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Hope College 137 E. 12th St. Non-Profit Holland, Ml 49423 Organization U.S. Postage ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED PAID Hope College news from A* HOPE COLLEGE AUGUST 1989 PUBLISHED BY THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS, HOPE COLLEGE, HOLLAND, MICHIGAN 49423 Inside Xhis Issue All the world watched Beijing Fred Coates helps Why some dictionarieslike in turmoil; Barbara Van keep the to think they are Putten ’57 was there college moving more equal than others page 7 page 9 page 11 news from CAMPUS NOTES below the college’s goal of 630 students. HOPE COLLEGE Dr. James R. Bekkering, vice president for admissions and student life, said the Volume 21, No. 1 August 1989 slight decline is due to nationwide drop in the number of graduating high school Published for Alumni, Friends and Parents seniors available to colleges. Dr. Bekkering of Hope College by the Office of Public added that the small loss felt by Hope is Relations. Should you receive more than one copy, please pass it on to someone in your less severe than many other similar institu- community. An overlap of Hope College tions have experienced. constituenciesmakes duplicationsometimes Residence halls for new students will unavoidable. open at 1 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 25. Orientation events for parents and new Editor: Thomas L. Renner '67 students will begin on Saturday,Aug. 26 Associate Editor: Gregorys. Olgers '87 and continue through Monday, Aug. 28. Contributing Writers: Laurie Zwemer Returning students are not to arrive on Baron, DickHoekstra '84, DirkJellema, campus before Monday, Aug. 28 according Kaylene Shannon '90 to college officials. Layout: Holland Litho Service, Inc. Classes will begin at 8 a.m. on Aug. 29, Contributing Photographers: Jim with the opening convocation for the Dostie, Ted Jungblut,Louis Schakel college’s 128th academic year taking place that evening at 7:30 p.m. in Contributing Artist: Roger Grandia Dimnent Memorial Chapel. news from Hope College is publishedduring Dr. John H. Jacobson,who is beginning February,April, June, August, October and his third year as president of Hope College, December by Hope College, 137 East 12th MILESTONE MET : The million dol- during the 1988-89 campaign. The college will deliver the convocation address. Street, Holland, Michigan 49423-3698. lar milestoneset for the 1988-89 Annual has 15,912 alumni. Hope College will confer an honorary Postmaster:Send address changes to news Alumni Fund has been reached and passed. degree on Dr. Nobumichi Hiraide, chancel- from Hope College, Holland,MI 49423-3698 . The theme for the campaign was The NEW YEAR: A large student body will lor of Meiji Gakuin University, during the Hope College Office of Public Relations, Million Dollar Milestone,and total giving insure that campus facilities are once again opening convocation this fall. Dr. Hiraide DeWitt Center, Holland, MI 49423-3698. to the drive was $1,009,043. Alumni put to good use when classes begin on will receive an honorary doctorate of letters Thomas L. Renner ’67, Director participation was 6,938 donors, or 44 Tuesday, Aug. 29. (Litt.D.). Mary Lammers ’60, Kempker, Associate percent of the college’s alumni (the figures Total enrollmentduring 1989-90 should In 1978 Dr. Hiraide was named president Director do not include gifts contributed to causes approach 2,750 students, according to Jon of Meiji Gakuin University and in 1981 he Gregory S. Olgers ’87, AssistantDirector other than the Annual Alumni Fund). Huisken, dean for academic services and was named chancellor. He was the architect Janet Mielke ’84 Pinkham, Assistant The 1 988-89 dollar amount exceeds the registrarfor Hope College. Enrollment of the expansion of Meiji Gakuin Univer- Director 1987-88 drive by $49,928, and alumni during 1988-89 was 2,781 students. sity, first with the building of an impressive Esther Cleason, Office Manager participation this year was up by one The freshman class is expected to branch campus in Yokohama in 1985, and Sally Bassett, Receptionist- Scheduler 1 620 and slightly Karen Bos, Secretary percent. There were ,43 1 new donors number men women, (Continued on page three) NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION : Hope College is committed to the concept of equal rights, equal opportunities and equal protection (and after them the war against the Khmer public forum presented by three Vietnamese under the law. Hope College admits students Rouge) — are seen as the struggle for our scholars in the spring. of any race, color, national and ethnic origin, independence. The scholars