Hope College Hope College Digital Commons The Anchor: 1971 The Anchor: 1970-1979 11-1-1971 The Anchor, Volume 84.07: November 1, 1971 Hope College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1971 Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Repository citation: Hope College, "The Anchor, Volume 84.07: November 1, 1971" (1971). The Anchor: 1971. Paper 19. https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1971/19 Published in: The Anchor, Volume 84, Issue 7, November 1, 1971. Copyright © 1971 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: 1971 by an authorized administrator of Hope College Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. AAB approves revised composite major plan mm by Mary Houting composite major. The editor of the catalog may use this statement Most Hope students will have as he wishes." the opportunity to select a com- ASSOCIATE DEAN for Aca- posite major as their field of demic Affairs Jack Stewart asked intensive study instead of the de- if the word "composite" should partmental major as the result of perhaps be eliminated altogether, action taken Tuesday by the Aca- because "the students need to demic Affairs Board. The AAB's have a clear distinction of what decision does not apply to stu- we're talking about." dents seeking teaching certificates. Rider suggested the title of "inter-disciplinary major," and THE REVISED statement con- Hollenbach suggested "area" or cerning the composite major, "field" major. Rider also brought which the board approved, pre- up the possibility of changing the sents both the rationale and guide- name of the education depart- lines for the composite major as ment's grouping. He suggested well as the procedures for applica- "composite teaching major." tion and acceptance of I he major. Brink mentioned that it could be The original statement was pre- renamed "elementary education sented to the AAB at its Oct. 12 composite major." meeting by an ad hoc committee AFTER FURTHER discussion composed of Dr. Arthur Jentz, OLLAND, MICHIGAN resulting in the decision that the associate professor of philosophy, title of the program was "strictly Scott Oliver, student representa- 84th Annivcrsary-7 a catalog problem," the AAB Hope College, Holland, Michigan 49423 November 1, 1971 tive to the AAB, and Dr. John unanimously approved the pro- Hollenbach, professor of English. posal for the composite major. The board returned it to the Treeze' discussed I he board then considered committee for revision of the in- what Brink termed "the most troductory paragraph, which now important thing we have on our stresses the importance of the Faculty hears board report departmental major as the usual mind"-curriculum revision. Rider method of in-depth study. reported that he has reactivated IRWIN BRINK, associate pro- the Chairmen's Council, which by Bob Rocs government policies allow the ol Hart and C'oolee, Inc., of Hol- fessor of chemistry and chairman "will hopefully come to grips" raises to be paid. land, replacing New York lawyer of the AAB, suggested that the with the original proposal for cur- The faculty committee of the The chancellor also repeated Lric Riggs; and James VerMeulen, board adopt the statement in prin- riculum reform and suggested whole heard reports on the results amendments. the budget report that was pre- retired president of American ciple and then amend it if neces- of the recent board of trustees sented to the trustees. He said Seating Company. A new seat was sary. "HOPEFULLY the chairmen meeting and the status of the that $800,000 is needed to com- created for VerMeulen. Dr. Arthur Dr. Morrette Rider, dean for will express some attitudes on the presidential search Monday even- proposal and recommend them to plete next year's operating bud- Jentz, professor of philosophy, academic affairs, expressed his ing. get, in comparison with $735,000 has been chosen for a second support for the revised proposal, the AAB, beginning with the con- CHANCELLOR William Van- tract curriculum," Rider stated. at this time last year. two-year term as faculty represen- adding that "it fills a current need derlugt listed the more important ESTIMATES on the amounts tative on the board. pretty well." Brink commented that the topics considered and decisions board should consider curriculum to be received from various BOSCH AND Miles were "It does what it's supposed to made by the board. He said the reform "one portion at a time. If sources are $220,000 from the named to the board by the Gen- do," concurred Robert Coughen- trustees had considered the prob- the contract curriculum is alive, alumni, up from $150,000 last eral Synod of the Reformed our, associate professor of reli- lems posed for professors' salaries let's look at that," he