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M A R C H 8. 2 0 0 6 • SINCE 1887 "SPERA IN DEO" HOPE COLLEGE • HOLLAND. MICHIGAN

W H A T ' S INSIDE

Education elision 2

Proposed federal '07 budget cuts $3.7 billion

GPS success 3

Concert sells out In record time

Holland gangs 4

Local restaurant starts

urban ministry

Writer's block? Never again! 5

Student writers dash out 175-page novels

N E W S SNIPPETS

CAMPUS LIFE BOARD EVALUATES FRISBEEGOLF

C a m p u s L i fe Boa rd has

recen t ly e x p r e s s e d conce rn

b e c a u s e the f r i sbee go l f c o u r s e

has u n d e r g o n e s o m e a l t e ra t ions

t h r o u g h o u t the year .

In N o v e m b e r , a t ree b e t w e e n

Voorhees and G r a v e s Hal l ,

f r i s b e e go l f ho le n u m b e r e igh t ,

topp led a f t e r h igh w i n d s to rm.

A flagpole by D i m n e n t C h a p e l

w h i c h se rved as F r i sbee go l f

hole n u m b e r n ine w a s a l so

r e m o v e d last win ter .

A s sp r ing nears , C L B h o p e s

to d i scuss the c h a n g e in f r i sbee

go l f ho les , a l t h o u g h t h e y w e r e

u n a b l e to d i scuss the ma t t e r at

the i r m e e t i n g yes te rday .

TOWELS SPARK FIRE IN PHELPS DRYER

On March 6, Phe lps de layed

lunch service until 11:15 a .m.

because of s m o k e in the bui ld ing

caused by towels that caugh t on

fire in a dryer in the ba semen t of

Phe lps Hai l . .

The towels belonged to Hope

Catering Services. Three fire trucks

arrived to the scene after a custodian

notified the college of the fire. The

fire was put out quickly, although

smoke lingered in the building for

several hours after.

OTTAWA ECONOMY SUFFERS SLIGHT DROP

O t t a w a C o u n t y ' s e c o n o m y ' s

hea l th d r o p p e d 2 . 3 % f r o m

J a n u a r y 2 0 0 4 , s b e n c h m a r k ,

a c c o r d i n g to the L a k e s h o r e

E c o n o m i c Index .

JACK RIDL WINS "UGLY" CONTEST

On M o n d a y , Jack Ridl ,

w a s c o n f i r m e d the "ug l i e s t

p r o f e s s o r . " In an e f f o r t to ra i se

m o n e y fo r D a n c e M a r a t h o n ,

A l p h a Phi O m e g a s p o n s o r e d an

" u g l y " con tes t . S tuden t s d o n a t e d

m o n e y to o n e o f five p r o f e s s o r s

b a s e d on w h i c h looked " u g l i e s t "

in h u m o r o u s ge t -up .

T h e e v e n t ra ised $ 2 8 0 in

total . Ridl rece ived ba l loons ,

t iara and beau ty kit c o m p l e t e

wi th l oo fa and lot ion. H e a l so

rece ived an of f ic ia l cer t i f ica te

that sa id , " Y o u r ug l iness is an

insp i ra t ion to us a l l ."

COMMITTEE RE-EXAMINES MINORITY RECRUITMENT Shannon Craig S T A F F W R I T E R

On Tuesday, Feb. 28 , Hope

Col lege faculty and staff met to

discuss the final report f rom the

ad hoc commit tee to review the

Comprehens ive Plan to Improve

Minori ty Part icipat ion.

Reportedly c o m m e n t s last win-

ter at the Board of Trustees meet-

ing prompted a request to review

the comprehens ive plan. Last

spring, a petit ion w a s circulated

a m o n g faculty that was given to

the board of trustees. T h e petit ion

asked for the comprehens ive plan

to be rev iewed. T h e specif ics of

the petition and what motivated

the petit ion is unknown.

. Convened Augus t 2005, the

commit tee w a s led by George

D. Z u i d e m a of the Hope Col lege

Board of Trus tees and Profes-

sor John Yelding of the educa-

tion depar tment . Faculty, staff ,

s tudents and a representat ive of

the board of trustees m a d e up the

commit tee of 20.

T h e commit tee w a s charged

with examin ing both racial and

ethnic diversi ty on I lope ' s c a m p u s

and assess ing the comprehens ive

plan in place. T h e plan addresses

minori ty s tudent recrui tment and

retention, increased minor i ty fac-

ulty and s ta f f presence , and cul-

tural unders tanding.

" W e are currently, as a col lege,

society and nat ion, l iving in an in-

creas ingly complex global world.

As a commit tee , however , w e do

not bel ieve the col lege is fully

posi t ioned to prepare students

to live and work in a world that

will increasingly demand more

than one language, an enhanced

unders tanding of cultures and the

capacity to work with individuals

f rom every corner of the wor ld ,"

Zu idema and Yelding said in a let-

ter to President James Bul tman.

T h e commit tee found that

Hope has made progress toward

a more diverse campus but more

work is needed.

"If diversi ty is to become

an insti tutional value, then we

must match our public rhetoric

with our act ions," Zu idema and

SEE ADMIT, PAGE 1

BUDGET BATTLES: Student Congress accepts

new group, ups activity fee Erin L H o t t a E D I T O R H N - C H I E F

The National Society of* Black Engineers

( N S B E ) w a s approved yes terday by C a m p u s

Life Board to be a funded student organizat ion

next fall. Erika Howel l ( ' 0 8 ) proposed N S B E

as a s tudent organizat ion to the Extra Curr icu-

lar Activit ies Commi t t ee in January.

N S B E is the only new organizat ion added

next year to be funded through the Student

Activity Fee. However , Dean of Students

Richard Frost conf i rmed yes terday that the

C L B approved the Triathlon C l u b to be an

official organizat ion next year, pend ing a

mee t ing with himself and Ellen Awad, direc-

tor of s tudent activities and Greek life. T h e

Triathlon Club, however , will not be funded

through the Student Act ivi ty Fee. C L B did not

approve Water-ski Club to be an off icial or-

ganizat ion at this t ime. T h e board expressed

support , but asked that " s o m e fur ther safe-

ty concerns be addressed" before be ing an

off icial organizat ion.

Aaron Hawn ( '06) , pres ident of the Sexual-

ity Roundtable : A Forum for G a y and Straight

Students , said his g roup took "a f ew s teps"

this year towards becoming an official or-

ganizat ion on campus . T h e group created a

const i tut ion, but did not appeal to E C A C to

b e c o m e a funded organizat ion. Accord ing to

H a w n , the g roup has a t tempted to become a

funded organizat ion in years past , a l though

they were denied funding . Hawn chose not

to appeal to E C A C this year because , he said,

"in all honesty, w e w o n ' t gain that m u c h by

becoming off ic ia l ."

Even though student leaders like Hawn

decide not to b e c o m e official ly funded orga-

nizat ions, Josh Payne ( ' 07) , Student Congress

comptrol ler , said that there is an increase in

s tudent g roup involvement this year. This

increase, combined with large deficit and

SEE BUDGET, PAGE 6

PHOTO EOFTOR JAREO W I L K E N I N G

BREAKING RECORDS — On March 4, both men's and women's basketbal l teams advanced to the NCAA "Sweet 16 ." See page 8.

WTHS PROGRAM REACHES OUT TO SPANISH-SPEAKERS "La Radio Que te Mueve" brings Spanish

music, conversat ion

to Hope radio

Evelyn Danie l F E A T U R E S E D I T O R

Hope student radio becomes

bilingual Saturday a f te rnoons as

six Spanish s tudents take over

the a i rwaves.

