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Hope College Hope College Digital Commons The Anchor: 2012 The Anchor: 2010-2019 9-5-2012 The Anchor, Volume 126.02: September 5, 2012 Hope College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_2012 Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Repository citation: Hope College, "The Anchor, Volume 126.02: September 5, 2012" (2012). The Anchor: 2012. Paper 13. https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_2012/13 Published in: The Anchor, Volume 126, Issue 2, September 5, 2012. Copyright © 2012 Hope College, Holland, Michigan. This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the The Anchor: 2010-2019 at Hope College Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Anchor: 2012 by an authorized administrator of Hope College Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. VOL. 126 £ANCHO R NO. 2 SEPTEMBER 5. 2012 • SINCE 1887 SPERA IN DEO" HOPE COLLEGE • HOLLAND. MICHIGAN 'Courage, wisdom and grace': Hope College Establishing good neighbor remembers English Professor David Klooster !• I '» relations Brooke McDonald • i ftin CAMPUS NEWS CO-EDITOR Brooke McDonald CAMPUS NEWS CO-EDITOR The world contains many brilliant scholars, leaders, and | II III! As Hope College tireless advocates for justice, upperclassmen settle into on- but it takes an extraordinary campus cottages or assume off- individual to leave a legacy that campus leases in the Holland embodies all three. 1MII 'I community this month, many According to the testimonies are discovering their next- of many Hope College students 4-1 door neighbors are not Hope and faculty, English Professor students. David Klooster did just that. j i Some students have been After 14 months spent m proactive about establishing battling brain cancer, Klooster m good neighbor relations for the died June 2. i school year. The Hope community is still ft Shelby Smallbone ('13) grieving the loss of a man whose brought cookies and a card passionate care for cultivating containing her housemates' relationships with students names and phone numbers and colleagues, studying and when she met the neighbors, a appreciating American literature, blind woman, her husband and practicing and examining the PHOTO COURTESY OF HOPE PR their watchdog Franklin, early Christian faith, and promoting ONE OF HOPE COLLEGE S FINEST— David Klooster began In 2000 as a professor of Eng- in the summer. Smallbone and global education in literacy led llsh at Hope and also served as Chalrman of the English Department and a Faculty Moderator. her neighbors live on College him to action. Sarah Krueger ('13) met with before I had declared my pursue an English major. Avenue between East l^ and 111 During his 12 years at Hope, Klooster in Lubbers Hall while major, while 1 still wondered if One of Klooster's major IS Streets. Klooster advised and mentored visiting Hope as a high school 1 was 'English major material.'" contributions to Hope was The gesture has paid off, as countless potential and current student. She was "astounded" at Klooster's "encouragement" his involvement as director of the girls' relationship with their students in his role as English his genuine interest in her. and faith in her, she says, hugely the "Writing Corner" in Van neighbors is great, she said. Department chairman. "We talked multiple times influenced her decision to SEE KLOOSTER, PAGE 10 A few times, the couple has knocked on the girls' door after a noisy night to request that the Music, Worship, Life: Welcome Week 2012 music be kept down. Smallbone said she and her housemates understand, adding that she realizes the couple is "an actual family living here." On the other side of Smallbone's neighbors live the men of Omicron Kappa Epsilon, the Fraternal Society. Her next-door neighbors are "not a fan of them, I guess," because of all the noise, said Smallbone. Juanita Gomez has lived kitty- corner from Smallbone and the Fraternal house for about 15 years, on and off. No Hope PHOTO COURTESY OF PR students have ever introduced KICKING OFF THE FALL SEMESTER- Welcome themselves to her. Week 2012 kicked off last Monday with the traditional The first week of school she Groovln' In the Grove where Hope's worship team led a \fM$% said it was noisy at night with packed Pine Grove In song. On Tuesday, the Fall Fan Fren- students around and about, zy at DeVos Fleldhouse ushered In the fall sports season. r \ likely because her house is close Alex & Janel, a singer/songwriter duo from New York City, to the liquor store on IS"1 Street. (see photo at rlght)brought a slice of the Big Apple to Gomez said she has called the Holland when