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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]. AAB appoints coimnittees to study core curriculum At Wednesday's meeting of the pointing people to the different Academic Affairs Board a pro- committees. posal was passed establishing sev- "I asked the chairman of each eral committees to study the vari- department to appoint one mem- ous core requirements. ber," Brink said, 4tand the stu- According to Professor of dents will be selected with the aid Chemistry Dr. Ervin Brink, chair- of student AAB member Kurt man of the AAB, 44a separate Avery." Besides instituting ad hoc committee will study each of the committees for the science, social requirements." For example, the science and cultural heritage re- science requirement will be re- quirement, the curriculum com- viewed by an ad hoc committee mittee will be responsible for the consisting of one member from senior seminar requirement. The each of the involved departments religion, mathematics and physical (chemistry, biology, physics and education departments will review geology) in addition to two stu- their own requirements. dent representatives. When asked about the Intro- Brink said the committees will duction to Liberal Studies require- be responsible for making recom- ment, Brink said the AAB was "in mendations and reporting back to the'.process'pf studying that par- the AAB in one month's time. He ticular requirement and therefore added he was responsible for ap- no committee was necessary." Proposed law will give more

Volume 85-18 Hope College, Holland, Michigan 49423 March 9, 1973 loans to Michigan students

According to State Senator dle income families to borrow, Will appear Mar, 16 Jack Faxon (D-Detroit), the Mich- especially if more than one child igan legislature can help crush the in the family is attending college," financial barrier which "prevents said the state senator. many students from low and mid- According to Faxon, if the Siegel-Schwall to perform dle income families from attend- legislature fails to take some ac- ing college." tion quickly, it may soon become The Siegel-Schwall Blues Band, dominated field of such greats as MANY OF their gigs paid be- Faxon said the barrier can and highly unlikely that any but the one of the nation's premier Sonny Boy Williamson and Sonny tween nothing and $5 a night. should be lifted by passage of a brightest, scholarship winning stu- rhythm and blues bands, will be Terry, both of whom Siegel has Though their early days in Chi- bill he has introduced to provide dents from low income families appearing Friday, Mar. 16, with studied. cago obviously did not make them $5 million in direct educational can attend college." Stone Mason of Elkhart, Indiana, SIEGEL LISTS people such as rich, it gave them the opportunity loans to students unable to obtain In an analysis of the bill, now at 7:30 p.m. in the Holland Civic B.B. King and Jimmy Reed as to jam with and learn from such assistance from the existing loan before the Senate Education Com- Center. influencing his music, while Jim established stars as Little Walter, program. mittee, the Michigan Department THE CHICAGO-BASED Siegel- Schwall has been influenced by Jimmy Reed (traces of whose "Although the existing loan of Education said the proposed Schwall features Jim Schwall on classical performers such as style is obvious in their art) and program has helped^ many stu- program would make it possible guitar, slide guitar and occasional Stravinsky. John Hammond. dents who would otherwise be to provide loan assistance to vocals, and the broadly-talented In April 1965, Mike Boyland, After signing with Vanguard unable to attend college, there are about 5,000 students, assuming an Corky Siegel on harp, keyboard a guitarist who had worked with Records their career slowly began still many students who can't ob- average loan of $1,000. and vocals. Corky Siegel, introduced Siegel to to flourish. Their first album, tain loans to help meet their Siegel is considered one of the guitarist Jim Schwall. The two 'The Siegel-Schwall Band," be- educational expenses," stated As with other loan programs, best blues harp-men today and started by securing engagements came an immediate favorite of Faxon. students receiving assistance may be the only white to come in various night-clubs in Chicago's east coast FM radio stations, and In many cases, students can't would repay the loan. close in talent in a black- South Side. the group began performing out- get loans because their families "In this way, the state can buy side of Chicago. have no customer relationship a great deal of education for a Music critic Ralph J. Gleason with lending institutions. relatively small amount of money of Rolling Stone said, "they are a "While students from low in- since it would, in effect, be invest- quartet of young Chicagoans who come families have had the great- ing funds in a program which have been raised on the blues. . ., if""- est difficulty in obtaining loans, could eventually support itself they have excitement and they rising costs are now making it through repayment of loans," said swing." necessary for students from mid- Faxon. Requirements reduced New langimge option analyzed Editor's note: This week's anchor Coupled with the recent It should be noted that these essay is written by senior classics changes in the foreign language courses will also fulfill the three major Bruce Smith. In this second requirement is a major revision of hour second component of the and final essay about the