Their show on W T H S , " O c h e n -

ta y N u e v e Punto Nueve: La Ra-

dio Q u e te Mueve , " or, roughly,

"89.9 : T h e Radio Tha t Moves

You," broadcasts music , news,

conversa t ion, weather , sports and

communi ty events to Hope and

the sur rounding communi ty , en-

tirely "en espaftol ."

"I feel like Hope really needs to

get involved with the communi ty

a lot more , " said Gera rdo Ruf f ino

( ' 08) , one of the p rogram's hosts.

"We both - Hope and Holland

- have a lot to o f f e r one another ."

T h e s tudents ' language profes-

sor, Mar ia Claudia Andre , a lso

realized the need for a program to

serve Hol land ' s nearly 8 ,000 His-

panic or Latino residents.

Accord ing to the U.S. Census

Bureau, 17.5 percent , or 5 ,674

people in Hol land speak Span-

ish at home. Of those, nearly half

speak Engl ish "less than very

wel l ." If t rends in the U.S. contin-

ue, that number could grow even

higher in the coming years.

Without any regular Spanish

FM radio broadcast in the Hol-

land area, the s tudents realized a

ma jo r portion of the audience was

be ing over looked.

Andre and the Spanish de-

par tment offered the s tudents

upper- level course credit for tak-

ing on the chal lenge. While they

were uncertain of the workload it

would require. Liber Bezmer tney

SEE WTHS, PAGE 4

2 NEWS MARCH 8 , 2 0 0 6

PROPOSED EDUCATION CUT PROMPTS DEBATE Kurt Pyle SENIOR STAFF W R I T E R

Tucked inside the $2.7 trillion budget

request by the Bush adminis t ra t ion for

the 2007 fiscal year is a line item that has

prompted sharp cri t icism from Democra t s

and a s t rong defense f r o m Republ icans ; the

budget for the Depar tment of Educat ion.

Unde r the pres ident ' s proposal , the

Educat ion Depar tment would see a cut

of S3.7 billion, or 6.4 percent, from its

budget , an increase f rom the 1 percent cut

proposed for last yea r ' s budge t .

The cuts have Democra t s up in arms,

par t icular ly a f te r a D e c e m b e r 2005 budget

bill decreas ing f u n d i n g for s tudent loans by

$12.7 billion passed 216-214 in the House

of Representa t ives a f te r intense debate . 4tWe shou ldn ' t have to sacrifice

oppor tuni ty for s tudents , " said Sen. Debb ie

S tabenow (D-MI) in a t e leconference with

Michigan student newspapers Tuesday.

Such te leconfe rences a re part of* an

ef for t by Congress iona l Democra t s to rally

opposi t ion to the planned cuts , par t icular ly

a m o n g col lege students.

S tabenow argued educat ion spend ing is

a relat ively small sliver of the budget , but

one wi th huge implicat ions for s tudents .

T h e $2.1 billion cut is the equivalent of

one week of mili tary spend ing

Iraq, S tabenow said.

"1 think w e have a

chance at s topping them,"

the senator said. " I t ' s

very hard to j u s t i fy

w h e n you shine

the light of

M a n y of

f o r w a r d

are not

s u c h

t h e m

them

day ."

the cuts put

in the Bush plan

new. Programs

as Upward B o u n d

the Perkins s tudent

loan p rogram for lower

income s tudents were

slated for cuts in last y e a r ' s

budget but were saved.

S t abenow said the wor ry a m o n g

Democra t s is that the adminis t ra t ion wil l

cont inue to p ropose cuts to these p rograms

until they get them.

"Th i s is about our values and priori t ies ,"

she said, "and I d o n ' t think w e should

shor tchange opportuni t ies for Amer icans ,

young or o ld ."

Republ icans have been equal ly

strong in their de fense of the

budget .

"The pres ident ' s proposed

budget wou ld s t reaml ine

p rog rams wi th in the

Depar tmen t of

Educat ion and wou ld

reduce fund ing fo r

he cons iders

d u p l i c a t i v e

p r o g r a m s .

said H o p e grad

Pete Hoekst ra

R-Hol land .

"Desp i t e reducing

f u n d i n g in some areas ," H o e k s t r a

said, " t axpayer dol lars spent on educat ion

wou ld still be up $12 billion, or 29 percent ,

s ince 2001 . " Mos t of this increase is

connected to the passage of the N o Child

Lef t Behind Act in 2001.

Republ icans argue that fund ing is

not necessar i ly the answer to improving

educat ion .

"In the last 30 years , " Hoeks t ra said,

" the amount spent per pupil in e lementary

and secondary schools has nearly doubled,

yet academic ach ievement has remained

s tagnant . "

T h e u p c o m i n g months will de te rmine

whether President Bush will be able to

see his cuts th rough in a budget year. T h e

pres ident ' s prest ige is at near a l l - t ime lows,

with recent polls put t ing his approval rat ing

in the high 30s.

Unease over holding firm with the

president is evident within Republican ranks.

" T h e pres ident ' s annual budget reques t

is only a r ecommenda t ion , " said Hoekstra .

" M e m b e r s of Congress take the proposal

into considera t ion dur ing negotiat ions, and

they have certain priori t ies that o f t en result

in revisions to the pres ident ' s budget and

actual dol lars spent on specific p rog rams . "

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In late February, a c o m p a n y

o w n e d by the United Arab

Emira tes acquired rights to operate

all ma jo r facil i t ies at six Amer ican

seaports . T h e announcemen t w a s

fo l lowed by ou t rage in Congress ,

as m a n y doubted whe the r a

Midd le Eas tern count ry should

run the seaports , which are vital

to nat ional securi ty.

" T h e n u m b e r one nat ional

security cha l l enge to conf ron t us

is a weapon of m a s s des t ruct ion

going of f in a U.S. city. Well, it

could c o m e in a seaport . So w e

should focus on what it would

take to m a k e sure that d o e s n ' t

happen , " S tephen Flynn, fo rmer

Coast Gua rd c o m m a n d e r said.

To the surpr ise of many.

Pres ident Bush has been

suppor t ive o f the deal to g ive

the A r a b c o m p a n y control of the

por ts despi te opposi t ion f r o m

party leaders f r o m both houses of

Congress .

A British c o m p a n y called

Peninsular and Oriental S team

Naviga t ion has managed all day-

to-day operat ion of por ts in N e w

York, N e w Jersey, Phi ladelphia ,

Bal t imore , Miami and N e w

Or leans recently, according to

PBS N e w s .

Duba i Ports World w a s g iven

authori ty to run all six of these

ports on Feb. 22 , a f te r the state-

run bus iness acquired the Brit ish

firm for $6.8 mil l ion.

T h e United A r a b Emira tes

has been l inked to suppor t ing

terror ism around the world,

including the Sept. 11 attacks.

Some of the 9/11 h i jackers used

the United A r a b Emira tes as an

operat ional and financial base.

T h e Uni ted A r a b Emira tes also

t ransferred sh ipmen t s of smuggled

nuclear componen t s sent to Iran

and Nor th Korea .

Both Democra t i c and

Republ ican leaders w e r e shocked

that the same president w h o

vowed to do anything he could to

protect the country would approve

of the port si tuation.