were: Bui Dinh Thanh, sex, creed or handicap to all the rights, “After the end of the war in 1975 we professor of sociology and editor of “ Viet- privileges, programs and activitiesgenerally started to go into industrialization.In the nam Social Science Review” (Hanoi); accordedor made available to students at Hope industry areas we wanted to have state Duong Phu Hiep, professorof philosophy, College, including the administration of its control, and in the agriculturalwe waqted vice-director of the Instituteof educational policies, admissions policies, Philosophy scholarship and loan programs, and athletic to have cooperatives. and editor of "Philosophy Review" and other school-administeredprograms. With “The problem with the agriculturalside (Hanoi); and Tran Quoc Vuong, professor regard to employment, the College complies Quote, unquote is an eclectic sampling of of the reform was we did everythinglike of history at the University of Hanoi. They with all legal requirementsprohibiting things being said at and about Hope the state plan — we did not pay enough visited the Hope campus for two days as discrimination in employment. College. attention to the will of the people. So the part of a month-long stay in the United “There is a difference between the cooperatives did not produce enough. States designed to help them learn about On the Cover: feelings of the Vietnamese toward the “Reality has shown us that under public teaching and research at American univer- American people and their feelingstoward control — cooperatives and state-controlled sities and colleges. A sunny afternoon in July provided an the American government. While I must industry — development was slower than Their visit to the U.S. was sponsored by opportunity to_ view the Van Zoeren- admit that when bombs were dropping over in the private sector. Therefore, the govern- the IndochinaScholarly Exchange Program VanderWerf-Van Wylen complexfront our heads we couldn’t help but feel angry, ment now is encouraging every sector to ( ISEP) of the Joint Committee on Southeast a unique perspective.If this thought- when we were angry we were angry at the develop. We are encouraging competition Asia of the American Council of Learned provoking abstract has made you American government — the policy makers and cooperation. Socities and the Social Science Research want to see more of the building, — but not the American people. And we “For instance, before we used a commit- Council of New York. Their visit to Hope tee that the prices of in the watch your mailbox for future issues . believe that the American people also did decided goods was sponsored by the department of history not believe in that policy. market. But the prices of the goods now are with the support of the departments of Several of the college’s departments “So when I came here, my feelingswere determined by the factories or the people sociology, philosophy and politicalscience, have already taken temporary or very open — not hostile at all. And I would who are making the products, not the state. the office of international education and the permanent residence in the complex, like to forgive the past and forget the past “Also previously, the managementof the college's cultural affairs committee. which is scheduled for completion so we can reach some sort of agreement and factories was done by the party. Now we The absence of normal relations between develop science and peace. I think that are giving the planning to the factory level the United States and Vietnam makes such later this fall, with final occupancy would be good for both sides — both — so they have to do their own planning. visits unusual. taking place during the between- American and Vietnamese. And they have to manage the finances, and semester break. For all involved, the “We teach, and my students learn, the have to find their own materials and make process has required patience,perser- history of the Vietnam War — or the their own contracts with other places if they verance and good planning. Much of American War — as an importantpage of want to sell their products. And they get to the responsibilityfor coordinatingthe history. But now we see this war as the past, sell their own products. various moves has fallen upon Fred not the present. In the Vietnamese point of “And those are real reforms — very Coates, director of the college’s view, all the struggles — from 1940 against democratic.” physical plant and subject of this the Japanese, against the French, and after — Excerpts from "The Vietnam War and them in the war against the United States After from a Vietnamese Point of View, " a issue's staff feature (page 9).