The Anchor, Volume 100.02: September 16, 1987
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Hope College Hope College Digital Commons The Anchor: 1987 The Anchor: 1980-1989 9-16-1987 The Anchor, Volume 100.02: September 16, 1987 Hope College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1987 Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Repository citation: Hope College, "The Anchor, Volume 100.02: September 16, 1987" (1987). The Anchor: 1987. Paper 15. https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1987/15 Published in: The Anchor, Volume 100, Issue 2, September 16, 1987. Copyright © 1987 Hope College, Holland, Michigan. This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the The Anchor: 1980-1989 at Hope College Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Anchor: 1987 by an authorized administrator of Hope College Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Hope College the anchor Wednesday, Sept. 16, 1987 serving the college community for 100 years Volume 100 No. 2 News Fraternal Society Suspended It's a Rough Page 3 Way to Campus Begin a Library on Schedule Page 2 Season.,. Coach Todd Kamstra's Sports soccer team didn't have the easiest or Goiters to most successful start Defend title Page 6 in soccer history last week. The Dutchmen Feature dropped three contests, Is Reagan including a loss last Getting Too night to MSU, 4-1. Old? Page 9 Frame What are the Hardest Classes? Page 9 PAGE 2 SEPTEMBER 16, 1987 Work on Library Moving Along By Beth Pechta ' 'The microfilm and anchor Staff Writer microfiche materials will be consolidated and placed on the mm. Crews are still hard at work on second floor," Jensen said. "We the new Van Wylen Library, but are also adding a number of very according to David Jense, head good reader-printers. We got two librarian, students should be able this summer and we will be to use the new facility at the start getting more." of the second semester. "They'll be cheaper, make "We expect to be using the better copies and will be able to library starting Tuesday, Jan. make a positive copy from 12," Jensen said. positive film," Jensen cotinued. The new library, located on The second floor will also have College Avenue between Graves a curriculum materials center Place and Tenth Street, and that supports teacher education. named after Hope's ninth The equipment includes 21 president and his wife, Gordon J. machines for such materials as and Magaret Van Wylen, still has videos, audios, slides and much work to be completed. filmstrips, and a dozen "They are still plastering three microcomputers that will do of the five floors and much of the word processing, Lotus 1-2-3, and woodwork needs to be done," the psychology department's explained Jensen. Work crews Psych Sim program. are currently laboring on the Besides these, the second floor The library as it now looks. The structure should be finished in streets and cement sidewalks will house a small lecture hall time for its dedication this year, which includes the closing of surrounding the building. equipped with a projection booth Graves Place. When complete, the library that can show both film and will be much different than the computer images, three small Jensen, will have four group presently-used Van Zoeren like getting groceries and a lot rooms for study groups, a special study areas and almost one-third DeYoung, will cost "in the Library. quicker than the clumsy system room for the visually and of the book stacks in the library. neighborhood of $8 million." According to Jensen, the we have now." physically handicapped, the Also, the basement will be Even with the new building, library's first floor entryway will DeYoung also said that the new library's administrative offices, illuminated in part by openings the library will not completely be patterned after the design automated system will add to the 200 sections of shelving, and a in the east ceiling that allows vacate the present Van Zoeren used on the surrounding outside operating costs of the library, as circulation - service desk. natural light to filter in from the building. A passage in the Van areas of the building. Also, near will the increased number of "It's really going to be an windows on the first floor. Wylen basement will lead to an the entry will be a seperate holdings such as books and active floor," emphasized According to Bob DeYoung, archive room in Van Zoeren tht lounge containing vending Jensen. periodicals. vice-president of Development, will house, among other things, machines. Both the third and fourth floors another new feature of the collections of rare books. In addition, the first-floor will Money has been raised for will have book stacks and seating library will be the The room is expected to be have what Jensen calls "a very the increased operating costs areas, but each