"Ensu r ing the security of

N e w York ' s port operat ions

is paramount and I am very

concerned with the purchase of

Peninsular & Oriental Steam by

Dubai Ports World. 1 have directed

the Port Author i ty of N e w York

and N e w Jersey to explore all

legal op t ions that may be avai lable

to them," N e w York Gov. George

Pataki said, according to Bluff

Count ry News .

Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich

was upset that Maryland off ic ia ls

received no not ice in advance

abou t the A r a b c o m p a n y ' s

takeover of the six por ts until the

Bush adminis t ra t ion approved of

the situation.

"We needed to k n o w that this

w a s a done deal , given the state

of w h e r e w e are concern ing

securi ty," Ehrl ich said.

Ano the r s ta tement that a roused

uproar amongs t the leaders of

the nation was B u s h ' s p ledge

that any legislation b locking

the t ransact ion of the por ts deal

wou ld be vetoed. T h e s ta tement

w a s especia l ly surpr is ing s ince

Pres ident Bush has yet to veto

any legislation du r ing his five

years in of f ice .

" D o n ' t c o n f u s e m e with the

facts, m y mind is a l ready made

up ," Bush said recently.

M a n y Bush supporters are

worr ied that B u s h ' s refusal to

change p lans will a f fec t his

popular i ty even m o r e than the

Iraqi war has, but the Bush

adminis t ra t ion seems to feel very

conf ident about its decis ion.

N o w that the deal is final,

Dubai Por ts World will b e c o m e

the second- larges t por ts terminal

in the wor ld and a port ion of the

securi ty of the nat ion will lie in

the hands of a country with past

t ies to terror ism.

NE WS AROUND THE WORLD

IRAQ CIVIL WAR ONWARD PATRIOT T h e b o m b i n g of a Shii te M o s q u e

(above) has sparked violence

throughout Iraq. This bombing

has caused discussion of the pos-

sibility of civil war in Iraq as out-

raged Shi i te ' s have begun fight-

ing with Sunnis. By March I, the

death count w a s at 379 and 458

were injured in the violence.

The House of Representat ives

voted 280-138 in favor of renew-

ing the Patriot Act yesterday. T h e

vote renewed 16 provis ions of the

controversial act . "It (The Patriot

Act] will m a k e Amer ica more se-

cure, and tha t ' s the bot tom l ine,"

Sen. Jon Kyi ( R - A Z ) said.

RECRUITERS STAY

T h e Sup reme Cour t ruled in fa-

vor of a l lowing mili tary recruit-

ers on any campus that receives

government fund ing on Monday.

T h e controversy w a s rooted in the

mil i tary 's "don ' t ask, don ' t tel l"

policy concern ing homosexual i ty .

Al though s o m e col leges consid-

ered this discr iminat ion, the Su-

p r e m e Court voted unanimously

in favor of cont inuing recruiting.

A r t s MARCH 8 , 2 0 0 6

T H I S WEEK IN A R T

Wednesday March 8 Coolbeans Entertainment Luminescence: 9:15 p.m

12th Street Harmony: 10:00 p.m.

Kletz. Free.

Knickerbocker Film Series "Balzac and the Uttle Chinese Seam-

stress" Knickerbocker Theatre.

March 6-10: 7 and 9:15 p.m. $6.

Used Book Sale VanWylen and Music Libraries. Prices

vary. Now through March 24.

Thursday March 9 Dance 3 2 March 9 - 1 1 ; 8 p.m: DeWItt Center

Main Theatre. $ 5 for students.

Friday March 1 0 Dance Marathon 7 p.m. Dow Center. 24 hours.

SAC Movie: "The Chronicles of Namia" March 3 , 4 : 7 . 9 : 3 0 p.m and midn ight

March 5: 3 p.m: Graves. $2.

Saturday March 1 1 Student Recital Leah Blackney-Cel lo

4 p.m: Wlchers. Free.

Ongoing Needle Art DePree Art Center. Through March 12.

BOOK SALE AT VAN WYLEN LIBRARY

T h e Van Wylen Library is

ho ld ing a book sale th rough

March 24.

T h e sale includes both hard-

cover and paperback books , in

both f ict ion and nonfict ion, in-

c luding m a n y art catalogs, K-12

educat ional mater ia ls and travel

books. Prices vary.

A CAPELLA GROUPS TO PERFORM AT COOLBEANS

Tonight , March 8, the w o m e n ' s

a capella g roup . Luminescence ,

will pe r form at the Coo lbeans

Cof feehouse Enter ta inment in the

Kletz at 9:15 p .m.

T h e n ine -member g roup con-

sists o f Jess Schmid t ( ' 06) , Claire

Tyner ( ' 07) , Hayley Keeler ( ' 0 7 ) ,

Jenny Cence r ( ' 07) , Be thany

Wichman ( ' 0 7 ) , Chante l le Kram-

er ( ' 08) , Kel ly Sina ( ' 08) , Magg ie

Hel lner ( ' 08) , Ally McLeod f O S )

and Mary Davis ( ' 09 ) .

Select ions wil l include "Des -

perado ," "Walking on Broken

Glass ," "Goodnigh t m y Ange l , "

and "You Raise M e Up ."

Fo l lowing Luminescence will

be the n ine -member m e n ' s a ca-

pella group, 12th Street Harmony,

w h o will pe r form at 10 p.m.

VWS TO HOST POET

T h e Hope Col lege Visi t ing

Writers Series is will feature

award-winn ing poet Dana Roeser

on Wednesday, March 15, at 7

p.m. at the Knickerbocker The-

atre. Admiss ion is free.

Roeser is the winne r of the

2005 Great Lakes Colleges Asso-

cia t ion 's N e w Writer Award and

is current ly the Jenny M c K e a n

Moore Wri ter- in-Washington at

George Washington University.

Her first book of poems ,

"Beau t i fu l Mot ion ," w o n the

. Samue l French Morse Prize giv-

en by Northeas tern Univers i ty

Press.

T h e Hope Col lege Jazz En-

semble wil l provide mus ic begin-

n ing at 6 :30 p.m.

STAFF W R I T E R

T h e final event fo r the Great

Pe r fo rmance Series recently sold

out in record t ime. Ladysmi th

Black M a m b a z o is set to per form

on Wednesday, March 15, at

7 :30 p.m. in Dimnen t Memor ia l

Chape l . T h e t ickets for this show

sold out three w e e k s in advance ,

a feat never be fo re accompl i shed

by any other G P S performer .

Ladysmi th Black M a m b a z o

is an a l l -male a capella g roup

from South Afr ica . T h e G r a m m y -

winn ing group is wel l known

throughout the wor ld . They have

pe r fo rmed on stage with the

likes of Paul McCar tney , Stevie

Wonder and Paul S imon.

Despi te the f a m e of Ladysmi th ,

s tudents w e r e surpised h o w the

s h o w m a n a g e d to sell out so

quickly.

" A sellout is not unusual .

Even though this is the earl iest

sellout w e ' v e had , the t ickets are

more avai lable n o w than they

have been in past years due to our

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The Ladysmith

n e w t icket o f f ice , " Hope Col lege

arts coordinator Derek Emerson

said. " M a n y people have seen

Ladysmi th in o ther concer t s and

w e k n e w that this show wou ld

sell out qu ick ly ."

According to Emerson, there

:0 g lWEtga f rA

Mambazo concert was soid

were 1,000 tickets available. The

first 600 went to classes, Phelps

Scholars and G P S subscribers.

Another 200 went quietly and

quickly. By the t ime tickets went

on sale, there were only 2 0 0 left,

and those were gone in 24 hours.

