The Anchor, Volume 109.06: October 4, 1995
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Hope College Hope College Digital Commons The Anchor: 1995 The Anchor: 1990-1999 10-4-1995 The Anchor, Volume 109.06: October 4, 1995 Hope College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1995 Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Repository citation: Hope College, "The Anchor, Volume 109.06: October 4, 1995" (1995). The Anchor: 1995. Paper 17. https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1995/17 Published in: The Anchor, Volume 109, Issue 6, October 4, 1995. Copyright © 1995 Hope College, Holland, Michigan. This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the The Anchor: 1990-1999 at Hope College Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Anchor: 1995 by an authorized administrator of Hope College Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Juice is loose. theAncho r Octoberfl 995 Hope College • Holland, Michigan • An independent nonprofit publication • Serving the Hope College Community for 109 years Hope student check March draws record crowd JODI MCFARLAND beaten with it out. cam pus beat editor An estimated 225 male and female marchers converged beer bottle upon the Pine Grove for the JODI MCFARLAIMD Third Annual Take Back the campusbeat editor Night March Thursday night. Students are being asked to "exercise cau- The crowd last year grew from tion when walking on campus or In Its neigh- 80 to 100 participants, stopping borhoodsw following the assault of a female at eight sites of reported rape or Hope student at approximately 2:45 a.m. assault on campus. Sunday morning. Participants carried lighted In a safety alert placed on the Hope candles and raised voices in InfoSystem by Dean of Students Richard chants like "No means no!" and Frost at 8 a.m. following the incident, stu- The bucl<syou "Take Back the Night" to raise dents were asked to "avoid situations that shuck out for awareness for non-participants might provoke confrontations." books are all inside residence halls and for The three students involved in the Inci- those who took part in the event. relative, dent were returning to Kollen Hall from It was sponsored by the Infocus, College East Apartments when they were Women's Issues Organization. page 3. approached by a car filled with four to five "Here at Hope you are not females at the corner of 13th Street and Co- immune from the violence," said lumbia Avenue behind Kollen Hall, accord- Jeanette Emenheiser, kick-off ing to Tom Renner, director of public rela- speaker from the Center for tions. The females are believed to be mem- Women in Transition. "You bers of the community. sometimes feel more safe as In the midst of an "exchange of words" members of a small community, one woman lobbed a beer bottle out of the but small communities are more car toward the students. The bottle was likely to keep silent about vio- picked up and volleyed back at the car, and lence." the students dispersed. One notified Public Nursing Dept. By the time the event was fin- Safety of the developing disturbance. gets a shot in ished, about an hour and a half "We have information that alcohol might later, 25 people will have been the arm. be involved," Renner said. Confirmation of raped, and over 180 will have Spotlight, >Anc/7or photo by Jill Fischer this cannot be made until investigating of- been battered by their partners, page 6. GUIDING LIGHT: WIO co-president Heidi ficers hold in-depth interviews of the stu- Emenheiser told attendants. "As college students you are the least Giddy ('97) holds a candle to illuminate the reality of dents. The victim of the assault was pursued on safe," she said. violence in the Take Back the Night March Thursday. foot by occupants of the car. As she at- "This was very educational," tempted to enter Kollen HalPs east door, she said marcher Matt Lengen ('96). place for each subsequent stop, Zoeren Hall, the corner oflOth was struck on the shoulders and back of the "I'm more aware of some con- where marchers congregated Street and College at Voorhees head with the bottle. cerns that women may have." and heard a message from Hall, and even in the shadow The student was taken by ambulance to But the night did more than speakers from either a of Dimnent Chapel. Visiting Holland Hospital, where she was treated for highlight the plight of violence C.A.A.R.E. (Campus Assault the sites increased student abrasions and bruises and released four // against women. The first place Awareness and Education) awareness of their surround- hours later, Renner said. Public Safety has visited by marchers, behind educator. Public Safety officer ings as well as the issue of vio- no