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For more information, please contact [email protected]. inside also inside Ode to a basketball team The boob-tube Pollsters inspire poets as Van Wieren’s Hoopsters win #1 nationwide rating scholar behind The varied symptoms of Potomac fever Alumni from Hope’s most active chapter tell Hope’s new film about living in D.C. More TV, more radio, more ink, more fans, more noise Is there anything else to be said about the Hope- Calvin rivalry? Getting by with a little help from friends Hope scientists build valuable ties with big business Quote, Un- CAMPUS NOTES quote is an selective sampling of things being said at and about Hope. From a column by Gretchen Acker- mann in a Dearborn Heights, Mich., newspaper:"Son Brad has decided to open our home on New Year's Eve to a gala party for his fraternitybrothers — the Knickbackers (sic) of Hope College, class of 1980-81. My one salvationis that Campus improvementswhich have re- they are all a little older than when I saw cently been completed are: installation of an them last. But so am I." elevator to provide barrier-freeaccess to Dim- • • • nent Chapel (dedicationtied to a day-long "It's so nice to have breakfastwith handicap awareness day and themed "That someone," lonely heart Bill Lamb '46 of All May Enter"); new windows in Nykerk Holland told business leaders and College Hall of Music; and the remodeling of the officialsassembed on Dec. 8 to kickoff the Phelps Hall lounge and basement. annual Hope/Holland-ZeelandCommuni- ty Campaign, this year under his leader- A newly released study places Hope in ship. Bill's wife Elsie (Parsons) '41, no the top three percent of America's 867 under- milquetoast by anyone's standards,had graduate institutions in the proportion of according to Hope President Gordon J. Van James Motif f, associate professor of psy- been absent from the breakfast table for graduates who since 1920 have gone on to Wylen, are "in line with those at most col- chology, received the Distinguished Achieve- several days, detained in a county jail as earn doctoraldegrees. Among those with leges and universities on which we have ment Award in Social Science from St. part of a group of peace activists who strong church ties, Hope (ranked 25th) and information." Nobert College, his alma mater. blocked entrance to a factory in Walled Wheaton (ranked 24th) are the two top in- Lake, Mich., that makes engines for stitutions in this regard, according to Psychol- Soccer Coach Gregg Afman has been Jacob E. Nyenhuis, dean for the arts and cruise missiles. ogy Professor David Myers' scan of the data. voted the Mideast Region Coach of the Year humanities, was honored recentlyin Salt Lake "I only hope that what I am going The number of graduates who go on to by the National Soccer Coaches Association of City in recognitionof his two years of service through will awaken the community to obtain doctorates is widely regarded as a solid America. In four seasons Afman Jiffs coached as president of the National Federation of the threat of the arms buildup and the method of ranking an undergraduate institu- his teams to consecutive 10-plus victory re- State HumanitiesCouncils. He will continue recent deployment of nuclear weapons in tion's academic performance. cords en route to posting a 49-15-6 record. on the'board for one more year. Western Europe," Lamb, a former presi- His Dutchmen have won two MIAA champi- dent of the Alumni Association,stated. New programs in financial aid will go onships (1980 and 1983) and back-to-back Mary Schakel has been named producing into effect during the 1984-85 academic year. NCAA Division III playoff appearances in director of the 1984 season of the Hope The new programs increasesignificantly aid 1982 and 1983. Summer Repertory Theatre. She will work "We are losing jobs at a very amazing available on the basis of academic merit. with three artistic associates: Lois Carder and and alarming rate in this country as we There will be an increasein the number Soccer players A1 Crothers and Kevin Dale McFadden, both of the Hope faculty; end this economic upturn, consume for- and amount of awards for PresidentialSchol- Benham were voted to the All-Midwestsoc- and Brian Kent Johnson, who performeddur- eign goods and increase the welfare of ars (in general, those with at least a 3.8 high- cer team by the National Coaches Association ing past HSRT seasons as a lead in "Show- foreign nations. The structuraldisloca- school grade point average), from 30 awards of America. Crothers, a senior from Wheat- boat" and "Oklahoma." tions that is causing are best revealed in of $800 each to 42 awards of $1,500 each. on, 111., was voted first team goalie for the Schakel, a 1969 alumna, has been managing the United Auto Workers in Detroit who A new award category. Distinguished second year and Benham, a sophomore from director of HSRT since 1979. took their sledgehammersto the Toyota Scholar Awards ($1,000 each) will be imple- Littleton, Colo., was voted first team back. that a dealer parked in front of the mented. They will be awarded on a 2-4 year Crothers has the distinction of being named New faculty member Biologist Edith L. showroom. basis. The new category replacesthe former all-MIAA for four years. Only one other Smoot certainlyknows how to make an en- "Those workers understand the kind of Academic Recognition Awards — with a tripled athlete has earned that distinction in the trance. Only a few months after moving to structural dislocations, but are they and budget. league. Michigan she was declared the state's Out- will their children be prepared to under- A new award, the ValedictorianScholarship standing Young Woman of 1983. stand the world in which these are occur- ($1,000),will be availableto any valedictorian David Phillip Jensen of Chapel Hill, Smoot says she was nominated for the ring? Will they be able to understand the who does not receive one of Hope's other N.C., has been named the new director of award last year while she was at Ohio State realities of foreign companiesmoving into recognitionawards. libraries. He will assume his duties on June 4. University.Apparently, accoladesare easily Michigan?Of the foreign purchase of In addition,the amount of the Hope Schol- Jensen was most recently a technicalinfor- transferableacross state lines. Michigan land as an inflation hedge by arship Award (for students with financial mation specialist for the EnvironmentalPro- More than 78,000 women are nominated Europeans?" — Dr. David Wiley, acting need and a 3.0 high-school grade point aver- tection Agency and he developed a program for the OutstandingYoung Women competi- dean of internationalprograms, Michigan age) will be increased. using a computer like Hope's to store and tion, according to Karen Moore, a staffer for State University; at Hope as speaker for a All awards will be made when a qualified retrieve bibliographicrecords. the program. two-day faculty workshop on interna- student applies to aid in decision-making. He graduated from Greensboro College tionalizing the College curriculum, an Total cost for the new program is $150,000. with a major in history and earned a master's Neal Sobania, director of internationaled- effort underway through a $44,050 grant In addition,the regular financial aid budget in library science from the University of ucation,has been elected to the board of from the Exxon Education Foundation of will be increased by $100,000. A special fund- North Carolina where he has been completing directors of the Council of InternationalEdu- York. New raising effort is being planned. work for his Ph.D. cational Exchange and to the Academic Coun- cil of the Institute of European Studies. He is "What does it mean . that 21 of the Charges and fees for 1984-85 will be: Harold Ritsema of Midland Park, N.J., a 1968 alumnus of Hope. 25 leading advertisingagencies in the $5,756, tuition; $1,500, board (21-meal plan, has joined the administration as a develop- world are American? What does it mean with lesser figures for 15 and 10-meal plans); ment officer. He will be working directly with Gisela G. Strand, associateprofessor of that four major news agencies dominate $1,080, room; and $34, activities fee. These Reformed Church congregations. German, has completed a video-film on the the flow of news internationally — and fees are all approximately 7 percent greater A former music teacher who worked his problems of German university students,a two of them are American? What does it than last year's (with the exception of the way into a principalship,Ritsema is a 1957 project funded by the Goethe Institute and mean that 82 percent of the world's tele- activities fee which is 13 percent higher) and. alumnus of Hope. Hope and an outgrowth of a seminar on the vision sets are in Europe and North German educationalsystem held last summer America, 75 percent of all radio broad- in Freiburg for American teachers of German.