said. year; $269,000 from the Reform- Church, and will serve six-year gion. "It talks about rationale, it by the wage-price freeze. AFTER RIDER indicated that ed Church, compared with terms, Vanderlugt said. Herringa, sets guidelines and it gives pro- there is "strong support among As a result of the ninety-day $231,000 last year; $155,000 who was appointed by the board cedure," he said. from foundations, down from the faculty" for the contract cur- freeze declared Aug. 15, most itself, will also serve a six-year DISCUSSION then centered $180,000; $87,000 from individ- riculum, Brink suggested that in- professors have not received raises term, while VerMeulen will serve around the appropriate appella- uals, up from $52,000; and about for three years. dividual AAB members study the provided for in the contracts they tion for this type of major, after $77,000 from industries, down contract curriculum. signed in May. Only those teach- Regarding the status of the several board members expressed from $80,000. planned academic science center, The board moved on to a ers who accepted increased re- concern lhat students might con- VANDERLUGT went on to consideration of the current status sponsibilities at the beginning of Vanderlugt said the trustees were fuse it with the already approved announce the names of four new of the advising system. the 1971-72 academic year, such told that the Department of composite major of the education board of trustees members. Leon Stewart distributed to the as new department chairmen, have Health, Education and Welfare has department. Brink commented, "I Bosch, professor of business ad- board his report on the advising been allowed to receive their granted the college permission to think we ought to approve the ministration at Northwestern Un- system, which "is not intended to raises. solicit bids, in spite of the fact thing in principle and not get iversity, has replaced Dr. John be a defense of the system, but that a court case connected with hung up on the name." VANDERLUGT said that the Hanna, a former president of merely a description of what we the center has not been settled. "What we've got on our hands board had resolved to "do every- Michigan State University, while are doing," he said. Stewart THE CHANCELLOR said the is a catalog writing," added Jentz. thing it can to live up to the A1 Miles, a Kalamazoo teacher, stressed the necessity that a dis- case, involving a zoning suit The proposal begins with the contracts set up in May." He said will succeed Herman Laug of tinction be made between "ad- brought against the college and statement that it "is not intended that the unused funds earmarked Coopersville. the city by Mrs. James Pollock, vising" and "counseling," adding for the raises, amounting to to be the college catalog state- The other new members in- "is pretty solid as far as the that "it is advising that we have $33,000, will be saved until ment. It is designed for the stu- been called to look at." clude George Herringa, president continued on page 6, column I dent who wishes to apply for a continued on page 7, column I Radicals would be blamed Agent alleges FBI plot to disrupt convention (CPS)-Many of the charges geles. The story originally ap FBI as directors of the alleged Los Angeles Times reporter pre- Duggan and Marilyn Katuz of the leveled by the government against peared in the "OB People's Bag," plot. sent." Citizens Research and Investigat- militant radical organizations may a San Diego underground paper, When first contacted in Wash- Tackwood said he made the ing Committee (CRIC) with the prove to be the result of incidents and was released nationally by retraction referred to by the FBI idea of publishing his experiences planned and executed by the Fed- Alternative Features Service of ington D.C., FBI officials claimed after he had been detained by the in a book. eral Bureau of Investigation if Berkeley. no knowledge of Tackwood and his allegations. However, the fol- LAPD for two weeks and had During July, Tackwood, Dug- several allegations made recently The alleged conspiracy was lowing statement was released by been instructed by his superiors to gan and Katuz began meeting sec- prove true. conceived six months ago when a the FBI a short time later: deny all the allegations regarding retly to work on the manuscript THE MOST spectacular allega- group of "high ranking police the San Diego Project. of the book. Tackwood said that tion, made by Los Angeles Police officers came up with a plan that "THE ALLEGATIONS of EXPLAINING the circum- he led his superiors to believe that Department undercover agent would be the final solution to all Tackwood are completely false as stances of his defection from the he was spying on the two radicals.