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Nov. 18,1986 Inside: Football in Playoffs, p. 12 I Live Bruce, p. 8 English Pilgrimage, p. 10 Women run MOI and Vous, p.3 toNationals Freeze Frame, p.4 Story on page 13. The Hope College Anchor 99 Volume 99 To com fun the afflicted and to afflict the com fortable. Number 11 At Issue: Minorities at Hope Congratulations DarTopp An Interview with Al Gonzales by Theresa McPherson What will Topp miss most other when it comes to career News Editor about Hope College? "I will promotions and changes. For Asst. Director of Multicultural Life greatly miss the people here. I now, I will be commuting, stay- Dar Topp, Director of the love the involvement I have been ing in a dorm room at the Univer- by Theresa McPherson dent might find it extremely im- Career Center and Co-Director of able to have with students. It has sity during the week and travell- News Editor portant to have someone of Services to Handicapped been so important to follow ing home on weekends." similar experience on the faculty Students, will be bidding the Col- students all four years and to be The lack of diversity within the or staff. Everyone needs a sup- lege good-bye this Thursday. Hope College community has port system; someone or Topp has accepted the position of Don Topp is presently the ong been an issue of debate. something with which they can Director of Disabled Student Ser- Pastor of the Good News Com- Does Hope need more minority connect. vices at the University of munity Church in Grand Rapids. students and faculty? Is it really Program development is Michigan. She will begin her new He may look for another church fair to seek minority enrollment essential, according to Gonzales. position December 3,1986. or decide to return to graduate simply because it will be good for "Films, lectures, and other in- study. Until then, Dar will "be he College? Does the College formation about and by minority What prompted Topp to accept around." practice, however quietly, a members will give a new the U. of M. position? "I intend to )olicy of institutionalized perspective to minority and ma- bring the University of Michigan racism? jority students alike," he ex- into the twentieth century. The "The hardest part of moving Alfredo Gonzales, now occupy- plained. U. of M. has many architectural on is leaving the friends I have ing the new Assistant Dean for and attitudinal barriers regar- made within the disabled Multi-Cultural Life position, has ding disabled students. The students at Hope. I am very pro- a challenge for the Hope com- Al a lime when school encourages independence, ud to say that the people at Hope munity, and it is one which which in many ways is good, but were ready to be accepting of should not be taken lightly. The professors need to realize when it people with disabilities, both at- goal of Gonzales' work is to minoriry enrollmem is comes to the disabled student, titudinally and architecturally. It create an awareness within the many places are not accessible. is my desire to find that little bit ollege community as a whole to If disabled students are treated of Hope at the University of become more sensitive to the HtnalU the 'equally,' they will end up being DarTopp Michigan," she commented. presence and contribution of the discriminated against. These minority groups in our society." students have differences and The Anchor The way to achieve this, ac- administration must need special help," she explain- friends, not just a career cording to Gonzales, "is to imple- ed. counselor. I do not believe I will Pledge find a more committed and lov- ment four important factors. take steps to attract A College Newspaper can be a These include: internal support ing staff than Hope's. The sup- wonderful thing. It can Inspire services for minority students, port and secretarial statt at Hope and Inflame, Chastise and program development, admis- minority students^ is much a part of the College as "I intend to bring Praise. At its best, it can tell a sions work, and the establish- are the faculty members. In- story with the determined preci- ment of positive, effective, work- deed, Hope could sooner do faculty, and staff. U-AA into the sion of a surgeon. At its worst, ing relationships with minority without the faculty than without however, it is not unlike chasing communities." 20th Century." the secretarial staff. Hope a butterfly with a sledgeham- Internal support services con- recognizes this and treats all mer. sist of Gonzales being available This is "Multicultural Year" at members of the community with We pledge to bring you the best to minority students. He counsels Hope College. The year started mutual respect and apprecia- Anchor we can muster. We will as well as advocates for the with a distinguished speaker, Dr. tion," she stated. attempt to bring you the kind of The University of Michigan special needs of minority Byrd (superintendent of the interpretive, substantive, and students. As with many pro- has been seeking Topp since last Chicago Public Schools) who "I am exicited about living in pertinent journalism that makes grams dedicated to "special received an honorary Doctorate year to join their staff. Why did a college newspaper of utility to she remain at Hope? "I felt Hope an environment which is accep- leeds," many people ask why of Human Letters during Con- students—not just as a source of minority students need an ad- really needed some more direc- ting of not only differences which vocation. are disabilities but differences facts, but of understanding as vocate. Many assert that ser- tion in offering services for the well. Among other events planned handicapped students. I feel culturally, ethnically, and most vices are already available In our efforts to bring you the for the year. Dr. Skinner, a black comfortable about going now important, religiously. If I could through the Student Develop- best news we can, the Anchor evangalist, has already been to because there are two in- change one thing at Hope, it ment Offices. will have to be selective. If we campus; Dr. Adams, from the dividuals who are capable of run- would be the homogeneity of the Gonzales responds by saying, succeed, the Anchor will occa- University of Utah, spoke on the ning the show," she stated. Topp campus and the surrounding en- "In some cases, not all, minority sionally be short but never shod- integration of the multicultural has advised the Administration vironment," she said. students need someone available dy. And perhaps we'll stir a few perspective in the college set- to emply both Louise Schumaker How will this promotion affect hat they feel comfortable with." things up along the way. Consider, for example, the situa- tingle Hollis Sisters, a black, and Susan Blair during the in- Topp's family life? "My hus- ion of a white Dutch, Reformed gospel group, will be on campus terim while a national search is band, Don, and I are a career conducted and to include them couple. We are both willing to Whitney Leigh Dhurch student attending a see Gonzales, p. 4 Editor-in-Chief Black Baptist college. That stu- both as candidates. sacrifice and be flexible for the m fS »• fc • i • --»-»* Commentary Page 2 Letter to the Edi^'t Lies and License Biblical Homosexuality ? The controversy over U.S. arms sales to Iran reveals serious To the Editor: served created things rather shortcomings in Reagan's foreign policy and in the way in which The following article is in than the Creator— who Is forever this administration deals with the public as a whole. Simply put, response to the article in the praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful the President and his minions in the National Security Council November 12 issue of the Anchor entitled, "Gay-Lesbian Group lusts. Even their women ex- have lied to our allies, the Congress, and us Strong at Hope." Specifically, changed natural relations for un- we would like to address the natural ones. In the same way While the President was sending George Shultz to praise Great paragraph that says the follow- the men also abandoned natural Britain for "standing tough" on Syria and to admonish other ing about the members of the relations with women and were Hope Gay-Lesbian Student Inflamed with lust for one European allies for their willingness to deal with terrorists, and Union: another. Men committed Inde- while U.S. Attorney Edwin Meese was prosecuting dozens of "The majority of the in- cent acts with other men, and smugglers of weapons to Iran—calling them "Brokers in dividuals within the group con- received In themselves the due Death"—President Reagan was selling arms to Iran.