Music Department To Present Christmas DORDT COLLEGE Cantata The Christmas cantata. "Our Re- deemer is Born:' will be presented in the First Christian Reformed Student Publication of Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa Church in Sioux Center on Friday evening, December 8. at 8:00. The chorus conalsts of 125 vcdces, all Dordf College students. Included in Volume V Monday, December 4, 1961 ihis number are the members of the A Cappella Choir. The cantata was written by and is directed by Dale Gro1:enhuis. John Rozeboom is the narrator. Wi-nerva Dean Ribbens Announces De Ruyter and Linda Vander Veen are the accompanists. Soloists are Dennis Rynders. tenorr Virgil Vis. College Policy On baritone: and Kathy Buteyn. soprano. The Brass Quartet consists of John Hilbelink, cornet; Lyle Huisken, cor- net; John Rozeboom. trombone; and Academic Standing Ken Kempema, baritone. The final segment of the perform- College education represents a demic probation. a student still main- ance will feature the Dordt College heavy investment in time and mon- tains the honor point averaqes lisrted A Cappella Choir. The entire pro- ey for each student and for the below, he will be requfred to file. gram is as follows: College. To justify this sfudend in- with the Dean of the Cobleqe, a written request to register for the Opening Prayer vestment and the use' of College re- sources. a student should make rea- next semester. This request must Introduction sonable, progress, toward graduation. be granted by the Academic Affairs Tenor Solo and Chorus To earn a degree a student should Committee before he may do addi- He Shall Feed His Flock rtenet work at Dordt. Four-Part Women's Chorus earn an average of 31·32 credits per How Beautiful Upon the Mountains year and maintain at least a 2.00 honor point average. A sfudenf who a. After one semester 1:50 and Baritone Solo and Chorus below Come All Ye F,aithful does not make satisfactory progress o should be made aware of this and b. After two semesters 1:50 and Chorus below Silent Night should only be permitted to continue c. After three semesters 1.41 Male Quartet, Girls' Sextet and if there is 'reason to believe that io he can improve and meet graduation 1.60 Chorus Fear No! Ye requirements. d. After four semesters 1:51 io 1.70 Soprano Solo and Chorus ACADEMIC DEFICIENCY Praise the Savior 2. The Academic Affairs Commit- Chorus and Brass Quartet A student whose progress is signif- tee will determine whether a scu- Silent Night icantly retarded is given oHi,ci:al dent will be permitted to regis:l:'er Male Quartet. Girls' Sexte-t and warning, in writing, of his academic for the second semester in terms of: Chorus deficiency. Glory to God a. The improvement made during Chorus PROBATIONARY STANDING the probationary period. Let Us Now Go Unto Bethlehem 1. A student whose honor point b. The extent to which the pres- Male Chorus average drops to the averages listed ence of the student will con- Mary's Lullaby below will be placed on ecademic tribute to the welfare 0.£ the women's Chorus probation. . college and iis sfudenf body. Let Our Gladness Know No End Chorus a. After one semester 1.50 and c. The extent to, which Dordt can God So Loved the' World below contribute to the development A Cappella Choir of the student if he were per- b. After two semester 1.50 and mitted to remain on campus. Psalm 150 below Chorus and Brass Quartet c. After three semesters 1.41 rc ACADEMIC DISMISSAL A Cappella Choir 1.60 A student whose honor point av- Hodie Christus Natus E~! (Today d. After four semesters 1:51 to erage drops to the averages listed Christ is Born) - Willan below will be dismissed for academic Hearken All-Girls' Chorus-French 1.70 reasons. Garol 2. A student may be on academic With Joyful Mirth - Pooler probation £o:r only one semester. 1. After three semesters 1.40 and Dear Nightingale Awake - Male below. Chorus - English Carol PROVISIONAL REGISTRATION Glory Be to God _ Berger 2. After four semesters 1.50 and Closing Prayer 1. If. after one semester of aee- below. Page Two THE DORDT DIAMOND Monday, December 4, 1961