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PHOTO COURTESY ROBERT H O F F M A N

-out three weeks in advance.

Not only has Ladysmi th been

requested by s tudents and the

publ ic for years , but t ickets to

this pe r fo rmance are m u c h less

expens ive than wha t it would

normal ly cos t to see Ladysmi th

e lsewhere .

No Sufjan yet: Hope's eye set on other big name for spring semester M a t t Oosterhouse A R T S EDCTOR

Afte r the recent concer t successes of

Mae and Cope land , one can on ly help but to

ask " W h a t is next for the spr ing semes te r?"

A m o n g rumors that have been floating around

the Hope communi ty , is the possibi l i ty of

b r ing ing a lumnus and fo rmer Ancho r Arts

Editor, S u f j a n Stevens ( ' 97) , to campus .

Stevens , an Indie-rock artist based in N e w

York, has been a source of controversial

d iscuss ion a m o n g H o p e Col lege students,

since he p layed at Calv in Col lege twice in

2005, whi le he has not yet p layed at his a lma

mater.

A lex Griff i th ( ' 0 9 ) , a fan of S tevens '

music , expressed his concern over S tevens '

Sufjan Stevens cannot perform within two to

three months and SO miles oja venue that

he last played at.

choice of venue .

"I am upset that a Hope a lumnus wou ld

[per form at] Calv in instead of Hope , " he

said.

M i k e Leman ( ' 0 9 ) , shared in Gr i f f i th ' s

f rustrat ion and expressed his o w n concern on

the matter.

"I have heard that w e haven ' t even ex tended

an invitation to h i m , " L e m a n said.

Qui te the contrary, accord ing to Jon O m e e ,

Hope ' s concer t coordinator .

" H o p e has been trying really hard to get

S u f j a n S tevens ," O m e e said. "Ca lv in s imply

got to h im before w e d id . "

O m e e admit ted that S tevens has an unusual

SEE SUFJAN, PAGE 6

Tulip Time Festival to host Jars of Clay at the DeVos Fieldhouse T h e Tulip T i m e fest ival will

be host ing the G r a m m y Award

winn ing band. Jars O f Clay, on

Wednesday, M a y 10 in the DeVos

Fie ldhouse .

T h e concert is at 6 :30 p .m,

with doors open ing at 6 p .m. A g

Silver, a local band, will be the

open ing act .

T h e concert will be the first

ever to be held at H o p e Co l l ege ' s

n e w fieldhouse.

Tickets for the event will be

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Local restaurant ministers to gang youths Jenny Cencer SPORTS EDITOR

Afte r a recent desecrat ion of Hol land ' s

Window on the Waterf ront park, ques t ions

began to re-arise concern ing gang act ivi ty

in the area. T h e graffit i _ _ _ _ _ _

seen on benches , monu-

ments and s idewalks of

the park all consisted

of symbol s and var ious

s landers , yet no culpri ts have yet been appre- = = = = =

hended, and off ic ia ls

m a y have fa lse ly assumed that the spray

paint artists were gang member s .

Local restaurant owner , Lisa Cromar t i e ,

bel ieves that this cycle of gang act ivi ty can

be ove rcome . Cromar t i e opened a Philly-

style d iner in N o v e m b e r called " L i s a M o V

on Washington Ave. She employs y o u n g

people , mos t of w h o m are fo rmer or ac-

t ive gang m e m b e r s as an extens ive youth

p rogram.

"Ifyou're going to help kids,you've

gotta go into their world."

Lisa C r o m a r t i e ,

o w n e r of " L i s a M o ' s "

Cromar t i e exper ienced gang act ivi ty

first hand as a fo rmer d rug dealer in Phila-

delphia .

A youth g roup organizer for 16 years,

Cromar t i e bel ieves that i4if y o u ' r e going

to help kids, y o u ' v e gotta go into their

wor ld . "

She encourages all of

her emp loyees to pursue

j o b t raining and teaches

them h o w to live a nor-

mal life and to care for

= = = = themse lves wi thout the

protect ion and aid of a

gang .

Cromar t i e h o p e s that the police off icers

of Hol land b e c o m e stronger leaders and

encourage r e fo rmed m e m b e r s on their ac-

compl i shment s .

" C o p s should bel ieve in theses kids so

they bel ieve in t hemse lves , " Cromar t ie

said. "Leaders in this communi ty m a k e m y

j o b harder. T h e r e ' s so m u c h double talk

here . "

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( ' 0 7 ) , J o h n B r u g g e r s ( ' 0 9 ) , A l a i n

G a l i n d o ( ' 0 6 ) , J a c o b H o l t o n ( ' 0 7 ) ,

M a r k P a n a g g i o ( ' 0 9 ) a n d R u f f i n o

v o l u n t e e r e d as h o s t s .

W h i l e w o r k i n g o n the s h o w is

h e l p f u l to its hos t s , s e v e r a l o f w h o m

are f r o m S p a n i s h - s p e a k i n g c o u n -

t r i es , t h e b e n e f i t s a r e not j u s t fo r

t h o s e a l r e a d y f l u e n t in t h e l a n g u a g e .

' T h e r a d i o p r o g r a m p r o v i d e s a

g r e a t o p p o r t u n i t y

f o r e v e r y S p a n i s h = = = = =

s t u d e n t at H o p e

t o i m p r o v e t h e i r

sk i l l s , " H o l t o n

sa id . " L i s t e n i n g

to t h e s h o w is

a g r e a t w a y to '

p r a c t i c e w i t h o u t

r ea l ly d o i n g a n y t h i n g , a n d in m y

o p i n i o n it is a lot m o r e e n j o y a b l e

t h a n d o i n g h o m e w o r k o r l a b s . "

T h e p r o g r a m s e r v e s H o p e ' s na -

t i v e S p a n i s h s p e a k e r s as w e l l .

" M y S p a n i s h - s p e a k i n g f r i e n d s e n -

j o y t h o s e t w o h o u r s a n d a r e g l a d to

h a v e s o m e p r o g r a m m i n g that t a k e s

t h e i r i n t e r e s t s in to c o n s i d e r a t i o n , "

H o l t o n sa id .

T h e s h o w , w r i t t e n , d e s i g n e d a n d

p r o d u c e d c o m p l e t e l y b y the s t u d e n t s .

"W/e provide a sort of window through

which the Latino community can get a

different view of Hope."

J a c o b H o l t o n ( ' 0 7 )

first a i r ed F e b . 18. W T H S ' s m o v e to t h e

M a r t h a M i l l e r C e n t e r m a y e n a b l e t h e m

to i n c r e a s e a i r t i m e to t w o s h o w s e a c h

w e e k a n d m a k e t h e s h o w m o r e p o l i s h e d

by a l l o w i n g the h o s t s to r e c o r d a n d ed i t

t h e p r o g r a m s in a d v a n c e .

W h i l e a s i n g l e r a d i o p r o g r a m m a y

no t b e e n o u g h t o b r i d g e t h e g a p b e t w e e n

t h e S p a n i s h - a n d E n g l i s h - s p e a k i n g

c o m m u n i t i e s in H o l l a n d , t h e s t u d e n t s

s e e it a s a s t e p in t h e

= = = = = r igh t d i r e c t i o n . B y

p r o m o t i n g g r e a t e r

c u l t u r a l a w a r e n e s s

a n d o p e n i n g u p the

l ine o f c o m m u n i c a -

t ion , the s h o w is o n e = = = = = = = = = = = = s m a l l w a y t o l essen

t h e l a n g u a g e d iv ide .

