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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.