THE DORDT DIAMOND Rynders Sings In Handel's Published fortnightly by the Students of Dordt College. Sioux Center. la. "Messiah" Editor: John Rozeboom Assistant Editor: BeUy Blankespoor Dennis Rynders, sophomore at Faculty Advisor: Peter De Boer Copy Editor: Mavis Assink Dordt College, will be the tenor Departmental Editors: soloist at the presentation of Han- Diagonal Cindy Nibbelink del's "Messiah" in the Hull Com- Huisken Kens Sports Jon Huisken munity Building on December 13._ Spectrum Jack Kramer Other members of the choir are Touchstone Don Reinders from Northwest Iowa communities. Reporters: Judy Schaap, Helen Van De weert, Albertha Van Zanten Mr. Paulson, band director from the Typists: Nina Douma. Mary Hooper. Kathy Kramer Hull-Boyden Public Schoo!' will di- rect the choir. Dennis Rynders is a member of --EDITORIAL-- the Dordt A Cappella Choir. Men's Chorus, and Male Quartet. While he was in high school, Dennis receiv- In spite of recent Russian nuclear tests and occasional feats of rocketry. ed voice lessons for two years from Abram Bas, music instructor at such as the orbiting of cosmonauts Tilov and Gagarin. Americans today qe-n- Western Christian High School. erally seem assured that economically, politically, and militarily, the United During the .summer of 1960 Den- States is still the strongest nation in the world. We point to statistics that nis studied voice under Larry Day. voice instructor at Westrnar College. show that we are out,producing our cold war enemies both in industrial and Last year Dennis had two semes- agricultural areas. Militarily we claim a technological lead over the Russ- ters of voice instruction from Dale ians, dismissing Soviet advances in rocketry and jet propulsion as crude and Grotenhuis, music instructor at Dcrdt unimportant. As early as Eisenhower's first term, prominent westere states College. men were saying that the "collapse" of the Soviet system was only a ques- Tickets for the "Messiah" can be purchased from any member "cf the tion of time. They pointed to the failure of collectivized farming and the in- "Messiah" choir. The prices are 35 ability of Russian industry to provide consumer goods, common in our coun- cents for bleacher seats- alnd 75 cents for chairs. try, as signs of this collapse. The notion that communist Ieadera had to em- ploy force t,o get the masses to maintain Russia's economy assured Americana that the Soviet Union was socially unstable, and thus unable to carry out Attention: All Students threats of world dominance. Mr. Ted Sjoerdsma, a member of However, fads tend to show these impressions to be deceptive mirages. the Student Adivity Committee. has requested that all empty pop bottles A new look at Soviet R~ssia shows us a "rich. tough sociely that weeks," to from the pop machine be returned quote a NEW YORK HERALD columnist. The Soviet living standard has .10 the Ccmrrrons. He state-s that at least seven cases of empty bottle been ste'adily rising and far from raising a stronger demand for freedom, it have disappeared since the begin- has raised the level of popular trust in Party propaganda. It has positively ning of this term. enhanced Khrushchev's ability to mobilize his people's energies and loyal- The proceeds from the pop ma- ties behind his foreign as well as his domestic policies. From every visible chine go to the DIAMOND and if the bcffles are not returned, they and outward sign most Russians like the society that Marx and Lenin made must be paid for from the profits at and Khrushchev adapted. the rate of 48 cents per case. The achievements of this society should nol be underestimated. The States Sloerdsma. "May we please theoretical "missile gap" becomes cold fad in the light of Russia's success have your cooperation in this mat- ter so that you may continue to ben- in lofting a five-ton capsule, containing a human, into orbit, and then neal- efit from the services of the DIA- ly bringing the whole thing back to earlh, without first drowning the con- MOND." tained human. The recent series of Russian atomic tests has demolished our heralded adV'8IJttagein the nuclear energy field. In Russia's frontier. Siberia. Editorial, cont. developmental achievements have been nothing short of fantastic. The Si· captive peoples. Ivan has a new beria of today is ,a region unbelievably rich in lumber, coal, water power. sense of purpose, his country's goals and basic minerals. Steel. aluminum, and lumbering mills, chemical plants, are his own, and he is convinced of his ability to reach them. as wefl as mines dot the landscape. It seems evident that our impres- Perhaps the most frightening aspect of the Russian situation is the av- sions of the U.S.S.R. are relics of a erage Russian himself. Instead of the scourged galley slave that we picture, bygone era. Either