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Hope College Hope College Digital Commons News from Hope College Hope College Publications 1995 News from Hope College, Volume 26.6: June, 1995 Hope College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/news_from_hope_college Part of the Archival Science Commons Recommended Citation Hope College, "News from Hope College, Volume 26.6: June, 1995" (1995). News from Hope College. 121. https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/news_from_hope_college/121 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Hope College Publications at Hope College Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in News from Hope College by an authorized administrator of Hope College Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. HOPE NEEDS YOU! This year's Alumni Fund drive ends in a few short days and we need your participation. Alumni gifts make possible communications such as news from Hope College. Please use the enclosed envelope to send a gift before June 30. PUBLISHED BY HOPE COLLEGE, HOLLAND, MICHIGAN 49423 A H dp G COLLEGE June 1995 Hope College Non-Profit 141 E. 12th St. Organization Holland. Ml 49423 U.S. Postage PAID ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED Hope College Campus Notes John Fiedler receives H.O.P.E. award served as both a part-time teaching associate and as a full- John Fiedler was presented the time visiting instructor in English. He was appointed to his 31st annual “Hope Outstanding current rank of adjunct assistantprofessor in 1992. His courses during the 1994-95 academic year included Professor Educator” (H.O.P.E.) "Writing and the Movies," "Expository Writing II," Western World Literature I" and "Western World Literature II." His award by the Class of ’95. activitiesduring the 1994-95 school year also included organizing the college'sDeGraaf Lecture in October. During Professor Fiedler, an adjunct assistant professor of the 1989-90 academic year he portrayedWalt Whitman in English, was honored during the college'sannual Honors Hope's "Rendezvous with History," subtitled "Nature and Convocation, held in Dimnent Memorial Chapel on Man: Partnershipvs. Acid Reign," which was presented Thursday, April 27. The award, first given in 1965, is pre- during the Arts and HumanitiesFair for high school sented by the graduating class to the professor who they feel students in September and during the Alumni Association's epitomizes the best qualities of the Hope College educator. Winter Happening in February. He is the fourth member of the college'sEnglish faculty Professor Fiedler holds his bachelor's degree from to receive the award. Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., where he majored "I'm very pleased that John Fiedler has been selected by in English. He graduated summa cum laude, and was the seniors as the winner of the H.O.P.E. award this year," elected to Phi Beta Kappa, in 1980. said Hope College President Dr. John H. Jacobson. "John is He earned his master of arts degree, also in English, from known for his engaging style of teaching and his great the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1983. He has done interest in his students. He's a person who really takes time additional graduate work at the University of Chicago, from to get to know his students, and is genuinely interested in which he received a University Scholarship. their personal and academic development." Professor Fiedler'swife, Julie, is also an adjunct assistant Professor Fiedler joined the Hope faculty in 1986 as an professor of English at Hope. She has also been a member intern in the department of English, and subsequently of the college'sfaculty since 1986. yk “Quote, unquote” teeth. They behaved — they interacted. Quote, unquote is an Furthermore, they had a mechanicalrequire- eclectic sampling of ment: it takes more balance,more brainpower, to stand on two legs than it does to stand on things said at and about four legs. So, larger brains in the ornithopods. On the cover Hope College. "The meat eaters — tyrannosaurus — larger brains still. Up to twice the size to be found in Lincoln Elementary School students provided an enthusiastic audience as Belt "A study done a number of years alligators. This is not a surprise; it makes eco- and Beeuwkes cottages traveled south along Columbia Avenue to new homes on ago.. .showed on average that reptilesdiffer logical sense. What kind of animals do we 15th Street on Wednesday, May 10. The two houses are among 16 on Ninth and from mammals in brain size by a factor of 10. keep in our houses as pets? We keep carni- 10th streets being relocated or demolished to make way for the new Haworth So for a common body size, a typical mammal vores — dogs and cats. Carnivores are always Conference Center and Cook ResidenceHall. Some have wondered how well Belt has a 10-times larger brain. And on average, intelligent animals. They perceive the envi- and Beeuwkes might have worked as Tulip Time floats if only the move had dinosaurs had a reptilian brain size — that is to ronment, they interact. a or so... say, the brains to be found in dinosaurs would "This is our friend tyrannosaurus. waited week be about the size to be expected in a living Tyrannosaurus was an animal with an enor- reptile of dinosaurian size. mous skull: four-and-a- half feet long; huge, More about the relocation is on page nine. 