" T h e r a d i o s h o w is a v e h i c l e to p ro -

m o t e cu l tu ra l a w a r e n e s s , a n d cu l tu ra l

a w a r e n e s s is w h a t c a n b r i d g e that g a p , "

H o l t o n sa id . " W e p r o v i d e a so r t o f w i n -

d o w t h r o u g h w h i c h t h e L a t i n o c o m m u -

ni ty c a n ge t a d i f f e r e n t v i e w o f H o p e .

T h e y c a n s e e s ix H o p e C o l l e g e s tuden t s ,

all c o m i n g f r o m v e r y d i f f e r e n t b a c k -

g r o u n d s , a n d e a c h r e p r e s e n t i n g a d i f t e r -

ent s i d e o f H o p e . "

" L a R a d i o Q u e te M u e v e " a i r s Sa tu r -

d a y s f r o m 2 p . m . to 4 p . m .

FEATURES 5 MARCH 8 , 2 0 0 6

Evelyn Daniel FEATURES EDITOR

For four weeks , 12 creative wri t ing

s tudents sacrif iced it a l l—thei r social

lives, their sleep, and near ly their sanity.

Their task w a s to wri te a comple te nov-

e l - 5 0 , 0 0 0 words , or approximate ly 175

p a g e s - i n jus t one month .

T h e s tudents are enrol led in the Eng-

lish depar tment ' s creat ive fiction wri t ing

course . T h e novel had jus t t w o require-

ments : to meet the word count , and to

have a comple te story a r c — a plot with a

beginning , middle and end. They wou ld

wri te for quanti ty, not quality.

Professor Elizabeth Trembley of the

Engl ish depar tment heard abou t the N a -

tional N o v e l Wri t ing Month p rogram

(abbrevia ted N a N o W r i M o ) , wh ich in-

vi tes thousands o f part icipants annual ly

to wri te an entire novel be tween Nov. 1

and Nov. 30.

"I learned about it last fall and thought ,

' W h a t a great cen terp iece for a 300-level

wri t ing c o u r s e , ' " T rembley said.

Her depar tment agreed, and she began

planning Hope ' s o w n vers ion of a novel

wri t ing month for the spr ing semes ter in

her English 354 class. First, however , she

bel ieved it w a s important to take on the

chal lenge herself.

"I believed it w a s very important that

I do this wi th t h e m , " Trembley said. "The

more 1 thought about it, though, the m o r e

I real ized it w a s impor tant to be at tend-

ing to t hem as their cheer leader as they

wen t th rough this p rocess . "

Making the commitment Trembley comple ted her o w n 30-day

novel the N o v e m b e r before teaching the

course . W h e n it c a m e t ime fo r the stu-

den ts ' turn, she w a s ready. She met with

each s tudent in an individual confe rence

be fo re the course began to m a k e sure

they w e r e fully^ aware of what they w e r e

get t ing themse lves into. 4 i d o n ' t think doing someth ing like

this is a decis ion that can be m a d e light-

ly," said Kat ie Corne l l ( ' 08) , one of the

novelis ts in the course . "It is fo r people

w h o are really ready to make that kind o f

a c o m m i t m e n t . "

A f t e r a lmost a month of preparat ion

fo r wha t they would undertake, the s tu-

dents began their novels with a wr i t ing

party immedia te ly af ter midnight on Feb.

1. Because they w e r e not permit ted to plan

wha t they wou ld wri te until jus t the week

before , many wen t in a lmost ent irely bl ind.

They had until 6 p.m. M a r c h 1 to comple te

the task.

A s the month progressed, the g r o u p

g rew close, shar ing exper iences of sore

eyes , sore wrists and occasional wr i te r ' s

block. They met regularly to write togeth-

er, both in c lass and out at p laces like JP ' s

and Lemonje l lo ' s , as a way to keep one an-

other on task.

"People are always saying, 'I'm going to write

a novel before I die,' We've actually done it."

— J e r e m y B e n s o n ( ' 0 8 )

Whi le work ing through their novels ,

they were not a l lowed to look back or re-

vise in any way, even if internal inconsis-

tencies arose. A s a result , m a n y quickly

discovered a usefu l plot device: ki l l ing of f

characters whenever they got too bor ing.

"Noth ing w a s really happening, so I de-

cided to kill m y main c h a r a c t e r " said Erin

Wickens ( '06) . "Af t e r that, I wrote 15,000

words in one day."

The s tudents were encouraged to tell

their f r iends and famil ies abou t what they

were doing well in advance as "agen t s of

guil t and terror" to hold them accountable

w h e n s t icking with it became diff icult .

"I d idn ' t wan t to have to look people

in the eye and tell t hem 1 had fa i led," said

Chelsea Schro tenboer ( ' 09 ) .

A s the deadl ine grew nearer , comple t ing

their nove ls grew increasingly s tressful .

"I w a s so s tressed I got physical ly s ick

t w o days before it w a s d u e , " Schro tenboer

said. "I w a s th rowing up, I was so nervous .

That had its benefi ts , though, because I had

a legi t imate excuse to miss classes and just

spend m y whole t ime wr i t ing ."

T h e students were not told wha t the

consequences would be if they did not fin-

ish their novels in t ime. Whi le Trembley

had worked out a g rad ing scale in advance

in case s o m e did not reach the word limit,

she taught the class as though a comple ted

novel w a s the only opt ion.

"I wen t on the assumpt ion that eve ryone

j e r e m y

b e n s o n

would finish," T rembley said. "Amazing ly ,

no one asked . "

The taste of success Each one of her s tudents finished a novel

by March 1. S o m e finished early, (Cornel l

finished in jus t eight days) whi le o thers

wrote r ight up to the deadl ine (Schro ten-

boer wrote 15,000 words in the last 24

hours) .

Nove l wri t ing is an accompl i shment that

many aspi re to , but f ew actually achieve . In

2004, for example , 42 ,000 people signed

up online fo r N a N o W r i M o , but on ly 6 ,000

success fu l ly finished.

" A lot of people w h o say they want to be

wri ters hit 50 or 60 pages and then s top ,"

Trembley said. " T h e g low fades. They hit

that wal l . "

For m a n y of the students, wr i t ing their

first ful l - length novel is the ach ievement of

a l i fe long goal.

"Peop le are a lways saying, ' I ' m going

to wri te a novel be fo re 1 d i e , " ' said Je remy

Benson ( ' 08 ) . " W e ' v e actually done it,

many of us before w e ' r e even 2 1 . "

Whi le all of the s tudents agree that the

course should be o f fe red again, T rembley

bel ieves it is unlikely that it will b e c o m e

an annual under taking. More likely, the

course will be o f fe red every f ew years in

response to demand .

T h e new novel is ts have learned to sepa-

rate the glory f r o m reali ty to gain a greater

unders tanding of wha t profess ional wr i t ing

is t ruly like.

"It is a thrill, if any th ing ," said Nathan

DeYoung ( ' 06 ) . " I t ' s like running around

in the winter without shoes on. I t ' s f un for

about 10 seconds , and then i t 's just cold.

Finishing is like going inside and get t ing

hot choco la t e—a w a r m and fuzzy feel-

ing."

T h e students n o w have an exper ience

they can carry with them for the rest of

their lives. T rembley could not be more

pleased with her c lass 's accompl i shment .

"1 felt like a proud grandparen t , " T rem-

bley said. "I am very proud of them."

Ready to try for yourself?

