The Anchor, Volume 87.19: March 7, 1975
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Hope College Hope College Digital Commons The Anchor: 1975 The Anchor: 1970-1979 3-7-1975 The Anchor, Volume 87.19: March 7, 1975 Hope College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1975 Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Repository citation: Hope College, "The Anchor, Volume 87.19: March 7, 1975" (1975). The Anchor: 1975. Paper 7. https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1975/7 Published in: The Anchor, Volume 87, Issue 19, March 7, 1975. Copyright © 1975 Hope College, Holland, Michigan. This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the The Anchor: 1970-1979 at Hope College Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Anchor: 1975 by an authorized administrator of Hope College Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Post-Watergate D.C; a different atmosphere by Annetta Miller government institutions for politi- "Washington after Watergate is cal ends," Hillegonds said. He a much different place than it was continued, "Washington politics before," Paul Hillegonds, adminis- trative assistant to Representative was an honorable profession and Philip Ruppe (R-Mich), said in an my friends sort of envied my interview here last week. opportunity to get involved in it." "I WENT to Washington three "THAT'S CHANGED about and a half years ago and didn't see 180 degrees since Watergate. much corruption or immorality in Where before, 'representatives government. But I sense that now seemed to be somewhat admired, people in Washington are thinking the burden is now on the repre- much more about the legality or sentative to prove himself." morality of their actions," Hille- Hillegonds began his career as a gonds spoke of Washington's post- politician during an internship be- Watergate morality. tween his junior and senior year Hillegonds, the son of Chaplain of college. "I got to know some of and Mrs. WilllSm Hillegonds, is the people on Capitol Hill and chief assistant to Ruppe, who decided I wanted to go back. represents the second largest dis- There was an opportunity and I trict west of the Mississippi River. was there at the right time." It includes all of the upper penin- AFTER HIS graduation from sula of Michigan and 12 counties in the University of Michigan, Hille- the lower peninsula. Although the gonds became Ruppe's legislative eleventh district includes only one assistant and after two and one nineteenth of the state's popu- half years was promoted to his lation, it covers 40 percent of Mich- present post. Volume 87-19 igan's land area. An administrative assistant Hope College, Holland, Michigan 49423 March 7,1975 serves a variety of functions, ac- HILLEGONDS commented on cording to Hillegonds. He de- the effect of Watergate on jobs scribed himself as being a "sound- such as his. "I think that the ing board for Ruppe and a liaison Anderson interviewed whole WateTgate scandal has done for the people in the district." In incalculable damage to the govern- addition, Hillegonds manages the ment. There has always been a day-to-day mechanics of the 11- very thin line between what a man team working under Ruppe, Congressman visits campus politician does to represent his schedules the Congressman's trips people and what he does as a and keeps in touch with the coun- candidate for reelection. While there is no legal commit- ty chairman within his district. by Tim Mulder one* day there may be a Palestin- "I think that line was crossed ment to keep us there I still feel "I WILL go into his office and ian nation, but the position and during Watergate. The major dan- Congressman John B. Ander- that we owe a responsibility not attitude of Yasser Arrifat at this ger was that people were using continued on page 3, column 7 son (R-Ill) stated yesterday morn- to completely desert these people time makes recognition by the ing in an interview that, "America now. However, aid should be U.S. of that organization out of is confronted with a crisis of mor- given in continually diminishing the question." Admissions story bright, al values. In the wake of Water- amounts and for a limited time ANDERSON VIEWS the gate it is not enough to simply only." strength of OPEC as diminishing. compliment ourselves that our ASKED TO comment on the "Because of the actions taken by applications ahead 8% system worked." likelihood of all of Southeast President Ford in the areas of Asia going Communist if the U.S. energy conservation and consump- John Scholten ment are undergoing revision. HE WENT on to say that pulled out of Viet Nam Anderson there is a moral void, citing the tion," Anderson stated, "1 don't LaBAUGH NOTED, "We're asserted, "I don't believed in the example that "World hunger does- believe that OPEC has the kind of The spring report on the admis- trying to develop methods to im- Domino Theory. It's very possible n't impress itself on the individual bargaining power that they've sions outlook at Hope is all positive prove our minority recruitment that Cambodia and South Viet consciousness. The response of exercised in the past, and they'll this year, reports Director of program. Currently, we have two Nam will be taken over by the have even less leverage power to the entire Western world has been Admissions, Tom LaBaugh. Latino students working with Communists when we cut off our to delete the thought of hunger dictate higher oil prices in the AS OF this week, our applica- Orestes Pino, assistant professor of aid to those nations, but that cer- future." l from our minds." tions are up S /i percent. Of course Spanish, to try and help our re- tainly doesn't mean that the rest of Following his statement on In addition to his support of this doesn't mean that all of these cruitment of Latinos." Southeast Asia will also go Com- the President's energy program, people are guaranteed students. "We also have a committee morality, the Congressman was munist as a result." asked if he would support Presi- Anderson went so far as to say But, the deposits, which are usual- working now on a brochure for dent Ford's supplemental aid re- that, "Gerald Ford is my candi- ly a pretty accurate indicator of a black students. Hopefully, this When the Congressman was quest of $522 million to be sent date for '76. He will be re- student's intention to go here, are will also help in our efforts to asked if the United States would elected." to South Viet Nam and Cambodia also up significantly," stated have minority students come to be vulnerable to European criti- "FORD, HIMSELF, has said in light of the possibility that LaBaugh. Hope College," LaBaugh stated. cism if it pulled out of its commit- that it's one thing to be a Con- continued U.S. aid might only LaBaugh continued, "The IT IS very difficult for a col- ments in Southeast Asia Ander- gressman from Grand Rapids, but impressive thing is, each week we lege like Hope to recruit minority serve to prolong the death and son replied,, "Our credibility isn't destruction. being President of the United gain applications rather than re- students," LaBaugh continued, at stake regardless of what we do States is another thing," Anderson maining constant or equal to last "Most of the programs that we ANDERSON REPLIED that he in Viet Nam. The Western world's also noted. years ratio." have institued in the past have hadn't made up his mind yet and opinion and trust in the U.S. is "In view of the circumstances BY THIS past Friday, the ad- failed to produce any significant would not do so until he had based on far more than that." under which he came into office, missions office had received 866 results in the gain of minority talked to the Congressmen who THE TOPIC changed to the Ford has done a magnificent job. applications while last year they students." have just returned from Viet Nam. situation in the Middle East and It has been Congress who has been had only received 810. Transfer "Most of the minority students He went on to emphasize, "You Anderson had this to say about irresponsible, and I think that the applications are also up. This year, come from big metropolitan areas, must view the $522 million in the PLO. "We're a long way from people sense that." He continued, 67 applications have been re- with cheaper colleges than Hope context of the entire budget, it recognizing the PLO in view of "1 find more criticism of the ceived, last year 61 were noted. right next door. Then they come isn't that significant of an the history of their acts of vio- Congress among the grass roots EARLIER THIS YEAR, the to visit Hope College and find it amount." lence. There is no way that we can people than I do of the President, college had expressed a concern to be a predominantly white "In 1970 I criticized our in- ratify. or endorse that type of and I firmly believe that those for improved recruitment pro- school, in a predominantly white volvement in Cambodia, but the conduct." Anderson continued "I people will cause a swing back to grams of minority students. These community," LaBaugh said. fact remains that we are involved. don't rule out the possibility that the Republican Party by 1976." efforts by the admissions depart- AAB votes to continue cooperative programs Discussion at the Academic Af- in academic areas not normally fairs Board meeting on Feb.