changes the foreign language department. revised foreign language require- in the foreign language require- THIS REVISION, which was ment. ment Smith analyses the options presented with the original plan THE REVISED program also SIEGEL-SCHWALL BLUES BAND available to the students. for a reduction in the require- offers formalized audio-lingual ment, includes changes in course and reading tracks within each of Aids Stewart offerings, the formal introduction the major languages. For some of audio-lingual and reading time individual sections have in- tracks, new major programs and a formally been concentrating on new name for the department. As reading or speaking and listening Marker named associate dean a result, the department has a skills, depending on the aims of much greater range and flexibility the particular class. Dr. David Marker, professor of in the history department. Marker HE WILL supervise the Office than ever before. Under the new system ithe physics, has been named associate will assume administrative respon- of the Registrar under Jon Huis- These changes are largely due practice will be made a normal dean for academic affairs joining sibilities immediately for the com- ken and the Office of Educational to the decision to reduce all four- part of the German, French and John Stewart in sharing the broad- puter center, the data processing Research under its newly ap- hour courses to three hours. This Spanish offerings. This will allow ening responsibilities of this of- office and the office of institu- pointed director, Dr. Patrick Har- not only reduced the total hours students to concentrate on that fice, according to a statement tional research headed by Ken- rison, assistant professor of psy- in the requirement, but also freed aspect of the language which is issued jointly by President Gor- neth Vink. chology. Stewart will be in charge staff members to teach a number most interesting to them without don Van Wylen and Dean for The other responsibilities of his of waivers of academic require- of other courses. getting bogged down in material Academic Affairs Morrette Rider. office will begin with the fall term ments and the determining of IT WAS ALSO decided that for which they have little use. UNDER THE new plan, Mark- of 1973, and include the adminis- academic standing. He will serve instead of offering a number of WITH THIS variety of new er will retain a half time teaching tration of the Oak Ridge Science on the Curriculum Committee and different sections of the same offerings will also come a change role in the physics department Semester Program, the New York the Teacher Education Commit- level in a given language, the in the major program. Basically and Stewart will take on some Arts Semester, the audio-visual tee, and be coordinator of course emphasis will be on offering a there will be three ways of major- additional teaching responsibilities center directed by John Klungle, offerings of the department of number of different types of ing in French, German and Span- who will remain in that position, interdisciplinary studies. courses. Thus the individual stu- ish. The first will be a straight the Institute for Environmental Increased responsibilities have dent will have more of a chance to language major. Seniors to give Quality, which will continue un- been placed upon Huisken who get into a course which stiits his This is designed primarily for der the directorship of Dr. Donald will add to his continuing duties individual needs and abilities. people intending to teach the Williams, professor of chemistry, the editing of the annual Catalog, For the typical student the language and will consist of thirty joint recital Tnes. and the coordination of programs the processing of dropping and most interesting change is the hours of courses above the in the health science areas. adding of courses, non-returning creation of a number of new intermediate level. The program Janet Cioffi and Carol M. Yff IN ADDITION, Marker will students and withdrawals, the literature and civilization courses will emphasize the skills of will be presenting a joint senior be advisor to the dean for aca- changing of academic advisors, in English. At present such language acquisition and the cul- recital Tuesday, Mar. 13, at 8:15 demic affairs for the academic and and the supervision of the fresh- courses are only open to people ture in which the language devel- p.m. in Wichers Auditorium. research programs of the five sci- man and transfer testing pro- already proficient in the language. oped. Cioffi, of Cresskill, New Jersey, ence departments and will coordi- grams. Only people who had already THE SECOND major is a litera- is a pianist majoring in vocal nate the use of resources and He will also compile and pub- taken Intermediate Spanish could ture major, designed for the per- music education. She is presently facilities in the Peale Science Cen- lish the dean's list and academic take Spanish Civilization or Intro- son planning to do graduate work studying with Assistant Professor ter and the Physics-Mathematics probation list. Both Marker and duction of Hispanic Literature. in the literature of a given lan- of Music Charles Aschbrenner. Building. Stewart will devote a portion of UNDER THE new program, guage. Within this major 24 hours Her performance will include Stewart will administer the Ur- their time to the counseling pro- however, anyone interested can of courses numbered 270 or above works by Scarlatti, Brahms, ban Semester Programs and the gram and will represent the