Check out

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Not just textbooks: Faculty, staff craft masterpieces Lindsay Manthei COPY EDITOR

In an academic set t ing like Hope Col-

lege, it 's of ten easy to forget that p rofes -

sors are capable of reading or wr i t ing

any th ing but textbooks. However , several

professors and staff m e m b e r s have writ-

ten and published successful novels dur-

ing their t enures at Hope .

Alber t Bell, a history professor at

Hope , has wri t ten several successfu l nov-

els. H e b e c a m e interested in wri t ing in

high school and had a tough t ime decid-

ing whether to pursue a history or an Eng-

lish degree . T h o u g h he eventual ly sided

with history, wr i t ing has cont inued to be

a hobby for Bell .

"Wri t ing can b e c o m e addic t ive ," Bell

said. "Some t imes you wri te a page and

you sit back and think ' D a m n , tha t ' s

g o o d . ' "

For Bell, wri t ing a novel usual ly takes

about a year and a half f r o m beginning

to sending it to the publisher. Bel l ' s mos t

recent book, "Dea th G o e s Dutch ," w a s

publ ished by Clays tone Books, a small

publ ishing house out of Nor th Carol ina.

"I would r e c o m m e n d work ing with

a smal ler press. Everyone is personal ly

interested in your work . I t ' s m o r e like

w o r k i n g with f r iends than with a busi-

ness ," he said.

Bell encourages y o u n g wri ters to con-

t inue wr i t ing for fun .

" D o n ' t listen to wha t anyone tells you

about h o w to write. You need to dec ide if

y o u ' r e going to write what you want to

wri te o r if y o u ' r e going to write what will

sel l ," he said. " B e honest with yoursel f

and be prepared for a long and diff icult

p rocess ."

Bel l ' s col league. Professor Fred John-

son has publ ished several nove ls with

N e w York-based R a n d o m House .

Johnson ' s said he r e m e m b e r s first wri t - •

ing in third grade. His hobby b lossomed

into a passion throughout his school ing

and in graduate school he won several

awards for fiction, nonfiet ion and poetry.

Soon, he realized that if he wanted to take

wri t ing seriously, he needed to find an

agent . S ince that t ime, he Has published

successfu l novels , including "Bit ter-

swee t" and "Other M e n ' s Wives . "

Johnson said the pros and cons of large

and small publ ishing houses are roughly

equal . H e said the tr ick is finding a good

editor.

" S o m e editors help to grow authors

and really invest in each author ," he said.

Johnson advises young wri ters to keep

do ing wha t they love.

"Nur tu re your sk i l l s—put fee l ing and

passion into your work. Readers can sense

it coming of f the page , " Johnson said.

Professors a ren ' t the only people at

Hope w h o have successful ly wielded the

pen. Former Hope staff m e m b e r Jacque-

line Ca rey is a fantasy novelist w h o has

wri t ten several successful novels. Carey

started wri t ing in high school as a hobby

and realized she wanted to be a full t ime

author when she spent six months work-

ing in a bookstore in England af te r col-

lege. Carey worked for 10 years in DePree

Art Center as she pursued her passion for

writ ing. Her first successful fantasy novel

"Kush ie l ' s Dar t ," published in 2001, m a d e

a splash in the publ ishing world. Other

titles include "Kush ie l ' s Avatar ," " K u s h -

iel 's Chosen , " "Banewrake r : Part O n e of

the Sunder ing ," "Gods layer : Part Two of

the Sunder ing ," and "Kush ie l ' s Sc ion" is

slated to c o m e out in June 2006.

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h a l o - w e a r i n g , n a v e l - g a z i n g c o n s c i e n c e s .

THE THOUGHTS

THAT LIE

UNDER HOPE

Erin L'Hotta EDtTOR-lN-CHIEF

The countdown is officially 50 days T h e c o u n t d o w n is off ic ial ly 50 days. Fif ty days

before 844 of us seniors bust out of Hope . Which

means , the average senior receives the quest ion, " w h a t

are you do ing af te r g radua t ion?" 6.5 l imes a day, 45.5

t imes a week . I ' m bored with this ques t ion. Bored with

the future . W h a t I really wan t is people to recognize ,

hell yeah, I ' m graduat ing in 50 days , then ask, " W h a t

a re you doing, Erin, right here , right n o w ? " Be fo re I

shake B u l t m a n ' s hand, receive m y paper d ip loma, I ask

mysel f , what haven't I done that could make my Hope

College career complete?

Four years ago I wrote a little list of 101 th ings I

hope to do be fo re I die. Yesterday, I found it, fo lded and

refo lded in a shoe box under m y bed. Look ing at this list

made me sad. Out of 101 th ings on m y list, 1 comple ted

nine. On ly nine a m a z i n g l i fe t ime exper iences wi th in m y

four years o f col lege. I have to say, tha t ' s pathetic . I ' m

21 years old. I ' m at m y p r ime in l ife. Yet, I ' v e d o n e only

nine th ings that m y heart has ever really yearned to do;

the rest is all everyday memory , the r is ing and set t ing of

a s tudent , edi tor- in-chief .

In c o m i n g to this realization, I awai t graduat ion with

maddened unders tanding. I k n o w I ' m not the only one

out o f 844 seniors w h o feels this way. You k n o w it too.

W e ' r e the mad w h o kick ourse lves for not taking the

t ime for that tenth a m a z i n g l i fe t ime exper ience . But I

say this in be l iev ing m y H o p e Col lege career is far far

f r o m comple te . I ' m taking these 50 days and do ing it

all. I ' m gonna paint the t own red. D r e a m the b ig d ream.

R u n with the heart of the un tamed. I stare at m y list of

101 th ings , and start the adven tu re . . .

T h e fo l lowing is a representa t ive sample o f a list of

th ings I h o p e to do before M a y 7:

27. G o on a r andom road trip

60. Learn h o w to play gu i t a r . . . success fu l ly

72. Receive a pie in the face

13. O w n wind ch imes

44. Make the incident reports fo r someth ing f u n n y

21. Read a book with a f r iend (separate books , s a m e

title)

58 . U s e a boomerang

9. Rock c l imb Graves Hal l

50. D u m p s t e r d ive

33. Actual ly play f r isbee go l f

86. Bu y m y o w n car

4 . Start a food fight in Phe lps

101. Write a co lumn people actual ly read all the w a y

through

SUFJAN, FROM PAGE 3

re la t ionship with Calvin Col lege, despi te graduat ing

from H o p e Col lege .

O m e e credi ts a " rad ius" c lause in S tevens ' contract

with Calv in Col lege for the lack o f a S tevens ' 2005

fall semes te r visit to Hope. Accord ing to O m e e , the

contract c lause does not a l low for Stevens to per form

within t w o to three m o n t h s of a 50 mi l e radius of the

pe r fo rmance ; Calv in Col lege is 30 mi les f r o m H o p e ' s

C a m p u s .

Even though S tevens p e r f o r m e d at Calvin, he is no

longer an opt ion for Hope to pursue for the 2006 spr ing

semester . S tevens is current ly on tour, though O m e e is

hoping to get h im fo r the fall semes te r of 2006 .

In addi t ion to pursu ing Stevens , O m e e is a lso

looking for a b ig n a m e to fill the DeVos fieldhouse.

BUDGET, FROM PAGE I

energy cost led the S tudent Congress A p -

propr ia t ions C o m m i t t e e to raise the s tudent

act ivi ty fee by S20 to $ 1 2 0 next year. Payne

assured that H o p e ' s s tudent act ivi ty fee " i s

still s ignif icant ly less than other surround-

ing co l l eges . "

A total of 46 s tudent organiza t ions at-

tended a 2006 -2007 budget hear ing on Feb.