our evaluation of the facts is faulty, or the facts Ihe Russian toda,y is an optimistic, ambitious person for whom. life has themselves are incorrect. Whatever never been beUer. And he is not -optimistic because he feels that someday the case may be. it is important that we know well our enemy, for only he may enjoy the privileges that we enjoy under capitalism. Capitalists are then can we choose the proper meas- his enemies, His duty is to work hard and build a better, stronger corn- ures for either defeating him. or at least containing him. munist society, a society that can overthrow its enemies and "uberete" J.R. Monday, December 4, 1961 THE DORDT DIAMOND Page Three

Signet Staff Discusses Plans

Don Reinders The SIGNET Staff has been dis- cussing annual publication plans with Vietor Eadcn, a representative of the American Yearbook Company of Hannibal, Missouri. The W:t:ial discussions have revolved around selection of a cover. Comments edi- THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY - Irving Stone - Doubleday & Co •. tor Trudy Gesink, "'Through our 664 pp •• $5.95. . discussions, the ideas for the '62 THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY is the profile of an arbs!. It ex- SIGNET are gradually being put on amines the life. the work. the thought. the motives. 'and the struggl~s of 16th paper and becoming realities:' century Italy's Michelangelo ~uonarroti. But as the. person .of MIChe~ange- 10 emerges from this hioqraphrcal novel Ihe reader 15. also qrven a gh~pse Howard Faber. business manager, of that something which must be the common denommator of all ar'!lS1s: has distributed compliment collectors From the beginning Michelangelo struggled to create. As a lad. hIS more extensively than in past years. first opposition came from his family. who wished instead that he apply Students who are representatives of himself to commerce and the restoration of the shrunken family fortune. all the towns listed in the STUDE'NT Having appeased his father with the promise of all his meager earnings, DIRECTORY except those in Cali- Michelangelo apprenticed himself to fornia and Washington have been re- an eminent Florentine fresco painter. ques:ted to collect complimen:ts. Says Sculpture was his true medium, Faber, "Receip:ts from compliments however, and shorlly thereafter he Frederick Manfred Visits last year were $900.00 and we're was discovered by Lorenzo de' Me- hoping for that or more with our dici. head of Florence's ruling fam- Literary Club expanded distribution of salespeople. ily, who invited the budding young I've already received $100.00 from sculptor into :the palace to be the Frederick Feikema Manfred met Corsica, South Dakota, and Hull, protege of the Medici. and conversed with the Literary Iowa:' In the fabulous home of this pa- Club on Friday evening at the home Other staff members include the tron of arts and letters, Michelan- of instruc:tor Peter De Boer. following: Betty Beekhuizen, assist- gelo found the abundant time, en- ant editor: Art Van Wyhe, photo- couragement, and inspiration so in- Manfred, better known to :this grapher; Shirley Tolsma, Arlene valuable to the artist. Here his community as Feike Fe ikema. lived Vanden Berg, Judy Vander veen. creafivify received nourishment and Bonnie Van Maanen, and Ruth Ver- direc:iion when he sat with :the "Pla- his boyhood years on a farm near Doerr, Iowa. He is a graduate of schuure. John Zinkand, instructor to Four," an intimate group of hu- in foreign languages, serves as fac- manist scholars who met a:t the Me- Calvin College. ulty ad visor. dici palace. Their views. particular- ly those on Greek culture, greatly His eleven novels, all wdfh a influenced Michelangeb. Siouxland setting, have earned him After the death of Lorenzo de' the title "Sioux land novelist," The Touchstone, cont .... Medici the people of Florence re- novelist, his wife and three children volted, and the Medici were banish- ed from the city. Miche·langelo was are now living near Luverne, Min- LIFE, published in 1934, dealt with catapulated from his sheltered schol- nesota, where Manfred is doing re- the painter Vincent van Gogh. Sim:::"e arly life into the world of reality. search aimed toward further writing. then he has wri1:ten fourteen other After the shock of losing some of best sellers. When asked why he his best friends had worn off, Michel- chose to do a biography of Michel- angelo again applied himself to