aca- take The Hispanic World Today, will be required as well as -15 Beethoven, Debussy and Schu- special educational programs in- demic dean's office in programs or Hispanic Literature in Transla- hours of literature, classical mann. cluding the Summer Trial and relating to the church, govern- tion without fulfilling any prereq- mythology and English 349. Such Yff of South Holland, 111., a Evaluation Program, the presi- ment agencies and foundations, uisites. Such new courses will be a background should provide contralto, is presently studying dential scholars, the contract and and engage in various types of offered in each of the language enough depth and background for voice under Professor of Music Dr. composite curricula, the Upward proposals with Rider and Dr. Eu- areas and will create a number of the student planning to do gradu- Robert Cavanaugh^ She will be Bound program, freshman aca- gene Jekel, director of research courses for the student interested ate work in that particular area. singing a group of Schubert Lied- demic orientation, and the coordi- and academic development, in the in studying literatures and civiliza- The third major is a new con- ern and a song cycle by Benjamin nation of curricula and programs seeking of funding for special pro- tions other than the Anglo-Ameri- cept for the foreign language de- Britten. . • « for minority students. grams of the college. can. continued on page 3, column 1 Two Hope College anchor March 9, 1973 Selling out yea ; n r-mn n

Cyrano continues to play to full ahd Involved in Cyrano did gain important tyrano enthusiastic houses every night. The weeks insight into the theatre. But almost every ^vv SHOW! I of hard work by the music and theater major role in the show was played by a departments have produced one of the professional or a professor. Ferrer said that biggest successes in the history of Hope a "mature" case would contribute to a theatre. If ticket sales and audience reac- higher quality production. tion serve as a valid measure of success. A man of Ferrer's directing talent is But some important questions still lin- certainly qualified to make that judgment. ger in the wake of the apparent success. But is the theatre department setting a The artist-in-residence program was insti- precedent whereby the interests of the tuted several years ago to provide theatre students are sacrificed to a higher quality students with the opportunity to work production? Are we naive in believing that with professionals. Ideally, the student Hope theatre is for the students? would learn from noted actors or directors Though something is to be said for students acting as apprentices to more highly trained performers, it is difficult to believe that Hope is so void of acting talent that professionals and professors must play almost all.of the principal roles: as he worked side by side with them. The Judging by the Cyrano production, point of the program was not necessarily to Hope is in danger of losing artistic theatre '// « insure financial success but to serve as a to commercial theatre. Not only are profes- teaching device. sionals and professors playing the impor- /n umry I just don't understand how the Zutphen Shriners found out about it before I did. And, no doubt, persons have learned a tant parts to insure a more capably acted great deal from the noted artists on cam- production, but Assistant Professor of pus. But unfortunately the original purpose Theatre Donald Finn favors eliminating of the artist-in-residence program has been student ticket prices. lost. It was never any secret that Ferrer, Doubtless, Finn hopes to mount better Wright and Forrest came to Hope not to productions with the additional revenue, teach students about the theatre, but to and continue to satisfy the administration's mount their own play for their own inter- desire that the theatre operate in the black. ests. They were searching for the facilities But needless to say, the financial situation The vase case to produce it and Hope filled their needs. of most students would make it difficult to by Art Buchwatd Perhaps the theatre department could attend them. Professionalized productions . Copyright © 1972, Los Angeles Times Syndicate gain notoriety from such an endeavor. Or and highej^ticket prices could result in the There is a big brouhaha going on at New off-limits. He felt no guilt about this since maybe because the other professionals who theatre department alienating itself from York's Metropolitan Museum of Art about he maintains the Etruscans left no will were scheduled to portray Cyrano can- the Hope student. a rare Etruscan vase which The Met paid $ I specifying whom their art work should go celled, leaving little choice but a desperate The scheduled holdover of Cyrano and million for. The question now being raised to. eleventh hour attempt to get Ferrer, the the two-dollar autographed posters of Fer- is was the vase bought from a legitimate Most of the grave robbers of Cerveteri theatre department hired the three men. rer will help insure the show's financial source or was it smuggled out of Italy learned their trade digging for archaeolo- through a black market operator? If the gists for $1 a day. Once they discovered Even though theatre students or majors success. But financial success and profes- latter is true, Italy may try to reclaim it. how to unearth the Etruscan tombs, they were not consulted, negating student input, sionalized productions have begun to take WHEN I READ the story, I recalled that decided to go into business