floor also has a "implementation of an completed for the April 21, 1988 different periodical display." All and for the library itself through special feature. automated system that will dedication of the Van Wylen periodicals in the new library On the third floor will be 31 alumni, parents of students, library. influence how books are checked foundations, corporations, and will be displayed so that the face study carrels that are built in Plans for the formal dedication out." churches from around the of each cover will show. under the eaves of the building. have not been finalized as of yet, Jensen explained, "We expect country as part of the highly The second floor of the new The fourth floor has a cathedral but will probably include a the system to be operating within successful Campaign for Hope librai7 will contain most of the ceiling that is over 20 feet high. ribbon cutting ceremony, tours a month after we move in. All which raised in excess of 25 audio-visual and media Finally, the new building has a of the building, speeches by the students will be using an ID with million dollars. machinery. full basement that, according to Van Wylens and some student a bar code label on it. It'll be just The building itself, said participation, said DeYoung. Nationwide Crackdown closes Frats at Texas, Lowell Nursing Department AUSTIN, Tex. (CPS) - Joining Society for a period of one William Cunningham last week a nationwide crackdown on semester pending reorganization upheld Phi Kappa Psi's fraternities that began in earnest (see related story). suspension for the incident, receives Grant in 1985, the University of Texas The Pi Kappa Alpha national which convinced the state senate at Austin last week upheld a four- fraternity disbanded its San to pass a* law changing hazing The Hope-Calvin Nursing had served at the Society's helm year suspension of Phi Kappa Diego State chapter for co- from a misdemeanor to a felony Department has received a for 28 years, led the board of Psi, and hinted more sponsoring a 1985 party at which with maximum penalties of two $6,000 grant from the recently- directors to its decision of punishments may be coming. a student subsequently said she years in jail and a $10,000 fine. disbanded Tuberculosis, Health liquidation. It distributed Its Mark Seeberger, a PKP was raped. San Diego State and Emphysema Society of West assets to health-related For the next four years. Phi pledge, died of exposure and University already had expelled Michigan. organizations In the five-county acute alcohol poisioning in the chapter through 1991. *, Kappa Psi may not use The Society, which closed its area at a recent press conference September, 1986, after other frat In June, Missouri became the University of Texas facilities, doors on March 31,1987, donated held In Grand Rapids. members forced him to drink an latest state to make fraternity play in intramural sports, raise the funds for the purpose of "We're very appreciative for excessive amount of rum, and hazing activities a criminal funds on campus, or share in the establishing scholarships for being Included In the Society's In July, the University of misdemeanor. other privileges of registered nursing students. During the past gift program," said Dr. Irwin Lowell in Massachusetts decided Some greek houses are student groups. 82 years, the Society made major Brink, dean of the natural to ban all fraternities and objecting. Seven members of The ^ight individual Phi Psi contributions to the fight of lung sciences at Hope, who sororities from campus in Cornell's Phi Gamma Delta disease in the West Michigan represented the Hope-Calvin members who participated in area. response to the hazing death of a Chapter — which in April was Seeberger's hazing received program at the press conference. But the advances of modem student last year. suspended for incidents of sexual punishments ranging from "Certainly this will be helpful to technology, the decrease of TB- Other campuses disciplined abuse and harassment — sued admonition to permanent our students In the future. We're I related deaths and last year's greek houses during the Cornell to get a new hearing for expulsion, said Ron Brown, very thankful the Soclety| death of Ralph H. Children, who summer, too. Locally, Hope their case. University of Texas president of remembered us." College suspended the Fraternal Nevertheless, Texas President student affairs. SEPTEMBER 16, 1987 PAGE 3 In Fashion, If Not Politics, Students Move Leftward By Mike O'Keefe now," explained Nancy Cooley of College Press Service the Ritz, just off the University of Colorado campus. "Short skirts Campus fashions are changing are hot." radically this fall, but no one is Also big among college sure if it means students are students are silk skirts and becoming as radical as their shirts, 440s pleated pants and colthes.