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Hope College Hope College Digital Commons The Anchor: 1973 The Anchor: 1970-1979 9-14-1973 The Anchor, Volume 86.02: September 14, 1973 Hope College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1973 Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Repository citation: Hope College, "The Anchor, Volume 86.02: September 14, 1973" (1973). The Anchor: 1973. Paper 13. https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1973/13 Published in: The Anchor, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 14, 1973. Copyright © 1973 Hope College, Holland, Michigan. This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the The Anchor: 1970-1979 at Hope College Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Anchor: 1973 by an authorized administrator of Hope College Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. City Council sets plans for *• renovating Eighth Street by Dave DeKok "The mayor appointed a study committee of five including my- Like many other small cities, self and Larry Harris, who worked Holland has a downtown area for the City of Kalamazoo when which, while not really ugly or they built their mall," he said. rundown, could best be described THE PLAN which evolved as drab. To cope with this prob- from the committee's work re- lem, the city has laid out a beauti- tains traffic on 8th Street, al- fication program which ultimately though part of it will be one way. will transform 8th Street into a The street will be lined with trees, drive-through park of sorts, com- which will be planted in dirt plete with trees and benches. squares in the sidewalks instead of ACCORDING TO Holland boxes. \\ Deputy City Manager Terry Hof- Parking will be angular instead meyer, the project grew out of the of parallel, with concrete exten- city's master plan which was de- sions on the sidewalk separating veloped in the 1950^. the areas of parking on the two "The plan was first given seri- inner blocks, River Avenue to ous thought three and one-half Central Avenue and Central Ave- years ago when the City Council nue to College Avenue. started a proposal for a pedestrian THESE CONCRETE exten- mall on 8th Street," he said. sions will contain bike racks and However, this plan was not ac- benches as well as trees, Hofmeyer ceptable to a number of mer- stated. He added that the two .¥ chants and private citizens and outer blocks. Pine Avenue to Riv- was dropped." The pedestrian er Avenue and College Avenue to mall would have barred automo- Columbia Avenue, would contain biles from 8th Street. trees and would not have the THE PLAN WAS revived, in a sidewalk extensions. different form, when it was The deputy city manager learned that Holland's portion of stated that he expects the trees federal revenue sharing funds planted on 8th Street to grow Volume 86-2 Hope College, Holland, Michigan 49423 September 14, 1973 would total $2 million, Hofmeyer reasonably well, despite the fact stated. that they will be submitted to a high concentration of auto ex- haust fumes; which have killed trees in other cities. Jim Bolden to present "JACOB DeGRAAF, the park superintendent and Larry Harris have assured us that the trees will program in Chapel live. Actually, the grass and bush- es we plan to plant are less likely to survive than the trees." Campus life teen-teamer Jim Modern Americans Show. The The cost for the project will Bolden will present a program of Spurrlows performed for more run around $100,000, Hofmeyer popular spiritual songs tonight in than three million high school and said. This represents three percent Dimnent Memorial Chapel at 8 college students across the coun- of the revenue sharing money p.m. try. Bolden has also appeared with Holland will receive. He pointed Bolden, whose visit is spon- the pop group Three Dog Night. out that the businesses in the sored by the Ministry of Christ's downtown area covered by the People, has enjoyed a distin- In an Easter Music Festival in beautification plan pay approxi- guished career, appearing across Helsinki, Finland, he represented mately 15 percent of the total the nation and in 38 countries the United States and further taxes Holland pays to the federal around the world. shared his musical talents by re- government. turning to the U.S. by way of INITIAL construction will get As a member of the first Cam- Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, under way by the end of this pus Life Teen Team, Bolden France and Italy. month or the beginning of Octo- toured Africa and Europe and met ber, Hofmeyer stated. No con- dignitaries as Emperor Haile Bolden is currently one of the struction will be done after Nov. Selassie of Ethiopia