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Hope College • Holland, Michigan iervlng the Hope College Community for 114 years Gay film series delayed by administration Provost calls for more Nyenhuis and his dean's council. Wylen Library, GLOBE, Women's August with the dean's council and ries: to create understanding," The series, called the Gay/Les- time to examine is- Issues Organization, Hope Demo- a group of faculty and students as- Nyenhuis said. bian Film Series, was to run from crats, Sexual Harassment Policy sembled by Nyenhuis, Dickie was The original recommendation sues. September 12 to October 19, and Advocates, and the women's stud- told to delay the films. from the dean's council was that the Matt Cook included 5 films on topics ranging ies, psychology, sociology, religion, "Our concern regarding the series series be delayed for an entire year, CAMPUS BEAT EDITOR from growing up gay, to techniques and theater departments. It was co- initially planned for this fall was, but after some protest from some A film series about gay and les- used to "convert" gays and lesbi- ordinated by Jane Dickie, professor by its approach it was going to stir senior students, the goal is to be able bian issues was originally planned ans. to gay issues in the classroom. of psychology and director of up the divisions of the past and to show the films during the spring for this fall, but it was delayed by a Sponsors of the series included women's studies. would not achieve what we under- semester. decision from Provost Jack the Cultural Affairs Committee, Van After a scries of conversations in stand to be the purpose of the sc- more FILMS on 3 Pigs hit the streets Downtown filled with cago charities. "Cows on colorful sculptures. Parade" also helped aid the tour- Emily Moellman and Sarah ist industry of the Windy City with Howard an estimated impact of 200 ARTS EDITOR AND STAFF REPORTER million. A walk down 8th street would The innovative idea of a public reveal that there arc some creative art exhibit of life-size animals was new additions to the city of Hol- conceived by artist Beat Seebcrger. land- pigs. Some are decorated in The exhibit was seen in 1998 in space suits, wings, splatters of Zurich, Switzerland where over paint, thongs and even the work of eight hundred cows were displayed the famous Dutch impressionist in the streets and then put up for Vincent Van Gogh. auction. The colorful new additions, Both the cows and the pigs in the which sit among the walls of tulips, exhibits in the U.S were molded in arrived the third week in July. Nebraska by the same artist, and These life-sized fiberglass crea- then were painted and designed in tures stand on almost every corner the respective cities by local artists in downtown Holland. The pigs are and organizations. part of the "Pigs on Parade" exhibit Local artist Kate Moynihan ANCHOR PHOTO BY ME hosted by the Holland Area Arts painted a pig titled "Pigment" that Council. is displayed in front of the Old Kent ON THE AlFtz Communications students Dani Grammerstorf ('03) (seated), Annie Wagnild ('02), and Beth Miranda ('02) work in the TV studio The proceeds of Holland's "Pigs bank on 8th St. Her gallery Kate on the second floor of Lubbers Hall. on Parade" exhibit auction will also Moynihan Gallery and Framing Inp. go toward a good cause. sponsored the production of the "Tigs on Parade' is working as swine which is covered in splatters of paint with actual paint tubes at- TV studio gets modernized a fund-raiser for the Holland Area Arts Council to expand the educa- tached on the side. Moynihan has New equipment re- The studio, located on the second are among the technical changes. tion program in order to offer more found the exhibit a great experience floor of Lubbers hall, is currently The upgrade is much needed at arts to the community," said for her as well as for art awareness places obsolete undergoing a major overhaul that this time. "Most of the technol- Rachael Vandewal, operations di- among the public. Brock Regan will result in a state-of-the-art re- ogy we are using ru)w was by- rector for the Holland Area Arts "I have enjoyed the 'Pigs on Pa- STAFF REPORTER cording and production facility. passed seven or eight years ago." Council. rade' exhibit because it has ex- Thanks to changes being made Starting in early August, renova- said David Schock, professor of Chicago had a similar exhibit panded the public's idea of what art in the TV. Studio, which is used tions began and all new equipment communications, who is in charge during the summer of '99 where can be and has made it easily ac- by the communication depart- was ordered. This equipment is of the project. "Some may have over three-hundred fiberglass cows cessible to them," said Moynihan. ment, Hope College has leapt for- added as it arrives and the studio is been bypassed over twenty years of all different shapes and sizes "And it's fun to see the diversity of ward in video capability, and is expected to be complete by the end ago." overran the streets of the city. This the pigs on the streets." one step closer to being able to of the fall semester. An experienced recording and exhibit, titled "Cows on Tim Kolk, owner of Blackbridge establish a college television sta- New recorders, digital cameras, Parade", auctioned off the cows tion. and conversion to CD quality sound more TV on 2 to raise money for a variety of Chi- more PIGS on 8 Hope students blocked from file-sharing program They are among 300,000 righted material. "I just tried to log on, and nothing," said cess to Napster. The debate over Napster's legality, which Matt Weldy (403), who has about 15 Metallica kicked off by Metallica. All Hope students interviewed chose not is currently being discussed in court songs among his 1,000 plus MP3s. to fill out the form, sacrificing their Napster Matt Cook came to a head last May when the According to students blocked from access to avoid getting sued. CAMPUS BEAT EDITOR rock band Metallica sued Napster, when they log onto Napster, Similar legal action was taken by rap mu- Napster Music Community, an Internet Napster Inc. over copyright they are referred to a website where sician Dr. Drc. Tim Hoogewind ('03), who based music file sharing utility, has become infringement. Napster re- they are asked to fill out a legal docu- only had 100 MP3s in all, was kicked off of immensely popular on college campuses all sponded by blocking over ment in which they can admit to pos- Napster for this. Hoogewind noticed that over the country, and Hope is no exception. 300,000 users, all with Metallica sessing copyrighted files. After they many of his friends, who had many more Napster allows users to share MP3s, CD songs in their libraries, from the ser- fill out the form, it is sent to Metallica, files, did not get blocked. quality music files, with each other free of vice. Some of these users are Hope Col who has the option of suing. If Metallica does cost. Often this means distributing copy- lege students. not sue within ten days, the user regains ac- more NAPSTER on 3 n WP Professor's Self Mutilation Hope at the Strong defense Website Issues Olympics in football [email protected] Campus, InFocus, Spotlight, Sports, (616) 395-7877 Page 3. Page 5. Page 6. Page 12. Gampias Beat 'Anchor September 13, 2000 Hope is "Best Buy" Fiske guide ranks "There is a cost-benefit ratio that every family has to take into ac- Hope at top in value count," Bekkering said. "Hope has Andrew Lotz results that speak for themselves in EDITOR-IN-CHIEF that regard. That doesn't mean that Hope College is among one of the cost isn't a burden, but when we 40 private and public colleges and look at academic strength. Christian universities named as a "Besl Buy" character, new facilities and great by the "Fiske Guide to Colleges staff, the formula works well." 2001." "The Fiske Guide to Colleges," Hope was selected from a field published annually and edited by of over 300 schools in both the Edward B. Fiske, has been pub- United Stales and Canada. The lished for almost 20 years. guide picked only two colleges Hope has been featured in the from Michigan as "Best Buys." The book regularly, and this is the third other is Calvin College. time that Hope has been named a Colleges with the "Best Buy" "Best Buy." s designation are described by the The Fiske guide is not the only * k guide as being among "the best and publication that ranks Hope well most interesting institutions in the among colleges and universities.