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A & E /European style bread: not a half baked idea IA i i SNEAKER HUNT / Find the sneakers on paged JENTZ ADDRESS / A timely speech from the past / 7 Volume 106, Number 16 Hope College, Holland, Michigan Serving the Hope Community for 106 Years February 3,1993 Parking proposal approved unanimously by Congress Wagnermade a 15 minute presenta- by Scott Runyon tion briefing Congress on the num- editor-in-chief bers of permits sold and spaces available on campus for night and A revised parking proposal was daytime parking as well as percent- passed unanimously with two ab- ages of permits sold to freshmen, stentions by Student Congress last commuters and upperclassmen Thursday after an earlier version during the past seven years. passed the previous week was re- She reported that there are cur- called and discussed again. rently 755 spaces available to Stu- The move to rescind (reverse) dents not including 35 snow removal and reconsider the proposal that was spaces which cannot be used in the passed Jan. 21 was initiated by winter. Since 992 overnight permits Congress member Robin Wagner have been sold this semester (ex- ( '95) who is also head of the parking cluding commuters). 237 more committee that created the proposal. permits were sold than spaces She felt that the way the proposal available. was passed a week earlier left it Freshmen parking was also a incomplete, neglecting critical major issue for Wagner. This PR photo points. semester's statistics showed thai MANY STUDENTS will remember Dr. Jentz (1934-1993) for his selfless giving and She sent a letter to all Congress freshmen wouldn't get any permits the way he shared his life with his students. representatives explaining why the under the formerly passed proposal. parking issue needed to be She wanted a guarantee for freshmen reconsidered after it had already been to get some spaces. Art Jentz dies after thirtj passed. The proposal that is being sent to In the letter she wrote, "If this the administration for consideration years of service at Hope issue is not properly addressed by includes five points: Student Congress this year, it will I. Public Safety will evaluate only continue to frustrate the by Brian Paige accomplished man of letters. Dr. Jentz," Carol Simon recalled. campus parking to determine the incoming students and guest reporter Jentz's method of teaching went far Although the period of his number of realistically usable beyond the walls of the classroom. extended illness was a difficult time representatives." parking spots available to Hope Dr. Arthur Jentz, a long time Many students and friends will re- both for him and those around him, She didn't feel, though, that the students. faculty member and alumni of Hope member occasions in which he Simon felt that Dr. Jentz handled the proposal as originally passed was a II. The number of student parking College died on Monday morning, opened his home to them long after ordeal very well. bad one; rather, it was simply not permits sold shall be reduced to equal Feb. 1, shortly before 11 a.m., after the topics of his lectures have faded. "He was very open during the complete because they did not have the number of student parking spaces a several month long struggle with It was always characteristic of Dr. whole process and I found it an time to explain it during the meeting. on campus. cancer. He was 59. Jentz to take personal interest in his enriching thing to see him work his "The parking committee was not ID. The number of parking spaces Bom on January 1,1934 in Jersey students and friends. He could often way through a very difficult situa- allowed sufficient time to discuss sold to freshmen students shall not City, N J., the son of Arthur Sr. and be found around campus or actively tion," she said. the research and reasoning behind exceed 100. Edna Jentz, Dr. Jentz attended Hope engaged in debate or discussion with This optimistic, affirmative the proposal, and as a result, critical IV. The remainder of available where he graduated summa cum students and other faculty. attitude was certainly also points were left out," she wrote. campus parking permits shall be laude in 1956, then New Brunswick "For Professor Jentz the college characteristic of Dr. Jentz for those In addition, she discovered that distributed on a first-come first-serve Seminary to receive a B.D. in 1967, was his family and his life centered who knew him and reminded the 202 more permits than parking basis to students at or above and Columbia University where he around the college," remarked Carol College community of the closing spaces had been sold this semester sophomore status. received a Ph .D. in 1965. He returned Simon, assistant professor of lines from his 1983 commencement (up from 163 last semester). V. The cost of a campus parking to Hope College in 1962 to join the philosophy and colleague of Jentz's, address entitled, "Affirm Life." Bringing with her statistics re- permit shall be increased from $40/ religion faculty and then to become "Furthermore, the college showed "Affirm life in all that you are, cently gathered from Public Safety, year to $45/year, or $25/semester. chair of the philosophy department through a variety of ways that it was and through all the diverse talents in 1967. a family to him in the last year." and gifts which have been given to Comedian late, hut entertaining Before returning to Hope, he Hope College President John you. May you have the courage of man arrived—just as Murphy him- . served as pastor of the Woodlawn Jacobson echoes this sentiment. by Scott Eppinga faith, in hope, with love." (His full self would have dictated. Reformed Church in Brooklyn, NY "Hope College was his family," staff reporter address is printed on page seven of Forty minutes later than sched- , in 1959, and then First Reformed he said, "and for us his loss is like this issue.) Iowa: an acronym? uled (9:10 p.m.), John finally took Church in Guttenberg, NJ. from the loss of a family member." Hope now mourns the loss of a After a recent trip to this heartland the stage, and it didn't take long for 1960 to 1962. He was an ordained Simon remembers that before his man of great talent who laughed state, John Bowman was convinced students to relax and enjoy the show. minister in Reformed Church of illness, "no one could have been much, smiled often, and affirmed that I-O-W-A is really an acronym Bowman, a native Michigander, America. more supportive here in the life in all he was and did. for Idiots Out Wandering Around. is originally from a small town right To Dr. Jentz^s academic credit department. He was always warm Visitation will be today at Dykstra Bowman broke the ice in front of outside the major metropolis of are a book entitled Whitehead's and welcoming." Funeral Home, 29 E. 9th St. from 4 a Kletz full of students last Friday Howard City: namely, Peerson. He Philosophy: Primary Texts in Dia- Besides his interest in the Hope to 8 p.m. A funeral service will be with this brief comment about Iowa. currently resides in the small logue and a number of scholarly community. Dr. Jentz was also held tomorrow at 11 am. in Dimnent There was a slight delay for conservative town of Venice Beach, articles as well as active involvement involved in the multi-cultural Memorial Chapel, with committal Bowman's anticipated comedy act just outside Los Angeles. in the American Philosophical church. Crossroads Chapel following. Burial will be in the because of some misguiding Bowman has appeared on a Association, the American Academy Reformed Church in Holland and Pilgrim Home Cemetery. All classes directions that were given to him. number of television programs, as of Religion, The North American had a keen knowledge of music, will be cancelled Thursday morning When he didn't arrive for his well as on such shows as LA. Law Paul Tillich Society, and the especially Wagnerian opera, and the before 12:30 for the service. scheduled 8:30 p.m. show, SAC was and The Tonight Show. He is Michigan Academy of Science, Arts cinema. Brian Paige ('93) is a philoso- forced to end the evening as a failure. scheduled to host an MTV special. and Letters. "His love of music was one of the phy and English major at Hope who However, not more than five minutes Although he was an things which characterized professor was also a goodfriend of Dr. Jentz. after the show was called off Bow- See COMEDY page 8 Professors to present diverse topics at Winter Happenings NamiaNamia , jazia7z7 anHd thpe DeaTVaHd SeQaao Winter Happenin: g luncheon1 1 , ad.