for themselves. perhaps they were brought here with only precedence over the academic and artistic 12 years ago in Italy I had the honor of This made Cerveteri one of the most the students' interest in mind. interests of the Hope student. interviewing the chief of all the Etruscan industrious towns in all of Italy, with the grave robbers in the town of Cerveteri, the If the artist-in-residence program is pri- The Hope catalog states in the introduc- archaeologists digging in the daytime and capital of Etruscan tomb robbing. I called grave robbers moonlighting at night. marily a learning experience, professionals tion to the course offerings of the theatre him Paolo, though that was not his name. PAOLO TOLD me the most trouble the should be hired who realize their purpose department, "Performance or laboratory Robbing Etruscan graves in the hills grave robbers ever got into was when the on campus. They should not be paid to experience makes possible an appreciation around Cerveteri was one of the most king of Sweden, an amateur archaeologist, honorable professions in the area and Paolo use the undergraduate for their desired of the art form ,which can come only was given the honor by the Italian govern- was treated with great respect by everyone * hient to make a dig for an Etruscan tomb. end. But in the case of such artists as through direct participation." If the goals except the Italian police. He found one, drilled a hole and photo- Ferrer, Wright, and Forrest the theatre embodied in this statement are to be THE BIG market for Etruscan art work graphed the interior of the tomb which had department made an obvious choice. subordinated to commercial interests, that in those days was not museums, but rare and marvelous things in it. But the They understood that Ferrer would be is, that those who should be enjoying the tourists. Paolo had great contempt for king made a mistake. most of his tourist customers who were directing the production for his interests benefits of participatory theatre are left He decided to wait until the next day to only interested in obscene vases, for which actually open the tomb. He returned to but students could learn from his mere out, then the theatre department will fail the Etruscans were famous. Rome to invite his family and government presence. Students were instructed to use to support the liberal arts goals of this "They don't realize," he told me, "that officials back to watch him dig out the him as he used the students. The students institution. since the Etruscans painted so few non- tomb the next morning. Alas, when every- obscene vases, they are the ones with the one arrived the next day, the tomb had Readers speak out value." been completely picked clean. HE ALSO WAS outraged that a whole "WE SHARED the king's disappoint- industry had sprung up in Italy making ment," Paolo said, "but we have a saying in forgeries of Etruscan vases, which was Cerveteri, 'Never let an Etruscan tomb sit hurting the grave robbers' market. "We will by itself overnight.' " Praises bio. profs find a little cup in a tomb," he told me, I don't know if Paolo had anything to "and someone will fabricate it two feet do with The Metropolitan Museum's vase Looking back into my college years, I help us become well-rounded students. I high. Then the tourist will say 'I'd rather or not. But I like to think he did. Some of remember with great appreciation two will never be able to thank these men have the bigger one without any cracks in the pieces he has found in tombs are men! These men are Associate Professor of enough for helping me grow into a respon- it.' " probably on display in museums all over Biology Dr. Edward Ervin and Dr. Charles sible and intelligent American citizen. Paolo told me you could tell the differ- the world. He told me he respected the McBride assistant professor of biology. Karl Nadolsky ence between a legitimate Etruscan grave Etruscans, but he's not sure he approved of Why will I and my alumni friends Otto Vande Velde Award Winner 1971 robber and one who sold phony artifacts their sex life. always remember Ervin and McBride? The by the callouses on his hands. A legitimate I'm sorry The Met didn't contact me answer is fairly simple. A student goes to grave robber was also known by how much first. I could have sent them to Paolo and college mainly for academic and social time he had spent in jail for robbing tombs. they could have avoided the middleman. I development. Ervin and McBride have con- Ralph rants PAOLO DID 18 months when he was wouldn't be surprised if Paolo would have tributed greatly in these two areas to many In the anchor review of the Hope caught one midnight scrabbling away in a sold the famous vase to The Met for $198, students at Hope College. College Theatre production of Cyrano pit that the Italian police had declared plus four bottles of a decent red Chianti. I 11 which appeared last Friday; no mention was made of the fact that the reviewer was |0PE COLLEGE discussing a dress rehearsal of that produc- dear editor tion. The reader was thus left with the impression that the review was of the anchor opening night performance. Such an omis- •OLLAND, MICHIGAN PP*CSS In the area of plant physiology, Ervin sion amounts, I feel, to irresponsible jour- inspired his students to investigate the nalism, and could be unfairly damaging to Published during the college year except vacation, holiday and examination periods plant kingdom with sophisticated research the theatre program of the college. techniques and motivational