25-26 with the Student Congress Appropr i -

at ions Commi t t ee .

T h e annual mee t ing reviewed each stu-

dent organiza t ion ' s proposed budget and

d i s cemed h o w "[ the g r o u p s ' ] answers

abou t m e m b e r s h i p and involvement fit to-

ge ther with finances," Payne said. "You 'd

be surprised h o w of t en g r o u p s ' answers and

their finances d o n ' t add up ."

Af te r the budget hearings, one of the

seven volunteer s tudent appropr ia t ion c o m -

mit tee m e m b e r s mot ions to approve or cut

the budget . T h e budget is approved by ma-

jor i ty vote. T h e budget is then fo rwarded

to the rest of Student Congress for a final

decis ion.

" E v e r y o n e asks for m o r e than they get.

We dec ided to cut based on involvement

and compar i son to the previous yea r ' s bud-

get , " Payne said.

Budgets fo r s tudent organizat ions will be

released "hope fu l ly be fo re spr ing b reak , "

Student Congress said.

O m e e listed Li fehouse and Swi tchfoo t as potential

concer ts , but added that Hope m a y have to stick with

small bands due to budget restraints. However , O m e e

is not rul ing out a b ig -name band m a k i n g a Hope

appearance at the DeVos fieldhouse.

" W e are pursu ing a big s h o w before the end of the

semester ," he said. " W e have a wish list of bands that w e

want to see. However , w e have to cons ider where and

when they are touring, as wel l as our budge t . "

O m e e stressed that s tudent sugges t ions are a m a j o r

fac tor in de te rmin ing w h o to pursue. Students can send

in suggest ions for bands by e -mai l ing concer t s@hope .

edu.

" O u r vis ion is to br ing in the b a n d s that s tudents

l ike," O m e e said.

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The Olympics: a perspective from a student abroad

To the Editor: The Olympics: a time for athletes from around the

world to gather in a celebration of sport. But the Olympics

are about far more than just seeing who will get the gold.

After all, the Olympics are no normal sporting event. After watching the commentators on NBC every two

years, one can become disillusioned with the games.

Being here in Germany has given me a look at the games

from a different perspective. For those who were keeping track, Germany picked up the most medals at this year 's

Olympics. Here, however, the focus is not the medal count

or the touching back stories of athletes. It 's simply sport. In most sports, nearly every athlete made it onto television,

no matter how far back they were seated. As I watched

many an hour of coverage, I realized it: this was the chance

for these athletes not just to do what they do best, but to let people see that a small nation like Estonia can be just an

important as any other country in the world. However, it was the experience of the games in person

that really made me feel the spirit of the games. People

come to the Olympics with a love not just for sport,

but for their nation. I could especially notice this

at speed skating. The Dutch supporters had taken over the stadium, creating a sea of singing and

cheering orange. I stood there with my American

flag, waving it whenever a skater from my home

team came up. The Americans did not do so well in comparison to the Dutch, but somehow I did not

feel isolated in the crowd. Rather, I was at home

with others who felt their national pride swell and

could let that feeling come out in the one place

where each nation has the chance to shine. The motto of the 2006 Winter Olympics was

"Passion Lives Here." Personally, I could not have chosen a better slogan. It is passion that

drives the athletes to compete and passion that

drives the people to cheer them on. But passion

lives everywhere, and with the Olympics, we all

have the chance to share it. Stephanie Beach ( '07)

ADMIT FROM PAGE I

Yelding said in the same letter. The impact that the reviewed plan will have on Hope 's

campus is uncertain at this time. The committee hopes a change in campus climate will

be discussed further as well as an increase in accountabil-

ity in situations regarding diversity. In the end, the devel-

opment for a more coherent and collaborative approach

to both diversity and international education was

called for. "Little things will go a long w^ys. We need to

learn and remember from our mistakes. . . . Being nice in and of itself is not enough," Yelding said

in his presentation of the committee 's review of

the comprehensive plan.

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The message I heard last Wednesday from Dr. Robert

Bullard was moving. My kudos to Student Congress for

inviting a talented speaker on a relevant topic. However, as the event wasn ' t particularly well-attended, I would like to

share some of it here. "There is no black air, or white air or Hispanic air"

Bullard said. "There is air." He was speaking on Environmental Racism and

Environmental Justice. "Haven ' t we beaten the topic of racism to death? And what

does it have to do with the environment anyway?" I 'm sure

you are just as afraid to ask these socially impasse questions as I am. Yet in response, I say that the day we cease to talk

about these topics - which are indefinitely intertwined - is

the day we declare that we are perfect, that we already know

everything about each other. I cannot speak for everyone,

but I am not comfortable making this claim. Environmental Justice is about being good stewards not

just of our own natural resources, but also of the environment in general, regardless of the race or ethnicity of the people

who live there. Statistics reported by Dr. Bullard show that

a garbage dump in the U.S. is much more likely to be located in a black neighborhood than in a white one. Other points of

discussion (and often conflict) included the amounts of air

and water pollution in certain living areas, as well as working

conditions and the likelihood to receive sufficient aid in a

natural disaster (Katrina). And when global warming and ozone depletion catch up with us, who will be affected the

most? Of course - those who cannot afford to buy their way

of its consequences. But what does any of this have to do with Hope

College? The issues discussed above expose a different kind

of racism, one that is harder to see than blunt, individual

events or poorly worded slurs. It is the kind of racism that is

engrained into the structures of acceptable society. It gives

a benefit or advantage to a certain group of people, although you may never notice that anything is amiss until, one day,

you are the one getting the short end of the stick. Of course

we don't go dumping our trash into other people's backyards, just as we do not purposefully send them polluted air or dirty

water. But it happens. The problem, which pertains to Hope

College just as much as anywhere else, is that we are so far removed from the adverse effects of our own lifestyles

(environmental and otherwise), that such problems simply

do not occur to us. To quote Dr. Bouma-Prediger, as John

Davisson did when he introduced Dr. Bullard, "There is no 'away. ' We can never throw anything 'away. ' " Trash, like

all matter, is conserved. The question is, who will get the

desired product, and who the organic refuse left sitting in

the beaker? The action to be taken? Wake up to your own lifestyle.

What and how much do you consume? What do you toss in the garbage? Do you really need that Styrofoam cup? In

the bathroom, do you use one paper towel, or five? What do

you buy, and how often? Visit Shea Tuttle's recommended

responsibleshopper.com. Perhaps Hope were to charge you for your energy use, per kilowatt hour. Would you turn off

the light, take a shorter shower? Do these things anyway. Furthermore, think academics. Environmental Justice

makes its way into every discipline. How does it make its way into yours? Distract your professor for awhile - raise

your hand and ask.

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8 SPORTS MARCH 8, 2 0 0 6

HOPE TEAMS VANQUISH NCAA RIVALS Greg Reznlch STAFF W R I T E R

Hope Col lege is the on ly team

in the confe rence with both m e n ' s

and w o m e n ' s t eams advancing to

the Sweet 16. Th i s ach ievement

has never before happened in Hope

history.

Dest ined to play on the road, the

Dutch wil l face Washington, Mo.

at D e P a u w on Friday at 5 p.m. T h e

Dutchmen will cha l lenge Wit tenberg

at their h o m e court in Spr ingf ie ld ,

O h i o on Fr iday at 8 p.m. Tickets

for both t e a m s will be sold on

Wednesday starting at 10 a.m.