angelo, Stone replied: "First, Mi- sculpture. The genius of his work chelangelo was both an artist and a soon brought him fame and money, truly universal man. His life can although his father periodically bled show people of every coun'try and him of the latter. time what a true artist is; the infi- Genius also brouqbf him a papal nite wor-ld he expresses in his work. summons to Rome from Pope Julius Second, few of the millions who II. Michelangelo cast a bronze' of recognize Michelangelo's name are the Pope, painted the ceiling of :the aware of his dramatic, stormy life, Sistine chapel, and carved a tomb or of the nearly insufferahle cb- for Julius. After the death of Jul- stacles against which he had :to ius II, each succeeding Pope imposed struggle:' upon Michelangelo his own ideas, To research his project, Mr. Stone and the Florentine sculptor was soon moved his family to Italy seveeat working almost exclusively on pro- years before beginning THE AGONY [ecfs the "Holy Fathers" had devis- AND THE ECSTASY. Because of ed. When death over-te-ak Michel- the thoroughness of his inquiries, angelo a:t the age of 89, he was serv- Stone was able to base half of his ing Pope Pius IV as the architect of book upon fresh material never be- St. Peter's Cathedral. fore published abou:t Michelangelo. Michelangelo Buonarroti-sculptor, In order to obtain a firsthand view painter, poet. architect. and engi4 of how a sculptor thinks and feels, neer-was one of :!:he greatest gen- Stone apprenticed himself to an iuses the world has ever produced, Italian marble sculptor. His versatile brilliance has seldom been matched, either in grandeur of The late critic Bernard Berenson conception or power of creation, FREDERICK FEIKEMA MANFRED. summed up his efforts: "Irving Irvinq Stone is no stranqer to the Stone comes closer to the true spirit biographical novel. His LUST FOR Siouxland Novelist of Michelangelo than any other (continued on column 3) wr-iter;" Page Four THE DORDT DIAMOND Monday, December 4, 1961

Don Reinders '61-'62 Basketball Schedule Nov. 21-Waldorf ~_~~_~_~__ Away ZJl4bll!VAZ Dec. 4-Emmetsburg _~~_~_ Home Dec. 7-Estherville ~~~ Away Dec. 11-Worthington _~_~_~ Aw'ay In Defense of the Mosquito Dec. 14-Norihwestern "B" _ Home Dec. IB-Westmar "B" Home There is an evil which I have seen under the aun, and it is common Jan. 4-Emmetsburg ~ ~_ Away among men. Jan. a-Worthington ~ Home The mosquito is probably ihe most abused species 0,£ life upon the Jan. 13-Northwestern "B" _ Away face of the earth. Man has persecuted this poor creature even to :t:he ex- Jan. 22-Ft. Dodge ~~~~~ Away tent of draining huge swamps, constructing insecticide bombs, manufactur- Jan. 27-Waldorf __~~ Home ing fly swatters. igniting bonfires, and smoking cigars. The campaign Feb. I-Freeman ~~~_~__~_ Home against the mosquito will stand as one of the most intolerant: and unreason- Feb. 5-Estherville ~~~_~~_ Home able movements in the his-1ory of mankind. made even more remarkable by Feb. 9-Freeman ._~~ Away the fact that it is being carried on in what is commonly regarded as ,an Feb. 12-Wessington Springs, Home age of tolerance and reason. My con tent ions, therefore, will be thai the Feb. 16-Westmar "B" Away movement to eradicate the mosquito All home games begin at 7:30 un- is both intolerant and unreasonable. less a pretimiuaej- game is played. This is the age of tolerance. Our Prelim. 6:30. Game 8:00. actions today are watched closely All home games are played in the by such agencies as the NAACP, the Huisken Kens Sports Sioux Center Auditorium. SPCA, and even the United States AUorney-General's Office. Tolerance Dordf's basketball team played its should lead man to discard all his first game at Forest City, Iowa, Diagonal, cont. . . . hatreds, animosities, and grudges. Tuesday, November 21, against Wal- and should so mold him that he finds dorf College. The first-game jitters the city dump. all forms of persecution offensive to were in evidence, but no excuses can Are these complaints valid? I think his newly-acquired state of social account for an 88-56 rout. not! Let us first take up the issue and intellectual advancement. The of noise made by the mosquito. The human race does seem to be making Aside from a spectacular twenty- fellow who complains that the buzz- progress toward this end. As proof five point performance by Je,rry ing of the mosquito keeps Him a- we could cite the zeal of the present Vermeer. the team put