guidance. Be- The fact that an invited audience was in by and for the students of Hope College, Holland, Michigan, under the authority of cause of his encouraging friendliness along attendance the evening on which Mr. Bach the Student Communications Media Committee. Subscription price: 17 per year. with his vast knowledge of photosynthetic appeared does not alter the fact that it was Printed by the Composing Room, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Member, Associated organisms, the students took pride in their a dress rehearsal which was witnessed. Collegiate Press, United States Student Press Association. Office located on ground semester's work in his course. (Professional critics for commercial media floor of Graves Hall. Telephone 392-5111, Extension 2301 and 2285. The opinions The times will always be remembered do not make a practice of reviewing pre- on this page are not necessarily those of the student body, faculty or administration when Ervin patiently and helpfully view rehearsals.) of Hope College. straitened out my ever meandering lab I do not make reference here to the techniques. But at last I am a teacher of content of Mr. Bach's review, or to his biology! point of view; I would consider it inappro- Editor Peter Brown Cartoonist Dan Dykstra Who can forget all those funny looking priate to make such comments-unless I Associate Editor Dave DeKok Advertising Manager Joe Courter fruit flies studied in McBride's lab. From felt that facts had been misrepresented. 1 Assistant Editor Paul Timmer Columnists Paul Boddy, the myriad of various fruit fly data, Mc- wish to stress only the anchor's failure to News Editor Marcy Darin Bob Van Voorst, Merlin Whiteman Bride helped his students to gain the identify the nature of the work reviewed. Copy Editor Tom O'Brien concepts and principles of genetics. A similar problem arose over anchor Reporters Lois Atherley, Without his guidance one might think reviews a few years ago. At that time the Editorial Assistant Gary Gray Dirk Bloemendaal, Mark Cook, about fruit flies, "If you've seen one, reviewers agreed to ask whether the depart- Critiques Editors Paul Bach, Tamara Cooke, Wayne Daponte, you've seen them all." McBride's course ment would object to their basing a review Bud Thompson helped to excite *me in this phase of my Jim McFarlin, Gary Jones, on a dress rehearsal, and, if there were no Photography Editor John Jensen major, biology. This he did with many objection, to state clearly in the review Chris Liggett Business Manager Priscilla Buys other students. that, it was a rehearsal which was being Photographers Tom Siderius, Not only were these two men extremely discussed. 1 must ask that this practice be Subscription Manager Stan Busman Bob Lawhead, Don Lee Davis, interested in our academic welfare but also continued. Layout Bob Eckert in our extra curricular activities in order to John Beahm George Ralph Artist Mike Balabuch March 9. 1973 Hope College anchor Three

( I anchor review Billion dollar babies: bizarre, but good hard rock Editor's note: This week's record Alice had just made it big on Top being hung. This album intro- just hoped that they'd put as When "Elected" came out, many review is written by anchor music 40 radio with "I'm Eighteen," so duced the snake into Cooper's much work into the music. And figured "Well, he did 'School's critic G.M. Thompson. He reviews people started to take notice of image which led to the boa con- they had. Out' when school got out and Billion Dollar Babies by Alice him. When "Love It To Death" strictor that he uses as a regular "SCHOOL'S OUT" had been did 'Elected' just before the elec- Cooper. {Warner Brothers came out the music world did a part of his stage act. the big hit of the summer. The tion, maybe he'll do 'Rudolph Records) doubletake. "Under My Wheels" and "Be other impressive cut was "Gutter the Red Nosed Reindeer' for THE ALBUM cover conveyed My Lover" were the Top 40 Cat vs. The Jets" which combined Christmas." Dear Mom, an image which was a cross be- heavies featured on this L.P. More an original tune by the group with THE CULTURAL clash of the Remember a couple of weeks tween "Fags On Parade" and your important than these were the the Jet's song from "West Side century takes place in the song ago when I was home on vacation basic sick. Songs like "Is It My cuts which indicated that Cooper Story." Alice gave a personal "Billion Dollar Babies" when we and we watched one of the ABC Body" and "Ballad of Dwight was really getting into the horror touch to the song which the danc- realize that the dude singing with "In Concert" shows? (Remember, Fry" didn't help to dispel the thing. What other conclusion can ing, harmonizing, psuedo-street Cooper is none other then the you stayed up till one in the image. Consequently, Alice you draw with titles like "Halo of gang of the movie couldn't. We Mellow Yellow Sunshine and morning watching it so you could became the world's most well- Flies," "Dead Babies," and knew then that it was time to stop Superman . Donovan himself. "be in touch with today's known hard rock weirdo. "Killer?" But even so, it was and listen to Alice a little closer. "DONOVAN?", we all said, youth?") And there was that Strange as it may seem, (and it better rock: better written, better So now there's Billion Dollar "ARE YOU KIDDING?" But group that looked like they were seemed pretty strange already), arranged. Babies. The cover resembles a they weren't. There was Donovan all dead and you asked me if the . the quality pf their music was IN THE