and President youngest members of the U.S.O. 15 because of the cold except for William Tubman of Liberia. National Council and his own planting the trees which will prob- Upon his return to the United U.S.O. show has played for Amer- ably be done in December. States, he was chosen by Thurlow ican troops in Vietnam, Thailand The entire project should be Spurr to be featured with the and Japan, on bases, ships, in hos- finished before Tulip Time next Spurrlows in their Music for pitals and in the field. Proposed 8th Street mail. year. Growth plan revised VanWylen discusses enrollment, curriculum by Paul Timmer siderations, said the president, re- chanically demand he complete sals but I hope that the faculty to teach in the elementary and quire concerted endeavor by all the requirement," VanWylen said. would closely examine its merits- secondary schools. Related to this In an interview last Wednesday, involved in policy decisions. He discussed hypothetical situa- for they will have to make the are this year's enrollment statistics President Gordon VanWylen dis- VanWylen took issue with last tions where if a student had stud- final decision on such an idea." which show, for the first time, cussed this year's admissions drop week's anchor editorial which, he ied mathematics for four years in THE PRESIDENT believes that more men than women in the and the curriculum proposal of- believed, implied that the adminis- high school he could perhaps the reasons for the enrollment freshman class. "Women students fered for faculty review at the tration and the admissions office waive his mathematics require- decline are "very complex." One tended to go into teaching," he Academic Affairs Board meeting "hadn't done very much" by way ment at Hope. VanWylen added, factor, according to VanWylen, is said. two weeks ago. of improving the admissions cam- "I'm not arguing for these propo- the decline of students who plan continued on page 3, column 1 WHILE declining to term the paign. VanWylen countered, decreased enrollment "a crisis," "Three major meetings have been the president stressed its impor- held with the admissions staff in tance as a topic for concern by order to improve admissions pro- calling for community evaluation ppdnrp*; " of the college's problems and po- IN PREVIOUS years, Van- tentials. Wylen noted, there has been a "Along with almost every col- lack of communication between lege across the nation, Hope prob- the admissions office and the aca- ably won't grow very much," demic sphere of the college. "We VanWylen said. "To keep the col- owe it to the admissions staff to lege vigorous and dynamic when listen to their proposals and evalu- we aren't growing requires some ate what they say. We shouldn't new thinking," he continued. quickly dismiss the new proposal IN THE MID '60's, Hope pro- under the guise that it will lower jected an ultimate enrollment of our standards." L- 2600 students. Last summer, a VanWylen continued, "Others committee headed by Associate may say that the admissions peo- Professor of Education Dean Bry- ple's suggestion was not well doc- son, recommended that Hope re- umented, but the fact that they duce the projected figure. said it is important in itself." He W VanWylen stated, "It is much continued, "Part of my job is to easier to maintain an atmosphere make sure everyone is heard-that of self-renewal and innovation we work as a team." when the college is expanding and VANWYLEN DOES not be- new faculty can be hired every lieve that the admissions office- year. We must strive to be creative inspired Rider-Brink proposal in- and innovative, yet faithful to volves a compromise in the core what we think is our basic call- curriculum. "The proposal was ing." not that radical-80 percent of the ACCORDING TO VanWylen, core remained untouched," he recruitment carries with it two said. responsibilities. "First, we are a The president believes the col- —- certain kind of college and we lege should respond to new ideas must uphold our standards. Sec- in higher education which advo- ond, we must be sure that stu- cate a greater continuity between dents are attracted to Hope, by high school and college. "We our curriculum and the literature should build on what a student we publish," he said. These con- knows already and not just me- PRESIDENT GORDON VANWYLEN Two Hope College anchor September 14, 1973 Health Clinic offers headrest a variety of services by Barb Wrigley socked with automatic emergency Unconscious room fees), free taxi service is Although the college clinic provided and the doctor is at the doesn't promise cures for fresh- hospital upon the student's ar- by Mark McLean and Dave Grilles man blues or give out sure-fire rival.