'This study takes that concept farther. This huge skull. The size of the brain inside that index of brain size of 'one' is the brain size of head was about 500 cubic centimeters. That is an American alligator blown up to appropriate larger than a gorilla brain, larger than a chim- Volume 26, No. 6 June 1995 Hope College dinosaurian size. So it's an index for compar- panzee brain. Published for Alumni, Friends and Office of Public Relations ing dinosaurs. "If you forget about the last five million Parents of Hope College by the Office of DeWitt Center, Holland, MI 49423-3698. "The sauropod dinosaurs— the greatest of years of evolution, tyrannosaurushad one of Public Relations. Should you receive L. '67 all dinosaurs— are very small-brained crea- the largest brains ever to evolve in the history Thomas Renner more than one copy, please pass it on to Director of Public Relations tures. These are animals.. .10, 20, 30 tons in of life on earth. And I would not want my sur- someone in your community. An overlap weight, animals 70, 80, 90 feet long, but with vival to depend the assumption that it was a Gregory S. Olgers '87 skulls about the size of a horse skull, and a stupid animal. Tyrannosaurus was probably of Hope College constituencies makes Director of Information Sendees brain a 10th the size of a horse brain. So they not a stupid animal. duplication sometimes unavoidable. Lynne M. Powe '86 only have about 20 percent of the brain size "An interestinggroup are, as I say, the Alumni Director that you would expect to find in an alligator... raptors. Small meat-eatingdinosaurs had Editor: Thomas L. Renner '67 Kathy Miller "This next group of dinosaurs, the anky- large brains. [They were certainly in the lower Managing Editon Gregory S. Olgers '87 Manager of Public Relations Services losaurs and the stegosaurs, are somewhat size of the mammalian range.] Layout and Design: Karen Bos larger brained but still rather small — only "This character is an interestingcharacter. Holland Litho Service, Inc. Secretary of Public Relations Office about half the brain size to be expected in an This is the real velociraptor of Jurassic Park. Printing: News Web Printing Services Notice of Nondiscrimination alligator. Unfortunately, Michael Crichton got it of Greenville, Mich. Hope College is committed to the concept of "CollectivelyI would call all three of these wrong.. .velociraptorwas quite a small Contributing Photographers: archaic herbivores. They were okay, and they dinosaur. equal rights, equal opportunities and equal Bob Conrad, Jim Dostie, were successfuldinosaurs on their own terms, "Michael Crichton wanted velociraptor to protection under the law. Hope College admits Lou Schakel, Dreiv Torres students of any race, color, national and ethnic but they were sort of Model Ts of the dinosaur be as smart as a chimpanzee. Would that it origin, sex, creed or handicap to all the rights, world. They're not real progressive. were so. It was not so. That's a gross exagger- news from Hope College is published privileges,programs and activitiesgenerally "The dinosaurs with the largest brains of ation. The way I read it is that if a velociraptor during February,April, June, August, accorded or made available to students at any of the four-legged dinosaurs are the cer- and an opossum sat down to a chess game it October, and December by Hope Hope College, including the administration of atopsian dinosaurs. They are approachingthe would have been a draw. College, 141 East 12th Street, Holland, its educationalpolicies, admission policies, alligator level. "However, raptors were very, very poor Michigan 49423-3698. scholarship and loan programs, and athletic "The biggest brains of the plant eating losers. I will say that." and other school-administered programs.With dinosaurs are found in the two-legged — Dr. Peter Dodson of the University of Postmaster:Send address changes to regard to employment, the College complies dinosaurs,the ornithopods,including the Pennsylvania, ivho presented “Hot and Cold nezos from Hope College, Holland, MI with all legal requirementsprohibiting duck-bills. Again, the duck-billswere a late Running Dinosaurs - Metabolism and Migration" 49423-3698 discrimination in employment. group of dinosaurs. They had interesting while on campus on Thursday, March 2, as the skulls with crests and frills. They had complex Sigma Xi NationalLecturer, uk NFHC June 1995 Campus Notes SUPPORT NEEDED: Hope has experi- enced a decline in the number of alumni who have contributed to the Alumni Fund, with 1994-95 lagging behind the previous year.