summer of '72 Cooper green alligator wallet with a gold singing hard rock with the king of lead singer was human? They directly proportional to the com- introduced "School's Out." The stamp bearing the' nafhre of the the bizarre^and 1 might add doing called themselves "Alice Cooper?" plexity of the album cover. The album cover was a desk top that album and group. Inside, you'll a good job, too. I didn't think you'd forget, more complex the cover, the bet- opened up. Inside was pictured find a large $1 billion dollar Alice "No More Mister Nice Guy" WELL, MOM, they've got a ter the music. "Love It To Death" the cluttered interior of the desk Cooper bill slipped under a bill and "Generation Landslide" are new album out called Billion Dol- was a simple fold open album that included a "school's out band. good songs but somehow end up lar Babies. I thought I'd tell you with black and white pictures. quiz" which served as the credit On the left hand side is a the most unnoticed of the album. about it so you could stay "in The rock music was very basic. sheet. selection of perforated wallet "Generation Landslide" is the touch." What I'm about to say Not necessarily bad, just basic, On the back of the cover were photos that, when removed, reveal group's perception of the modern may seem a little bizarre at times unimaginative. two fold-down sides that allowed the album credits. Fire up for the situation, with even the very so I want you to sit down. NEXT CAME "Killer" with a you to turn the cover into a desk. photos Mom; one shot of Cooper young getting in on the act: See Mom, it all started with an full color jacket and tear-off cal- Along with the album, were a pair almost looks human. "Molotov milk bottles heaved album called "Love It To Death." endar which featured Cooper of disposable paper panties. We THE LINER jacket has the from pink high chairs." song lyrics on one side and a "MARY-ANN" is great. With Culture studies expanded picture of the group with a baby only piano accompaniment, Alice (made up like Alice) seated amidst sings this love song straight, some- bunny rabbits and bills ranging thing you might have expected from five to 100 dollar denomina- from the Beach Boys at one time. Language offerings revamped tions. It's the last line that tops it off: "I The first cut is "Hello Hurray," thought you were my man." been partially filled by some on how much student interest Alice's current Top 40 attempt Somewhere out there, Alice is continued from page 1 courses in history, English and there is in the new majors and in and third in the recent line of probably ripping his T-shirt or playing with his snake or getting partment and will be known as religion. the additional courses in literature songs about big rock performers. I hung or electricuted or beat up or the area studies major. Designed The area studies major may and civilization. understand that it appeared on an whatever his fancy drives him to. primarily to be a component of a also do a good deal to popularize However, the program cer- album which Alice did before Maybe that turns you off Mom, double major, this program will the department since it will not tainly does introduce a new flexi- "Love It To Death." Not that it but Billion Dollar Babies is a give the student the opportunity require the lengthy concentration bility and breadth in the foreign matters now. to develop an interdisciplinary that a language major now re- language department. The pro- MOM, I'D tell you what good album if you like hard rock. second concentration. quires. There has also been a gram seems to have taken impor- "Raped And Freezin," "Un- The orchestration, (and there's a IT WILL consist of 15 hours of growing interest in double majors tant steps in making the change in finished Sweet," "Sick Things," lot of it), is fine. Their use of courses in a chosen language with recently and any program that can emphasis from required courses to and "I Love The Dead" are about, stereo is, as usual, superb. It's 15 hours of other, coordinated be integrated so well with a vari- electives both beneficial and at- but you'll probably read about good music, maybe weird at courses in a related area, totaling ety of majors should attract a tractive to the student. As with them next week when Time or times, but good. at least 30 hours. Theoretically an good number of people. the change in the foreign language Newsweek does an article on the That's about it from here. area studies major will reinforce a PRESENTLY IT'S rather diffi- requirement it may well be point- declining morality and taste of P.S.-I hope you read this with primary major in areas such as art cult to predict the results of the ing to other, similar, changes in modern youth. an open mind. I know what a history, business, English, history, revision. A good deal will depend other parts of the curriculum. "Elected" is on this album too. dedicated Fugs fan you are. G.M. philosophy, political science or religion. It might also provide an in-depth minor for education stu- dents, being built around the pres- ent 20 hour language teaching minor. SIEGEL-SCHWALL Majors in Classics will remain the same with the only change being that all courses being taught BLUES BAND in English will now be listed under Classics, as opposed to the present Greek or Latin listings. with STONE MASON BECAUSE OF these changes the curriculum of the department will now be roughly divided 50/50 HOLLAND CIVIC CENTER between language and literature FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 7:30 p.m. courses. In