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Hope College Hope College Digital Commons The Anchor: 1966 The Anchor: 1960-1969 4-29-1966 The Anchor, Volume 78.25: April 29, 1966 Hope College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1966 Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Repository citation: Hope College, "The Anchor, Volume 78.25: April 29, 1966" (1966). The Anchor: 1966. Paper 14. https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1966/14 Published in: The Anchor, Volume 78, Issue 25, April 29, 1966. Copyright © 1966 Hope College, Holland, Michigan. This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the The Anchor: 1960-1969 at Hope College Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Anchor: 1966 by an authorized administrator of Hope College Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Pearson Is New Student Senate President! Michigan Senate Victory by Huge Landslide May Day Pushes College Festivities Set Scholarship Bill For May 6 Legislatiou Will Provide Up to $400 in Aid By Barb Kouw A "Majestic Spell" will prevail For Michigan Students on Hope's campus on Friday, May 6, for the annual May Day festiv- By George Anvady ities. On Monday mgnt, Oie Michigan Senate approved a $4.3 million col- The May Day queen and her court will reign over the day's activities lege aid bill. Under its provisions, fLASM scnolarship aid up to $400 will be w ith the coronation of the queen be- provided to Michigan students at- ing the highlight of the celebration tending private, non-profit colleges at 4:30 p.m. in the Pine Grove. in the state. Freshman women form a color guard while sophomore women will The bill has been sent to the perform the festive May Day dance. House. If it is passed there, the Selected junior women will be tap- bill will provide scholarsnips for ped for Mortar Board, the senior future Hope students scaled accord- women's honor society. A banquet ing to parental income. honoring the queen and her court The Senate vote on the bill was is scheduled for Phelps Dining Hall. 27-4. Detroit Sen. Raymond Dzend- May Day: Ancient Fertility Rite zel was the sponsor for the bill. He explained that private school The significance of May Day and enrollments were declining because the origin of the Maypole lie in of the high cost of education, thus 78th ANNIVERSARY - 25 Hope College, Holland, Michigan Anril 29, 1966 pagan fertility rites. "May" is putting a heavier burden on the thought to be derived from Maia, an state supported colleges and uni- obscure Roman goddess whose versities. He called the bill a solu- Student Church Main Cause name means "increase" with ref- tion to "a serious and growing erence to vegetation. problem." The origin of May Day celebra- Next fall, about 10,000 students Church Attendance Drops tions in medievel and modern Eu- will enter private schools in Michi- gan. according to Sen. Edward rope is found in these pre-Christian Robinson from Dearborn. Under agricultural rituals; celebrations in- By Tom Hildebrandt participation there had been much and had leaned heavily on students. cluded the carrying of trees, green the provisions of the bill, next greater, and, according to Rev. year's freshmen would be the first The new Sunday morning service Now the congregation would have branches and garlands, the appoint- Walchenbach. is missed very much. to receive scholarship assistance. for college students at Dimnent to look inward for the help previous- ment of a May queen and May king, Attendance had dropped so low that Each succeeding year a new class Memorial Chapel and the plans for ly provided by the students. Rev. and the setting up of a May tree their consistory had considered cut- would be covered by the bill. For a student church next year are Walchenbach himself misses the or Maypole. ting back to one service. The church a student to qualify for the bill, his affecting Holland churches pre- stimulus added to the service by had considered itself "integral with Maypoles: 'Permanent Eyesores' school must levy a tuition in ex- viously attended by Hope students. students. cess of $240 per semester. Hope's the college," the minister said. Both Hope and Third Reformed Trinity Reformed Church, another Dancing aroud the Maypole was present tuition rate stands at $475 Church have shown signs of change intended to insure fertility of crops, per semester. congregation popular among Hope since the first service for students students, has not experienced any cattle and humans. In medieval Opposition to the bill centered was held early in March. changes due to the new services, and Tudor England, May Day cele- on fears that the measure might according to