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ANCHOR MAIL Responsible letters, regardless of opinion, are welcomed and will be published. They should be no longer than 200 words, submitted by noon Wednesday, and signed. To conserve space, editors have right to edit. My! Three pro-Barry articles in one edition. One might think that the editor wanted a reaction. As a Republican, not on the Goldwater bandwagon, here is mine. Even with a cast on his foot Barry Goldwater can still find room to put his foot in his mouth. In recent weeks he has made several statements that should endear him to the iDemocrats should he receive the Republican nomination for President. First, the idea of withdrawing recognition of Russia is rather naive if not ridiculous. Russia got along rather well for about 15 years afler the Revolution without our recognition. Red China has not dried up and blown away because we have denied it recognition. Recognition does not mean we have to agree with a particular government but that we recognize it as the legal government of a nation. The effectiveness of our missiles is not a question that should be handled as Goldwater is attempting to do at present. The quality of our defense is something that should not be handed to the Russians in a newspaper article. We just may need these missiles should we ever elect Goldwater. Cuba is a sovereign nation. Giving aid to an invasion force and making sure that this force gets ashore would be an act of war. The events in Panama should demonstrate to us that if we go through such an invasion, without any added provocation by Cuba, we will not only be at war but we will be at war without any friends in our own hemisphere. Senator Goldwater may have many fine qualities, but until he learns that he is no longer just "the shining knight of the far right" but a truly national figure and tempers his statements accordingly, he will never go any higher than the Senate of the United States. David L. Boerigter
Isn't it funny how all the kids waiting for Goldwater and his "rugged individualism" in last week's picture look so much alike? Rob Wenge
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Action and Reaction In the Colorado Daily, M. J. Limine has written: "Out of the comfortable crucible of middleclass American culture come security-seeking, controversy-avoiding young people, believing that the purpose of the universe is to serve the selfish interest of the United States in general and of themselves in particular. "But these young people, our college students, are merely the symptoms, the occasion, of the ideological innocence and operational guilt which all of us share and show to the world. They are not the causal agents, though in a few years they will have become the conveyors and the perpetuators of our timid social and economic philosophies and of our underdeveloped domestic and international political theories. "The American college is the one institution in our culture whose purpose must be to convert mindless orthodoxy to critical scrutiny, whose job must be to make young Americans think for themselves instead of themselves, whose atmosphere must be one of heterodoxy, dissidence and protest." Have Hope College students taken the opportuni'y for involvement in the process of critical scrutiny, reaction, decision and action necessitated by such general indifference? As opportunevery other institution, Hope has the opportunities for such involvement, but, if we are honest with ourselves, it must admitted that in general students have succumbed to the easy way out of accepting conditions without criticism.
FRIDAY, JAN. 17
Too often we as students have not had the personal responsibility to become sufficiently informed about the situation of the world of which we a r e a part. Unless students know what is actually occurring in the existing society, unless they have personal convictions and opinions about what should be occurring, they cannot react to conditions of that society. And reaction without the decision and dedication for positive action is useless. In this context attitudes on this campus stand out. Despite the promising possibilities of student action such as the Student Court, Student Senate and SCA the prevailing situation on campus is one of talk without fulfilled action or of absorbed interest in the inconsequential. While students m a y grumble about chapel, very few will try to do anything, such as working out methods of making chapel more inviting for s:udent involvement. While some students may complain about drinking regulations, no one will show the maturity for positive action to back up honest conviction. Although some positive student action has Dccasionally been undertaken, the only conclijsions which can be made about too many Hope students are that they lack real personal conviction or dedication to their conviction or have deceived themselves into thinking they are helpless to do anything or lack the personal involvement in really important issues or are too busy with minor trivia to see the major problems around them. _£ ^
Student Union: 8-12 p.m.
SATURDAY, JAN. 18 Basketball: Hope at Adrian Student Union: 8-12 p.m. Dancing
MONDAY. JAN. 20 Examination Week begins
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 23 Community Concert: John Boyden, Civic Center, 8:15 p.m.
FRIDAY, JAN. 24 Examination Week ends
TUESDAY. JAN. 28 Final Registration Basketball: Hope at Wheaton
WEDNESDAY. JAN. 29 Second Semester begins Basketball: Hope at Concordia
Christian Identity World Important, According to Protestant Convention by Richard Kopter What happened when 3200 college students, representing nearly 80 different countries and every m a j o r Protestant denomination in the world, convened to discuss the mission of the Church in the world? Throw a very witty Episcopal Bishop, another Episcopalian, a Russian Orthodox in key leadership positions; add group singing, daily international performances and stirring talks by representatives of the church in the various parts of the world; allow the experience to settle and ferment in 3200 minds; and then observe the results in one of the many Living Unit Groups which met each evening to share the reactions and observations accumulated during the day. For two and a half hours after supper the groups attempted to interpret their experiences of the day and of the whole conference, discussing, relating, debating and ipraying, seeking answers for the problems confronting them as vital participants of God's world. One of the most enlightening moments of the entire week came one night when a short debate flared up between a boy from Nigeria and another from Kenya. One theme emphasized through-
out the whole conference was that although Christians have been set free from the chains of the world through Christ, they a r e still the children of God, with a duty to perform, which throws them right back in!o the world f r o m which they came. As Father Alexander Schmemann put it, "A Christian should be identified with the world more than anyone else." Immediately, we were again reminded of the picture of a real Christian as a man walking down the street with a Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other. Was the conference successful? Did it accomplish its purpose? To both questions, the answer is a resounding "yes." There were no great new concepts discovered, no perfect solutions proposed, no marked effect on the world situation. Yet, the very fact that the conference met m a d e it a success. Add to that fellowship which was attained, the increased understanding which emerged between the various classes and denominations •and the total effect becomes one of a conference in which each person took part, and of an experience in which whole lives or whole ways of thinking were in
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