view of this and the fact that the new foreign language requirement will be much more literature oriented, the depart- TICKETS: $2.00 ment has decided to change its AT DOOR: $2.50 name to the department of for- eign languages and literatures. The change in the name of the TICKET OUTLETS department summarizes a good deal of what is being done in the Student Activities Office (Phil Wilson) overall revision. The emphasis has Resort Sounds Record Shop, Holland been shifted from strictly teaching a language to more of a medium Paul's Jewelry Store, Holland between language skills and an G.V.S.C. Bookstore MARIAN McPARTLAND TRIO appreciation of the culture and Records Unlimited, Eastbrook Mall, Grand Rapids literature this language conveys. THE CULTURE and literature -Boogie Records, Kalamazoo courses in English are also a signif- and icant step toward making these type courses much more available to students. Not only do they BUY NOW! PHIL WILSON increase the electives, but they also fill a gap in the study of foreign cultures which had only In Concert "ALL \NE SELL /S FUNr r Monday, March 26, 8p.m. DeWitt Theatre $1.00 -12 USED MOTORCYCLES- $200. 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'TIL 9 PM Closed All Day Wednesday i- '>-•* Four Hope College anchor March 9, 1973 Model United Nations event to be held next Fri. in DCC The first annual Hope Model political science, Jack Holmes, United Nations, a program de- assistant professor of political sci- signed to transform political sci- ence and Larry Penrose, instructor ence classroom theory into prac- in history, will consider the vari- tice, will be held next Friday in ous issues to be voted on in the the DeWitt Cultural Center. afternoon session of the general Political science students, assembly. under the direction of Lynne Wal- Assisting in the presentations ler and Dick VanDop, are sponsor- will be seniors Eric Brown, ing the symposium which will Charles Gossett, Rich Hiskes, Mer- involve two hundred students lin Whiteman, junior Julie Do- from twenty area high schools. herty and sophomore Rudy The event's purpose, according Broekhuis. to VanDop will be "to aquaint high school students with major International Relations Club international issues and help them members will be available to assist gain some insight into the com- the delegates by giving a first-hand plexities of international affairs." viewpoint of some of the coun- During the morning sessions tries represented. The International Relations Club sponsored a friendly panel discussion last Wednesday night in the Carley informal lecture/discussion teams Richard Levy, an Asian studies Room. The topic was "Untied States affinity toward dictatorships and other oppressive rightist regimes?" led by Dr. Robert Elder, assistant scholar from the University of Participating in the discussion (left to right) were Joan Lautenschleger, Dr. Heerema, Dr. Curry and Paul professor of political science. Dr. Michigan will address the dele- Bach. Dr. Elder moderated the discussion. * Renze Hoeksema, professor of gates on Chinese foreign relation. First meeting Monday March to Hope dates set The first organizational meet- physically challenging situation ferried most of the way out to the ing for the 1973 March To Hope for both of them." island by the Coast Guard, but will be held Monday evening at THE HIKE IS not "to Hope" will wade a short distance on to 7:00 in Voorhees Lounge, accord- in a literal sense. The group will shore from the boat. ing to Associate Professor of walk approximately 60 miles in- FRIDAY MORNING of the Education Carl Schackow, one of side the park itself. "Each pair Ma-rch the group will be bussed the organizers. will carry all their food and equip- back to Holland and spend the night near Holland State Park. In THE MARCH will be held Aug. ment," he said. "The food isn't 19-25 at Wilderness State Park, fancy and neither is the shelter." the morning the remaining dis- located near the Straits of Macki- One of the highlights of the tance to Hope will be hiked. naw. Each student participating in March is a stay on a small island in Schackow remarked that 26 the March will be paired with an Lake Michigan. The group will be Hopeites made the trek last year underprivileged child from the but "we'll probably limit it to 20 Holland area. this year." He stressed that "This is a chance for students 'Cyrano' extended women as well as men could to get to know a child from a participate in the program. different background than his Students may take the March LYNNE WALLER DICK VAN DOP own," Schackow said. "It's a for two extra days for two hours credit if they wish but this is not mandatory. The Hope production of the SPONSORED new musical Cyrano has been ex- tended to March 12 and 13. The original nine performances VON INS BY THE of the production in the DeWitt Student and Cultural Center were MINISTRY sellouts. PIZZA WAGON Cyrano is a new musical ver- Free Delivery To Temper of our time OF CHRIST'S sion of Rostand's classic romantic drama and is being directed by Dorms On Orders academy award winning actor- by Bob Van Voorst PEOPLE Over $2.50 director Jose Ferrer. Call 396 5632 Ferrer, who has introduced the Perhaps it is easier to understand a bygone era emerges in hallucination, paranoia, and aimlessness. production each night, will not Restaurant & Billiards than to understand one's own time. We are often so Such themes are illustrated by black humorists like caught up in the frenzied events of the 1970's that Joseph Heller and Terry Southern, whose