on a medi- wake at night is not noticing, for in- administration against all forms of ocre to poor performance. Vermeer stance, the roar of traffic out on the racial bigotry in the South. Our new was followed in scoring by Groen road or the scream of the jet over- concept of tolerance has also led us with eight points, Modderman with head. Instead he concentra1es on to adopt more humane policies to- six. Schelhaas with five points, Cole the activity of one tiny mosquito. wards animals. Last year some cru- with four, Aliena and Faber with His problem is not real, but psycho- sader-like matrons of the state, of three each, and Plasier with two logical. His argument can hardly be Iowa stormed into the bat,He over points. The, decided thirty-two poin·t accepted as reasonable. the turtle-dove issue. Through stren- difference is easily seen when one The minor discomfort caused by uous efforts on their part. a bill to looks at the' Waldorf field-goal per- the bite of a mosquito is also shown allow hunting of doves was defeated, centage. Dordf, hitHng twenty- to be a feeble arqumenf when it is an evidence of a tolerent attitude three of sixty-nine field goals at- seen in the light of a recent theory. towards our fellow creatures. The In a grea1ly simplified form the mosquito alone is left, friendless and tempts, was no match for the Wal- dorf team which shot a sizzling 53%. theory goes something like this: hunted. "But," you say, "perhaps "Every human being has been, at this intolerance is warranJ:ed in the The sfafisfics also indicate that one time or another. bitten by a case of the mosquito. Tolerance is, Dordt was weak from the free-throw mosquito. (This does not include a after all. subject to reason:' I would line. Ten out of twenty-one free small number of Eskimos who live agree with you. We must always be throws were made by the Dordt where there are no mosquitos.) careful to make our tolerance a fol- players. Dordf, however, was never "When a person is bitten by a mos- erance of somethinq reascrrahle, But hampered by fouls as were some quito. he is aufomaflcalfy immunized can we justify our intolerance of the of the Waldorf players. against a certain type of noxious mosquito on the grounds of reason? and fatal disease which we, shall call What consfitufues the case against The starters for the game were 'disease X'. (Gettin,g back to the Es- the mosquito? What are, the reasons Vermeer. Schelhaas, Aliena, Groen, kimos-although they have not been for our hatred of the mosquito? Why and Modderman. Coach Blankes- immunized by a mosquito because all this hostility towards a mere two poor. substituted freely with Faber, where they live it is too cold fnr or three milligrams of pr otcplusm? Cole. and Plasier. Redeker. Boos, mosquitos. they do not confrecf dis- For the answer I turned to the man Veltkamp. and Veurink did not en- ease X because where they live it is on the sfreef, ter the game. also too cold for X germs.) We may There did seem to be a fair a- therefore assume that if the mosqui- mount of unanimity among those in- The box score for the game is as fa were not present to immunize us terviewed. Of the, thirty-three which follows: against it. 'disease X' would run like I approached, ten stated that they FG FT PI' TP a plague through the human race:' hated mosquitos because of the buzz- Altena _~ ~~__ 1 1 1 3 For us to exterminate the mosquito, ing sound they make in flighJ: twen- Cole 2 o o 4 then, would be race suicide. Seen in ty attributed their hositilify to the Faber 1 1 2 3 the light of this "theory." this com- irritatio'n caused by the mosquito's Groen ~__~~__~ 3 2 4 8 plaint about the itch caused by the bite: two gentlemen placed the re- Modderman ~ 3 o 2 6 mosquito's bite is so trivial in com- sponsibility upon an equal combina- Plasier ~__~__ 1 o 1 2 parison with its alternative that it tion of noise and bite: and one short Schelhaaljj __. ~~ 1 3 1 5 too is shown to be unreasonable. bald fellow stated that he usually Vermeer __~~ ~ 11 3 4 25 Persecution of the mosquito, there- referred all decisions to his wife. fore, goes against the concepts of On these grounds and for these rea- The ne-xt game will be ptaved both tolerance and reason. Let us sons the lowly mosquito is pursued Monday night, December 4 against soon see the end of this terrible in- and tormented to fhe far corners of Emmetsburg - in the Sioux Center justice! (cent. at bottom of 3rd col.) Auditorium. D.R.