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Hope Collegancho^OIIckec ^ r Wednesday, Nov. 4, 1987 serving the college community for 100 years Volume 100 No. 8 News Winter Phil Tanis Wins Mayoral Election Just Page 3 Around Campus The Glen Lund Dance To Perform This Corner Week With the leaves Page 5 almost off all the Feature trees, the chill of Kaul Sells His winter is slowly Stock creeping in the Page 8 air. Soon the Christmas season Sports will be upon us Dang Might Set and the end of Field Goal Record another semester Page 1 0 ife? Where Has The Frame Time Gone? Would You Approve Of Condom Vending Machines? Page 6 Page 2 Nov. 4, 1987 News Sigma Xi Sponsors Racial Tensions Flare In New York across the country, Georgetown Two Public Lectures DRYDEN, N Y. (CPS)- In disciplined many of the white spokeswoman Anne Klass students involved in an October The Hope College Sigma Xi what apparently is the first publications. explained. 1986, beating of a black Club, a member of the honorary major flare-up of campus racial The Hope College Critical The students, moved at their classmate. On Oct. 7, a grand Scientific Research Society, will tensions this school year, student Issues Symposium this year will own request, will be placed in sponsor two public lectures by harassment pushed 36 Central jury indicted white Citadel focus on "Contemporary Issues community colleges in California Dr. Terry Myers, a nationally American Students to transfer students for hazing a black cadet of Medicine" and Dr. Myers' and New Mexico. last fall. recognized clinical geneticist, on from Tompkins-Cortland jectures will provide significant Community College last month. At other schools. Central Although Tompkins-Cortland Thursday, Nov. 5, on the Hope Americans are housed with Campus. insight and background for this A group of students turned had not suffered any such discussion. The public is invited American host families. At At 11 a.m.. Dr. Myers will against seemingly all their dramatic incidents to attend these free lectures. Tompkins-Cortland, however, deliver a talk on "Clinical Hispanic classmates after two of discrimination did exist, the The Hope College club is one of many of the students lived in an Applications of Modern tie Central Americans, on the Central Americans say. 500 clubs and chapters of the apartment building near the Genetics" in Peale Science campus as part of a foreign "Things really went bad after Sigma Xi located across North campus. Center, room 50. This will be student scholarship program run the arrests, but before that there America and abroad at colleges, Marti now thinks housing them followed by an evening lecture in by Georgetown University in were signs of discrimination," universities, and major research there was a mistake because it Winants Auditorium of Graves Washington, D.C., were accused said Gregory Choc, a computer centers. Established in 1886, the isolated them from the rest of the Hall at 8 p.m. on "The Ethical of sexually assaulting two white science student from Belize honorary society's goal is to females. student body, and left them to get "They used this incident to say Dilemna Surrounding Human caught up in an inappropriate Birth Defects." advance scientific research and Several students allegedly what they wanted to say cooperation and assist in the party atmosphere. Dr. Myers is a 1987 national threw rocks and racial slurs at ( Marti, a Cuban refugee, said wider understanding of science After one of those parties Sept. lecturer for the Sigma Xi the Central Americans after a "as a Hispanic, as someone who More than 40 Sigma Xi members 12, 2 women who live in the Scientific Research Society. Guatemalan student was has suffered at the hands of have received Nobel prizes. building pressed charges against Born In Tennessee, he studied charged with rape and burglary, racists, I am deeply disturbed by There are 120,000 active and a Honduran student was Marcos Moran of Guatemala, biochemistry at Michigan State, members. who, they said, entered their molecular genetics at Florida charged with sexual abuse and The Sigma Xi has been burglary. apartment and assaulted 1 of But, he added, most Tompkins- State (Ph.D. 1969), and conducting a national lectureship them as they slept. Jose Orlando Cortland students welcomed the medicine at the University of "The Central American program for over 50 years in Cordova of Honduras was Central Americans. Only a small Virginia (M.D. 1973) with a students were identified as if which outstanding researchers accused of fondling the second number harbored ill will against residency in pediatrics at they all were charged with the have shared their latest findings M woman in the room. Both men the 36. In the past, he said, Creighton University. He is crimes, college President with members of chapters and pleaded not guilty to the charges. foreign students attending currently professor of pediatrics, Eduardo Marti said of the clubs and with the public. Tompkins-Cortland were obstetrics, and gynecology at subsequent attacks on the other For more information about A judge released the two accepted warmly at the school. East Tennessee State. His Hispanic students. the lectures by Dr. Myers, men on their own recognizance research interest in clinical "These students were "As a member of a minority contact the Hope CoUege Sigma after they turned in their genetics and DNA have resulted condemned before they were group, I want to take advantages Xi President, Dr. Richard tried." passports. They have returned to in numerous professional Georgetown pending grand jury of this as an educational Brockmeier at 394-7514. While the attacks were deliberations in New York. opportunity," Marti said. The sparked by sexual assaults, school will offer date-rape, Marti said they were motivated During the 1986-87 school year, various kinds of racial alcohol and drug and racial Chemistry Club To by "the day-to-day racism that confrontations occured at a relations workshops as a result of exists in this country and is hard the incident, he said. "I think we to escape." startling array of campuses, including The Citadel, Tufts, can learn something from this." Present "Magic Show" The 36 students were enrolled at Tompkins-Cortland as part of Columbia, the universities of Disciplinary actions have not By JohnHiguchi the federally funded Central Pennsylvania, Michigan, been taken against those for Hope students. On Friday, anchor Staff Writer American Scholarship Program Massachusetts and California at students who participated in Nov. 6, the first ever National Georgetown established the Los Angeles, among many racist actions, he said, because Chemistry Day will be others. Science Day attracted program in 1985 with funds from the Central Americans refused to celebrated on the Hope College hundreds of high school students the Agency for International Some of the campuses are still name their attackers. If the Campus by the local student around the midwest perimeter to Development, and administers it sorting through the aftermaths. administration learns who was affiliate group of the American Join Hope College in its activities. at 14 other community colleges In early September, the involved, he said, those students Chemical Society, the Hope Whether it was biology, University of Massachusetts will face a disciplinary board. Chem Club. For this occasion, psychology, physics or the Chem Club has decided to chemistry that interested the repeat the Chemical Magic Show high school students, the for the campus community. prospects were impressed by the Sigma Sigma Expands Traditions research faculties that Hope "It's high-time that we do College had to offer. something fun for our own This past Friday afternoon, the and donuts. Homecoming Luncheon at the ftu^ts,- said Professor Sigma Sigma Sorority held a In years past, the Sigmas, new Holiday Inn, as well as Williams, who is the Chemistry Halloween party for along with their brother They were exposed to a wide underprivileged children, participating in the Homecoming variety of opportunities ranging Club advisor. It will occur at 3:30 fraternity, have thrown a p.m. in Peale Science, room 50. If something which they hope will Christmas party for some of the Parade and winning first place in from the use of a Nuclear become one of their annual the float competition (with Magnetic Resonance the demand is sufficient, it will underprivileged children of be repeated at 4:30 p.m. events. special thanks to the inactive Spectrophotometer to the study Holland, complete with food, games, and a visit from Santa Frater brothers for their help of human genetic toxicology. One The Chemistry Club hopes to The Sigmas were host to and support). of the highlights of the day was and Mrs. Claus. The continued see a wide variety of students approximately 30 children from success of the Christmas parties the annual Chemical Magic The Sigmas have also there. It is not limited to Just Lincoln Elementary School.