novels attend the March 12 and 13 per- 102 River Ave. we search in vain for some vantage point from deal with absurd and nihilistic situations. formances due to a previous com- which to reflect on events in the world that IN A FAMOUS passage from A Farewell to mitment in Miami, Fla. confront us. Arms, Ernest Hemingway has captured the spirit of TODAY'S COLUMN will attempt to furnish such our time: a perspective by examining some highlights of three cultural expressions of our time: music, literature I was aFways embarassed by the words sacred, and art. I am indebted to an essay which appeared glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in in the June, 1972, issue of Commentary, entitled vain.... We had read them, on proclamations Tooled "Sensibility in the 60's." that were slapped up by billposters over other In this article. Harvard sociologist Daniel Bell proclamations, now for a long time, and I had traces the artistic radicalism of the 60's to its roots seen nothing sacred, and the things that were in the modernism of the decades preceeding World glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like War One and to a reaction to the sensibility of the the stockyards of Chicago, if nothing was done 1950's. A close reading of Bell's article will yield to the meat except to bury it. . . . Abstract words apothecARy shop rich dividends on the time one invests in it. such as glory and honor, courage or hallow were THE TEMPER OF our time is, in a word, obscence beside the concrete names of villages, Located Model anti-intellectual. The artists, writers, and musicians the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the of the 60's and 70's have deliberately turned against numbers of regiments and the dates. a prevailing tradition in Western art which dates to ancient Greece. The modern artist, like Hemingway's protagonist, This tradition stressed a contemplative approach has also rejected the themes of grandeur and to art, an attitude which fostered the life of the nobility to turn to themes which artists of the last mind: a cognitive style, detachment of audience and two thousand years have considered unworthy of This Week From SAC. object, and an insistence that the mind must guide treatment: spiritual poverty, meaninglessness, and the heart. banality. BUT ALL THESE grand virtues are now being washed away in a wave of modern irrationality^ An NO LONGER do sculptors, for example, use emphasis on form has replaced the traditional noble materials like marble or bronze in their art; emphasis on content; detachment has given way to rather, industrial materials, hair, dirt, and refuse give brutal shape to modern sculpture. immersion in artistic experiences; the madness A more telling indictment of modern art is that it Vctwfia spoken of in Cfl/c/i-22-with its celebration of ...the uncommon movie. absurdity and meaninglessness—has taken captive is striking at the very roots of art itself. A prime the intellect. objective of modern art has been to erase all distinctions between art and life, that is, to rid art The temper of our time is illustrated in the world of all objective, symbolic purpose and make it a of contemporary music. With the unprecedented mere expression of subjective "creative" activity. rise of teen-age affluence in the 50's and 60's, the "new sound" of rock music has roared onto the THIS ERASING of the symbolic nature of art scene, exerting a powerful influence on life in our can only lead to the destruction of any objectivity day. of our reflection on a work of modem art; indeed, THE FORM and content of rock are pre- to erase this distinction of subject and object is to dominantly anti-intellectual. Hallucination, induced dissolve the self into experience. by chemicals, is considered by many leading rock What can we conclude from the temper of our musicians to be a path to creativity. A wistful desire time? Just this: it is a confession of the spiritual to return to a state of childhood innocence (an poverty of the culture around us. The leaders of "Age of Aquarius") seeks to erase the demands of today's art and thought recognize that man is adrift adulthood. on a stormy sea of meaninglessness; gone is every Finally, the most telling aspect of rock music is thought of purpose in life. its obsession with extreme levels of noise. Rock has ALL THIS should be welcome news, in a sense, reached such ear-splitting crescendos that the to the Christian who is concerned about those who concert-goer often cannot hear himself think; and do not share the Christian faith. Modern man is this. Bell quips, may indeed be its intention. without God, and he is miserable with his existence. THE WORLD of literature has also been affected The world is a candidate for redemption; the Julie Christie George C. Scott by the temper of our time. For example, a leading fields of modern thought are white unto harvest. theme of recent novels has been madness. Protago- May the Lord of harvest send his people forth, THIS FRIDAY NIGHT ONLY-MARCH 9 nists are often portrayed as searchers for meaning in armed with his Word of Love and compassion, to life, but they cannot discover any worthwhile goals reap the grain of lives rescued from despair and Shows at 7:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. or purposes. meaninglessness. Only when man gives himself to This desperate craving for a meaning that life God and is possessed by God can man come to . Physics—Math 118 Admission only .25c cannot give has led to a schizoid madness that knowledge and control of himself.