Rev. Gordon Van Oos- brations were especially colorful Rev. Jack Walchenbach of Hope be unconstitutional, that it might tenburg. and lively. Maypoles erected per- undermine public education and that Church and Rev. Russell Vande- manently in London and the larger it might strike at the constitutional Bunte of Third Reformed Church, The reaction to the proposed stu- towns "were special eyesores to the separation of Church and state, ac- the two churches most frequently dent church has been mixed in the Puritans." John Stubbes in his "An- cording to the UPI. Sen. Roger attended by students, have noticed local congregations. According to atomy of Abuses" (1583) speaks of Craig of Dearborn argued that by an appreciable increase in empty Rev. Wachenbach, the reaction of them as those "stinckyng idols" extending money to private col- pews in the past two months. They his congregation has. by and large, about which the people "leape and leges, many of which have religious added that the churches are not been favorable, since the people daunce, as the heathen did." affiliation, the bill opened the door feeling any financial loss, however, acknowledge that a great many to aid to parochial schools on the since student offering rarely amout- more students seem to be going to Day of Communist Celebration primary and secondary levels. ed to "more than loose change." church since the institution of serv- In view of the recent controversy According to two clergymen, the Hope's President Calvin A. Van- ices in Dimnent Chapel. brought about by Dr. Hunold's com- loss of the students has not changed derWerf and Vice President, Fin- ment on the New Democratic Left, the morale of the church, because This same view is held by many ance, Henry Steffens, lobbied along it is also interesting to note that the local youth still attend. at Third Church, according to Rev. with other representatives of small VandeBunte. He added, however, in communist countries and else- colleges for the passage of the bill. The effect of the services on the that there is a sizeable group op- where May Day is the occasion Their work might be partly respon- program of the churches has var- posed to the plan because it feels for important left-wing political sible for the charge made by Sen. ied. According to Rev. VandeBunte, that this would split the church. demonstrations. Perhaps next year, Craig that the bill was being pushed Third Church, although encourag- purely for the sake of variety, the through by "an unholy alliance of "They see the students in an ing the students to attend, operates New Democratic Left could organ- Catholics and Dutch Reform." ivory tower six days a week and on the principle that a church can- ize Hope's May Day festivities. According to Mr. Steffens, a "sav- think that this should not be ex- not be built on them, and therefore, DR. LARS GRANBERG ings" clause was added onto the tended to seven." said Rev. Van- Or. if that wouldn't work, how outside choir members, only a few bill which "permits severance of deBunte. After graduation, students about dispensing with the freshmen students have participated in the any provisions which might be rul- will have to live in the world, and and sophomore women and, instead, program of the church. Since these Granberg Will ed unconstitutional at a later date." should get used to it now, the group build two bonfires in the Pine Grove choir members have stayed in the This legalistic safety valve will feels. The group also thinks that and drive cattle back and forth church, Third Reformed has actu- if a church for students is estab- between them while human partic- keep the bill from being ruled out ally lost little. Teach Full Time by the State Supreme Court, ac- lished. there is no reason not to ipants leap madly over the fires? cording to the lawmakers who The situation at Hope Church is establish a church for doctors or That's what the Scotch and Irish drafted it. somewhat different. The student Next Year farmers. did! Dr. Lars Granberg. Acting Vice President of Hope College will re- turn to full time teaching next Mortar Board Presents semester, announced President Cal- New Officers of AWS vin A. VanderWerf this week. Ask- ed what his plans are for next Film From Italy jear, Dr. Granberg stated his de- sire "to return to the luxury of full Elected This Week "The Bicycle Thief," a 1949 film about a search through the time teaching." Dr. Granberg streets of Rome by a father and son for a stolen bicycle, will be taught at Hope for 12 years prior In balloting this week Ellen Osterhaven was elected president shown in Snow Auditorium tonight and tomorrow night by Mortar to his appointment as Acting Vice of the Assn.