On Saturday, the Du tchmen posted

a perfect 18-0 h o m e record in the

DeVos Fie ldhouse . T h e H o p e m e n ' s

basketbal l team defea ted rival Calvin

to advance in the 2006 N C A A

Divis ion III M e n ' s Basketbal l

Championsh ip .

T h e m o o d was electric in the

s tands dur ing the second round of

the N C A A tournament .

Hope led most of the g a m e

thanks to leading scorers Greg

Immink ( ' 06 ) and Stephen Cramer

( ' 07) , both with 16 points.

At ha l f t ime , the Dutchmen had a

solid lead of nine points . Ear ly in the

second half , Josh Meckes sparked

the Knights with a dunk that pulled

Calv in wi th in t w o points.

Hope answered by bui lding

another good lead, but once again

Calv in pulled wi th in t w o with

less than a minu te left . On a fast-

break steal, Calv in had a chance

to tie the g a m e but w a s cal led for

an o f fens ive foul . I m m i n k drained

two free th rows to m a k e it a t w o

possess ion g a m e for Calv in with

less than 20 seconds left.

H o p e defea ted the Calv in

Knights 70-67 . Ear ly the very

s a m e day, the Dutch defea ted the

Capi ta ls 75-56. Both t e a m s move

on in the confe rence this weekend .

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PHOTO EDFTOR JARED W I L K E N I N G

STEPHEN CRAMER ( '07) ON A BREAK AWAY - Dutchmen dominated the Calvin Knights in front of a sold-out crowd on Saturday to move on In the NCAA.

MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TENNIS DEFEND THE COURT Nick Hinkle STAFF W R I T E R

T h e Hope M e n ' s Tennis team

has opened their indoor season

with perfect ion.

T h e Du tchmen defea ted A l m a

and Wabash and will face Grand

Valley next Tuesday.

H o p e beat Alma 8-1 by win-

ning five s ingles ma tches and

three doub les match ups.

T h e Dutch defea ted Wabash

in similar fo rm by winn ing five

s ingles and t w o doubles matches .

T h e s e victories were ach ieved

with a t eam l ineup unlike most .

This year H o p e ' s team consis ts o f

seven freshmen mixed with five

seniors and a single junior .

C a m e r o n DeHaan ( ' 0 9 ) o f fe r s

his insight on the t eam ' s unique

make up.

"Wi th seven freshmen and five

seniors in the l ineup it defini tely

makes this season a big learning

exper ience , and I think that our

youth g ives a lot of energy

to the t eam," DeHaan said.

" T h e upperc lassmen have

really s tepped up and shown

some great leadership in

h o w to play tennis at the

col lege level ."

Hope will soon face

Grand Valley on Tuesday,

March 14. A s the season

progresses , the Du tchmen

will m o v e f r o m the indoor

condi t ions to the m o r e chal-

lenging ou tdoor e lements .

"Those first two wins felt re-

ally good, but it a lso s h o w e d a

lot of people the minimal level

w e ' l l have to play at if w e wan t

to con t inue our streak because the

matches wil l be more intense as

the season proceeds , " DeHaan

said.

On the w o m e n ' s side, Hope

has s t ruggled in their first t w o

matches . T h e Dutch lost to top

ranked teams, Wheaton and De-

Pauw, both 8-1. T h e w o m e n ' s

team is still conf ident despi te the

scores.

" W e had a tough schedule at

the beginning last year too ," cap-

tain Annel iese Fox ( ' 06 ) said.

" O u r pr imary focus is on the

M I A A tournament at the end of

the year . "

Unl ike the men , the w o m e n

have a rather smal l team with

only eight players including four

upperc lassmen and four under -

c lassmen. Coach Karen Page,

however , is not concerned by the

numbers .

" T h e small number s are easier

for coaching and hi t t ing," Page

said. " M a n y girls are saying they

are get t ing a lot more t ime to hit

balls this year ."

T h e w o m e n ' s team will be

playing their first h o m e M I A A

match against Adr ian this Satur-

day, March 11 at 1 p .m. Th i s will

be one of the last indoor ma tches

be fo re the team begins their out-

door season.

Approach ing the ou tdoor sea-

son, C o a c h Page insists everyone

will deal with the outdoor ele-

ments ; it is just someth ing they

must pract ice.

"You must deal with the sun;

w ind and co ld , " Page said. " I t ' s

the Mich igan weathfer."

PHOTO EDITOR JARED W I L K E N I N G

GOIN* FOR LOVE — Dutch Tennis capta in Anneliese Fox ( '06 ) serves to her t e a m m a t e In the DeWIt t Tennis Center.

MEN'S LACROSSE STRIVES TO REPEAT SUCCESS

Greg Reznlch STAFF W R I T E R

Antic ipat ing the season ' s first contests ,

the Lacrosse t eams strive to improve their

record in a n e w conference .

O n e of the longest s tanding col legiate

lacrosse programs, the Du tchmen are

prepared to de fend their history of wins in

the Central Col legia te Lacrosse Associa t ion

compet i t ion this season, which is a

confe rence of the United States Lacrosse

Intercollegiate Associa tes .

"Las t season was a valuable exper ience

fo r all of us and has laid a f r amework for

the team this year and has given us a goal

of cont inued improvement in this season , "

Keith Trojn iak ( ' 08 ) said.

Hope ' s Lacrosse t e a m s are known for

their intense sense of communi ty .

" I t w a s the first th ing I really got involved

with here and I am really commi t t ed to it.

We are all about work ing hard and work ing

together as a t eam," Trojn iak said.

T h e men ' s first g a m e is March 11 at

Alma Col lege . This ear ly season g a m e will

help the men get back into compet i t ive

mode .

Team m e m b e r s noted the change in

focus w h e n the season m o v e s to games .

Look ing ahead to the current season,

captain Ryan Jackson ( ' 0 6 ) and others a re

exci ted to have a coaching staff consis t ing

of Hope a lumni .

"With almost all p layers returning this

year, w e look to be a lot s t ronger and more

compet i t ive . We ' r e very excited for this

season, our second with head coach Mike

Schanha ls (^90) and assistant coach Jim

Budde ( 4 89) , " Jackson said.

WOMEN'S LACROSSE RE-SOLIDIFIES FOR SPRING Greg Reznlch STAFF W R I T E R

On the w o m e n ' s s ide, the Du tch enter

another lacrosse season with the mental i ty

to play and have tun doing it.

" W e wan t to be able to work together

as a team and see improvemen t s even if

w e d o n ' t win , " Kayla Kat terheinr ich ( ' 08 )

said.

T h e team has abou t 35 m e m b e r s of

all ages and exper ience levels and is still

d e v e l o p i n g .

indoors at night in the tennis center.

T h e w o m e n ' s first game is M a r c h 14 at

Western Mich igan University. T h e Dutch

also have t w o home games on April 6 and

April 11 of this year. Both t e a m s ' h o m e

games are p layed at Buys Athlet ic Fields.

"We have sweet new u n i f o r m s so

eve ryone should come to our g a m e s and

check them out , " Katterheinrich said. " I t ' s

the little things to look forward to that

make the season . "

T h e team is

coached by the

c lub ' spres iden t

S y d n e y Konny

( ' 0 7 ) and

v i c e - p r e s i d e n t

All ison Pautler

( '08).

T h e women

are ready for

the w a r m

weather to set

in. Currently,

they have to

hold pract ices

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