o f f e r t garnered a f i r s t in t h e j a v e l i n , t h i r d in t h e high j u m p , and f o u r t h in t h e l o n g jump.

Hope eyes sailing course for summer program T h e s t u d e n t a c t i v i t i e s o f f i c e is currently exploring the possibility of a sailing p r o g r a m f o r H o p e students. T h e idea o r i g i n a t e d last y e a r w h e n Phil R a u w e r d i n k , t h e n s t u dent activities co-ordinator, m a d e the original contacts and Andy A t w o o d , p r e s e n t l y s t u d e n t activities c o - c o o r d i n a t o r , h a s c o n t i n u e d the planning. " A t t h i s p o i n t , " A t w o o d said, "1 a m still in t h e i n f a n t stage of p l a n n i n g a n d t a l k i n g a n d have t o know about student commitment a n d i n t e r e s t . " P r e s e n t l y t h e r e is the p o s s i b i l i t y of t w o sailing classes d u r i n g J u n e a n d J u l y at t h e M a c a t a w a Y a c h t Basin f o r $ 2 0 f o r a o n e - m o n t h lesson as part of t h e s u m m e r school program.

A l t h o u g h t h e sailing p r o g r a m is still an idea a n d t h e c o l l e g e d o e s n o t have a n y sail b o a t s , A t w o o d a d d e d , "I feel c o n f i d e n t t h a t w i t h a s u f f i c i e n t a m o u n t of s t u d e n t s u p p o r t we c o u l d get s o m e sail b o a t s . " If a sailing p r o g r a m w e r e set u p , t h e r e w o u l d be n o c r e d i t f o r it a n d a f a c u l t y s u p e r v i s o r w o u l d have t o be f o u n d , b u t n o o n e has b e e n a p p r o a c h e d y e t , Atwood explained. H o p e is o n e of the f e w s c h o o l s l o c a t e d o n the G r e a t L a k e s w h i c h d o e s not have a sailing p r o g r a m d e s p i t e of its c o n v e n i e n t l o c a t i o n , A t w o o d stated. A m o n g the o t h e r s c h o o l s in Michigan w h i c h have sailing p r o g r a m s are Michigan S t a t e , the U n i v e r s i t y of M i c h i g a n a n d E a s t e r n Michigan U n i v e r s i t y .

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