suspects in the case. Kollen Hall on the Columbia or counselors. lence, attendants said. "It's a lesson to all of us to be considerate Avenue side, was the site of an "This year has been unique "That's kind of scarey," said of the potential for problems by one's con- abduction and subsequent male for me," C.A.A.R.E. educator marcher James Knapp ('98). duct, where you are and the hour of the rape. Micah Sjoblom ('96) told par- "It happened at that intersec- night," he said. "This is not a march for the ticipants at the Lincoln Tot Lot. tion, and right in front of the "We keep reminding students of the na- Get the scoop advocacy of women," said WIO "I have seen women and men chapel." ture of the neighborhood around campus on Wednesday's member Karen McKeown. "We talking about this issue. I cel- The mixed group of men and encourage them to be aware of the po- Symposium. are marching for the safety for ebrate that people are listening. and women ended the night tential for problems. That people should be Campusbeat, all." No suspects were ever It is my prayer that we are also with Jane Dickie reading the able to walk away from potential problems found in the male rape that be- taking back our relationships." poem "For Strong Women" at page 2. is the best advice we can give." gan behind the residence hall. Other stops include the front the final stop, near the safety more ASSAULT on 2 A wooden candle marked the of Gilmore Hall, in front of Van phone behind Durfee Hall. Hope lauded nationally — again Holocaust cational opportunities at relatively modest cost." BECKY HOLLENBECK "Guides like these are useful because people survivor passes staff reporter look to outside, objective kinds of evaluative cri- For the second time in a month, Hope received teria," said James R. Bekkering, vice-president notable recognition in a well-known and re- for admissions. "For Hope to be included in the on memories spected college guide. top half of the most outstanding liberal arts col- The September 18th issue of U.S. News and leges in the U.S. News and World Report guide, ALLYSON PICKENS World Report includes a guide to what it con- and also to be included in "The Fiske Guide" as staff reporter siders to be "America's Best Colleges" an outstanding institution — and then on top Guest musi- of that to be earmarked by "The "Anne Frank lived in the same areas I did," of 1996. This year's guide ranks Hope cians give a lute 74th out of the 161 most outstanding Fiske Guide" as one of 22 Holocaust survivor Jack Polak said in his private best buy institutions about Renais- speech in DeWitt Theatre Sunday. "We had liberal arts colleges in the country. sance style. The guide divides the schools into in the United States I hope the same life, but she died and I lived to tell will say something about Intermission, first, second, third and fourth "tiers," the stories." Hope's value to prospective page 5. Polak delivered a message of hope clouded with those schools falling into the first tier being the highest rated by students and their adult by the bitterness of his prison experiences in influencers," he said. a thick Dutch-accented voice to an audience the magazine. This year Hope moves into the second tier for the But while these guides are of students, faculty and members of the com- most useful to prospective stu- munity. But Polak is careful to avoid general- first time, having been in the third tier in past years. Only three dents, they are also valuable to izing about his captors or the war, because that current and graduating students at would put him on the same level as Adolf other Michigan schools are in- cluded in the national liberal colleges and universities. Hitler. "The academic reputation of the Born in Amsterdam, Polak lived there until arts colleges category: Albion school you attend is important to 1943, when the Nazi occupation interrupted and Kalamazoo Colleges share a berth employers," said Dale Austin in Ca- his everyday life as a tax consultant. He was with Hope in the second tier, and Alma is placed r. e. e. r. Services. "However, the biggest value sent to the Dutch camp Westerbork in mid in the third tier. would be for those applying to graduate schools. 1943, and in February of 1944 he was sent to Earlier this month, Hope was also rated as a Those in Admissions do pay attention to objec- Dutchmen run the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen — the "best buy" in "The Fiske Guide to Colleges tive sources when considering who to accept." away with first same camp where Anne Frank was imprisoned 1996." This guide, written by The New York With this latest recognition, Hope becomes the victory of the Times' former education editor Edward B.