they performed for students at SAC's Cof- police a few times when parties fehouse, which has moved from Its previous Wednesday have gotten out of hand in the nights to Thursday. Friday night was movie night at Hope neighborhood. with SAC's Drive-In Movie In the Pine Grove where Hope A neighbor waiting for the students were treated to "The Hunger Games" on the big bus on the sidewalk in front screen. SAC will continue hosting movies on Friday and of her house on 15th Street Saturday nights In VanderWerf 102. The week came to a moved to Holland in 1966 close on Saturday with the traditional Holland Community and has watched many Hope Day (see photo above). A picnic on the DeVos lawn, ad- students come and go in her mission to Windmill Island, a cross country meet, and the neighborhood. Flying Dutchmen's first home football game was widely at- "They've had parties," she PHOTO BY JORDAN MEJALV tended by Hope students and community members alike. SEE NEIGHBORS, PAGE 2 ARTS FEATURES SPORTS Indie Flicks at Knlck Real talk from seniors Dutchmen beat North Park Four new free films play at the This year's graduating class passes on time-tested Hope College football wins their season-opener for Knlck this Fall. wisdom to underclassmen. the first time since 2004. WHAT'S INSIDE WORLD 3 ARTS 5 FEATURES 6 VOICES 8 SPORTS 11 Got a story idea? Let us know at [email protected]. or call us at 395-7877. 2 THE ANCHOR CAMPUS SL ITI MBI-R 5, 2012 THIS WEEK AT HOPE Labor Day classes: here to stay Wednesday Sept. 5 Claire Call summer classes. It was because Fulbright Info Session CAMPUS NEWS CO-EDITOR of this change that Hope was Van Wylen Rare Books Room. 4 p.m. When some large universities able to offer May, June, and offer a three-day weekend early July terms, something that Friday Sept. 7 on in the school year or do not many Hope students either Dr. Jan Peter Balkenende, begin classes at all until after have or will, at some point, take "Europe: Risk or Opportunity" Winants Auditorium. 4 p.m. the first weekend of September, advantage of. students at Hope College may "We could start class after SAC: Mentalist Christopher wonder why they have to attend Labor Day, but we would have Carter classes on Labor Day. some difficult decisions to make Knickerbocker Theatre. 8:30 p.m. "A lot of people who arrive if we did that," said Ray. "We at Hope probably scratch their would have to either extend the Saturday Sept. 8 heads a bit," Provost Richard fall semester into Christmas Time to Serve Ray admitted in regards to such vacation or we would have to All Day classes. Although Hope students push the whole school year back are not the only ones attending a week or 10 days which would class on Labor Day, "we're cut into our ability to offer May, actually not that unusual among June, and July terms." IN BRIEF better liberal arts colleges." Although this answers the Hope's holding classes on question of why classes begin NURSING STUDENT Labor Day is not a recently in late August rather than early RECEIVES SCHOLARSHIP established policy. "This is a September, the question of why practice that dates back to 1973," we have class on Labor Day itself PHOTO BY BROOKE MCDONALD Hope College nursing major said Ray. "That was about the still remains. This question Ray STUCK INSIDE— Instead of enjoying a day off In the lovely Christina Bello ('12) is the time when Hope changed its answers in two parts. "We've just weather, students Mlchul Kim ('15) and Natalie Allen (*15) recipient of a 2012 American academic calendar." gotten our students here; we've study In Martha Miller after class on Labor Day. Psychiatric Nurses Association Ray explained that prior to just taken them through the first (APNA) Janssen Student 1973, Hope's school year was phases of a very big transition in tempted to extend it." number of times during the Scholarship. Bello is one of only structured more like the calendar their lives. There is a hesitancy The second reason is that semester. 15 students in the entire nation to adopted by many public schools: to interrupt the progress that is each semester, Hope makes Considering the fact that receive the scholarship. beginning classes the first week made through that transition by sure to allow for 70 class days, Labor Day Monday is always Hello's scholarship includes of September and finishing the sending people away for a long not including final exams. The needed to finish up advising, all expenses to the APNA annual year in early or mid-June. weekend." breaks that Hope plans every orientation and any other conference in Pittsburgh and In 1973 the academic Especially for freshmen, Ray five to six weeks (fall recess.