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Hope College Hope College Digital Commons The Anchor: 1984 The Anchor: 1980-1989 11-7-1984 The Anchor, Volume 97.10: November 7, 1984 Hope College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1984 Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Repository citation: Hope College, "The Anchor, Volume 97.10: November 7, 1984" (1984). The Anchor: 1984. Paper 22. https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1984/22 Published in: The Anchor, Volume 97, Issue 10, November 7, 1984. Copyright © 1984 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: 1984 by an authorized administrator of Hope College Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. IB8ggagB88M Moncfa/e m t m • " f;' ......... • . Upset :: And Walter Mondale has a gress, and disinterest in equal right to be upset. President rights for all. He presented a Ronald Reagan trounced him in "realistic" plan for the future for yesterday's election by an elec- all Americans. •> <. toral vote of 525 to 3. After acknowledging his land- Reagan swept the entire slide victory, Reagan com- United States except for mented, "Our work isn't finish- predominantly Democratic ed. There's much more to be Washington, DC. Mondale's done. The recovery will not be home state of Minnesota was still complete until it is complete for • - too close to call as we went to everyone. America's best days press. No president has swept the lie ahead." entire electoral college since Mondale, conceding defeat, George Washington. stated, "We are all Americans. The outcome of the election He is our president. We honor had never been in doubt if one him tonight. And though 1 would believed the public opinion polls. have rather won tonight, we re- Those polls, which put Reagan olland, michi&in joice in our democracy. And if ahead from 10 to 20 percentage there's one thing I'm certain of, points in the final days of the this is a magnificent nation with Volume 97, Number 10 Hope College Anchor November 7, 1984 election, were constantly the finest people on earth." downplayed by Mondale and his The question on the lips of staff. Mondale kept insisting that many people was: what does a "polls don't vote, people do." Reagan landslide mean? Most But the polls were not proved experts write it off as nothing wrong as Mondale insisted they more than the people supporting Officials would be. Reagan kept his large a popular president. lead in the actual voting and even The numbers seem to bear this enlarged it in some states. Na- out. The Republicans picked up tionwide, Reagan polled 59 per- only 15 (projected) seats in the and Students cent of the vote compared to House, far less than they needed Mondale's 41 percent. to even come up with a "working Reagan campaigned on the majority." And the Republicans strong economy produced under actually lost at least one seat in Discuss Parties his administration and the surge the Senate, with Republican of national patriotism. Apparent- Senator Percy also on the verge ly these two factors contributed of losing his seat to challenger by Greg Olgers heavily to his win. Democratic Representative Members of the student'body, ty from the College or had As a possible method of Mondale had attacked Reagan Simons in a very close election. he Hope College administration elected to do so on their own. "As avoiding police intervention. for his cuts in social programs, Though this election did not see the enormous deficit, Reagan's and representatives of the we get complaints, we are going Chief Lindstrom suggested that poor record on the environment, Holland Police Department met to respond to them. It is not a smaller parties be held: "The Continued on page 3 lack of any arms control pro- ast Thursday afternoon to crack-down per se," noted Lind- whole problem focuses on the discuss the issue of the break-up strom. "We have no objections to size," stated Lindstrom. "The of off-campus parties, and to parties, but we do have a respon- officers do not care if you have a Men's Cross-Country clarify the policies of both the sibility to answer complaints." party-just be sensitive about the dlege and the Police Depart- Lindstrom further added that noise." ment concerning such parties. the intitial follow-up by the Amy Sandgren, a Student Con- Soars to MIAA Chief of Police Charles L. Lind- Department did not Involve a gress Representative serving on strom and Detective Sergaent break-up of the party: "If they the committee, suggested that an Maynard Schrotenboer, along have not been in violation of the insufficient number of suitable Title Deadlock with Dean of Students Lamont law (meaning charging a fee for on-campus activities was respon- They say a tie is like kissing lost an earlier confrontation. Dlrkse» Assistant Dean of drinking, serving persons under sible for the burgeoning off- your sister. And it must be the same for Students Bruce Johnston, and 21 years of age, etc); if they have campus parties. Sandgren added Well, there may be some Hope's Lindsey Dood and Director of Special Programs a small group, and if (the hosts) that the parties were often the female sibling around who would Adrian's Steve Hubbard. Dood Fonda Greene met with make themselves known if there only social activity available to debate the implied unpleasant- went into the MIAA meet members of the committee form- is a complaint, they'll get a warn- students on the weekends. unbeaten in six dual races. His ed to investigate the matter by ing." Dean Dirkse saw an increase ness of the latter part of that most difficult race had come in a Student Congress. To illustrate his point, Lind- in the number of on-campus ac- statement. But few could argue that the dualmeet against Hubbard, his In response to concerns that strom produced copies of the tivities as a positive measure, ties that occured at the MIAA winning margin being just four the police were unduly harassing reports filed by officers upon the and commented that the ad- Men's Cross-Country Champion- seconds. Hope students at the request of investigation of any citizen, and ministration is at present in- ships last Saturday certainly As in that race Hubbard Hope administration. Dean failing a second complaint (or vestigating ways of providing caused some unsavory after- shadowed Dood for most of this Dirkse stated, "We have not cor- given an elimination of the such activities. one. But Lindsay could not open responded with (the police) this reason for the complaint) ended As an immediate solution to tastes; though worse for some up a small lead in the final stages year to" suggest that they in a warning. In cases requiring the issue, however, it was than others. this time. The battle came down disrupt parties given by Hope a second visit by officers of a observed by those present that Take Hope's and Calvin'e to the final 100 yards with the students. lack of cooperation on the part of the large size of many of the par- teams for instance. For the Hope soph holdingia slight edge. Dean Dirkse added that the ad- the hosts, the parties were ties was a great problem. The seventh time in the last eight Hubbard then strained ahead ministration had discussed the dispersed. student participants noted that years, the Knights went into the for much of this last stretch, ntil subject of student drinking with Dave Brat, President of Stu- informing the members of the title meet with a 6-0 first place Dood made a final lunge at the department officials last fall, but dent Congress, expressed a con- student body that quiet, record, having handed 2nd place finish. The finish line judge im- that the purpose of meeting was cern with the arrests which had reasonably-sized parties were Hope their only loss. And for the mediately signaled that Hubbard not to encourage a crack-down, actually been made, noting that not discouraged might foster an fifth time in that period the had won. However, controversy but to increase student such arrests would permanently increase in the number of Dutch beat Calvin and won the raged with partisan observers awareness of the legalities of mar the records of the in- parties-and a corresponding league run, forging a tie for the supporting their respective alcohol. This was done both last dividuals involved, and as such decrease in their sizes overall title. heroes and objective onlookers fall and this fall in the form of the measures were exceedingly Upon the close of the meeting. So Calvin's Coach must be get- giving mixed reviews. "An Open Letter to Hope College harsh. Dean Dirkse stated, "The fact ting sick of seeing his team blow their outright title chances. For Finally a meeting at coaches Students," sent to all students by • f In reply, Lindstrom noted that that we can dialogue these things Hope Coach Bill VanderBilt, ensued, and at the awards Chief Lindstrom. an arrest was avioded by the out is positive." Both Dirkse and ceremony the verdict was an- Chief Lindstrom also denied police if at all possible, and that Chief Lindstrom encouraged fur- however, it's probably a bitter- nounced: A dead heat in a time of allegations that the Police beyond that the responsibility ther communication between the sweet feeling; seeing his team 26:20.