Upstairs on third floor photo by Tim lyon by Fred Vree m an .. • • 18IDon Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa Nov.l8,1976 Vol XX No 5 • Hope of Glory to 'perform here by J ane Tuininga Artists are usually considered to be exceptional people, so Hope of Glory, a contempo- when the Diamond heard that there was a group of dedicated rary music group from Texas, I artists on Dordt's campus we decided to look into the situation. will perform on Tuesday, Nov. After a thorough investigation we found that they are, indeed, 23 at 8:00 p.m. inGI06. Admis- a group of good dedicated artists, and they do conform to the sion is $1. 75. description of "exceptional. T! They began as a group in the Who are the artists? They are all of the students who are , fall of 1972. Since then they taking Mrs. Albetda's art classes. I asked a few of them how have travelled across Amer- they liked their art classes and I got answers like "Oh, it's ica, sharing their "contempo- fine, " "1 love it!" "We have a lot of fun, " "How should I know, rary gospel songs" with every- I've only been here 8 weeks," and one person, in true artist one. They have been favorites fashion, wouldn'teven answer my question because he was bub-. at Jesus music concerts as well ling over with excitement trying to show me all of the sketches as local church settings. in his sketch book at the same time. They have ap peared with Most of us unenlightened people usually think of the artist as many O1ristian contemporary a person who doesn't have much upstairs and sits in his closet singers such as Andrae Crouch all day looking ata piece of canvas trying to figure out what he's and the Disciples, Randy Mat- going to put on it. Well, I found that our Dordt artists do have thews and Chuck Girard. They quite a lot upstairs. That's right, down on Main Street in the were also co -billed with Can- big old brick building that looks kind of like a monastery, they ada's top Christian music have paint, pencils, paper, yarn, canvas, glue, a pottery wheel, group, SWeet Spirit, wh.en they brushes and a whole host of other odds and ends. Upstairs on were in Toronto. the third floor. ' Rick Thigpen, vocalist and The building isn't an old monastery. (They've never had one bass guitarist, composes and out the United States and Can- founder of the group, is a -0-0- of those in Sioux Center.) It's an old High School. If you stand arranges some of the music real still at the top of the stairs you can almost hear the ghosts ada. calist. Gary Ingram is the that they use. Their style of Besides Thigpen, four other, drummer. Melvin Marr plays of students running around in the halls and up the stairs. I even music, along with the message thought I heard the principal once, but that was probably just men who grew up during the lead guitar and Tim Wade II of "hope in Jesus Christ, 11 has "Jesus generation" makeup the does double duty as a vocalist my imagination. Ilookedaround the third floor Sindencountered made them well-liked through- a number of very interesting rooms that were completely deser-- group. Bubba Clambers, the and keyboard man. ted. Finally, I found one with some people in it. That's where I actually encountered some of the artists. There were five of them there, andit looked to me like they were in- Sunday night in the SUB: dustriously sewing on some old feed sacks. One girl who was sewing what appeared to be the symbol for Moews Seed Corn informed me that they were actually doing stitchery. They were J.C.Cornerstone photo by Dave GroeneDhoom making pictures of insects. After watching them do that for They'Ll be performing Sunday night awhile I walked around the two rooms that are reserved for the in the SUBLounge at q p s rn , Their art classes. I discovered some real masterpieces, especially music Includes "Illum ination' fav- in the form of paintings. orltes Ifke "I am a servant." 01 Com- As I said before, most of the artists are dedicated people so fort y~ my people" and II Rejoice;" they don't really mind that the walls are cracked and the paint The program. will also include two of is peeling from the cracked ceiling or that the heater grumbles the songs which Marge has written, 01 All praise" and n Jesus died to save and lets out a puff of steam from time to time. They are just m~.11 glad that they have a place where they can De artistic. Actually J. C. Cornerstone includes: (left to a lot of the things that you see and feel in an old building like right at ground level) Stan Sturing, that can help the artistic mind and stimulate creativity. At Kevin Byker, Jim Hop, 'Armand Ol- least, it seems to have done that so far. ivier and Dan Reitsma; and (left to right on rock level) Val Ten Napel, Marge Van Den Berg and Don Elwell. Fine Arts Festival features pO'etess Struthers by Rena #"J ander Dussen The English department is in the conference room of the 'typist and script writer. She sponsoring a Fine Arts Fes- SUB. has taught in junior high school tival' featuring Poetess Ann Ann Struthers grew up as the and is presently married and Struthers, on December 2 and 3. oldest of six children on an i- has four children. On Thursday, December 2, solated farm in Northwestern Her works have been pub- at 3:00 p.m., there will be a Iowa, with no one to talk to and lished in "The Washington seminar for poetry entries in a love for literature. Post, " "Baltimore Sun, .. "The th e conference room of the Poetess Struthers graduated, North American Review,"t'Pe.r> SUB. magna cum laude, from Morn- spective," "December," and Ann Struthers will present a ingside College in Sioux City. others. She is currently edi- selection of her own work in Iowa. She is currently work- tor of the "Iowa Council of the SUB lounge on Thursday ingonherPh.D. atthe Univer- Teachers of English Yearbook" night at 7:30. sity of Iowa. and "Bulletin." She is also re- Finally, at 3:00 p. m , Friday, Struthers has worked for a vising a play based on an 18th a seminar for shurt story en- commercial movie script firm century French novel which . tries in Fine Arts will be held in Washington D. C. as a clerk- she translated and dramatized. / / / o.n o.l\-ni~ ...-t~"" 10....+ ... editorial by Gerald Vander Hoek A phantom hangs over Dordt like the black cloud that surrounded the e- vil forces of Mordor in Tolkients "The Fellowship of the Ring." And like the -------¢- source of Mordor' s dark cloud, Dordts phantom comes from within its walls. This phantom is not a monster like a liberal theology knocking at Dordt's door; neither is it some un -reformational troll stalking the streets by Dor-dt, advocating an evil philosophy. ' Has too much learning made me insane that I'm now seeing phantoms? Not really, for this phantom I've seen is a myth -- it is an approach at Dordt that is. accepted without questioning; there is a commonly held notion that equates education with testing. Some students, and all to a certain degree, see the end of their education 'as a matter of test-taking. Their road to the Immortal B.A. is a smooth path with a few rough spots for test-taking. If yOU think this myth is merely a product of my imagination, you can take a student poll. You need' only to ask them how things are going with school, and if you get more of a response than "Oh it's all right, " you'll hear some- The King came to the small plot of land in the corner_ thlrlg like, "I have two tests on 'TUesday and One tomorrow" or "I got an 'A' of His Kingdom. on my last test, so I'm doing pretty good." You will hardly ever, in such He saw them, 1, 000 strong, scurrying, stumbling. a conversation, hear anyone say, "I've learned ... " or ''I'm really excited He saw them run around in circles. about this aspect of God's creation." Most students merely worry about He saw them build walls around their plot of land. how they, like a computer, can store up data and regurgttate -it on the Walls that were hard to get into. next test. In almost"all classes, on the day before a test, you never hear students telling the professor to challenge them on the upcoming test; but / Walls that were hard to see out of. He heard His name called out occassionally, and He instead you hear crap like "What's going to be on the test?" and "Won't you wondered what they meant. go through the book and tell us what we have to learn for the test?" He saw their plans. their scribblings ... inside the wall. Students who want such a bottle-fed education might as well buy a com- He saw them look down at the holes they were digging. puter, fill it up with data, take their tests, get their B.A. and live happily .He showed them a map of other territories in His Kingdom.